By Mark Ambrogi
Indy Premier Soccer Club is adding some needed fields in Noblesville with the purchase of Trinity Sports Park, a 20-acre site.
Jamie Wood, the club’s general manager, said the closing of the sale of Trinity Sports Park, 6835 E. 161st St., Noblesville, should be completed this month.
The property is home to five full-sided outdoor fields, boosting the club’s total number of fields to 17.
“It’s a much needed five (fields),” Wood said. “We hope they will be ready for play in the spring.”
The diamonds need to be converted into soccer fields, which could take up to 12 months. However, the outfield areas could be used in the meantime.
“We already have a small indoor facility, and this one will be larger,” Wood said. “We’ll be fully utilizing that through the week straight away. One of the great parts of the facility is it’s very accessible to Westfield, Carmel, Noblesville and Fishers.”
The facility is five miles from downtown Fishers and three miles from downtown Noblesville.
Trinity Sports Park will service primarily the travel program.
IPSC, which has 78 travel teams, has just more than 1,000 travel players and a little more than 1,000 Rec Plus players.
“Ninety percent of our travel players come from Noblesville and Fishers,” Wood said. “A lot of our Noblesville travel players have to travel to Fishers to play on the travel side. This will be an important footprint in the Noblesville area.”
The club’s other indoor facility is in the Crosspoint Business Park in Fishers.
IPSC was formed in June 2014 through a merger of Fishers Soccer Club, Indianapolis Premier Soccer Club and travel component of the Noblesville United Soccer Club.
Trinity Sports Park opened in 2003. Wood said it was originally designed for baseball and softball but became a multi-use facility in the pat year.
IPSC has a program of Super Kicks, which is for ages 2 to 5, a Rec Plus program for ages 4 to 18 and a travel program for ages 7 to 18.
IPSC is also working on an expansion in Fishers by adding fields in McCordsville Sports Park for the Rec Plus Program, primarily for those on east side of Fishers.
Wood, 38, who is from England, was previously director of coaching for Fishers Soccer Club for five years before the merger. He has lived in the U.S. for 17 years.
