We are happy to announce that we will be offering additional training sessions for our travel soccer players and U10 academy players every Tuesday and Friday afternoon from 4-5!

Technical Tuesdays
Each Tuesday 1-2 of our full time staff members will be offering a training session we call "Technical Tuesdays". In this session we will be working on individual foot-skills and ball control as well as improving players' technique for fundamental soccer skills. Technical Tuesdays are open to all U10 academy players and travel soccer players. Dependent on numbers for each day, we will typically group U10 and Avalanche players together and group United players with another coach so each group will have age appropriate activities that are both challenging and fun. The session will typically consist of 30-40 minutes of ball work and end with a 20 minute scrimmage where the players can use some of the skills they just learned in a game setting.

Finishing Fridays
The second of our new training sessions is "Finishing Fridays". Each Friday 1-2 of our full time staff members will be offering a 1 hour training session focused on finishing. We call this session Finishing Fridays because the term "finishing" implies more than just kicking the ball in the general direction of the goal. Shooting implies the ball is being kicked somewhere near the goal, but finishing means the ball is hitting the back of the net! During these sessions we will be going through activities that will help improve their technique when shooting, crossing, volleying, and heading. Heading activities will be limited to U13 and up per USYS player development initiatives. This session is open to all travel team soccer players. Dependent on staff availability and numbers we will do our best to split up Avalanche and United players in order to allow for appropriate activities for each group and to avoid older players shooting at a younger goalkeeper. Finishing Fridays will consist of 30-40 minutes of activities that involve going to goal and finishing and will end with a 20 minute scrimmage. Scrimmages for finishing Fridays will typically go to full size goals to allow players to apply what they've just learned.