HYR Parent Player Academy for 4 year-old players
Updated 3/22/2025
HYR’s program for 4 year-old players is called the Parent Player Academy. In this program, a 4 year-old player is given exposure to soccer in an age-appropriate manner through the use of exercises, drill, and game simulation led by instructors who have experience working with young children. The parents participate in the exercises and drills with the players allowing the players to experience sports and physical activity in a safe and family friendly atmosphere. The first half of each hour is dedicated to the parent and child working on drills together on the field, and the second half of the hour is dedicated to a scrimmage where the kids play and the parents cheer from the sidelines.
On any particular day, you may attend EITHER session. Your assigned session is a guideline, but if you oversleep one day or have an early birthday party the next time, come on whichever session works best for you.
The season runs from March 15th through April 26th 2025. The dates are listed below:
Week 1 - Saturday, March 15, 2025 (Rained out - may try to reschedule)
Week 2 - Sunday, March 23, 2025
Week 3 - Saturday, March 29, 2025
Week 4 - Sunday, April 6, 2025
Week 5 - Sunday, April 13, 2025
Week 6 - Saturday, April 19, 2025
Week 7 - Saturday, April 26, 2025
All of the sessions will be at George Rogers Clark Park located at 1024 Thruston Avenue off Poplar Level Road just south of Eastern Parkway.
Below is the HYR map of the park. We will be on fields 1A and 1B.
hyr george rogers clark park soccer map spring 2025 v2.pdf
If you would like to see what it looks like, watch a 90 second video if the Parent Player Academy below:
HYR Parent Player Academy Video
Children participating in the Parent Player Academy do NOT have a weeknight practice. (Bedtimes and overscheduling, etc.) Instead, they have a weekly practice/game on Saturday or Sunday mornings during the soccer season at either the 10 AM or 11 AM session.
Since this season's team theme is Olympic Medalists, the league shirts all feature a olympicmedalist from the past 100 years. This season, the 10 AM session is named "Nadia" for Nadia Comaneci, and the 11 AM session is named "Rudolph" for Wilma Rudolph. (If you are not failiar, look them up. They were both groundbreaking athletes. ) All the kids and adult shirts are a tie dye shirt with the logos on the front.
Below is a link to HYR's Equipment List (What WE provide and what YOU provide)
hyr soccer equipment list.pdf
Below is a link to a set of drills done at the Parent Player Academy
hyr parent player drills 2021.pdf
Below this line is from previous seasons
_________________________________________
If you would like to select your session (10 AM or 11 AM), click the form below. Anyone who does not select a session will be assigned to a session so that the numbers come out approximately even for each session. If you ever want to attend a different session on a particular day, you do not need to make any advance notice. Just show up to the different session.
Spring 2024 HYR Parent Player Academy Session Selection
Also, this Sunday, March 10th, there will be an optional orientation for the Parent Player Academy at 4:00PM at Highlands Community Ministeries. (See map link below). While the meeting is not mandatory, many kids find it helpful to have a sneak preview of WHAT they will be doing the week before they actually start doing it. At the orientation, the kids can meet the instructors, get introduced to the whistle, run a few drills, and we will hand out shirts for the players and the parents. We also will have a few sets of gently used cleats available that were donated by families that have outgrown theirs. (There will not be any other HYR teams there that day, so it may be less overwhelming for a first-timer).
If you would like to select your session (10 AM or 11 AM), click the form below. Anyone who does not select a session will be assigned to a session so that the numbers come out approximately even for each session. If you ever want to attend a different session on a particular day, you do not need to make any advance notice. Just show up to the different session.
HYR Parent Player Academy Session SelectionAlso, this Saturday, September 9th, 2023 there will be an orientation for the Parent Player Academy at 11:30 AM at Atherton High School. (See map link below). While the meeting is not mandatory, many kids find it helpful to have a sneak preview of WHAT they will be doing the week before they actually start doing it. At the orientation, the kids can meet the instructors, introduce the whistle, run a few drills, and we will hand out shirts for the players and the parents. We also will have a few sets of gently used cleats available that were donated by families that have outgrown theirs. (There will not be any other HYR teams there that day, so it may be less overwhelming for a first-timer).