What promises to be area’s largest soccer tournament in nearly a decade will be held this weekend when the Virginia Legacy Soccer Club hosts its 5th annual President’s Day Cup.
Roughly 170 boys and girls teams ages 12-18 – which measures out to more 5,000 people, including players and their families – will flood the Historic Triangle this weekend for the two-day tournament to be hosted at four different sites throughout the Williamsburg-Yorktown area.
Tournament director and Jamestown High soccer coach Bobby O’Brien said more than 185 teams from up and down the East Coast applied for the tournament, but field space limited participation. The 170 participating teams are the most for Williamsburg-area soccer tournament since the Legacy’s Labor Day tournament in 2006.
“The event has grown and is becoming one of the best events on the east coast at this time of the year because it provides everything teams want,” O’Brien said. “It has a great college recruiting atmosphere – over 50 college coaches are expected to attend – great competition, great fields – especially at the Warhill Sports Complex where we can utilize the turf and lights to play games in the evening – and a great destination with great restaurants, hotels and shopping that families want to partake in.”
Of the 170 teams, nearly half will be traveling from outside of the Commonwealth including Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New, New Jersey, Maryland and North Carolina.
One hundred teams will compete at Warhill’s 15-field Sports Complex, which will serve as tournament headquarters, with the remainder spread out at three other locations: the James City County Rec Center and Hornsby Middle School, as well as the York County Sports Complex.
Games will be played from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. The tournament will conclude with championship matches Sunday afternoon.
Click here for more information on the tournament and to view the brackets of each age group.
