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3 Durhamm,Chapel Hill Strikers has a total of 450 participants , with about 44 percent of these residing in Orange County , Approximately 70 percent of participants are male and 90 percent are white . The program has no paid staff and 50 adult volunteers . Fees average $ 68 per season . The group rents six fields for practices and four for matches ; in Orange County , the Strikers lease Scroggs and Homestead fields . In addition to these larger programs , instructional soccer is offered by the Orange County Recreation and Parks Department and by the Chapel Hill/Carrboro YMCA. Orange County Recreation and Parks offers Micro Soccer in the fall to Orange County residents aged 12 and under ; the program had 143 participants last fall and currently has 166 enrolled . In 1999 , . approximately 54 percent were females and 91 percent were white . The program has two paid staff and 12 volunteers and uses a softball field at the Northern Recreation Center. Fees are $ 30 per person . The Chapel Hilt -Carrboro YMCA offers lessons and league play to approximately 300400 youth in Fall and Spring . The cost is $ 55 for members and $ 70 for nonmembers . Available Facilities The task force also completed an inventory of all available soccer fields in Orange County , as shown in Table 1 . The inventory reveals a severe shortage of fields available for public use . As of mid -summer 2000 , there is only one full -size field that is generally open to the public , and this field ( at Efland Cheeks Community Center) is reserved at times for recreation department programs . The other three fields currently open to the public on a regular basis are one mid - sized , multi - purpose field ( at Hank Anderson Park ) , one partial/mid - sized field ( at Scroggs Elementary School ) , and one undeveloped play area ( at the Northern Human Services Center) . Another full -size field that will be available to the public is under development with funds from the county and the town of Carrboro at the site of the Smith Middle School ; this field will not be available until Fall , 2002 . There are five privately owned or leased full -sized soccer fields available for play , including one at the Kantner School and four fields at Glen Lennox which are owned by the University of North ear basis to Rainbow Soccer . Private entities own four Carolina and leased on a to ear b � Y Y partial/ mid -sized fields and one undeveloped play area . Only one of these nine privately controlled fields is generally available to the public . The remaining soccer fields in the county are owned by the school systems , which have : ■ three full-sized soccer fields currently constructed and another two under development ; ■ nine multi - purpose/football fields ; and ■ two partial/mid -size fields . Because the school systems operate soccer in both Spring and Fall , and for both boys and girls , the school fields are generally not open to the public . Eleven of the school -owned soccer fields are conditionally available , either by contracted use or prior arrangement , solely at the discretion of the school principal and athletic staff. Looking at the entire inventory of soccer fields , apart from the issue of public availability , research conducted by the Task Force also showed that fields are not in good shape . Of the thirty fields ( two of which are simply level playing areas ) in the county , most are overused , only fourteen are irrigated , and only five currently have lights .