Academy Soccer
  

West Brazos will be piloting some academy soccer to supplement the Fall recreational league play. The intent is for the academy soccer to provide training and fun and competitive play year round for the more interested club players. To qualify for academy activities players must be registered Fall recreational players with the West Brazos Soccer Club. Players from other BYSA clubs may participate if also a fall registered recreational player and their home club offers no academy. (Exception for new to the area players are made but required state registration for insurance coverage.)

Academy coaches and West Brazos Director of Coaching will develop academy programs to suit the amount of practice and play desired by the coaches, players, and parents of each age group,. The goal is to increase interest in soccer and provide the additional training and competition desired by many players in each age group.

For additional 2007 Tritons Academy Soccer Program Information Click Here.
 

Practices and Competitions will resume December 2, 2007 for these now U10 players.

Coach: Erik Stewart 979-798-0235 estewart@brazoriainet.com

Practice Location: Brazoria Field WBB-10 (Behind Historic School Site)

Practice Time: Sunday from 2:00-3:30

Notes: Practices Open (all BYSA U10 players Boys and Girls, who participated in the BYSA Fall 2007 recreational season and who are not rostered with another tournament team {transfer required}).

New players in the area can also join the Academy but must play in next Fall recreational season.

If you are interested in some advance training and competitive tournament play please contact me by e-mail to be put on Academy team contact list.

West Brazos Tritons Repeat National Title Galveston, TX Saturday July 22, 2006 The West Brazos Tritons U-8 Academy team successfully defended their title at the Mrs. Bairds National Championships. The team qualified earlier this summer at the Sugarland regional and then met regional champions from other regions of Austin (Maelstrom), San Antonio (Strikers), Louisiana (St. Johns Warriors) and the WB Tritons Blue team. The Tritons White team took second in group play to advance to the championship game. Players Joshua Randon, Elijah Smith, Joshua McKenzie, and Conner Stewart were met in the final by the San Antonio Strikers in a rematch of their 4-2-loss in-group play. The final was a battle with Tritons battling back from 2-1 and 4 -2 deficits to draw 4-4 in regulation. Smith almost won the game on a overhead kick and header late in regulation time after tying the game on a blast from the centerline. The game went into 5 minutes of sudden death overtime and then 2 round of penalty kicks before Randon and McKenzie struck the winning penalty kicks.	National Champions West Brazos Tritons White  (from left) Conner Stewart, Joshua Randon (front), Joshua McKenzie, Elijah Smith
Stewart put the opposing team on the defensive time and again throughout the tournament with long strikes on goal for flashing Tritons players. Tritons coach commented, "Playing with one substitute we came to get a lot of strong competition and work against top shelf opponents. The players refused to lose in the final playing the last 3 minutes at the highest level of skill, tactics and athleticism I have seen for this age players. In 5 games they got stronger and stronger." The Tritons White team also played strong games through the group play. Noah Davis, Oseas Espinoza, Nicholas Solis, Zachary Ramirez, and Mario Servin battled the 4 other regional champions in-group play. The final game versus the St. Johns Warriors was battle to a narrow 1-0 loss, but prevented the Warriors from advancing to the final opening the door for the other Tritons team.   Congratulations to West Brazos Tritons on the consecutive National Championships.
West Brazos Tritons Blue Team (from left) Osean Espinoza, Nicholas Solis, Mario Servin, and Noah Davis (Coach Erik Stewart)

Local Team Takes National Stage Saturday Feb. 25th 2006 - Houston, TX. The West Brazos Triton U-8 Boys Academy played a prominent role in the 2006 Adidas Coaching Workshop at the U.S. Youth Soccer Convention this weekend. The National Youth Director of Coaching, Sam Snow, worked with the Triton’s as the Under 8 example team for a Saturday morning demonstration session from 9 - 10:15 AM, showing discovery learning activities for this age group. This soccer training approach is taught in the state soccer coaching modules and the National Youth license for age-appropriate, games-approach to training. Sam Snow with West Brazos Tritons’ Players

Josh Randon juggling at Workshop

Last year USYSA released “The Novice Coach” DVD as instructional teaching for all youth soccer coaches with the U-6, U-8, and U-10 players. The field session built on the earlier classroom presentations by Sam Snow.  This DVD is available through USYSA (www.usyouthsoccer.org) and is in local libraries. The concepts apply to any other team sports showing fun training activities appropriate to each age group.

The conference is an annual event with the U.S. Youth Soccer attended by each states’ presidents/administrators, Olympic development coaches and staff, and top level coaches/directors of coaching from clubs and associations in all 50 states.  South Texas’s own U-17 Olympic development team participated in the workshop session on “Anything Goes Soccer”™.  International coaches from England’s Football Association were in large attendance at this year’s conference.  Major League Soccer (MLS) was present, as all attendees were excited about Houston’s new professional soccer team.  The 2007 conference will be held in St. Louis, MO.  West Brazos also had U-6 players participating with Sam Snow and U12 girls participating in a session with Horst Wein, who is currently working on coach and player development at the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation in Barcelona Spain

Triton’s Academy Players in attendance (from left) Charles Carlson, (Michael Carlson U-6), Jabari Ham, Oseas Espinoza, Joshua Randon, Elijah Smith, Tyler Kellis, Joshua McKenzie, and Conner Stewart.

The Tritons have accomplished a great amount of development and achievement in 8 tournaments, 9 months of training, and at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Convention. Comments by Houston area coaches and Austin, San Antonio, and Louisiana regional qualifiers on our players skill level and tactics indicate the academy program has been highly successful. The repeat of the Mrs. Bairds 3v3 National Title was a great accomplishment for these players.

2006/2007 Tritons Academy

The West Brazos Tritons Academy completed an exciting U9 season with up to 28 players participating in training, tournament, and/or spring soccer.  The academy took part in 7 tournaments as weather forced some tournament cancellation.  2 and 3 teams were entered in many of these tournaments.  The Academy took first in 3 U-9 tournaments; the Fusion Winter Classic, Houstonians Gol4, and the Houston Quickfoot Regional Qualifier.

The season concluded with the Quickfoot National Championship in the Dallas area at McKinney, TX.  The top teams from the 8 regional qualifiers met in Dallas to determine this year’s National Champ.  The Tritons had won this the last 2 years with tournaments held in Galveston.  The Tritons faced stiff competition with the Dallas area champion “Dynamo ‘98”, San Antonio area champion “Arsenal”, and the Plano area team “the Wild”.  The Tritons missed making the final but placed 3^rd with a win in a double overtime third place game that was decided in PK shootouts.  Coach Stewart commented, “We came to play the region’s top teams and we did well against them.  These fields are like golf greens and the style of play is professional in the passing and play making.  It was great for the Triton players to experience this as 9 year olds and will only help our soccer development.”  The Dallas Dynamo ’98 went on to win the tournament.  They rank 3^rd Nationally in Kick-it 3v3 with players like Simo Valikari’s (Finland National Team Midfielder and MLS All-star) oldest son playing for their club.

The West Brazos Tritons will break for the Fall Recreational season locally and resume training and development in November.  The academy welcomes all interested area U-10 players to participate and the commitment is very flexible and low cost.