Perhaps since they were kids themselves, some members of the BRYC Board and the Rec. Soccer EXCOM (pictured at left as they looked when they were younger) have dreamed of having their own clubhouse (pictured at right as they imagined it). 

Now that dream has become a reality....at least kind of.  And it’s much better than it was in their dreams...except perhaps for the fact that there’s no tire swing. 

Thanks to Michelle Shircliff, our travel soccer commissioner, and her husband Bob, who works in commercial real estate, the owner of the old World Gym building in University Mall (across from the George Mason University campus on Braddock Road) is allowing BRYC to use the vacated building until it is needed again.  Much larger than than the clubhouse of their dreams, this one has one large and two small meeting rooms, storage space, bathrooms, and a small kitchen, plus plenty of parking.  BRYC has lots of ideas on how to use this wonderful space: meetings, classes, team parties, uniform distribution, club information nights, registration, etc. 

For starters, after a "cleanup party" on December 4, our soccer referees became the first official users of the Clubhouse, hosting a soccer referee class conducted by 30-year BRYC-veteran Harvey Finberg the following day.  For pictures from the weekend cleanup and class click "continue" below.