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Boston Breakers Announce Harvard Stadium As Home Venue

July 2, 2008 - Women's Professional Soccer (WPS)
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April 2, 2008 (Westwood, MA) - The Boston Breakers of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) today announced Harvard Stadium as its home venue. The Breakers will kick off play at the historic athletic facility in Allston in April of 2009.

Harvard Stadium, with a FieldTurf™ surface, is the centerpiece of the university's athletic facilities and has stood as a Boston landmark for more than a century. The Harvard Football team currently plays there, along with other varsity and intramural sports, and the Boston Cannons professional lacrosse team. The Stadium was upgraded in 2006 with the addition of the new surface, permanent lighting and a removable all-weather bubble which allows for year-round use of the facility.

"The Boston Breakers are pleased to call Harvard Stadium our home for the opening season of WPS in 2009," said Breakers President and General Manager Joe Cummings. "We are certain the passionate soccer fans of the Boston Breakers will once again support the team in league leading numbers. The stadium configuration offers our fans perfect sight lines for soccer and will provide a real home field advantage."

The size of Harvard Stadium and its scaleable seating options will easily accommodate Breakers crowds, while providing the feel of a major stadium. The stadium's proximity to public transportation on the MBTA's red line was also a contributing factor in the selection.

The Breakers inaugural twenty-one game season (with 10 or 11 home games) will open in April of 2009 and continue through August.

"We're thrilled to welcome the Breakers to Harvard and to play a role in helping grow women's soccer across the country," said Harvard University Athletic Director Bob Scalise. "Harvard Stadium has played a role in many historic sporting events over the years so it's fitting that it should play a role in the launch of this new league."

The Breakers also announced that Season Ticket Packages are now on sale. Packages are available in four price categories beginning at $130 and membership benefits include a discount on merchandise, a private "Meet the Breakers" event, a WPS inaugural season pin, an unused ticket exchange program, and much more. For package details and a seating chart, visit www.bostonbreakers.com.

The mission of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) is to be the premier women's soccer league in the world and the global standard by which women's professional sports are measured. Play kicks off in the spring of 2009, with WPS teams based in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.womensprosoccer.com.

FACTS ABOUT HARVARD STADIUM:

* Harvard Stadium was constructed in 1903 and hosted its first game Nov. 14 of that year. Since then, the Stadium has hosted more than 600 Harvard football games as well as hundreds of other athletic and non-athletic events, including Olympic soccer, NFL football, rock concerts and political rallies.

* The Stadium, in a horseshoe configuration, contains architectural elements of a Greek stadium and Roman circus and is considered an engineering marvel. It was the world's first massive reinforced concrete structure and the first large permanent arena for American college athletics.

* The Stadium was upgraded in 2006 with the addition of a FieldTurf™ playing surface, permanent lighting and a removable all-weather bubble which allows for use of the facility throughout the calendar year

* The Boston (now New England) Patriots played the first-ever American Football League game at Harvard Stadium. The Patriots were defeated in a pre-season contest by the Dallas Texans, 24-14, in front of 11,000 fans on August 14, 1960.



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