History of Soccer in Seymour and TASK

Seymour High School Coach Todd Messner has helped provide a great history of TASK. We appreciate his help providing some of the history for the earliest years of the program

2000

• TASK officially forms as an affiliate of SAY Soccer and provides a recreational soccer from the U6 – U19 age brackets

2001

• Seymour High School official starts soccer as a program and fields Junior Varsity teams for both boys and girls soccer. The JV girls went 11-7-2 in their first year. (No data on the boys record the first year)

2002

• TASK Continues to grow. The High School adds Varsity Soccer to the sporting landscape. The Varsity Girls go 6-16 in the spring 2003 season. (No data on the boys).

2005

• The 1st Select (or Classic) team is formed in Seymour. This team plays as a part of the Howard Hurricanes.

2008

• The first group of kids in Seymour to play Soccer from Kindergarten/1st grade up start to hit the high school program. This includes players that played on the earliest Select teams. The High School Girls Varsity program posts their first winning record going 16-4-1. This is directly related to the development of the kids through the TASK program

2010

• TASK has a record number of kids join the program. The Seymour High School girls team wins the schools first Regional Championship.

2011

• TASK again manages to have a new record number of kids join the program. The Seymour High School girls team wins their second Regional Championship.

2012

• TASK and Seymour Select officially (legally) merge as TASK and change affiliation to US Youth Soccer and Wisconsin Youth Soccer.  All the classic teams that were part of the Howard Hurricanes are now part of TASK. The two groups still operate relatively independently for the 2012/2103 season.  The high school program, no filled with TASK and Select veterans posts their best seasons, with the Girls (21-5) winning the Bay Conference Championship and the Regional Championship and the Boys  (12-7-2) winning the Bay Conference Championship.

• For the Spring 2012 season, the recreation program began to transition to the new small sided soccer rules. These rules allow younger kids to have more opportunities to touch the ball during games. The intention is to better develop individual players.

2013

• For the 2012 – 2013 season TASK registered 376 recreational players and 77 classic players, a new record for total registered players (243 boys and 210 girls)

• The recreation program fielded 16 U6 teams, 10 U8 teams, 8 U10 teams, 4 combined U12/U14 teams, and 1 U19 team.

• TASK and Seymour Select complete change over to single club operations

• TASK registers a record number of classic teams

• TASK begins a partnership with the Outagamie County Fair Association to develop 2 full size fields and 1 to 2 U11 fields on field by new parking lot (for anticipated play use in 2015 or 2016)

• Seymour High School Girls win their 4th consecutive Regional Championship and also win the Bay Conference Championship.

2014