Winter break

By | November 15, 2015
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We start our winter break Sunday, November 22nd. Spring season practices will start in February, exact date to be determined in late January. We may have an occasional informal (and optional) kick-around during the winter break. If so, we’ll send a notice via e-mail and also post it on the home page of our Junior Academy web site. If we do schedule a kick-around, the event is totally optional and will typically just consist of scrimmage games.

Academy Winter Workouts

  • If your daughter would like structured training during the winter break, NASA offers the Academy Winter Workouts program in January. The workouts will be run by NASA’s Girls Director of Coaching, Eric Ritter. NASA offers two 4-day sessions (Jan. 5-8 and Jan. 11-14) that focus on the technical areas of the game — passing, receiving, finishing, and dribbling — and how to apply them in game situations both attacking and defending. Players can sign up for either or both set of sessions. More details are available on the NASA web site. (Registration: Log into your NASA account through www.nasa-ga.org / Member Login. Once buy antibiotics japan you’re logged in, select View Available Programs. Select the appropriate session.)

Playing at home

  • Some girls prefer informal off-season play on their own schedule. Girls can arrange a small group of friends or play on their own. For small groups, the girls could get together once or twice a week to play, rotating between each girl’s yard. The girls can decide what they will do, or the host girl can create the day’s activity list. If you’re looking for ideas, we’ve come up with a wide variety of “play at home” activities, most with video demos, covering games for pairs or small groups of players, plus lots of different solo fast footwork, dribbling, passing, receiving and juggling activities. Link: full catalog of videos

Outside the box

  • If your daughter wants to put her soccer ball away for a while but stay active, basketball, dance or gymnastics are good options. The body movement of these activities relate well to soccer (agility, balance and coordination are important in all), and the basic tactics in basketball are similar to those in soccer.