We welcome four new players to the NASA Junior Academy for the spring. Addison and Annie practiced with us late fall. Erica and Madison have practiced with us recently this spring. All four girls earned invitations to join us for the upcoming spring season. Welcome girls!
We’ll have an intra-Academy game day on Saturday, February 27th at the Metro North Park turf field. We’ll have two separate sessions, 12:00 and 1:30 PM. We’ll post full details, including “who plays when” Monday night, February 22nd.
Rain is in the forecast. If we get rain, be sure to check either our Junior Academy phone hot-line or Twitter account before heading to the fields. We’ll update both by 4 PM if we have to change plans because of bad weather or field conditions. Junior Academy Girls phone hot-line: 1-866-206-9066, ext. 8870 Junior… Read More »
NASA has released our Junior Academy spring practice schedule. We get started on Wednesday, February 10th at United Quest Park, and Thursday, February 11th at Metro North Park. Link: spring 2016 practice schedule details
U. S. Soccer is the governing body that establishes the primary rules for youth soccer in the USA. They have announced changes to age group classifications, along with changes to playing formats for U12 and younger ages starting in the 2016-2017 soccer year. NASA will host a series of town hall meetings to review the… Read More »
The Saturday weather forecast looks nice (warm and sunny), so we’ve reserved the Metro North Park turf field for informal, “come if you can” scrimmages on Saturday, January 30th, 12:00 – 1:30 PM. Parents, if your daughter is available to play, please e-mail Ward by Wednesday night so we can get an estimated head count.… Read More »
We thank the 20 ice princesses who braved the cold and wind to play in our King holiday scrimmages! Special thanks to the parents for making sure their daughters were dressed properly. The girls conquered the weather (save for a couple of challenges tying shoelaces with cold fingers), and played a series of spirited and… Read More »
We thank all the girls who braved some rare cold weather for New Year’s Day scrimmages. Our group included current Junior Academy girls, older Academy players, and Academy alumni. Great job girls! Link: more photos / video
We thank Bo Brown for sharing game day photos from the fall. Photo gallery links: Sept. 12th NASA Academy Krieger vs. U8 Shockwaves October 11th NASA Academy Holiday vs. Tophat We put a few of the October 11th game photos together for slide-show videos: Ally and Taylor combine for a goal: Vanessa scores a screamer:
We’ve put together two juggling challenges: “foot surfaces” and “heights“. Each challenge has several different levels of difficulty. Many of the girls have been through some of these levels during recent warm-ups. We’ll post more juggling challenges down the road. We congratulate Taylor for completing all 16 individual levels of the foot surfaces challenge (twice)!… Read More »