Shelton Youth Soccer Organization is proud to open enrollment for our Spring 2025 Recreation season. The Inter CT FC Coaching team will provide centralized coaches at all the practices, to lead the soccer curriculum and demonstrate proper techniques.
Volunteer Parent Coaches will still be needed to provide more of the hands on, emotional, and administrative support to their respective teams to lead the Saturday games.
Players will develop their social and motor skills while learning to become comfortable dribbling and kicking the ball. As the players mature to grade school levels, they will learn passing, positioning, and using more technique as opposed to raw athleticism. Players who excel here at ages 7+ will be encouraged to join our Spring25 Academy or Travel program to help further their curriculum as an introduction to more advanced levels of play.
The Spring 2025 Recreation season will tentatively start practices the week of Monday, April 21st. Players will practice with their team once per week, on the same night each week (Mon-Thu) throughout the season. Subject to the registration demand and night preferences (last question of registration) SYSO will make at least 2 or 3 nights available for practice for each league to promote the kids training together. Practices will usually be held at East Village Park, with the youngest players starting at 5:15pm, the middle-aged players at 6:10pm, and the oldest at 7:00pm (if needed), practice times will be extended as the sunset time gets later as well.
The first games will tentatively be played Saturday, April 26th and all regularly scheduled games will be played on Saturdays. Games will be played at East Village Park, Nike Site Park, and Capewell Park. The games are anticipated to start at approximately 8:15-11:30am. Times will vary each week, SYSO tries to balance the early and late start times amongst the teams.
For reference, the Fall 2024 Game Format and FAQ information can be found here.
Tentative Spring Schedule:
4/10: 1st Team Rosters and Practice Schedule Announcement
4/14: Game Schedule Announcement
4/19: Morning Uniform Pickup Event* @ Capewell Park 8:30-11:00am
4/21: First Week of Practices @ East Village Park (on holiday conflicts, teams will practice on Friday instead)
4/25: Evening Uniform Pickup Event* @ Capewell Park 5:00-8:00pm
4/26: First Gameday (8:15am through 11:30am start times, every Saturday morning)
6/21: Last Gameday (8 Saturday Games with 6/21 as the rain makeup, 9th date as needed)
League and team sizes will be created based on enrollment, SYSO anticipates having leagues based on the groups as defined within the registration page. Leagues are gender specific for 5-10 year old players, girls 11 and under will play in girls only leagues. Boys 11+ will most likely play in a Co-Ed league. Any 12+ year old will most likely play in a Co-Ed league.