The Jeff Goodrich Parents' Soccer Classic has announced $42,000 in proceeds from the event, with a portion to be donated to a local soccer family impacted by a fatal car accident.

The soccer tournament is an annual event for parents of children attending Manhattan and Hermosa Beach School District Schools and other local supporters of the MBX Foundation. 

This year's tournament was held on April 30 at Mira Costa High School. It drew more than 120 participants and parent players representing all Manhattan Beach schools as well as a Hermosa Beach team and a team of South Bay soccer supporters/alumni parents.

The winning team was a Meadows Elementary/Pennekamp Elementary combination team. 

The tournament proceeds came from a combination of player registrations and sponsor donations, said tournament co-director Corey Baim.

According to Baim, a portion of the proceeds are traditionally set aside to be donated to a charity, and this year the proceeds will go to a trust for the family of Gabriel Stauring and Katie Jay Scott-Stauring. The Staurings, who ran the local non-profit iACT, "were big supporters of the tournament and the local soccer community, along with their organization focusing on supporting refugees throughout the world," said Baim.

The Staurings were killed in a fatal car accident last November in Manhattan Beach. The car accident occurred on their drive home from the airport while returning from a three-week mission at a refugee camp in Greece. They have three children, and their 9-year-old daughter was in the car accident at the time of the crash but survived the deadly collision.
Baim said that the tournament will also donate $1,000 apiece to each Manhattan Beach elementary school, the Manhattan Beach Middle School, and a Hermosa Beach elementary school, to be used for needed sporting equipment.

The remainder will be split between the boys' and girls' Mira Costa soccer programs. Typically, each of the Costa programs receives more than $10,000 each year from the tournament.

Tournament founder Jeff Goodrich was a Manhattan Beach police officer and dedicated soccer player and coach who tragically lost his battle with cancer in 2010.

Goodrich had been a dedicated soccer player since childhood, and had coached soccer as well as playing the game semi-professionally. He played soccer with other Manhattan Beach parents every week, and together with his fellow players, decided to turn his love for the game into a fundraiser for school athletic programs. He launched the tournament on a shoestring budget "with a few pizzas and ice cream" in 2003, but it gradually evolved each year and has consistently raised money in support of school athletes. At one point, the tournament raised enough money to help redo the Mira Costa football field.

Goodrich is survived by his wife, Julie, daughters Kayla and Natalie, and mother Arlene. The tournament continues each year in his name.

Past tournament winners include: