McKinney ISD middle school students will have a new sport to participate in for the 2022-23 school year.

The district’s athletics department announced in January that it will add soccer to middle school sports. The season will begin in the spring after track season ends. Like other middle school sports, soccer will have A and B teams at each campus to give more students the opportunity to play, according to the athletics department.

“My husband and I paid for club soccer for years, so I’m glad to see that our middle school students will have an option for free soccer now,” school board President Amy Dankel said at a January meeting.