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Blanchard Field

Planning and design work continues on the Town's Blanchard Street Field project.  Town staff and the Town's landscape architect presented the latest field development plan at a public meeting on December 15th.  Several members of the ASA Board of Directors and Andover Little League officials attended.  The current design calls for 3 little league size baseball diamonds and one full size soccer field.  It is hoped that the new field would be available for use in time to replace the loss of Deyermond Field, expected to close in 2011.  The Town purchased the Blanchard Street land in 2007 for that purpose.  2009 Town Meeting approved $425,000 for infrastructure development at the site.  ASA has pledged to contribute $100,000 towards the project in return for a certain period of exclusive use of the soccer field portion of the complex.

The Andover Townsman ran a web poll to coincide with the fields meeting, asking 'Which sport needs field space the most?'  ASA was the top choice by far with 72.5% of the votes.

Click here to see the article.

Click here to see the article and the poll results.

MLK Day Jamboree

ASA thanks everyone that participated in the third Annual MLK Jamboree supporting the Jimmy Fund and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
 
We appreciate you giving your precious time to support this great event that is designed to have fun and see soccer friends while supporting a cause that it very dear to the hearts of Andover Soccer and our players and families.  Your participation and willingness to join us on a snowy January day when you could have easily done something else helped make this event a success. We received over $4,000 in donations and we are still counting.
 
We truly appreciate the flexibility that the coaches and players displayed as we needed to re-work the morning schedule due to a "snow delay" and a couple of teams who were unable to attend due to the road conditions.
 
We hope you will join us again next year so we can continue to make a difference!

New ASA Board Members

On Monday, November 2, ASA elected (re-elected) 10 members to the Board of Directors.  Congratulations to Tom Galligani, Nigel Keenan, Dave Heckendorn, Danielle Riley, Todd Jackson, David Quirk, Melissa Danisch, Carl Grygiel, Jeff Karlberg and Pankaj Desai.  Existing members include Ray Larney, Martin Horkan, Cathy Torres, Travis Miller, Bill Souza, David Tringali, Nat Boughton, and Don Borenstein.

The next Board meeting will take place on Monday, December 7 at Dylans at 7:00pm.