Despite ongoing financial and legal issues for ownership at Future Legends Complex, the company plans to introduce a new women’s soccer club to Windsor in 2026.
The addition of a team means the current women’s club at the facility, the Northern Colorado Rain FC, will play at different levels in each of the next two seasons.
The nearly-year-old Rain announced in December a plan to join the Women’s Premier Soccer League for the 2025 season starting in the spring.
Jordan Freemyer, a public relations coordinator with Rain ownership, said this week the Rain will spend 2025 in the regular WPSL, a pre-professional league with no age restrictions. Freemyer said this WPSL is a mirror of the level the club played in the USL W League in 2024 in the Rain’s first season as a team.
The USL W League is a pre-professional league, meaning athletes retain amateur status. The league is open to elite youth and collegiate players, aspiring professionals and former pros, according to the USL W League website, uslwleague.com.
“In 2026, the Rain will switch to the WPSL PRO, a planned professional league that has not yet kicked off. Freemyer said the WPSL PRO is expected to start in 2026 or late 2025. Future Legends’ new women’s club will then take the Rain’s place as the WPSL’s pre-professional team.”
Freemyer said the 2025 WPSL division alignment and schedule will be finalized at the league’s annual meeting later this month. The meeting is scheduled for Jan. 24-25 in Oklahoma City. The league schedule will be released after the meeting and possibly in February, Freemyer added.
Freemyer said the Rain’s 2025 schedule in the WPSL will run from late May through early to mid-July.
Dating to last summer, Future Legends LLC owner Jeff Katofsky has been caught up in lawsuits for unpaid bills and services relating to construction of the in-progress complex.
Future Legends owns the Rain, the Northern Colorado Hailstorm men’s soccer club and the Northern Colorado Owlz of the independent Pioneer Baseball League. The teams play and practice at the complex on Diamond Valley Drive.
Casey Katofsky, Jeff’s son and executive director and co-owner at the complex, declined to address how the company will bring in a new team while going through the financial and legal troubles.
“I don’t want to get into financial specifics, but we are confident and excited about taking Rain into WPSL PRO in 2026,” Casey Katofsky wrote in an email sent by Freemyer.
Caeley Lordemann, former Greeley West High School and Colorado State soccer player, warms up while working out in March 2024 inside the Future Legends Complex Dome in Windsor. (Jim Rydbom/Staff Photographer)Future Legends began construction at the complex in 2019, but work remains incomplete. The site was billed as a premium youth sports facility, offering access and opportunities for sports year round.
Freemyer said last month the Future Legends teams plan to play their 2025 seasons at the complex.
The Hailstorm is working toward arranging new affiliation for this year. The team previously played in the USL League One, which is a lower division professional league. The league removed the Hailstorm after it loaned money to Jeff Katofsky, according to a report from a BizWest, a Northern Colorado business journal.
The United Soccer League is a large professional soccer organization, according to uslsoccer.com. The USL oversees men’s leagues, including the USL League One, and two women’s leagues including the USL W League.
The Hailstorm’s status with USL League One had an impact on the Rain’s standing with the USL W League, Freemeyer said, adding he did not know details on the change of leagues.
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge earlier this month gave Future Legends three months to correct health and safety issues at the complex, according to a story from BizWest.
The Rain hosted tryouts for the 2025 season in late December at the Future Legends Dome in Windsor.
The Future Legends dome is seen in October 2022 at the Future Legends Complex in Windsor. (Greeley Tribune file photo).Freemyer said about 30 players attended the sessions Dec. 29. No players were selected for the roster. Rain coach Kelly Brown said in a statement through Freemyer that the sessions allowed for familiarity to develop between the athletes and the team.
“Tryouts provide an opportunity for us to see players play, but also provides an opportunity for players to be coaches by our staff and see what facilities we have to offer for their summer playing experience,” Brown said.
The Northern Colorado Lightning, a Windsor youth soccer academy, started a partnership agreement with Future Legends last spring.
The Lightning were renamed and rebranded from the Windsor Warriors Athletic Football Club after connecting with the Hailstorm and Rain. The agreement included using space at the Future Legends Complex.
Academy Executive Director James Walters said in email the Lightning work with Future Legends, but the academy remains an independent nonprofit and it continues to monitor what happens with Future Legends.
“We’re obviously aware of the situation … but our focus and commitment is to maintain our soccer programming regardless,” Walters wrote in an email. “We certainly hope the complex will continue to provide us with the pitch facilities we want/need (especially the Dome right now given the typical winter weather conditions) but, like everyone else, we will have to wait and see how this all unfolds.”
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