Westwood High Graduate Moves on to Start a Local Social Club

Many of you reading may be in college or high school wondering what you will do when you grow up and need to actually fend for yourselves in the "real world".

Justin Obey felt the same way when he was graduating from Westwood High School in 2002 and moving on to Bentley College. He melded together his Westwood upbringing with his business degree to create a foolproof idea for his company, Social Boston Sports.

Social Boston Sports is an organization that Obey created with three of his friends after he graduated from Bentley in 2006.

As seniors, there they spent some of their time organizing senior bar crawls and other fun events for their class to enjoy their last year of college. The idea for SBS sparked from the realization that events like that of their senior year didn't quite exsist in the professional world.

Justin and his friends changed that by creating a social sports leagues that allow people to meet new people, stay active, and have a fun time socializing after. It started off small and they started learning and improving. Now they have over 7,000 members on their site and offer many different leagues, including kickball, weekly running trips and ski weekends in the winter.  

If you haven't heard of Justin's company, then you're probably wondering a little more about how it works.

Basically, it's free to create a profile on socialbostonsports.com, and there you can specify what you are interested in and can get weekly email updates on new leagues and opportunities.

If you are interested in doing this with lots of friends then you can join one of the many leagues as a team. You can also enter with just a couple friends and be paired with other groups, or join alone and be placed with an entire team of people in the same boat as you.

Because membership is free, each league costs separately to join. The leagues run for seven weeks and come with an after game bar get together. This allows you to have fun and network with young professionals at the same time.

So many of us who grew up in Westwood, spent countless summers working or going to camp at Hale Reservation. Justin was among the many.

He was in charge of boating for Membership Beach and crafted his love for nature there. He also took away many key tips on how to run games and events for large groups (of kids), which has helped with the large groups of adults that he now organizes with SBS.

Justin also mentioned that his first try at starting his own company came from 6th grade math class at Thurston Middle School where he had to balance a checkbook and start a hypothetical company.

If you want to sign up for Social Boston Sports and support a fellow Westwoodian, visit the group's website at socialbostonsports.com.