Don’t Forget Capitol Hill’s First U12 Soccer Team
The Capitol Hill Roadrunners in 1991
The Capitol Hill Roadrunners, Capitol Hill’s first U12 Travel Soccer team circa 1994 with their coach Kab Hakim Copy of an article that appeared in the Hill Rag in September 1995 written by Sonia Tarantolo, one of the players on the Holland Cup team.
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It was with a great deal of excitement- and some nostalgia- that we read the article “The Sting” by Alisa Cunningham in the August edition of The Hill Rag. It is wonderful that Capital Futbol Club is creating a new U12 travel team, The Sting. It is especially encouraging that the team will complement the girls’ soccer team run by Sports on the Hill. We say with some nostalgia because—contrary to the subtitle line “The Hill’s First U12 Travel Soccer Team,” —the Sting is building on the foundation created by their sister players in the 1990s when those girls created the U12 girl’s traveling soccer team, The Capitol Hill Roadrunners. The team started as a U11 traveling team and was coached initially by a Hill parent, Wendell Domon. That team had a memorable history traveling to Maryland and Virginia to play in Washington Area Girls Soccer (WAGS) games and later under a professional coach traveling to Amsterdam to play in the 1995 Holland Cup. Early pictures of the traveling team in 1991 and 1994-1995 are attached. Yes, the professional coach in the second picture is the same Kab Hakim who is profiled in the article as the coach of The Sting. Like all of us, he has gotten a bit older. Attached is an article that appeared in The Hill Rag in September of 1995 by one of the players on the Holland Cup team, Sonia Tarantolo. Many of the parents of these girls still live on the Hill. We are proud of what our girls achieved. They learned about teamwork, hard work, and sharing good and bad times together. It was a great life ex-