We the parents of the East Lake and Palm Harbor soccer community support our coaching staff’s decision to select Tampa Bay United Rowdies as the new soccer partner for East Lake Sports Complex and East Lake Meadows.

Palm Harbor Parks & Recreation has voted unanimously to welcome TBU Rowdies as the new soccer partner at Putnam Park. We feel it is vital that the voting committee of East Lake Recreation take the same course of action.

We support our coaching staff’s belief that the infrastructure and leadership of TBU Rowdies will ensure the fields at East Lake and Palm Harbor are maintained and upgraded to meet our communities standards of excellence. We as parents feel that West Florida Flames has not delivered and will not deliver on promises made to our communities and change is now necessary.

It is our view that TBU Rowdies offers the best opportunity for our children to get access to well organized, high quality recreational soccer as well as 10 different levels of competitive soccer. We firmly believe TBU Rowdies will allow all our children to find a team at East Lake and/or Palm Harbor that matches their ability and ambition and will deliver a positive youth soccer experience.

We look forward to the new venture with TBU Rowdies and fully stand behind our coach's decision to select TBU Rowdies as the new soccer partner of East Lake.