Challenge Sports Scholarships  Each year Florida Challenge Sports Events  awards two college scholarships to high school seniors.  Awards in the amount of $400 are made to two high school students who demonstrate a high level of  cooperation, sportsmanship and fairness in athletic competition, academics, and other aspects of their lives.   

 Any student who has participated in a Challenge Soccer Tournament either as a player, referee or volunteer is eligible to apply.  Print a scholarship application by clicking on the link above.  Scholarship entry deadline was May 10.  the 2008 Winners will be announced in July.  For more information, click here

Change to Rostering Rules  Effective June 23, 2008 players will be limited to playing on only 1 team in a tournament.   Click here to see rule change

Challenge Sports Scholarship (This is the 10th year for the Challenge Sports Scholarship) 

Each year Florida Challenge Sports Events  awards two college scholarships to high school seniors.  Awards in the amount of $400 are made to two high school students who demonstrate a high level of  cooperation, sportsmanship and fairness in athletic competition, academics, and other aspects of their lives.   

 Any student who has participated in a Challenge Soccer Tournament either as a player, referee or volunteer is eligible to apply.   Scholarship entry deadline was May 10.  The 2008 winners will be announced in June

Scholarship winners for the first 10 years of the scholarship are posted on our web site.  Every year since 1998 Challenge Sports has offered 2 College Scholarships to High School Seniors who have participated in one or more Challenge Tournaments in some capacity.... as players, volunteers, referees, field marshalls, scorekeepers, coaches, etc.

 More information about the scholarships, including  information about past winners can be found here on our web site Scholarship

Full Sided Tournaments

10th Annual Labor Day Challenge Tournaments Aug 30- Sept 1, 2008   GIRLS    BOYS. 

Two of the most popular season opening tournaments in Florida are the Girls Labor Day Challenge and the Vero Beach Boys Labor Day Challenge.  The Girls Tournament is played on fields in Brevard County, featuring brand new Mitchell Ellington Park in Merritt Island as the site for U15-U19 teams that are convenient to the beaches of Cocoa Beach, and Ron Jon's Surf Shop to make for a weekend of fun on and off the soccer fields.  The boys tournament is played at beautiful  Hobart Park in Vero Beach with 8 Fields on one site

 Age Group Facilitators

Some age groups like the youngest girls ages,  Adult Coed, and Adult Women have fewer teams than many others, and it can be hard for teams to find tournaments where they can play without being combined with other ages.  We have had some folks volunteer to help coordinate a couple of those age groups to help teams find others to play against and to coordinate play so they can meet at certain tournaments.   These folks will be helpful to teams that are looking for other teams of their same age and skill level to set up friendlies or to plan to meet at a tournament.

Our first 2 Age Group Experts are located in South Florida.

U6 Girls  - Michael Scandizzo   email u6girls@challengesports.com

Adult Women  Trish Williams email  womensdivision@challengesports.com

We welcome volunteers in other ages.   The most valuable would be

Adult Coed

U6 Boys

U7 Girls

Older Rec Divisions  U13 or older, Boys or Girls

High School Comp Divisions

3v3 Qualifying Tournaments Coming Up

Qualifying for the 2008 Challenge 3v3 National Championships July 31 - August 3 at Disney’s Wide World of Sports® Complex is under way. Qualifiers coming up soon are listed below.  We are encouraging teams to register early.   As an incentive, we have increased the early entry discount to $25 for all Challenge Sports managed 3v3 qualifiers.  This does not automatically apply to affiliate events who make their own decisions about entry fees and late fees.

Challenge Sports and Kickit have expanded their working relationship for 2008.  We will have 3 joint qualifiers, May 10/11 in Miramar, May 17/18 in Clearwater, and June 21/22 in Orlando.     Teams that qualify For the 2008 Challenge 3v3 Nationals will be able to qualify there for the Kickit Championship to b replayed in January 2009.    All official Challenge 3v3 Qualifiers lead to the Challenge 3v3 Nationals and as a result all are also on the path to the Kickit Championdhip

The Early Entry Deadline for the 2008 Challenge 3v3 National Championships is  July 1.  Teams that qualify in the July qualifiers below will have the deadline extended until 2 days after they qualify.  Teams qualifying on July 5/6 will have until July 8 and those qualifying on July 12/13 will have until July 15 to apply