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Women's Premier Soccer League Team Coming to Elk Grove
The California Storm will begin playing in Elk Grove on May 1.
It may not be the Major League Soccer team officials had hoped for, but Elk Grove is getting a professional soccer team.
The California Storm, a Women's Premier Soccer League team, will begin playing in Elk Grove on May 1, Elk Grove Mayor Gary Davis said Monday.
"This is just the beginning," a press release quoted Davis as saying. "The City of Elk Grove is actively pursuing land for a potential soccer stadium site while also negotiating a ‘Term Sheet’ for the financing of a stadium. The next two to three months will be critical in our effort to house a Major League Soccer team in Elk Grove – serving the greater Sacramento region."
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The league's website lists the California Storm Silver as calling Cosumnes Oaks High School its home stadium.
The full press release follows:
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Mayor Gary Davis Welcomes Women’s Premier Soccer League – California Storm – to Elk Grove!
ELK GROVE, CA (April 1, 2013) – The City of Elk Grove has landed its first premier soccer franchise – a Women’s Premier Soccer League team -‐ adding to the momentum growing in Elk Grove and the greater Sacramento region around professional soccer. The team will begin playing on May 1, 2013.
According to Davis, “I couldn’t be more thrilled that the California Storm has decided to call Elk Grove home. Elk Grove is a hotbed for soccer, with the largest youth soccer program in the entire United States.”
Added Davis, “This is just the beginning. The City of Elk Grove is actively pursuing land for a potential soccer stadium site while also negotiating a, ‘Term Sheet’ for the financing of a stadium. The next two to three months will be critical in our effort to house a Major League Soccer team in Elk Grove – serving the greater Sacramento region.”
The Women's Premier Soccer League is an independent national league whose main focus is on the development of highly competitive premier women's soccer teams – they are the best of the best. The WPSL also makes every effort to bring quality soccer to all levels of the community and to promote the stature of female athletes as role models for our youth.
The WPSL was formed in 1998. It is sanctioned by the United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA) who is an affiliate of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), the ruling body of soccer in the United States and FIFA the world's ruling body for soccer.
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