Why SKY Academy Select Soccer?

2025-2026 Season Tryouts Schedule

Who	Birth Year	When	Time
U9-U10 Boys & Girls	2017-2016	May 19th & 20th	Check In: 5:00 pm Tryout: 5:30 - 6:30pm
U11-U19 Boys	2015-2007	June 2nd & 4th	U11-U13: Check In: 5:00 pm Tryout: 5:30-7:00 pm U14-U19: Check In: 6:15 pm Tryout: 6:45-8:00 pm
U11-U19 Girls	2015-2007	June 3rd & 5th	U11-U13: Check In: 5:00 pm Tryout: 5:30-7:00 pm U14-U19: Check In: 6:15 pm Tryout: 6:45-8:00 pm

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What is the SKY Academy Select Soccer Program?

SKY Soccer Club’s Academy Select Soccer program offers the highest level of training and competitive game play available for players in U9 - U19 divisions.

To effectively grow our Academy Select program, teams, and players, it's essential to expose our younger athletes to the highest level of age-appropriate training and competition as early as possible. This is why our Executive Director, Steve Henson, will be directly training our U9 and U10 players. With over 30 years of coaching experience at the youth and college levels, as well as D1 college and semi-pro playing experience, Coach Henson is delivering our U9 and U10 Academy players an unmatched soccer development experience in this area.

Leading our Academy Select Program for the U11 through U19 divisions is our newly appointed Director of Coaching(DOC), Zach Salchli. Since joining the organization, Zach has coached soccer players from the introductory ages of 2 through 22 at the Division 1 College Level. His promotion to DOC reflects the organization's ongoing effort to recognize passionate hard work and support career advancement opportunities for staff members. To learn more about Coach Salchli and his soccer background, click HERE.

Also, as an added investment in our players, we began providing optional skills training sessions for our U9-U12 Academy Select players. These are fast paced and fun technical sessions focused on individual player development. We will continue to offer these optional skills training and goalkeeper training sessions to our Academy Select players as a part of our technical development initiatives.

Why choose the SKY Soccer Club Academy Select Program for your player?

The impact of youth sports on a player’s life can be significant. A Soccer Club’s culture and mission dictates the influence and development of kids as players and people. Our mission at SKY Soccer Club is to develop great players and people and enhance the community we serve. This is ingrained in all that we do. A college or professional scout will not ask how your player’s team finished in the “big” tournament. Instead, technical skill, tactical understanding, academics, maturity and community involvement will be most important. Our goal is to influence the whole player through our culture and coaching.

When a player and family invest their time and resources into our Academy Select program, we recognize it is both a privilege and responsibility to provide the highest quality culture and technical experience. Our Player Pathway provides players of all abilities the opportunity to meet and exceed their goals. Our continued investment in people and strategic partnerships over the last few years has enabled a player pathway that provides high quality, professionally designed and delivered programming for players of all ages and abilities. Our players are experiencing high level, age and developmentally appropriate technical training, from an experienced professional and licensed coaching staff. There is no other soccer club in the State or Region connecting programs for players ages two to eighteen through a single, seamless program pathway, and the results are showing...

We’ve seen growth in all of our programs throughout the developed Player Pathway, as a visual representation of an individual player's growth through youth soccer. Player growth and development equals team growth and development and we're proud to have both girls and boys teams competing in the highest levels of competition in the state.

Coaching

Coaching is an important part of the development pathway! Coaches are often mentors and can have a significant influence on a player’s personal development and lives. Consider who your coach is on the field, and who your coach is off the field. Do they conduct themselves in a way you want your child to model?

Further, who is the Club’s Director of Coaching, what experience do they have leading soccer organizations, developing programs, coaches and players? The Director of Coaching has a huge impact on the quality of a program, the development of the players, and the coaches that interact with your children. Know who your DOC is, their experience, and what they represent on and off of the field. At SKY Soccer we’re proud to have a DOC and Coaches leading our programs that have a passion for teaching the game, represent our culture and mission, and that deliver quality technical, tactical and social development for our players.

As part of our Player Pathway, we have emphasized the importance of coaching development and education throughout all of our programs. Our coaches are pushed to continue to develop their craft and we offer continuing education reimbursement to advance our overall coach and player development.

Need more information?

If you’re interested in our Academy Select Program and have questions, please review our Academy Select Handbook. It contains very useful information regarding travel, player commitment and expectations and cost structure!

We couldn’t be more excited to have your player and family a part of the tradition of our Academy Select soccer program. Don’t miss out, register now, stay safe and healthy, and WE WILL SEE YOU ON THE FIELDS SOON!

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