At least three organized groups of soccer players will be active beginning this week: the year-round soccer players who will be moving out-of-doors; a mini-soccer group, and an after-school soccer program.
Beginning tomorrow, that year-round soccer group will be moving outside after having spent the winter inside the Victoria School Gymnasium.
For over 25 years, Stephen Ruten has been instrumental in seeing that adults have a soccer team on which to play. In winter the group is indoors, and in summer, outside.
The group has “a great smattering of players of all ages and abilities,” Kev Sumner, Kamsack recreation director, said last week. The players who are under 12 years of age usually begin their sessions at about 6:30 p.m. and they’re off the pitch by 7:15 p.m. when the adults take over.
The group will also be playing recreational soccer at Victoria School Sundays at 4 p.m., rain or shine, Sumner said.
Louise Sumner is leading mini-soccer sessions for children born in 2010, 11 and 12 in a program that was once called a parents and tots group. The group begins on May 7 at the Victoria School playground, and in poor weather, the group will move indoors to the school gymnasium.
It’s a learn to play program in which there is emphasis on skills and physical literacy of running, jumping and hopping, which are important skills not only in soccer but in all sports, Louise said. Parents are being encouraged to stay with their children and cheer them on.
Kev Sumner is preparing to conduct an after-school soccer program at the Victoria School for Grade 4 students.
“We’ll be meeting Wednesdays, from May 17 to June 21,” Sumner said.
