BOSTON - Boston University women's soccer head coach Nancy Feldman helped engineer a fund-raiser which netted over $6,000 to benefit the CityKicks organization Sunday afternoon at Nickerson Field. The 2006 CityKicks Icebreaker Women’s Soccer Tournament was a seven-on-seven tournament involving 11 eastern Massachusetts adult women’s soccer teams. The participants on each team contributed $50 to play in the tournament.

CityKicks is a program designed to give inner-city middle school girls a chance to play on an organized soccer team.  CityKicks is a collaborative effort that partners with the city of Boston, the Boston public school system, other non-profits, the local soccer community, and dedicated volunteers. Started on the eve of women's world cup ‘99, CityKicks has grown to serve over 180 girls attending 12 public middle schools, four-fifths of whom come from low-income, single-parent families.

Feldman has been involved in the organization for several years and helped organize the tournament as part of a class assignment for her School of Education program, along with her fellow SED classmates: Krista Fulton (head women's soccer coach at MIT); Liz Driscoll (head women's soccer coach at Wellesley College), Carol-Ann Costello (women's lacrosse coach at BBN) and Wally Dembrowski (assistant football coach at Northeastern).

The money raised from Sunday’s tournament will go toward funding the CityKicks program by providing much needed resources for equipment, coaching, transportation and administrative support.

“Being a soccer coach in the Boston area, this is a way I can give back to my community,” said Feldman. “This is a population that is underserved when it comes to after-school athletic programming.”