Montco Sport and Social League Hoping for the Long Haul

The idea for the Montco Sport and Social League, a newly formed, Conshohocken based recreation league, began with a failed soccer game .

“We were talking about getting a pick-up soccer game [at the A field] and it never really came off,” league co-creator Tim Mulvey said. “It's kind of amazing that we thought we could do a sport and social league when we couldn’t get a pick-up soccer match going, but the idea was there.”

Since that initial thought, the Montco Sport and Social League has taken the first steps toward becoming a fixture in the borough. The league’s inaugural soft ball season is coming to a close, with Volleyball and Dodgeball leagues lined up to begin in November. According to Daniel Nolan, the league’s other creator, the response from area residents has been encouraging.

“Things have gone almost better than expected,” he said. “We came up with this idea quickly and we gave ourselves pretty tight time constraints to get it done, but we wanted to get it going and we did.”

Mulvey says that the duo is getting a business plan in place so they can maintain the league in the long term. While profit from the league is definitely a concern, Nolan says he hopes the league becomes a neighborhood establishment.

“This isn’t some money-making machine, this isn’t NASCAR,” he said. “We want to get people to trust us. There have been leagues that have popped up and disappeared and we want to build that trust back up. “

Nolan, a lifelong borough resident, says that he hopes, in time, that the league can prove to be more than just a way for people to play sports and develop into a community gathering point.

“Conshohocken used to have a softball league that played at the A field and it was one of the best,” he said. “Families and people would come out and watch. I remember being a kid watching the league, and I just knew there was the potential for that.”

One of the aims of the league, according to the duo, is to expand the intended neighborhood feel to other area municipalities.

“A lot of the kids playing were born and raise in Conshohocken, but we’ve got a softball team made up of a group of friends from North Wales who moved to the area and wanted to play,” Mulvey said. “We’re getting a good mix of people who have been here forever and people who are just finding Conshohocken.”

While the pair say they have big ideas for the league, the focus now is getting the word out and showing area residents that the league is here to stay, Nolan says.

“I was born here and I’ve got no plans to leave,” he said. “This is where I want to be, and we want this to be long term.”

More information can be found on the league's Facebook page.