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by Tammy Gilpin-Ripp
The facility has also grown through good
customer service. Adult leagues mostly sell
out, and four of those leagues now run year-
round, bringing in off-season revenue that
wasn't there in the facility's early years. "A lot
of the teams are staying or splitting off into
new teams."
Kids programs have also grown significantly.
"We originally tried to do our own clinics,"
says Christine. One of her managers was
also a regional director for a children's soccer
franchise and got a program started at CFC.
"Their numbers are increasing every session.
We started with one field for an hour, and
now we're at three or four hours. Every class
is full."
Being near New Haven, the facility also
hosts many school and university sports
teams, including Yale, Post, and Quinnipiac
Universities, as well as local private schools.
"In Connecticut, you can't get outside onto the
fields until maybe April if you're lucky, and a lot
of those Division I schools, playing their spring
sports, want to play starting in February,"
says Christine.
Nothing stays the same forever, and that is
true at CFC Arena. The facility was recently
