JEROME — The long-awaited regular season debut for College of Southern Idaho soccer will not occur at the originally-planned site. Now, more than a year later, after plans were launched, CSI will host its home openers at 1 p.m.
(women) and 3:30 p.m. (men) Thursday against Colorado Northwestern Community College at Jerome High School.
Not across town at the unfinished site of a 17-acre park in Jerome’s south side, which includes the home of future College of Southern Idaho teams. No physical address appears at the site. Not yet, at least.
You only know if you know. No scoreboard, no bleachers, just some fence, a large parking lot, a few fields and a smattering of construction equipment across the site. Construction crews work on the new CSI soccer field on Tuesday east of Jerome Valley Wide Country Store off of East Nez Perce Avenue in Jerome.
The new field will be used for home games and is estimated to be ready for the next fall season. No signage indicating the home of College of Southern Idaho soccer. All the signs of a work in progress.
City administrators and CSI faculty expected a fall 2024 completion date when plans were officially announced in May 2023. CSI announced plans to add men’s and women’s soccer programs as well as its intent to play all home games at a new outdoor recreation facility being developed in Jerome. CSI’s men's soccer team against the College of Idaho’s on Aug.
31 at Jerome High School. “We knew everything would have to go absolutely.