We like the ability to have our children try new sports without the fear of being left out or not good enough. We love the team spirit that i9 offers. This is a great starting point to trying out new things. Coach Luis Orozco has been truly amazing. Both he and Coach Josh have been great confidence builders for these kids. We would love to play another season with Coach Luis (and assistant Coach Dari!)
This is the first time that my 12 year old son played on a soccer team. He has found a new love! The coaches are real friendly. One referee, in particular, explained to the kids why he made certain calls. I really liked that. He is helping the kids to learn the game. This has been a great experience! Thank you very much.
It’s fun, kids are enjoying it.
I coach a 7-9 team, I think it could be improved. I think the coach should be the QB in flag football for several reasons.
1) It is very hard to get all kids the ball with little kids playing QB. As is, you already have to have one of your better 2-3 kids play QB because the other 7 kids can’t throw five feet. So it upsets parents of the lesser kids immediately. Then those better kids only find the other better kids to throw to. It makes for an uneven game.
2) With kids playing QB, your playing field is basically a 15 foot box. More points are being scored by defenses than offenses. If the coach played QB it would spread the field and we could get passes to the lesser players.
3) With kids playing QB it takes tons of explaining just to get a handoff going. If a coach did it, you could get all the kids to the like and just “wing it” with all players going out for passes. And get kids handoffs. Because it takes so long between plays to explain the upcoming play, most of the hour long game is standing around.
I like that it is a casual, fun atmosphere with supportive parents and coaching. It is a positive environment for kids to have gentle development and it feels like the goal is to have fun.