2025 Monsignor Meyer Team Honorees
1989 Bud Light 1990 White Star
Back to Back Women’s O/30 National Championships
1989 Bud Light
1990 Whit Star
1989 Bud Light and 1990 White Star Women’s Over 30 National Champions
In 1980, St. Louis was represented at the National Over 30 tournament by women whose only soccer experience was from playing indoor soccer at the Soccer Dome. Almost a decade later, the Bud Light and White Star Women’s Over 30 team would celebrate the only Back to Back Women’s National Championship in Philadelphia and Houston. The majority of these women had never played soccer in High School or College and only began playing club soccer in their twenties. The players on this team had full time jobs and many were mothers whose kids were sometimes seen at practice.
National and St. Louis Soccer Hall of Famer Bob Kehoe led the team through the eighties. Thom Champion and Hall of Famer John Schneider led the team to their National Championships,
This team was in a “League of their Own”. This was an amazing accomplishment for women with full time jobs, kids, and relatively new to soccer.
This award was created in 2012 by the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame Executive Board to honor Msgr. Louis Meyer. It will be given to a team for its notable and/or memorable accomplishments. There may be only a few individual hall of famers on a given team, yet the team as a whole is a Hall of Fame Team. This award will be given so that the team will experience being recognized by the St. Louis Soccer Hall for their accomplishments
Msgr. Louis Meyer was a person who taught and participated in teamwork all of his life. In 1947 he was selected to be the Assistant Director of the C.Y.C. For the next 37 years the team included Father Lloyd Sullivan, Bob Guelker, and Joe Carenza Sr. and a dedicated staff that moved the work of the C.Y.C. forward. The team was responsible for bringing international soccer teams to St. Louis in the 50’s and 60’s to compete against the C.Y.C. All-Stars in some of the most memorable games in St. Louis soccer history.
Most important is that Msgr. Meyer became the Executive Director of the C.Y.C in 1960 when Msgr. Sullivan retired, and in the following years the organization grew and allowed young boys and girls a place to play any sport that could be played. Never turning any child away for race, creed, or color.
PREVIOUS AWARDEES: 2024, 2023, 2022. 2021, and 2020 no awardee due to covid-19 2019 The 1979 NCAA Division I Champions from SIU E. 2018 The 1986 National Open Cup Champions from Kutis S.C. 2017 The 1967 NCAA Division I Co-Champions from St. Louis University and Michigan State. 2016 The 1966 NAIA Champions from Quincy College. 2015 The 1973 NCAA Division II Champions from University of Missouri St. Louis. 2014 The 1964 C.Y.C. All-Star Team. 2013 No Recipient 2012 The 1959 NCAA Champions from St. Louis University
2019---1979 SIU Edwardsville
2018---1986 Kutis S.C.
2017---1967 Michigan State / St. Louis University
2017---1967 St. Louis University / Michigan State
2016--- 1966 Quincy University
2015---1973 UMSL St. Louis
2014 No Team Selection
