We’ve had several questions about registration. Parents have inquired why other parents have already received their registration notice, or why they have received a registration notice for one child, but not for their Junior Academy daughter.
The “start a new soccer year” process:
Let’s review the steps that start a new soccer year. This refers to Junior Academy, Academy and Select team groups, not to the recreational program, clinics, camps or individual player offerings. (Don’t worry, there isn’t a test down the road!)
- Parents register their daughters for tryouts.
- Players go through tryouts. (Not the case for all age groups this year.)
- Coaches issue invitations to join their program / team.
- Acceptances go through the coaches.
- Coaches submit rosters to the NTH registrar (Stevi Nuss).
- The NTH registrar creates official rosters and alerts the families that they can register their daughters for the Junior Academy / Academy program / Select team. (This is when registration for Junior Academy will appear as an available program in the NTH registration system.)
Where are we in the process?
Our particular group (NTH-Tophat North Junior Academy Girls) is in the caboose of the very, very long registration train! But we don’t get started until August, so there’s plenty of time to make it to our destination on time.
Why are we last? We (Junior Academy Girls) are currently working on steps 2 & 3. We’re still doing tryouts (for new players, not for retuning players). Many age groups skipped tryouts, so they may have already reached step 6 in the process. (A typical year has us completing tryouts earlier than most other groups. But that’s not the case this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.)
I was in contact with our registrar yesterday to let her know our roster is still unfinished. She mentioned having 90+ teams ahead of us on her to-do list. This combination means she will likely start step 6 for our group mid-June, possibly later.
Why does this matter?
It doesn’t! But it creates questions when parents with kids in different age groups or programs compare notes, or when a family has multiple children in different programs and is curious why their registration schedules don’t match.