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Recreational Soccer
Our Mission Statement
What do
you do to meet these goals?
When is registration for the Fall Season?
What ages can play?
When is the soccer season?
Sponsoring a Team
Tommy Wells Memorial
Click here to go to Online
Soccer Registration for the 2008-2009 season.
Citrus United is dedicated and committed to recreational soccer.
Recreational soccer is available to any child who wants to play.
The three key areas we strive to build on in our recreational program are:
- Sportsmanship - Respect for the great game of soccer, your
opponents, your coaches, the referees, and your fellow team mates.
- Fundamentals of Soccer - It's also important to learn how to play
soccer right. This involves shooting the ball, dribbling the ball,
passing the ball, defending the goal, and goal keeping.
- Fun - Soccer is the greatest, most popular team sport on the
planet. There is a reason for this. It is simply fun to play!
- Player Training - Citrus United pays for ODP level, state
trainers to work with kids in the rec program. Last year they came out every
Saturday working with kids, coaches, and even parents educating them about the
game of soccer. This training was free to all registered players.
- Coaches Clinics - Every year, Citrus United hosts U6, U8, and U10
coaches modules. The club also hosts "E" license state certification
for anyone who wishes to participate. This is free to all coaches.
- In-House Tournaments - Citrus United believes kids have fun
playing the game. For this reason, Citrus United hosts it's annual
Holiday small-sided tournament over Christmas break, Citrus Cup at the end
of the year, and is putting together small sided tournaments during the
summer.
- Summer Camps - Summer camps like our annual British Soccer camp (info)
are a lot of fun. The kids love them. They learn the
fundamentals of the game, they learn about other countries, and their
coaches have a funny accents (British, Scottish, Wales).
Information about registration can be found on our registration page.
It includes dates, times, locations, and a link to important forms at the bottom
of the page.
click to go to registration
Any child who is age 4 before August 1st before registration is able to play
recreational soccer. We have teams all the way up to U15 (anyone who is
age 14 before August 1st). If you are older then 15, we also have
TARSA
teams. Last year we had U16 and U19 TARSA teams.
The recreational soccer season usually starts the last Saturday of October or
the first Saturday of November. Registration usually starts in August and
runs through the first of September.
We play a 14 week season which usually completes in the middle of February.
We do take time off for Thanksgiving and Christmas. All games are played
on Saturday.
Teams usually start practicing towards the end of September to the beginning
of October.
Once the season completes, we host end of the tournaments. We also
send a number of teams to the SYSA Sunshine Cup (C6 tournament). We
compete against teams from Hudson Youth Soccer and Brooksville Soccer Club.
If you would like to provide financial assistance to our recretional soccer
program and get your company name on a team uniform and in our program, please
visit our forms
page for information and a order form! (click
here)
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Located in the front of our gourmet concession stand for the
West Citrus Soccer Club is the Tommy Wells Memorial. For those of us that were
fortunate enough to know her, her memory will always be a pleasant thought in
our minds. She was a beautiful, caring person that started her coaching career
like a lot of us, coaching a U6 team. The main difference was that she never
had a child of her own in the program. She had moved up from Miami to Citrus
county in 1988 with her husband Ray Wells. They had both just taken early
retirement from their corporate management positions so that they could enjoy
the "good life" that they had earned.
Coach Tommy, as she was known to many of us, was a loving coach
whose first priority was to make sure that the kids on her team were having
fun. Coach Tommy was the first to form a Competitive U10 team representing West
Citrus Soccer Club. She taught her teams the age appropriate skills and
concepts but most important, she taught her kids the love of the great game of
soccer. This fact has been proven over the last few years, when players she
coached as four and five years old, went on to win the high school 4A State
Championship and some of the same players made it to the national regional
semi-final game.
Coach Tommy always held the respect of the players and parents
just by being the classy person that she was. She was everything that a coach
should be, she not only taught her kids how to play soccer but also how to be a
good person. She taught respect for your teammates, the opposing team, and for
the referees. Regardless of whether you are coaching a U6 rec team or a U19
competitive team, we all had a lot that we could learn from the example put
forth by Coach Tommy.
Coach Tommy passed away on November 9, 1997. The West Citrus
Soccer Club established a Tommy Wells Memorial Fund. This fund was financed
thru contributions and has paid for the Memorial in front of the concession
stand and has also purchased the club's golf cart.
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