Cassidy Charette, center, with her former Messalonskee High School teammates Katie Mercier, left, and Fern Calkins, right, in 2014. Submitted photo

WATERVILLE — More than 500 players, including 17 high school soccer teams from around the state, will join the 11-hour, continuous soccer game Kick For Cass on Saturday, July 15, at Thomas College at 180 West River Road. The annual event is held in memory of Cassidy Charette, a former midfielder for Messalonskee High School girls soccer who wore the #11 jersey before her passing in a tragic hayride accident on Oct. 11, 2014.

Kick For Cass will welcome back high school soccer teams, playing from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in a round-robin play day. From 3-7 p.m., community teams of club soccer, adult leagues, local organizations, Cassidy’s friends and neighbors, and her former soccer teammates will round out the final hours, according to a news release from Monica Wilcox Charette of the ShineOnCass Foundation.

Amica Jolicoeur, former Waterville Senior High School soccer player, holds Cassidy Charette’s #11 jersey at last year’s Kick for Cass 11-hour soccer game to honor her friend, Cassidy Charette. More than 500 players have registered to play in the 2023 Kick for Cass at Thomas College to honor the memory of Cassidy, a Messalonskee soccer player who died in a hayride accident in 2014. Proceeds from the event benefit the Central Maine United Soccer Club ShineOnCass Scholarship. Submitted photo

Kick for Cass is presented by Golden Pond Wealth Management, Central Maine Motors Auto Group, Kennebec Savings Bank, Hammond Lumber, Surette Real Estate, Central Maine United Soccer, and host, Thomas College. The event is also supported by Camden National Bank and Darci and Dana Michaud. Proceeds from the event will support the CMU ShineOnCass Soccer Scholarship.

The final hour of Kick for Cass will have a walk-in ceremony and a friendly competition between Cassidy’s former soccer teammates from Messalonskee High School vs. her Central Maine United Premiere Soccer team, from 6-7 p.m.

Spectators are welcome all day. Messalonskee All Sports Boosters Club will provide concessions throughout the event. Inclement weather date is Sunday, July 16.

For more information, email shineoncass@gmail.com or visit shineoncass.org.

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