National Opportunities Abound for Local Soccer Players

The time has come for the multitude of
youth-based travel

soccer clubs in the area to prepare for the beginning of spring soccer. Players
of

all levels – boys and girls, are awaiting the first division game of the season

while parents are praying for a warm start and for the cold, white fluffy stuff

to stay away!

But some local Sockers FC players are already knocking the

ball around outside. They have been recruited to the highest levels of youth –

soccer. These include NPL (National Premier League) and ECNL (Elite Clubs

National League).

TheNPL provides a unified, league-based
national developmental platform with the highest level of competition in its
geographic areas.

Created to elevate and change the competitive youth soccer landscape based upon
US Club Soccer’s fundamental principles, the NPL extends developmental
principals espoused by the U.S. Soccer Development Academy into younger age
groups and additional clubs, providing a platform for long-term player
development.

Those players selected to the NPL are:

Erika Dacanay – Crystal Lake

Sarah Ripple – Crystal Lake

Areianna Bein – Woodstock

Hanna Stovall – Crystal Lake

Sophie Immens – Fox River Grove

Josie Eriksen – Crystal Lake

The Elite Clubs National League was founded in 2009 to enhance the
developmental experience of female youth soccer players in the United States
through:

• 
  Improving the
  competitive
  
  environment through creation of a true national competitive league with
  
  multiple flights;
• 
  Improving the process
  for
  
  identifying elite female soccer players for the U.S. Soccer youth national
  
  teams through a systematic scouting and identification program based on national
  competitions; and
• 
  Improving the daily
  training
  
  environment at top female youth soccer clubs through developing best
  
  practices and training and organizational guidelines for its member clubs .

Those players selected to the ECNL are:

Eda Senger - Huntley

Taryn Jakubowski – Huntley

Being elevated to the NPL and ECNL divisions
means hard work

and a good deal of traveling throughout the region and country for these

ladies. But with that will come exposure to the nation’s top teams and the top

colleges in the United States.

All of which is possible through Sockers FC
dedication to “developing

players”.

Development soccer addresses how coaches can
help in

building personalities and confidence while instructing at the youngest ages –

the basic fundamentals of the game itself. Early on Sockers FC players learn
the

right way to play the sport – that it’s not about winning but instead about

individual and team development. Players who strive to move forward and profess

a genuine love of the game, have the opportunity with the Sockers to move

beyond the Divisional and Regional level of play to continue to develop into

some of the Nation’s finest athletes.

Good luck ladies – You’ve earned it!