The club will be holding training by age group from the U7 teams through U10. Under the direction of Christian Treney and Troy Van Hise, and with input from you, the coaches, each age group will be scheduled for training as a group one night each week, leaving the teams’ second practices each week up to the discretion of the coaches.

The desire is to help ensure that all the players are receiving similar skills training at the younger levels, but also to enable the newer coaches in particular to get some support and have the opportunity to learn drills you can then use with your teams on your other practice night. The training sessions would run all 10 weeks of the season and are for both the uncarded recreation league teams and the carded teams.

The fall program will be revisited after the fall season. To make it a success, we need your cooperation, both in terms of your input on scheduling and in your participation in the training sessions. Simply telling your players they ought to go is not enough; you as the coaches must be there as well. We want to do more for the players of the Berkeley Soccer Association, but we cannot do it without your help. If you have questions, please feel free to ask.