St. Barnabas Fall Soccer General Information

The most important program information was in the previous two posts but I wanted to provide some additional information to answer questions that might come up. Feel free to email me or your team's coach if you have any specific questions that are not noted below. Other FAQ's will be updated as they come in.

General Information:

• Each participant will receive a soccer uniform in their team's color (t-shirts). Each participant need to provide their own shorts, socks, shoes and shin guards. All kids are required to wear shin guards to participate. Soccer cleats are encouraged but are not required.
• We will have goals, balls, cones, etc ready for the games on Saturday. Pre-K/K kids should bring a size 3 ball for their own use if available. There will be balls available in case you don't bring one with you. The other programs will have balls provided for the games.
• Treats, drinks, etc are at the discretion of the individual teams. All participants should bring water with them.
• Teams can keep score during the individual games but I’m not going to collect scores or do any sort of league tracking. Scores will be left up to the teams for weekend bragging rights but then immediately forgotten.
• For day of information (especially related to weather) I will post an update on this site so please check the site if there is the weather looks questionable. Since the season is so short we will err on the side of playing if it is cold or rainy but will cancel if the conditions are unsafe or if the fields are unplayable.

Pre-K/K Program Information:

• The Pre-K/K program does not have formal teams but has the kids broken into 3 evenly sized groups. The kids will have skill-games for the first half of practice before breaking up into smaller groups for 3 v 3 or 4 v 4 games.
• The groups will meet for 1 hour each week with the first group starting at 8:30 and the last 10:30, all ending by 11:30.

First/Second and Third/Fourth Grade Program Information:

• Each team has 7-8 kids. I kept teams small so to maximize playing time with the 3 v 3 format.
• It will be up to the coaches each week if they would like to play 3 v 3 or 4 v 4. With teams with 8 participants, 4 v 4 would allow more play time for each player.
• An attempt was made to balance teams with a number of kids equally distributed by grade and gender. Siblings were kept together together in each given grade grouping. Given an uneven distribution of boys and girls per age some teams may have an uneven split compared to other teams. Other than age and gender, the team distribution is random.
• The schedule has the teams split across 3 fields for the 1st/2nd and 2 fields for 3rd/ 4th. Half of the teams will start at 9 and the other half start at 10. All games will be complete by 11. See the previous post for details on game times for individual teams.

Fifth/Sixth/Seventh Grade Program Information:

• There are 20 participants in this program and they will be split into 2 evenly sized teams. 
• The teams will meet at Crescent Park at 9am each week.