Tennessee United Soccer Club offers day camps throughout the summer for young players looking to improve in a fun and challenging environment. Our camps are staffed by professional coaches from around middle Tennessee, ensuring that every player's experience is a fun one.
Customized Camps
If the camp options (below) or dates are not optimal for a group of players, Coach Poklad and his coaching staff can customize a camp experience just for you. With a minimum of eight players a selected staff coach will supervise and teach a program designed especially for your group. Coach Poklad has 25 years of camp format experience beginning during his formative coaching years in the Coerver program and more recently with diverse ages and skill levels including Harpeth Hall HS, Rock Springs Middle School, Wilson Central HS, and the TUSC 02 boys. Email
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or call 615-306-7314 for more information on available dates, pricing, and formats.
Socceroos - ages 4-6 :: 9-10:30am - $65
Socceroos, Munchkins, Mini-kickers ... however you choose to name these beginning soccer players, they are challenging but exciting group to work with.
Just remember that the basic objective is to have FUN, FUN, FUN with a soccer ball using a range of games designed specifically for very young children.
Recreational and Select Players - ages 7-13 :: 9-12noon - $100
Campers are placed in age and skill appropriate groups to work on a range of technical and tactical concepts (some of which are included below) which they can then apply in a game environment at the end of each day during our “World Cup” competition.
- Ball Skills - 1 player:1 ball: Fun and challenging exercises with feet, head, and body to develop touch and control.
- Receiving and Passing: Exercises and games to improve touch and encourage accurate and creative passing.
- 1-v-1 Moves: Practice and games that teach game winning individual moves and create space against packed defenses.
- Speed & Conditioning: Exercises and games to improve agility, acceleration, fitness and power with and without the ball.
- Finishing: Practice and games to improve goal scoring skills and technique and teach power, placement and accuracy when shooting.
- Defense: Instruction in defensive positioning, tactics, ball winning technique and attack initiation.
- Group Play: Games that improve soccer skills and tactics in group play with an emphasis on Counter Attack and Team Defense.
TUSC Team Camp - Club members only - $90
TUSC Team Camp is the kickoff to our club season. Younger select players are introduced to new soccer concepts as a variety of TN United staff coaches also encourage the reinforcement and practice of some of the old ones. Players coming back from summer break work on conditioning, skill repetition and small sided games.
TUSC HS Boys Camp - $75
non-TUSC HS Boys Camp - $90
High School Boys Camp for the 98,97,96 and 95 boys will take place at Moss Wright Park Monday, July 30th through Thursday, August 2nd from 6-8 p.m.
Coaching staff in prior years has included the following college coaches or ex-college coaches - Earle Davidson, Ben Fisher, Chris Bosworth, Bryan Johnson and Eric Susewind, (all Belmont University), Charles Morrow, Kevin Burk, Jim Maddux, JD Murphy and Stefan Caulfield (all Lipscomb University), Steve Lyons (TN Weslyan), Paul Conway (Lambuth University), Gavin McKinney (Cumberland University) and DOC Andy Poklad (WKU and Vanderbilt).
It is likely that State Director of Coaching Tom Condone will be joining us to run sessions this year along with some of our prior participants.
We will be working off a list of tactical sessions:
Team Defending "maintaining shape"
Individual Defending "pressure / cover/ balance.”
Team shape without the ball
Team shape with the ball
Transition
Possession to penetrate - possession with a purpose
Attacking from wide positions
... and technical sessions:
1 vs 1 moves to beat a player / moves to change direction,
dribbling at speed, positive creative dribbling to penetrate,
shooting and finishing,
passing and receiving
... As well as functional training:
"combining from the middle to the front third with two forwards."
Building through midfield / switching the point of attack
Included in the sessions will be some small sided games as well as opportunities for 11 vs 11 controlled scrimmages.
We will do some specific functional training with the goalkeepers including:
Crosses and punching, footwork, dealing with 1 vs 1 situations, handling high balls, and
shot stopping, as well as incorporating GK's into team exercises.
NOTE: If paying by check, please bring to first session Monday night. DO NOT MAIL
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for more information on upcoming camps.
For the past 7 years Kieran has played soccer at TUSC and for that time the majority of those boys stayed together and the parents forged friendships that will last for a lifetime. He learned many valuable lessons from his coaches which lead him to the opportunity to make the ’94 ODP team when he was noticed at the TUSC camp and asked to try out for the team. This has shaped the player he is today and given him the opportunity to play the sport he loves in college. We would like to thank the DOC, his coaches and the TUSC family for the opportunities you have given us and the memories we will hold dear forever.
TUSC is coming to the end of the first season of the U-8 academy at our club. In conjunction with our recreational affiliates, Hendersonville soccer club and Middle TN Futbol Club, TUSC coaches have begun to develop a program to ensure players have a grasp of the fundemental skills and techniques to succeed and have fun, whether that be at the select or recreational level.
Once again our coaching staff have been rewarded for their excellence in honors bestowed by their peers.
