The Pre-Travel Academy is a new program for 2024 and is geared towards intramural players born in 2017 & 2018 who love to play soccer and would like to have more opportunities to learn, develop and play.  This is a supplemental program to the Colonial SC Fall Intramural program.  The 2025 program will be open to intramural players born in 2018 & 2019.

Players will be introduced to developmentally appropriate training that will be both fun and instructional.  This program is an introduction to what players and parents can expect from the Travel program. 

The focus is individual technical development including dribbling, passing, receiving, shooting as well as small group tactics including 1v1 and 2v1 while learning the 7v7 game.

There are no formal tryouts for this program.  Details for each season are below.

The Pre-Travel Academy is run by our Technical Director, Danielle Fagan and she is assisted by our professional training staff and parent volunteers.

ELIGIBILITY
Boys and Girls born in 2017 & 2018 (Winter 2025) and 2018 & 2019 (June and Fall 2025) ONLY - NO EXCEPTIONS.
This program is for intramural players only and is a supplement not a replacement for the Colonial SC Intramural Program.
Players may not be rostered travel players with Colonial SC or any other club to participate in Colonial SC intramural programs.  NO EXCEPTIONS.
SPACE IS LIMITED

2025 SCHEDULE

WINTER PROGRAM: Sundays 1/5 - 3/2 (except 2/2)
Indoor Futsal Training 
COST: $199 includes 8 45-minute training sessions and a T-shirt
More info can be found under "Clinics" and then click "Futsal"

All Skill Levels Winter Futsal Clinics 2025
Messiah Church Gymnasium, Lafayette Hill PA
 8 Sundays: January 5 - March 2
Except February 2nd

For Girls & Boys All Levels

 TIMES BIRTH YEARS/DIVISIONS
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm 2018 PRE-TRAVEL ACADEMY GIRLS*
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm 2017 PRE-TRAVEL ACADEMY GIRLS*
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm 2018 PRE-TRAVEL ACADEMY BOYS*
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm 2017 PRE-TRAVEL ACADEMY BOYS*


SPRING: Travel Team Tryouts
2017 (U9 Fall 2025) & 2018 (U8 Fall 2025) 
 
JUNE PROGRAM 
Players born 9/1/2018 - 8/31/2019 - U8 Travel in 2026/27 
Players born 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2018 - U9 Travel in 2026/27

These dates reflect the new seasonal dates announced by US Soccer for 2026/2027.

Training Only
Sundays 6/1/25 - 6/22/25 (6/29 RAIN DATE)
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: Colwell Park

COST: $139 per player includes 4 60-minute sessions with professional training

REGISTER NOW FOR THE JUNE PROGRAM


FALL PROGRAM 2025
Training and Games

Training: Sundays 9/21, 9/28, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19 (Rain date 10/26)

4:30-5:30 pm Players born 9/1/2018 - 8/31/2019 - U8 Travel in 2026/27 

5:45-6:45 pm Players born 9/1/2017 - 8/31/2018 - U9 Travel in 2026/27


Location: Greater Plymouth Community Center Upper Fields (Walton Rd Entrance & Parking Lot)

Friendlies & Tournaments -  TENTATIVE SCHEDULE TO BE CONFIRMED
11/8
GIRLS: WRA Rec Select Tournament at Shady Grove Elementary School in Ambler PA
BOYS: Friendlies with Upper Moreland SC hosted by Colonial SC at Victory 3 Field

11/9
BOYS: WRA Rec Select Tournament at Shady Grove Elementary School in Ambler PA
GIRLS: Friendlies with Upper Moreland SC hosted by Colonial SC at Victory 3 Field

11/23 LMSC Festival 9 am - 4 pm BOYS & GIRLS

COST: $289 includes 5 60-minute training sessions with professional training, uniform jersey for practices and games, tournaments/friendlies, at-home technical training program that is structured and monitored.

FALL PROGRAM REGISTRATION OPENS JUNE 2025

1.  What is the methodology of this program?  We follow the play-practice-play methodology so each training session will start with a small-sided game or Rondo followed by a ball mastery skill and main activity.  Each session will end with a 7v7 scrimmage with an emphasis on teaching positions and the laws of the game including the modifications for 7v7: the buildout line and offside ruling.
   
   
2.  What is the role of the staff?  The program is led by Technical Director, Danielle Fagan and she is assisted by professional trainers and parent volunteer coaches.  The staff will provide minimal guidance during the first "play" section of the training session to allow for free play, creativity and for players to try new things to solve the problems of the game.  Think of it as a pick-up game with coaches as observers.
   
   
3. How far is the travel?  We will keep travel to under an hour for the friendlies and tournaments.  Our goal is to set up home/away friendlies with local clubs and enter tournaments such as Langhorne/Neshaminy, MonU, Parkwood and Upper Dublin for example.
   
   
4. Can I play for a travel team? An intramural team? This program is open to players in intramural only.  This is a supplemental program and doesn't take the place of being on an intramural team.  No carded travel team players are permitted to be in this program.
   
   
5. What is the time commitment?  The Fall program is 1 hour of training per week for 5 weeks.  Plan on 2-3 friendlies/tournaments in November.  Friendlies will be on one weekend day and be completed within 3 hours.  Tournaments could be one or two days in a weekend and the schedule depends on the tournament.  The Winter program is indoor futsal training 45 minutes per session for 8 weeks at Messiah Church Gym in Lafayette Hill.  We will not organize teams for winter leagues and recommend anyone who would like to play game in the winter to enter the house league or U8 Travel league at YSC Sports.  
   
   
6. Does my child have to tryout for the Colonial SC Travel Team program in order to participate in the Pre-Travel Academy?  No.  However, in the Spring of 2025, players born in 2017 will have the option to tryout for the Colonial SC 2025/2026 Season Travel U9 program and players born in 2018 will have the option to tryout for the newly created Travel U8 program for 2025/2026 Season.
   
   
7. Does my child have to participate in the Pre-Travel Academy in order to tryout for the Colonial SC 2025/2026 Travel program?  No; however, it is recommended if players would like extra development and have a passion for the game.
   
   
8. Is this the same as the Fall Intramural Select Program?  No.  The Colonial SC Fall Intramural Select Program is for Intramural players U9 (born in 2016) and older.  The club previously had a U8 Select program but it is no longer in existence due to the creation of the Pre-Travel Academy.
   
   
9. What is the professional staff's background? The staff is all professionally licensed by the United States Soccer Federation.  Click here for their bios.