Oregon Brew will provide a competitive and supportive environment for talented female soccer players over the age of 30. These women will compete in soccer tournaments at home and abroad. The women of Oregon Brew encompass a diversity of backgrounds and soccer experience, yet they all share one profound commonality: that their participation in sports has provided a positive impact in their personal and professional success. Oregon Brew supports the philosophy that individual and team sports aid young women in developing into well-balanced, objective adults who have the confidence to try new things.
Oregon Brew is a collection of women who are living proof that involvement in sports, no matter what age you engage, is a dynamic arena for developing and maintaining self-confidence, self-esteem and positive peer relationships. Athletics inspire girls to work hard, overcome challenges and learn to believe that they are strong enough to succeed. Oregon Brew is about bridging the competitive gap that exists in women's athletics between school sponsored teams and adulthood. We, as a group, prove that any sport can be a lifetime goal and pleasure, but our sport of choice is soccer!
Oregon Brew shares the same philosophies and beliefs as The Women Sports Foundation which states the following:
- Girls who play sports are more likely to get better grades in school and more likely to graduate than girls who do not play sports.
- Girls and women who play sports have higher self-esteem and confidence and lower levels of depression than girls and women who do not play sports.
- Girls and women who play sports have a more positive body image and experience higher states of psychological well-being than girls who do not play sports.
- High school girls who play sports are less likely to be involved in unwanted pregnancy; in some cases sports may be used as a developmental strategy in programs intended to reduce teen pregnancy.
- Sport is where boys have traditionally leaned about teamwork, goal-setting, the pursuit of excellence in performance and other achievement-oriented behaviors. Critical skills necessary for both sexes to succeed in the workplace.
- 80% of the female executives at Fortune 500 companies identify themselves as former "tomboys" having played sports growing up.
Commitment to our community
Oregon Brew's mission statement creates a powerful ideology which the players and coach embrace wholeheartedly. Oregon Brew will serve as role models to individuals of all ages, cultures and walks of life by participating in various community activities around Portland. In doing so, Oregon Brew will demonstrate their commitment to health and fitness as well as to the belief that individual responsibility and teamwork can foster community pride. This ideology brings people together to accomplish goals and dreams, thus perpetuating the cycle of success that comes from commitment, teamwork and perseverance.