A Focus on Player Development
The Development Academy provides an opportunity for your child to develop vital skills in a fun and exciting environment. Every participant, regardless of skill or past experience, will receive proper training from a professional coaching staff. Players will develop tighter technique and sharpen their skills through a system designed to maximize playing opportunities. By promoting individual player development at the youngest ages, these athletes will have the proper skill base to participate on any team in their future sports endeavors.

Age Appropriate Training
• Allows for non-competitive benchmarking of skills, technique and
overall sport awareness.
• Teaches players techniques relative to their age and current skill level.

Small Sided Games
• 3 v 3 through 7 v 7 games
• Maximizes the number of opportunities to apply skill during a game.
• Maximizes the number of opportunities to score!
• Make more, less-complicated decisions.
• More individual teaching time.
• More involved playing time.
• Become more physically efficient in the field space they play.

Teaching Player Creativity
• Allows players to creatively express themselves through sport.
• Encourages players to take risks and develop their own style of play.
• Instills confidence in tomorrow’s All-Stars.

Staff
The Youth Development Academy’s coaching staff was designed to have oversight on many levels. The entire Academy is ran by the Academy
Director who assigns and monitors the progress of each sport and the prospective coaches. Under the Academy Director, each sport will have
a director to make sure the professional coaching staff accomplish the goals set by the program and to help each player reach their highest potential.

Open Enrollment
• No deadlines
• Come and go as you please

For more information contact Andrew Kingsmore by e-mail at lacrosse@thesportspark.com

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