Carlisle Soccer Club’s STAR Academy is about to start up. What’s new for this year’s winter sessions? Larger space and sessions for u8 payers.
In our continued effort to offer a select soccer experience for a recreational soccer price, these sessions will follow an academy approach of soccer training like most clubs offer for their premier teams (Select and Olympic Development Programs). The emphasis of this style of training is on individual player skill development, not team strategy development. In essence, our goal is to help each player become better and by developing a higher skill level and the confidence that comes with it. For the past two years we’ve followed this philosophy for our winter sessions but because of space issues, we didn’t have room to progress the types of activities we did. This year is different. We’ll be in the Middle School Gym, a larger space than the elementary school multi-purpose room, and we’ll offer more time slots. In fact, we’ve grown from two slots in 2006, to three slots last year to four slots for 2008-09.
Players who have participated in these sessions for the past couple of years will find some familiarity in the activities we’re doing, but now we now have the space to progress into match related activities (3v3 or 4v4 soccer) that will allow our kids to practice under game realistic pressure the skills they’ve just learned.
Each entire session is focused on a theme, such as passing or beating an opponent. Progression from fundamental skills to game-like conditions allows us to isolate the topic and build activities around it, adding degrees of difficulty as part of the progression. Each session will be coached by Carlisle Soccer Club coaches, many with D or E certificates or module training, under the direction of Paul Gruber, national D licensed coach and director of coaches for the Club.
U8 time slot available this year
Because of limited time and space, we’ve not had the space for u8 players Now we do.
The sessions will take place Sunday afternoons, January 18th through Feb. 22nd.
1 - 2 p.m.: u8 division players (6- & 7-year olds)
2 - 3 p.m.: u10 division players (8- and 9-year olds)
3 - 4 p.m.: u12 division players (10- and 11-year olds)
4 - 5 p.m.: u14 and up division (12-, 13-, 14- 15- and 16-year olds)
Ages are based on the players age as of August 1, 2008, just like during the regular season.
Registration Form
You can download the registration form here. The registration fee is: $15 for 6 training sessions (if you sign up now, you can get two bonus sessions on Dec. 7th and 14th). Please complete the form and waiver and send it along with a check made out to the Carlisle Soccer Club, P.O. Box 254, Carlisle, IA 50047. Note that the registration fee will be used to pay for the rental of the facility, and the proceeds will earmarked for the Carlisle High School soccer program are, therefore, nonrefunable.
Each player will need to bring their own ball, wear court shoes (no cleats) and wear shin guards with their socks on the outside.
If you have questions, please contact Paul Gruber, director of coaching.
Drake women’s soccer players Liz Woerle (striker) and Rachel Gielau (defender) visited the U12 Carlisle Crush during their Tuesday practice earlier this week. The players showed the girls some fun games and played a scrimmage with the players. Oh yeah, they hammed it up for this picture, too!