We were lucky and had awesome parent coaches. When parent volunteer coaches are fully vested and care is when it makes the difference between a good experience meeting expectations versus a really poor, disorganized experience. Wish every program was consistent because past experiences were very poor and we hesitate to sign up hoping it’ll be a good one.
Great refs who call games appropriately to the level of the kids and as the season progresses. The i9 app is much improved and coach preparations make practice planning easy. Wrist band system for defensive play is a great way to keep kids on task and match ability levels between players well.
I like the introduction to a sport.
I think that coaches should get some incentive to coach. That way teams would have a coach and assistant coaches. Either a credit or discount would be worthwhile.
I like the opportunity to be exposed to sports at a young age, but many of the coaches take the game too seriously. My son was only given the ball 3 times the entire season even after we asked the coach why and could he please play our son more. I know this is true for other coaches/ teams as well. They are 5 years old and learning to play, love and understand sports. Coaches shouldn’t be so competitive at this age.
The program was great and well organized. We loved only committing one day a week to practice and the game. Our daughter had a blast, learned how to play soccer for the first time, and made new friends. Our coach was also great and very kind. We would be happy to do it again.