Senior Jessica Novitski spends most of her week at her job and at school, but in her free time she plays soccer for the Carmel Dad’s Club.  “It’s a fun and competitive environment without it being overly stressful. There’s no pressure to show up to the practices if your busy, but it’s still a fun way to play soccer with other high school students,” Novitski said.

The CDC soccer league has 340 high school soccer players, according to Bethany Burchill, the athletics director of CDC. The co-ed teams usually practice two times a week with games on Saturdays. Practices began in August and will run through most of October.

In the meantime basketball registration began on Sept. 1 and will continue to be open until Oct. 17. Unlike the soccer teams, basketball will be divided into boys and girls teams. Also, a freshman only league will be available in addition to the all high school teams. The cost to join a team is $75 plus the annual family membership fee of $50.

Other fall sports include girl’s volleyball and flag football. Basketball is the only winter sport offered, but spring registration begins Jan. 1 and will offer high school co-ed soccer, girls volleyball, girls softball, boys lacrosse, boys volleyball, boys baseball and boys and girls rugby.

For more information on the CDC events, look at the club’s main page at http://www.carmeldadsclub.org/index.php. By Katie Norman <[email protected]>