Park Hills Soccer League
Autumn Youth League warm-up session
At Haney Soccer Park, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (weather permitting), fourth Saturday of August.
Please supply shin guards and water for each player you bring to the informal practice sessions. Participating children may feel free to arrive late or leave early as is convenient to your family schedule. No prior soccer experience is necessary for these sessions. The warm-up sessions will proceed unless threat of lightning, severe storm or flooding occurs.
Autumn Soccer season begins:
With enrollment in August, get your form here. Games begin on the 2nd Saturday of September
Park Hills Soccer starts in Autumn for youth from Kindergarten through Middle School ages. The smallest field, for Kindergarten players lies south of the medium fields at Haney Park. Seventh and Eighth graders will play a schedule of home and away games this season.
After the 2012 season, the largest field at Haney Park will become elevated above future flooding and reconditioned for improved play. The Doe Run Company, and the city plan to remediate the large field in 2013 to cover material deposited by past flooding and provide a new surface for safer and superior soccer play.
Join the league by completing an enrollment form and bringing it with payment to City Hall at 9 Bennett Street. The city soccer organization is a recreational youth league. At the end of the season, the league holds a comprehensive tournament with trophies. The object of the league is to provide children with exercise and instruction in the enjoyment of soccer.
Soccer schedules are available by division. Kindergarten and First & Second Grade division schedules apply to the small and medium fields. Third & Fourth Grade division schedules are played on medium field no. 2. Fifth & Sixth Grade schedules will be played on the medium field. The Seventh & Eighth Grade schedules will be played away as traveling teams for the 2012 season.
Scheduled games will proceed through inclement weather unless lightning threatens. Thunder audible at the Haney fields will suspend any play or practice there.
topCity Facts
The city was formed through an unique four-way merger, allowed by the Missouri legislature in January 1994. The residents of Flat River, Elvins, Esther and the village of Rivermines voted for consolidation into the new city of Park Hills to strengthen economic development.
United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Darrell Cole was born July 20, 1920 in Flat River (now part of Park Hills), Missouri. He attended high school in Esther, Missouri (now part of Park Hills) graduating in 1938. The second USS Cole (DDG-67), an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer was named for Sergeant Cole.
