What does is mean to play soccer and basketball at the YMCA?
Team players are made HERE! The YMCA Youth Indoor Soccer and Basketball Leagues help kids become not only better athletes, but better people as well. With an emphasis on fair play and safety first, our programs are progressive with age-appropriate rules to help teach soccer and basketball for kids, while keeping it fun. Our Youth Indoor Leagues build winners in life, emphasizing good sportsmanship, fitness, fair play, fundamentals and fun while implementing our core values of caring, honesty, respect, responsibility, and faith.
Players will learn fundamentals and develop new skills while receiving quality playing time. Both Indoor Soccer and Indoor Basketball Leagues consist of 6 weeks regular season and 2 weeks of playoff games.
Youth Indoor Soccer
Skills Showcase: December 2
There are two age groups for Youth Indoor Soccer: Soccer Juniors 6 – 8 Years Old and Soccer Seniors 9 – 12 Years Old
Season: December 9 – February 10 with a 2-week break: 12/23 and 12/30 – resume 1/6
There are two time slots per division. Our soccer players always play in one of their designated time slots on Saturdays. Regular season schedules will be provided before play begins.
Please contact Kim Kostrowski with any questions.
Y – MEMBERS $120 | NON – MEMBERS $175
REGISTRATION AFTER NOVEMBER 4:
Y – MEMBERS $135 | NON – MEMBERS $190
Youth Basketball
After over a hundred years of teaching this sport, we’ve learned a thing or two. YMCA basketball emphasizes fun while encouraging fundamental skill development, teamwork, and sportsmanship. Our program gives kids exposure to positive competition as they continue to grow as a player, athlete and person by focusing on skills, rules, mechanics and basics like listening to coaches or being a good teammate to help participants refine their skills in a sport they love. Our coaches focus on the youth basketball players’ development of building core skills such as ball handling, defense, offense, rebounding, shooting, conditioning and more. We’re creating team players and future leaders through team sports.
Youth Indoor Basketball
Skills Showcase: December 2
Basketball Leagues fall under the following divisions:
- Basketball Grades K – 1 (beginners)
- Basketball Grades 1 – 2
- Basketball Grades 3 – 4
Season:
December 4 – February 9 with a 2-week break: 12/23 – 1/5 – resume 1/8
There are two time slots per division. Our basketball players always play in one of their designated time slots on their divisions respective weeknight(s). Regular season schedules will be provided before play begins.
Please contact Kim Kostrowski with any questions.
Y – MEMBERS $120 | NON – MEMBERS $175
REGISTRATION AFTER NOVEMBER 4:
Y – MEMBERS $135 | NON – MEMBERS $190
Volunteer Coaching Opportunities
We’re seeking volunteers interested in coaching youth sports. Our coaches make YMCA youth sports possible and create a lifelong impact on children by encouraging participation and emphasizing sportsmanship and strong character. When you become a volunteer, the Y will introduce you to coaching and provide resources specific to the sport you coach. If your child is a player, getting involved at their practices can help them feel comfortable to practice with you outside of official practice time.
Soccer Tips
The goal of becoming a top athlete is a long road for anyone to achieve. Many factors go into developing Houston soccer players that compete at the highest level but a key aspect can start with simple everyday habits as child. Everyone shines in their own way, at their own time. That’s the beauty of soccer; it builds people for whatever comes next in life.
Training Tips
Practice makes perfect! That begins with a good warmup to focus training players to get as many touches on the soccer ball and increase their heart rate to help prepare them for practice and soccer clinics with technical activity, creating an environment where players can get as much repetition of a skill as possible. The more a player practices, the better they’ll get!
Coaching Tips
Coaches who engage in active listening guarantees clear, mutually understood communication makes players more willing to talk to the coach as well as promotes a more meaningful relationship between the coach and player. Communicating with purpose by being aware of posture, eye contact, facial expressions, distance between the coach and the player, distracting behaviors and voice quality is crucial in addressing players and understanding their questions and quandaries.
Basketball Benefits
Basketball is a sport that requires great endurance, where kids can experience a full-body workout that is important for them to learn to push toward an end goal without giving up. They will also develop a good sense of balance, hand-eye coordination, agility, strategy and social skills at a young age that will play a part towards their success into adulthood.
Training Tips
Find a balance for your child between having fun and improving their skills as a player by exercising through drill work and conditioning to help them develop both a love for the game and solid fundamentals. Making sure to prioritize effort over results will nurture their interest to improve their skillset and mindset as a future leader.
Coaching Tips
Teach good sportsmanship by your example in maintaining a positive attitude at all times. Teach them to play hard with respect to their youth basketball team opponents and to the officials. Wins and losses are not important at this age, it is about developing teamwork, emphasizing sportsmanship and learning their responsibilities to the team that will instill good discipline and dedication to a sport that they enjoy to play.
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