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Fall 2021 season preview

We look forward to the upcoming fall 2021 season! We start with our Junior Academy team camp the week of August 2. Regular practices start the following week. We have a pre-season game day on August 14. Regular weekend game days start September 11 (the first Saturday after Labor Day). Here are links to details… Read More »

“Fridays / July Days” optional practices (July 2021)

We thank everyone who participated in our optional “Fridays / July Days” sessions! We’ll definitely consider offering this again next July. We have reserved a field for Junior Academy Girls practices each Friday morning in July. These are optional “come if you can” events. If your daughter has already signed up to escort kittens on tours… Read More »

Uniform orders: summer 2021

NTH is starting a new uniform cycle, which we expect to run from the fall 2021 season through the spring 2023 season (two full soccer years, or four seasons). All players — new and returning — will need to order the new uniform package. We’ve completed the preliminary tasks: assigning uniform numbers and submitting our roster… Read More »

Summer 2021 schedule

Tryouts are complete, so now it’s time for a summer break. Many youth development experts encourage kids to take occasional 2-week breaks from adult-organized sports. This is an ideal time for a 2-week break. But that doesn’t mean we suggest becoming a summer couch potato! Summer break sports options: Does your daughter want to put… Read More »

USA Women’s 2021 Summer Series starts June 10!

The US Women’s National Team (USWNT) hosts Portugal, Jamaica and Nigeria in the 2021 Summer Series event. The games take place in Texas and begin Thursday, June 10. This is an Olympic Games year, so the Summer Series event will serve as important preparation for the Olympics. The Olympic Games are hosted in Tokyo, Japan and… Read More »

Soccer year-end preview: 2020-2021

It’s hard to believe, but the end of the 2020-2021 soccer year is coming soon! This means it’s time to document the transition from the current soccer year to the upcoming 2021-2022 soccer year. On the field, we’ll stay in the moment and focus on the here and now. We have more control over the here… Read More »

Game day preview: Saturday, May 15, 2021

Location alert (Monday, May 10 @ 10:00 AM):  Games have been moved from the Tophat Buckhead fields to Metro North Park, and kickoff times have been shifted back 75 minutes.   Team assignments alert (Tuesday, May 11 @ 9:00 PM):  The time changes have affected some players’ availability. We’ll need to re-do our team assignments… Read More »

Game day preview: Saturday, May 8, 2021

Our next game day is a set of 7v7 away games in Dacula against teams from the Gwinnett Soccer Association. Link:  team assignments and schedules (posted Sunday night, May 2) Game day links: May 8 team assignments and schedules about game days in general Spring 2021 game day schedule

2021 NTH Adidas Select Cup tournament preview

Updated May 12, 2021: We will not be playing in the tournament. There’s generally not a lot of participation for U8 or younger teams in tournaments. The tournament drew only one other U8 entrant. This would have led to us paying extra to play multiple intra-Academy games. We were’t able to get a team into… Read More »