MISSION STATEMENT

At Millennium Soccer Club we provide all children the opportunity to succeed in the game of soccer. Through accessible and organized programming, we empower every child to be healthy, included, and excel at the game.

HISTORY

Soccer is called the beautiful game and can often act as a universal language, helping people to connect across barriers like language and culture. It is a very popular sport among youth in Madison, but organized soccer programs have often been unavailable to many families and communities, because of high cost and time commitment, as well as the need for transportation.

The idea for creating a soccer program to address these issues began in 2001 after many months of discussion with parents, community leaders, school district personnel, and soccer supporters in the Allied Drive neighborhood in south Madison. The parents and community leaders embraced a plan to offer a low-to-no-cost neighborhood soccer program so that the children could walk to nearby Belmar Park to participate.

In the spring of 2001, more than 60 neighborhood youth in grades K-6 showed up each Saturday morning for six weeks to work on developing basic soccer skills and to have an opportunity to play in small-sided games in the Millennium Soccer Club’s first program.

Since then, Millennium has sponsored soccer programs in six different neighborhoods in south Madison that serve over 300 elementary school age children every year, many of whom would not otherwise have had an opportunity to play.

OUR CURRENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAM

Millennium’s neighborhood-based programs focus primarily on providing basic instruction in the fundamentals of soccer along with giving our participants an opportunity to have fun playing in a wide variety of soccer games. Millennium currently sponsors programs at three elementary schools (Huegel, Leopold, and Lincoln) and one city park (Marlborough) that serve over 300 boys and girls in grades 1-5. The programs at all of MSC’s sites provide six-week seasons each fall and spring. The sessions (which take place on Saturday mornings from 9:30-11am) consist of a combination practice and games. For the first half of each session, all of the teams (each consisting of 6-10 players) practice with their coaches, focusing primarily on the development of good individual skills, as well as a number of basic team-related skills. In the second half, they play scrimmages against other teams at their site. The games are played 4v4 without goalies. After the games have concluded, the players and coaches meet with the program coordinator for their age group to briefly review how things went with their practices and games and to emphasize the importance of having fun each week as they try to become better soccer players. The volunteer coaches are local high school soccer players, students from the UW-Madison and Madison College, and adults from the community.

In 2008, Millennium began offering summer camps for its players to complement the fall and spring programs.  See the Registrations tab for more details.

In 2022, Millennium worked with TOCA Madison and the Flock Foundation to start an indoor soccer program for our players in fourth grade. This has allowed many of our players to access soccer year round! 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President
Haley Brisky

Secretary
Jack Connelly

Treasurer
Janelle Sandene

Anné Knezevic
Tiz Goff
Quintella Cruz
Jesus Torres
Narisha Reddy
Alyssa Bruce
Conor Caloia
Steve Ticknor
Lisette Venegas