SPARTAN JUNIORS is a soccer program that prepares players, from ages 6 years to 8 years of age, for competing in a travel soccer league. Our goal is to develop players through a mixture of individual drills, training, games, and small sided scrimmages. All sessions focus on the continued development of motor skills, acquisition of basic soccer skills, physical fitness, teamwork, instilling self motivation and confidence. Our program creates a comfortable, low stress environment players to develop. The following is our mission philosophy:
1. SMILING KIDS: This is not a high intensity professional training session, it is a bunch of kids working on simple skills. If they enjoy it, they will want to come back next week. This does not mean we will let everyone goof off and just run crazy but we do want to have fun.
2. DEVELOP A SENSE OF TEAMWORK: This is a wonderful life lesson that children need to be taught at a young age. Our coaching staff will encourage players to share the ball and work together.
3. MAKE FRIENDS: We encourage bonding between players, coaches and families.
4. DEVELOP BASIC SOCCER SKILLS: Most players have just started playing soccer. We feel that players will develop by continuing to touch the ball and by keeping active in small groups. No one wants to stand in long lines waiting to do something - they just want to do. The main skills we will be developing are dribbling, passing, receiving, striking, and positioning.
Our program was created by our coaches and supported by certified trainers. We will strive to maintain a coach to player ratio is 12:1 so that we can maximize the development of each child to their full potential. Spartan Juniors is a community based youth soccer program run during the Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer seasons.
Fall Season Program
Start: Middle of September
End: Mid-November
Description: Sixteen (16) sessions twice a week approximately 45 minutes / 1 hour long. Soccer instruction delivered by a trainer during the evening on one of the Paramus School District’s fields.
Additional component: Offer a “Mini-League” program which will utilize a Paramus School District’s field on Saturday afternoons. The Mini-League was organized by area soccer clubs to get groups of players together to play 3 v 3, 4 v 4, and 5 v 5 games in Bergen County. Travel may be required.
Levels: U5 (Kindergarten), First Grade (U6), and Second Grade (U7)
Class/Group Size: 12 Maximum Target
Winter Training Program
Start: First week of December
End: March
Description: Fourteen (14) sessions once a week approximately 45 minutes / 1 hour long. Soccer instruction delivered by a trainer during the evening in one of the Paramus School District’s gyms.
Levels: U5 (Kindergarten), First Grade (U6), and Second Grade (U7)
Class/Group Size: 12 Maximum Target
Spring Season Program
Start: Mid to Late March
End: Early June
Description: Twenty (20) sessions twice a week approximately 45 minutes / 1 hour long. Soccer instruction delivered by a trainer during the evening on one of the Paramus School District’s fields.
Additional component: Offer a “Mini-League” program which will utilize a Paramus School District’s field on Saturday afternoons. The Mini-League was organized by area soccer clubs to get groups of players together to play 3 v 3, 4 v 4, and 5 v 5 games in Bergen County. Travel may be required.
Levels: U5 (Kindergarten), First Grade (U6), and Second Grade (U7)
Class/Group Size: 12 Maximum Target
Summer Camp Program
Start: Week after July 4
End: Last Week in July
Description: Eight (8) sessions twice a week for approximately 45 minutes / 1 hour long. Soccer instruction delivered by a trainer during the evening on one of the Paramus School District’s fields.
Levels: U5 (Kindergarten), First Grade (U6), and Second Grade (U7)
Class/Group Size: 12 Maximum Target
Interest and questions can be emailed to Lou Hegyi at: [email protected]