March 12, 2020 update: Game days from March 14 forward are suspended until further notice due to risks from the Coronavirus. Link: more details.
| Day | Date | Time | Location | Opponent | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat | Feb 29 | 10:30 12:00 | Metro North TOPS Metro North TOPS | intra-Academy intra-Academy | 5v5 5v5 |
| Sat | March 7 | 9:00 10:30 | Metro North TOPS Metro North TOPS | intra-Academy intra-Academy | 5v5 5v5 |
| Sat | canceled | 9:00 10:20 1:15 | Quest tbd Quest tbd Kings Ridge Champions 1 | intra-Academy intra-Academy NTH Milton | 5v5 5v5 7v7 |
| Sat | March 21 | 9:00 10:15 | Metro North TOPS Metro North TOPS | intra-Academy intra-Academy | 5v5 5v5 |
| Sat | March 28 | 9:00 10:15 11:30 12:45 | Metro North TOPS Metro North TOPS Metro North TOPS Metro North TOPS | NTH Buckhead NTH Buckhead NTH Buckhead NTH Buckhead | 5v5 5v5 5v5 5v5 |
| Sat | April 4 | n/a | n/a: spring break | n/a | n/a |
| Sun | April 12 | afternoon | tbd | intra-Academy | informal spring break scrimmages? |
| Sat | April 18 | 9:00 10:30 12:00 | Rabbit Hill 7A Rabbit Hill 7A Rabbit Hill 7A | GSA North GSA North GSA North | 7v7 7v7 7v7 |
| Sat | April 25 | 9:00 11:45 1:00 | SHP 2A Tophat 3B-1 Tophat 3B-1 | AFU Gold NTH Buckhead NTH Buckhead | 7v7 7v7 7v7 |
| Sat | May 2 | tbd | tbd | tbd | tbd |
| Sun | May 3 | 3:30 4:45 | Metro North 4B Metro North 4B | intra-Academy intra-Academy | 7v7 7v7 |
| Sun | May 10 | 12:00 3:30 | Arizona 3D Tophat 3B-2 | Inter-Atlanta FC intra-Academy | 7v7 7v7 |
| Sat-Sun | May 16-17 | tourney | tbd | tourney | tourney |
Spring 2020 game day schedule revision history:
- Feb. 16: Posted an initial draft. Will fill in details as we receive updates.
- Feb. 18: Major updates posted; also added a Sunday, May 3rd afternoon game day.
- Feb. 20: More changes, including adding a new Sunday, May 10 game.
- Feb. 26: One game moved from May 9 to May 10.
- March 3: Minor changes to March 14 and April 25 schedules.
Rosters:
- We divide our player pool into several teams each game day (coaches create the rosters).
- Every available girl will play each game day. We usually play multiple games each game day, with each girl playing one game. For example, if we have games at 9:00, 10:30 and 12:00, roughly a third of the girls will play at 9:00, another third at 10:30, and another third at 12:00. Link: game day procedures and guidelines
- We assign and post team rosters on our Junior Academy web site each Monday night prior to the weekend games. Games are usually scheduled 75-90 minutes apart. If our schedule lists game times as “9:00, 10:30, 12:00” you’ll know on Monday night whether your daughter is in a 9:00, 10:30 or 12:00 game. Link: sample game day page
- We’ll combine girls from both Metro North Park and United Quest Park on game days.
- Team rosters often change from week to week. Teams may be created based on playing level and / or age, or balanced / mixed so each NTH team is of the same level. Link: team assignments and levels of play
- Coaches will handle roster assignments. We may not be able to honor individual roster / game time requests. Link: schedule requests
Game formats:
We have a mix of 5v5 and 7v7 games during the spring season. We’ll play with goalkeepers in the 5v5 and 7v7 games. The offside rule will apply in 7v7 games.
DH players:
We will likely have some game days when we’ll need some players to play twice, or what we call “DH” (double-header) duty. Link: double-header play
Sunday play:
We usually play on Saturdays, but we have some Sunday game days:
- April 12? Depending on player availability, we may have an informal Sunday game day at the end of spring break.
- May 3: We have Sunday afternoon games.
- May 10: We have a Mother’s Day special game day.
- May 17? If we play an end-of-season tournament, it will likely include Sunday play on May 17th.
Schedule conflicts:
Please let us know as early as possible about any game day schedule conflicts. (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.
Tournaments:
We won’t play any 2-day pre-season tournaments.
Pending field availability and weather, we may have an informal intra-Academy 1-day tournament in late February.
We currently plan to play in a NTH-sponsored tournament the weekend of May 16-17, 2019. This will likely be a big tournament, hosting 100+ teams from local and other areas, ages U8 up through U19, with each team playing three or more games. This will be our final event of the spring season.
Depending on the number of U8 entrants, we may roster all of our girls, or only the girls with 2012 birth years. (We’ve found that few Junior Academy or pre-Academy programs at other clubs include 2013 girls.) Link: about tournaments
Birth Certificate / Medical Consent forms:
We still need to collect birth certificates and medical consent forms for some of our players. If you didn’t submit these during the summer or fall, please do so in February. Link: registration paperwork