AGE GROUP SESSION: A training session combining all players of the same age division, from within the club's player pool, led by the age group's coaching staff.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Every player within WSA in the age group and every coaching staff member. Locations will vary. At the moment there is not a plan to interface WSA-OKC and WSA-Tulsa. However, the sessions hosted at WSA-TULSA are expecting attendance from WSA Central, WSA South, WSA North, and WSA East.
AGE GROUP SESSION PURPOSE:
- Build community.
- Develop camaraderie and relationship.
- Facilitate "sense of belonging" to something "bigger than one's self".
- Implement club-wide game model.
- Evaluate player pool within club's annualized evaluative context for player placement.
- Expose players to various coaches in the age group.
- Enhance player sharing opportunities.
- Leverage numbers (i.e. college search process, Side FC 92 placements, team formation planning)
- Coach communication and engagement within the age group.
- Determine plans for each age group tournament play, player sharing, future sessions, team needs.
- Identify areas the club can better serve each family within each team via age group staff meetings with club's Executive Leadership.
- Fun.