Academy is the core, middle league of our Auburn Soccer Club. It is for the U6-U11 age groups. Teams have professional coaches and train 2 days a week for 1 hour to 90 minutes. Players in our Academy program then go into the Select Program in the U12 Age group.

The ASC Academy Program philosophy is to emphasize player development over team development, focusing on the technical development of each child without the pressures of short-term wins, loses or results.

Your child must have been born between the years 2016-2013, for Fall 2023-Spring 2024.

Evaluations are in May but we have a rolling season which means anyone can join at any time. We allow midseason evaluations for anyone interested.

ASC will practice with Monday and Wednesday nights or Tuesday and Thursday nights. We work to keep academy session for the early time slots starting at 4:30 or 5:00 pm. Academy teams will participate in tournaments and league play held through the state. Tournaments are team based and league games put together by our academy director.

ASC Academy teams will compete against academy teams from other clubs in the local area.

Travel is kept to a minimum for U9 and under, with most games taking place within the Auburn/Opelika/Montgomery area, but there may be occasions where you are required to travel beyond that for tournaments or other competition.

ASC Academy teams competes in the AMO, games typically start beginning of August. Once schedules are released, they will be sent out to families.

Yes. In accordance with the recommendations by U.S. Youth Soccer, most of the clubs have now adopted the academy style philosophy.

The standings usually matter more to the parents than they do the players. At ASC Academy we feel that whenever we compete against another club or even amongst other academy teams in our own club, the game will be competitive and both teams desire to win the game. We don’t want to put the younger players in situations where winning is the be all and end all. If this is the case players play with a fear-based mentality rather than a creative mentality.

Academy teams will enter tournaments throughout the year. The club sets these tournaments to ensure that families are not traveling to multiple locations in a weekend. We try to keep all tournaments in the same place therefore set them beforehand. Coaches are allowed to schedule outside of the set tournaments if they deem necessary but teams will have to pay for any other tournaments, they participate in outside of the allotted club tournaments that are set.

Evaluations for Academy are in May and we will offer our academy players optional summer training sessions. Our season officially begins the first week of August and goes until mid-December. We start back up in January after the holiday break and continue through May with new evaluations.