Younger Teams - PreK-2nd:The younger teams will have maybe one or two games for fun but be primarily focused on learning about soccer, practicing and skill building.Pre-K and K (separately or possibly combined if numbers are low) will have
Saturday morning only practices.
PreK will be Saturdays at 8am.K will be Saturdays at 9am.Please note: The PreK team is kids who are in their last year of preschool and will be in kindergarten the year after.
These teams will have 1 or maybe 2 games at most.
Grades 1/2 will have practices Tuesday afternoons at 4pm and Saturday mornings at 10am. 1/2 will have a smaller number of games than older teams but more than Pre-K & K will have.
Older Teams - 3rd-6th:The older teams will have will have both practices and games with nearby towns. If we turn out to have too many kids for 1 team per grade range, we will have multiple teams that are evenly leveled (as much as possible) and have color names (such as Blue and White team) for the teams.
There is no actual league that we join for soccer so we are able to determine which towns that we play and can choose to play towns close by to Thetford.
Grades 3/4 will have practice and games on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5pm.Grades 5/6 will have practices and games on Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays at 5pm. FAQ:
Question: How long is the soccer season?
Answer: September and October... teams generally start practices the second week of school to let kids acclimate to school first.
Question: Can non-Thetford residents sign up?
Answer: The non-resident option is
only for kids
who attend school in Thetford but do not live in Thetford.
This option is
only for students at
Open Fields School or
TES kids who tuition in from another town. We expect to have many soccer sign-ups so we are
not offering it to kids outside of Thetford (aside from the kids noted above).
Question: Can kids do both Soccer and Fall Ball?Answer: Yes, I have made the schedules work so that kids can be signed up for Fall Ball in Post Mills and Soccer at TES. Please see the Fall Ball (which is baseball) sign-up for more info on Fall Ball.
Here is how the schedules work together for the two sports:
Schedules will be viewable on the Thetford Rec site if you click on the calendar (from the homepage). Right now I have weekday soccer practices on there. I'll update the Saturday team times once I know them. I will also put games on there once they are scheduled with the other teams. We meet as a group of towns to schedule the whole season towards the end of August so that is when I'll be able to put games on the calendar.
COACH INFO:
Pre K Sat AM Coach Nic C and Coach Damien H
K Sat AM Coach Libby1/2 Coach Libby and Coach Steph
3/4 Coach Lauren and Coach Natty C.
5/6 Coach Nolan and Coach Elise C.
Coaches and perspective coaches:
Click here for info and sign-up about a FREE evening soccer coach clinic coming up soon! Any coach or perspective coach may join!Uniforms for 1st-6th grade:Performance Tee's are worn for soccer.
Many kids have this shirt already.
Please purchase one if you need one.
Pre-K and K do not need uniform shirts.