DC Way Summer Soccer Camp is a great way for your child to have an exciting and fun summer experience! It creates a unique place for children to meet new friends, improve their technical skills, have fun, build confidence, and learn to be successful. With our exciting and challenging activities, we ensure falling in love with soccer and sports in general. We focus on speed, footwork, 1v1 moves, creativity, vision, confidence, and many more in just a single week.
At the start of each week, we kick it off with a team-building exercise using soccer ice breakers. Every day we discuss a new sportsmanship topic and learn about a new soccer move! On Tuesday, we focused on the change of direction as our main skill set. In Alyssa’s group (6-8), campers played shadow shooting and snowball. Celeste’s campers (4-6) learned the skill “pull back” and “scissors” which are both really important skills to master in soccer. They also worked on a reaction game with the goal to be the first to score in the color called. Overall, all groups worked on scrimmages, allowing campers to be creative and work on decision making. At the end of the day, an honorable mention goes to Julia Olsen from Bobby’s group for excelling at today’s skill set.
The skill set we worked on Thursday was shooting and finishing. Campers learned not only about how to make sure the ball hits the back of the net, but also the proper technique and importance of aim. Missing the target is a mistake, but a bigger problem is not taking the responsibility to shoot at goal at all as attackers must accept the risk of failure. Celeste’s (4-6) group worked on following your shot and not just watching. Adela De La Uz did a great job encouraging her teammates to get back in the game and keeping a positive attitude! Alyssa’s (6-8) group played “Ghostbusters”, where campers would dribble around with a ball and when the two “ghosts” arrived, the players would try to kick the ball at them below the knees. At the end of the day, an honorable mention goes to Eli Neufeld for his competitive nature and passion for the game.
All of these activities were completed with many water breaks and the reapplying of sunscreen hourly! Thank you to all parents and campers who came out and had fun at our camps. We really appreciate everyone who helped make DC Way's Summer Soccer Camps so special!
