State Soccer Challenge
The State Soccer Challenge will take place on Saturday, October 28, 2023. The event will be held at the Schuyler Field House, which is an indoor facility connected to Schuyler Middle School.
Registration for the event will begin at 12:30 PM (CST) with the competition beginning at 1:00PM (CST)
The Knights of Columbus Soccer Challenge is open to Boys and Girls ages 9 to 14 (based on their age as of September 1, 2023). The State Soccer Challenge is attended by the Regional Soccer Challenge winners only. You must participate in the Council, District, and Regional levels to qualify for the State Soccer Challenge.
Please contact your local Knights of Columbus Council regarding dates and times for Council level competitions.
If you have any questions regarding the State Soccer Challenge, or the Knights of Columbus Soccer Challenge in general, please contact State Youth Chairman Tim Sealock or State Program Director Mitchell Lowery. You can find Mitchell's contact information along with this event notice.
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August 13 is the recently designated Feast Day of Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus. Fr. McGivney was born on August 12, 1852 and died on August 14, 1890. I May 2020, the Vatican gave the official recognition of the miracle healing of an unborn child in the United States, who in 2015, was healed in utero of a life-threatening condition, to which prayers were offered by his family to Fr. McGivney.
For those that do not know about this great man, Fr. McGivney was the Irish-American priest who noticed the continual economic and personal struggles of Catholic families in his home town of New Haven, Connecticut, particularly those whose fathers had died leaving large families without a money earner. Also noticing the discrimination against Catholics throughout American society (then predominately of the Irish background), particularly in the areas of employment, he would be moved to take action.
As a result of these injustices, Fr. McGivney would found the Knights of Columbus in 1882, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organizations, with over 2 million members who are part of more than 16,000 local Knights of Columbus councils around the world (primarily in North America), including over 300 on college campuses.
Fr. McGivney also set up the Knights of Columbus insurance program, one of the largest life insurance programs in North America today.
Today, millions of Knights worldwide serve the wider community while defending Catholic traditions and values.
