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John Burrill 1943-2009

Mass Youth Soccer Executive Director, John Burrill passed away on March 29th

John was a tireless advocate of GOALS, a program run through Mass Youth Soccer which provides free summer soccer to over 3,000 inner city youth throughout Massachusetts every year.

More information about John Burrill, his GOALS program and making donations in lieu of flowers can be found on the Mass Youth Soccer website.




Rev's Dube visits Shrewsbury

As part of the growing relationship between the New England Revolution and Shrewsbury Youth Soccer, Rev's Forward Kheli Dube came to Shrewsbury on sunny Saturday to sign autographs and meet soccer fans and players of all ages.  His visit and the entire afternoon was a huge success!

Click here to see photos from that day.




FREE Used Sports Equipment for Those IN NEED

Nicole Arsenis, a Senior at Westborough High School this Fall, is a Senior Girl Scout working on her Gold Award.

She has been working on her project all summer and has collected a lot of equipment and now is in the process of contacting organizations to donate it to families who cannot afford to purchase this equipment for their children to play youth sports.

If anyone is in need of some gently used sporting equipment, or would like to donate equipment, the can contact Nicole at

Click here to view the list of equipment that Nicole has collected.

Photo courtesy Ken Power/CommunityAdvocate 




Shrewsbury Youth Soccer Expresses a Heartfelt “Thank you!”

A Job Well Done by Jeff Doyle and His Fellow Eagle Scouts in Troop 227!!

For his big, end-of-year Eagle Project, Shrewsbury Eagle Scout Jeff Doyle organized a fun, spirited day of unity, hard work and community-building that everyone involved in Shrewsbury Youth Soccer — the SYS Board members, the coaches, the players and the parents — will never forget! We also wish to thank David of Shrewsbury Lumber for his stellar leadership, mentorship and guidance on a complicated, ambitious and ultimately wonderfully successful project.

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Coaching Sportsmanship

Read why Millbury Coach Dorrie Cronan wrote that Shrewsbury's Chris Szal demonstrated "one of the best gestures of sportsmanship that I have ever witnessed."

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Why PlaySoccer?

Click here to read more about the impact that PlaySoccer and their Keeper Clinic had on Patricia Egan and her feelings about playing the position.

 



This is what it's all about!

January 4, 2008

We encourage all parents and coaches to read a letter SYS recently received from the parents of a former SYS player and current high school soccer standout.

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Shrewsbury Girls Win Natick Soccer Tournament

October 10, 2007

The "Lady Hurricanes" of Shrewsbury, Mass. won the 26th annual Division One Natick Soccer Tournament for the Girls U-14 division.  Shrewsbury went 3-0 in the tournament -- which also featured Agawam, Portsmouth, Natick, two teams from Wellesley, Northborough and Holliston -- to remain unbeaten this fall at 5-0-1.

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Shrewsbury Grabs MTOC Glory

June 28, 2006

Shrewsbury Youth Soccer is celebrating after its Under-12 Hurricanes won the town’s first ever MTOC Division One soccer title at Umass Amherst last weekend

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