WE ARE AN ALL VOLUNTEER LEAGUE
Churchland Development Academy is an instructional program dedicated to talented and enthusiastic youth players and coaches. The program is now offered to ALL U7 and U8 players to provide a quality and enjoyable soccer environment that will enhance their skills, coordination, and understanding of the game.
The objective of the training at the Churchland Development Academy is to provide our youngest players with an environment that promotes learning, creative thinking, problem solving, skill development and love for the game in an age appropriate soccer environment. In a safe learning environment, players and coaches can progress through the club’s other stages of development. Each year we aim to identify additional coaches to work within the Development Academy framework and to work with our technical staff to develop along with the players. The outcome is that these coaches and assistant coaches move up with their teams to form Recreation, Advanced, and Travel teams in the future.
Sessions for Churchland Development Academy teams will be held twice a week and will consist of age specific technical training and small sided scrimmages. Professional and qualified coaches from within the Churchland Development Academy Staff will conduct all sessions and monitor the progress of each player. Development Academy games will be scheduled on Saturdays against other Academy teams and all matches will be supervised by Academy Coaches and Assistant Coaches. The objective of Saturday games is to promote and reinforce the skills and techniques worked on in practice during the week. While winning and losing is part of a soccer game, the main focus is the individual and technical development of the players in a competitive environment. Our primary concern is to ensure that our young players have a strong foundation in the basic soccer movements and soccer concepts that they can build on as they grow as players.
Who is the Development Academy for?
Everyone. There will be no try-outs required for this program.
Curriculum of Churchland Development Academy
At the U7 and U8 Development Academy, we have instituted an age-appropriate curriculum that will equip players with the fundamental skills they will need to carry with them as they continue to develop. For this reason, our focus at these ages is to develop the individual and small group skills of our players.
Technical skill development includes ball control, stops and starts, turns, attacking moves, passing, and receiving.
The 3 main components of our age appropriate curriculum are Agility, Balance and Coordination.
Instruction also emphasizes simple decisions - using games to teach format. Smaller sided games, under differing conditions, promote the qualities that we are looking for in our youth players by allowing for more touches on the ball, more creativity with the ball, more individual problem solving in the game environment.
Academy games are scheduled on Saturdays at Churchland Soccer Fields.
Fees
$115 per season (includes Coaching Fee and uniform)
Coaches
We will have coaches and staff that will assist in running training sessions. We will also have volunteer parent coaches that will work with the staff to get the proper coaching training.
If you are interested in working with our Development Academy Staff, please contact Rob Taylor at [email protected]. When registering you/your player for the program, please select Volunteer, then Assistant Coach/Staff.
All the best,
CSL Technical Staff and Development Academy Coordinator