ABOUT
CHALLENGE TOURNAMENTS
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Challenge
Soccer Tournaments bring positive experiences and life
enriching activities to our children and
help raise funds for non-profit organizations. Sportsmanship
and Fair Play, on the soccer field and in life, is our
first priority.
Challenge
Tournaments are managed by a company called Florida Challenge
Sports Events, Inc., more commonly known as "Challenge
Sports". Challenge Sports has helped
non-profit organizations raise more than $1,000,000 since the
first Greater Melbourne Holiday Challenge in 1988!
Challenge Sports also offers "tournament consulting"
help to soccer clubs.
Since
the first Greater
Melbourne Holiday Challenge in 1988, more than
900,000 people (from far away as Moscow, Russia) have
participated in Challenge Tournaments! In October of
1996, the Brevard
Fall Challenge was introduced over the Columbus
Day weekend. In 1998 the Palm
Bay Spring Challenge was introduced on the
first weekend of May. In 1999, Challenge Sports
added the Ormond
Beach Challenge in January and the Melbourne
Labor Day Challenge in September. In
2000, 3v3 Challenges were started! Now there is a 3v3
Challenge TOUR, culminating with the 3v3
Challenge National Championship each summer at Disney’s
Wide World of Sports®
Complex!
In 2003 the Vero
Beach Boys Labor Day Challenge was introduced, in
2004 the Treasure
Coast President's Day Challenge was established, in
2005 the Treasure
Coast United Challenge and the Central
Florida United Challenge became the 8th and 9th
full sided Challenge Tournament, and in 2006 we are proud to
add the Lakeland
Spring Challenge!
Challenge
Sports is active in community and charitable activities.
Challenge Sports has gathered soccer equipment for the
children in Bosnia, provided soccer balls to local needy
children, sent soccer balls to the children of Chernobyl in
the Ukraine, has participated in the Sports For Life Program,
promoting a tobacco-free healthy lifestyle for young athletes,
and most recently shipped boxes of soccer shirts and equipment
to soccer clubs that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Challenge Sports also awards two Challenge
Tournaments College Scholarships each year to High School
Seniors!
I
hope this gives you an overall view of our CHALLENGE
tournaments and that
you will be able to participate in some way. See you at
the next Challenge!
Mary
Ann Genchi
Director
of Marketing & Hospitality
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