Announcing club training schedules?

[Parent u9]

Obviously things just getting started at u9 with clubs so not sure how this works...

Do parents generally find out the training schedules after the child makes the club or are they known prior to the season?

With some programs being once per week and others two with the weekend match, there is room to train with 2 clubs or a town travel team and one club training.

Do parents push the coaches to give an idea of which days before the season to coordinate their kid's season schedule??

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Obviously things just getting started at u9 with clubs so not sure how this works...

Do parents generally find out the training schedules after the child makes the club or are they known prior to the season?

With some programs being once per week and others two with the weekend match, there is room to train with 2 clubs or a town travel team and one club training.

Do parents push the coaches to give an idea of which days before the season to coordinate their kid's season schedule??

My kids' club has had the same training schedule for years for U9-U12. The info from the year prior is on the town soccer website until the new schedule is posted. Not sure if this is the norm, however.

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My kids' club has had the same training schedule for years for U9-U12. The info from the year prior is on the town soccer website until the new schedule is posted. Not sure if this is the norm, however.

Sounds like you are all set since you know you club.

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Obviously things just getting started at u9 with clubs so not sure how this works...

Do parents generally find out the training schedules after the child makes the club or are they known prior to the season?

With some programs being once per week and others two with the weekend match, there is room to train with 2 clubs or a town travel team and one club training.

Do parents push the coaches to give an idea of which days before the season to coordinate their kid's season schedule??

1) We always found out about the training schedule after making the club - but I never bothered to ask prior to that. My guess is that some clubs will know, and some won't since tryouts are in the summer and even the coaching director might not have a field assignment schedule for the coming fall by then.

2) We always made room for training and playing with the town travel team at that age. it was important for our daughter to be with her friends. But you should expect that if you do club, there's a high probability that eventually you'll have at least 1 day a week conflict if both club and travel team practice twice a week. (Lot's of clubs and towns avoid scheduling practices on Fridays, so there's usually just 4 days to choose from)

3) Unfortunately, our club team was kind of useless in terms of trying to keep any kind of consistency - Fall practice would be Tues, Thurs and then switch to Mon-Wed during winter indoor, and then perhaps switch again come springtime. The notifications about practice days came some several weeks prior to the start of the next season so we wouldn't know the winter schedule until the fall season was pretty much wrapping up. It was kind of annoying and very apparent that they didn't realize that with kids you have other activities / siblings that you are also trying to schedule around. We did the best we could, but it was annoying the club didn't plan ahead better.

[Parent u9]

1) We always found out about the training schedule after making the club - but I never bothered to ask prior to that. My guess is that some clubs will know, and some won't since tryouts are in the summer and even the coaching director might not have a field assignment schedule for the coming fall by then.

2) We always made room for training and playing with the town travel team at that age. it was important for our daughter to be with her friends. But you should expect that if you do club, there's a high probability that eventually you'll have at least 1 day a week conflict if both club and travel team practice twice a week. (Lot's of clubs and towns avoid scheduling practices on Fridays, so there's usually just 4 days to choose from)

3) Unfortunately, our club team was kind of useless in terms of trying to keep any kind of consistency - Fall practice would be Tues, Thurs and then switch to Mon-Wed during winter indoor, and then perhaps switch again come springtime. The notifications about practice days came some several weeks prior to the start of the next season so we wouldn't know the winter schedule until the fall season was pretty much wrapping up. It was kind of annoying and very apparent that they didn't realize that with kids you have other activities / siblings that you are also trying to schedule around. We did the best we could, but it was annoying the club didn't plan ahead better.

I know one club has 1/week at u9 and another is 2 training and sat games so was thinking maybe do both.

Travel would be fun too but how can you do 2 different program at 2 per week each? What happens when club is the same 2 days?

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I know one club has 1/week at u9 and another is 2 training and sat games so was thinking maybe do both.

Travel would be fun too but how can you do 2 different program at 2 per week each? What happens when club is the same 2 days?

It can be difficult. In our case, there were three kids playing for the travel team that also played for the same club team.

The travel team was very accomodating and attempted to set up practices so that there was less chance of conflict, yet of course they still had field and coach time availability constraints. At the U-12 age we had zero conflicts (could do all 4 practices). At the U-13 age we just ended up with a 1 day conflict, in which case the kids kind of had to pick which of the over-lapping practices they would attend.