Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights!
That’s right soccer fans, families and players, after 7 amazingly successful years at Waitsfield Elementary School, the most popular winter soccer event in the Valley…..comes outdoors to Mad River Park! Come join your teammates, make new friends or bring along old ones – and now, space is greatly expanded (but still not unlimited). So register now, so that you don’t see the dreaded “WAITLIST POLICY” email”. If you were involved (or tried to be) historically, you’ll remember that the entire 2018-19 and 2019-20 winters sold out in a matter of weeks (then stupid Covid happened) – so please consider signing up for our summer session now!!
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Friday Night Lights is a revolutionary new way for your son or daughter to enjoy soccer! No more coaches yelling, parents coaching from the sidelines, being asked to “take a break”, or listening to a whistle blow every 30 seconds. Instead, sign your child up to “just play”; a lost art-form in our over-processed, over-planned, over-coached (and often heavily paid for) sports world. Friday Night Lights discards the traditional routes of player development and instead gives soccer back to the kids – in the tradition of every soccer playing city and nation world-wide, kids are given the chance to “just play”. There are no true “teams” nor is there any measurable coaching (or refereeing for that matter); just a collection of kids, a bunch of balls and some goals.
Every Friday, as the kids are showing up, Coach Don will be “playing” with whomever is present, working on some trick or another, in an un-intimidating, non-structured environment that encourages growth and comfort. That time period will serve as both a small chance for skill learning but also as a warm-up and as a time for kids to “straggle in” and not feel out of place. When everyone has arrived (only 5-10 minutes!) Friday Night Lights staff will create roughly equal teams and just play soccer! There will be an adult staff person between fields to keep any potential conflicts from escalating, but in all likelihood will do nothing more than “feed balls” to kids that just want to play.
Open to kids in grades K-8 (pre-K is OK if you have talked to Don), come join us and see what it looks like to have the expectations stripped away, coaches removed, and kids allowed to be kids. As that is happening, prepare to be surprised by just how creative kids can be; watch the “rules” change as they create their own environment to play. The only hard-and-fast rule will be that the general laws of soccer apply (i.e. no handling the ball) but beyond that, they can create their own soccer matches.
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When: Fridays, starting 07/16/21 through 08/20/21
Time: 6:00 – 7:00 PM
Where: Mad River Park
Tuition: $75 for the whole summer (6 sessions) or $50 per month (July or August)
Note: No, you do not have to attend every single week and tuition reflects an assumed absence or two
For more information, please email: highlandsoccersystems@gmail.com with “Friday Night Lights” in the Subject Line