Sky Blue FC Selects Rutgers Prep to Serve As Official Training Facility

2009 Women's Professional Soccer Champion Sky Blue FC announced today that the team will train at Rutgers Preparatory School next season. The facilities, which are located in Somerset, New Jersey, are only miles from the home of Sky Blue FC at Yurcak Field on the campus of Rutgers University.

"Sky Blue FC is proud to partner with Rutgers Prep, a world class facility for a world class team," Sky Blue FC General Manager Gerry Marrone commented. "We are most excited to be able to utilize the full services of this renowned academic and athletic institution. We also look forward to supporting Argonaut Athletics in any way we can."

Rutgers Preparatory School is the oldest independent school in the State of New Jersey and was founded in 1766 under the same charter as Rutgers University. The Argonauts also boast an accomplished girl's soccer program and were winners of the state championship for five consecutive years from 2004-'08 (co-winners in 2006).

The institution has a turf field facility for soccer, and Sky Blue FC will conduct its training at the location on a daily basis starting next spring.

Sky Blue FC recently announced a pair of open tryouts that will take place on December 15th-16th and January 5th-6th at Robbinsville Field House at 153 Manor Way in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Registration for each player combine is $75 and must be paid through the Sky Blue FC online registration that is listed below.

The registration deadline for the December tryout is Thursday, December 10th, and the deadline for the January combine is Tuesday, December 29th. Hotel and additional information is also available on the online registration page.

December 15-16: Click here to register!
January 5-6: Click here to register!

Each session of the open tryouts will run from 1-5:30 pm, and the combines will include both tactical and technical training that will be led by the Sky Blue FC coaching staff. Players must arrive game-ready (cleats, no screw-ins) and be prepared to participate on both days of their respective combine.

ABOUT SKY BLUE FC

Operated by Sky Blue Soccer, Sky Blue FC is the New Jersey/New York franchise in Women's Professional Soccer. In 2009, Sky Blue FC captured the inaugural WPS Championship presented by MedImmune with an inspirational run through the playoffs. Sky Blue FC plays its home matches at Yurcak Field on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.  For season ticket information, visit www.SkyBlueFC.com  

ABOUT WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL SOCCER (WPS)

Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) is the premier women's soccer league in the world and the global standard by which women's professional sports are measured.  The Inaugural Season kicked off in March 2009 with seven WPS teams based in the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.  The league's eighth and ninth franchises, Philadelphia and Atlanta, will begin play in the 2010 WPS Season, which kicks-off March 2010. For more information and tickets, visit www.womensprosoccer.com .

The previous story is excerpted from a Press Release by Sky Blue FC of the WPS. What's News is the alternate profile of Bleacher Report writer Todd Civin and is used to repost Press Releases for the AHL, The WPS, and the NY-PENN baseball League. Civin is a supporter of the award winning children's book A Glove of Their Own , which promotes Pay It Forward through baseball.