Charlotte, North Carolina, desires the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation again on the town – for soccer.
The town will bid for the CIAA’s soccer championship sport subsequent month, based on a report from Charlotte Publish reporter Herbert L. White.
The town appears to welcome the CIAA again after shedding the boys’s and girls’s basketball tournaments to Baltimore 2020.
Charlotte Metropolis Council member James Mitchell instructed White Tuesday that town can be submitting a request on March 15 to host the CIAA title sport beginning in 2025, greater than eight years after the league moved the title sport to Salem, Virginia.
“We’re going to place our greatest foot ahead to hopefully carry this from Salem, Virginia to Memorial Stadium,” Mitchell instructed the Publish. “It’s a three-year obligation. And we’ve received the ‘A’ staff – all arms on deck.”
Memorial Stadium is a ten,000-seat venue close to downtown Charlotte that usually hosts space highschool soccer video games, Main League Lacrosse matches and is about to be the house of Charlotte’s girls’s professional soccer staff.
These arms embrace native alumni from all 13 CIAA member establishments who will take part in a promotional video shoot at Memorial Stadium subsequent Thursday, in addition to the Charlotte Sports activities Basis, Charlotte Regional Guests Authority, 100 Black Males of Charlotte, town of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.
Winston-Salem and Durham are additionally anticipated to bid for the precise to host the championship sport, which suggests greater than probably, a minimum of one signature CIAA occasion is returning to North Carolina.
