Top Soccer
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The FREE event is happening on Wednesday, October 26th, at 4:15pm @ Boltz Middle School in Fort Collins.
US Youth Soccer TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) is a community-based training and team placement program for young athletes with disabilities, organized by youth soccer association volunteers. The program is designed to bring the opportunity of learning and playing soccer to any boy or girl, ages 4-19, who have a mental or physical disability. Our goal is to enable the thousands of young athletes with disabilities to become valued and successful members of the US YOUTH SOCCER family. TOPSOCCER was formed to perpetuate the US YOUTH SOCCER mission statement, which is, in part, "to foster the physical, mental and emotional growth and development of America's youth through the sport of soccer at all levels of age and competition." There are thousands of children with disabilities who need, and can be provided with, the opportunity to play soccer through the TOPSoccer program.
The National Sports Center for the Disabled Needs Your Help
Soccer Development League
The National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD), a leading adaptive sports and therapeutic recreation agency based in Colorado, is initiating a soccer league for physically challenged kids in the Denver area. With the support of Colorado Youth Soccer and US Paralympics, The NSCD and four local clubs hope to establish an infrastructure for Paralympic Soccer as well as create a competitive soccer environment for eligible athletes.
We know that there may be siblings, cousins, friends, neighbors of our existing club members, so we are making this plea to you to share this information with families you know.
The NSCD’s soccer development program aims to provide competitive soccer opportunities for athletes ages 10-18 that are physically challenged by Cerebral Palsy, Traumatic Brain Injury or stoke. These ambulatory children are slightly impaired physically; however the majority are cognitively unaffected. This program will provide a place for these kids to play and opportunities for them to improve their competitive skills, endurance and coordination, as well as their self-esteem and confidence.
The NSCD is providing this opportunity to give youth, who otherwise would have no other competitive sports alternative, a place to play competitive soccer as well as to help them develop socially and physically. It is common for kids with disabilities to drop out of (or never try) most organized team sports as they tend to arrive at a point in their development where they no longer can physically keep up with their peers.
The NSCD hopes to identify enough participants to form at least four teams around the Denver area. These teams will compete with each other in league play that will parallel the schedules of able-body club soccer. The program aims also to be a model that can be followed and duplicated in other communities to provide these opportunities to athletes throughout the country.
If you know of anyone that has the drive and determination to be a participant in this unique program, or would like more information, please contact Dana Schoenwetter, National Programs Supervisor of the NSCD at (303) 293-5318 or dschoenwetter@nscd.org.
Also visit the US Paralympic website at www.usparalympics.org
Please contact CYS or your club organization for more information on
this program