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CLUB THAT OPENED PATHWAY FOR CONNECTICUT'S TOP TALENT JOINS WPSL

                    

 

OKLAHOMA CITY (11/21/2024) — The Women’s Premier Soccer League is excited to officially announce the addition of Sporting CT and Sporting CT II for the 2025 season. With the announcement, the WPSL expands its footprint into the talent-rich metropolitan Hartford, Conn. market.

 

“The current mission of the WPSL to provide a top professional-level league for amateur players is what drew us [Sporting CT] to the league initially,” Tiffany Weimer, Sporting CT girls director, said. “After hearing the plans for the future and the direction they [WPSL] are headed, we knew right away this was the best place for Sporting CT to continue our mission and provide the quality our players deserve.”

 

Founded in 2012, Sporting CT set out to provide a place for high-level players in Middletown, Conn. to develop and compete with top coaches. Led by President, Frank Marchese, and Executive Director, Goran Vasic, Sporting CT has since grown to nearly 500 boys and girls utilizing the club’s private soccer complex featuring lighted synthetic and grass fields. 

 

In 2022 the club launched its women’s program to provide a professional environment for older players to play and train during the months they are not playing with professional, college, or elite-level youth teams. Before the move to the WPSL for the 2025 season, Sporting CT and Sporting CT II teams compiled an impressive 30-4-1 record over three seasons.

 

 

 

 

“The Women’s Program is so close to my heart because it gave me an opportunity to keep playing when there weren’t many options to do so. We also realized that there were a lot of players in the same situation; they needed a place with high standards and high support,” Weimer said. 

 

“The players know that this is their environment where they can be themselves and make their own decisions, work to achieve their goals and have a tremendous support group to do so. All the while, they are inspiring a generation of players to keep playing as long as they can and not experience the game as a means to an end.”

 

 

Sporting CT will field teams in both the WPSL’s first and second divisions in 2025, with the mission of creating an environment where the youngest players in the club have a place they can aspire to play someday.  Weimer and Matt Cameron will lead the team in its inaugural WPSL season, both of whom have had a distinguished impact in the game.

 

Weimer holds over a decade of professional playing experience, All-Time leading goalscoring record (91 goals) for the BIG Ten and Penn State, and has been inducted in the Connecticut Soccer Hall of Fame. Cameron has coached USYNT players, All-Americans, NCAA Champions, Gatorade National and State Players of the Year, professionals and FIFA Youth World Cup players – in 2018 he was named U.S. Soccer Development Academy Coach of the Year. 

 

“May 2025 can’t come soon enough. We have grown steadily these past three years and we’re looking to continue that in 2025,” Cameron said. “With Frank’s and Goran’s support and trust, we have created an environment that is truly for the players. It’s amazing showing up to 7:15AM training surrounded by such talented, motivated people.The growth of the program is something we’re really proud of.”

 

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For more information on Sporting CT, visit www.sportingct.com or follow its social media channels—Instagram, and Facebook.

 

For more information on the WPSL, visit wpslsoccer.com

 

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About the Women’s Premier Soccer League 

The WPSL completed its 26th season of play in 2024 as the longest-active women’s soccer league in the United States. Boasting more than 140 clubs nationwide while occupying 32 states coast-to-coast, the WPSL solidifies itself as the largest women’s soccer league in the world. Team rosters feature elite collegiate, post-collegiate, international, and standout prep student-athletes. Many of the United States’ most accomplished women’s national team players have played in the WPSL since its inception in 1998, including household names such as Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Abby Wambach, and Brandi Chastain.