We start fall 2018 season practices the week of August 13. Our practice schedule matches our schedule from the 2017-2018 soccer year.
| Day | Location | Field | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mondays | United Quest Park | UQP field 7 | 5:30 - 6:45 PM |
| Tuesdays | Metro North Park | MNP "TOPS" field | 5:00 - 6:15 PM (during Daylight Saving Time) 4:45 - 6:00 PM (after DST ends) goalkeeper training resumes spring 2019 |
| Wednesdays | United Quest Park | UQP field 7 | 5:30 - 6:45 PM optional goalkeeper training, 6:55 - 7:30 |
| Thursdays | Metro North Park | MNP "TOPS" field | 5:00 - 6:15 PM (during Daylight Saving Time) 4:45 - 6:00 PM (after DST ends) |
- Before we get started, please take 5-10 minutes with your daughter to review our practice session guidelines: what to wear (and what not wear, for example, earrings and jewelry), what to bring, and so forth.
- Please label backpacks, balls, water bottles and warm-ups: We ask each family to take a few minutes to customize their daughter’s soccer backpack and label her ball, water bottle and warm-up jackets and pants. This will prevent needless lost and found angst.
- Backpacks: Link: customization ideas for backpacks.
- Balls: Use a Sharpie to mark your daughter’s first initial and last name, or initials and uniform number.
- Water bottles: Apply a unique sticker, or write initials and uniform number with a Sharpie.
- Warm-ups: Use a Sharpie to note initials and uniform number on internal tags / labels. Or you can have her initials and uniform number embroidered on the warm-ups.
Which / how many practices to attend?
We ask the girls to attend two sessions each week. For most players, these will be the two sessions at their home park. If a player has a schedule conflict with a session at her home park, or wants to attend an extra practice, she’s welcome to attend a session at the other park, no reservation needed. We’ll make sure she feels welcome!
Bad weather procedures
Rain itself isn’t a problem, but waterlogged fields, lightning or unsafe driving conditions due to winter storms can affect our schedule. We generally practice in cold weather as long as the wind chill doesn’t drop below 20 degrees. (Link: tips on cold weather attire). For info about how we deal with bad weather, please check our weather link.
Goalkeeper training
We offer optional goalkeeper training sessions once a week at each park starting the week of August 20. These are 35 minute sessions after one of our regular Junior Academy training sessions. Any player who is interested may attend. There’s no cost for these sessions. (We won’t use goalkeepers on game days during the early stages of the season, but will likely do so at some point.)
Fall 2018 Game Day schedules
We’ll start weekly regular season game days the weekend after Labor Day. We’ll finish the weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. We normally receive our game day schedules in late August.
Link: game day procedures and guidelines
Schedule conflicts:
Please let us know as early as possible about any game day schedule conflicts, including conflicts with travel related to Cobb or Cherokee school systems’ fall break weeks. (E-mail to Ward is the preferred method.) We can work around most conflicts as long as we know about them by the weekend ahead of the game day.