February 17, 2021 update: We received our spring 2021 Junior Academy game day schedule:
| Day | Date | Time | Location | Opponent | Format |
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| Sat | March 6 | 9:00 10:15 11:30 | Quest Park field 7 Quest Park field 7 Quest Park field 7 | Tophat Milton intra-Academy intra-Academy | 5v5 5v5 5v5 |
| Sat | March 13 | 9:00 10:15 11:30 12:45 | Metro North TOPS Metro North TOPS Metro North TOPS Metro North TOPS | Tophat Buckhead intra-Academy Tophat Smyrna Tophat Buckhead | 5v5 5v5 5v5 5v5 |
| Sat | March 20 | 9:00 10:15 11:30 | Quest Park field 7 Quest Park field 7 Quest Park field 7 | NTH Milton intra-Academy intra-Academy | 5v5 5v5 5v5 |
| Sat | March 27 | 9:00 10:15 11:30 | Noonday back #9A Noonday back #9A Noonday back #9A | GSA North GSA North GSA North | 7v7 7v7 7v7 |
| Sat | April 3 | 9:30 | Spring Break: informal scrimmages Metro North TOPS | intra-Academy | tbd |
| Sun | April 11 | 3:30 | Spring Break: informal scrimmages Metro North TOPS | intra-Academy | tbd |
| Sat | April 17 | 11:30 | Jonquil Park #2B | NTH Smyrna | 5v5 |
| Sun | April 18 | 12:00 1:15 2:30 3:45 | Quest Park field 7 Quest Park field 7 Quest Park field 7 Quest Park field 7 | NTH Milton NTH Buckhead NTH Buckhead NTH Buckhead | 5v5 5v5 5v5 5v5 |
| Sat | April 24 | 10:15 11:30 12:45 2:00 | NTH Buckhead intra-Academy NTH Buckhead NTH Buckhead | 5v5 5v5 5v5 5v5 |
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| Sat | May 1 | 9:00 10:15 11:30 | Quest Park field 7 Quest Park field 7 Quest Park field 7 | NTH Milton intra-Academy intra-Academy | 5v5 5v5 5v5 |
| Sun | May 2 | 2:45 | Noonday back #9B | intra-Academy | 7v7 |
| Sat | May 8 | 9:00 10:30 12:00 | Rabbit Hill #8A Rabbit Hill #8A Rabbit Hill #8A | GSA North GSA North GSA North | 7v7 7v7 7v7 |
| Sat | May 15 | NTH Buckhead NTH Buckhead NTH Buckhead | 7v7 7v7 7v7 |
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| Sat-Sun | May 22-23 | n/a |
Spring 2021 game day schedule revision history:
- April 16: Updates to the May 2 game. Major changes to the May 8 schedule.
- March 12: Added time and location for the Saturday, April 17 game.
- Feb. 28: Added a game on Sunday, May 2.
- Feb. 17: Posted first draft. Some details are still TBD.
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, 10:15 and 11:30, some girls will play at 9:00, others at 10:15, and others at 11:30. 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. We link the detailed game day page to two of our commonly viewed web pages:
- The game day preview page in our News section
- The current season’s game day schedule page; the link is attached to the game date in the schedule table
- Games are usually scheduled 75-90 minutes apart. If our schedule lists game times as “9:00, 10:15, 11:30” you’ll know on Monday night whether your daughter is in the 9:00, 10:15 or 11:30 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 may have some Sunday game days:
- Sunday, April 18: Most of our girls will play Sunday afternoon games.
- Sunday, May 2: Our most experienced players will play a 7v7 game against an NTH North U9 team.
- Sunday, May 16? If we play an end-of-season tournament, it will likely include Sunday play on May 16th.
- Sunday, May 23? If we play an end-of-season tournament, it will likely include Sunday play on May 23rd.
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:
Updated Thursday, May 13, 2021. We will not play a post-season May tournament. We applied to play in the NTH Adidas Select Cup, but the small number of U8 entrants led us to cancel. We considered entering a U8 team in the U9 division, but that didn’t work out.
We won’t play any 2-day pre-season tournaments. We currently plan to play in a NTH-sponsored tournament the weekend of May 15-16 and/or May 22-23. (We may have some girls play the first weekend, and others the second weekend.) These will likely be big tournaments, hosting 100+ teams from local and other areas, ages U8 up through U19, with each team playing three or more games.
The tournament(s) will be our final event(s) of the spring season. Depending on the number of U8 entrants, we may roster all of our girls, or only the girls with 2013 birth years. (We’ve found that few Junior Academy or pre-Academy programs at other clubs include 2014 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