IMAGE GALLERY: Soccer Clinic A Huge Success!

108 Hopkinton soccer players in the second to eighth grade participated in this year’s Hopkinton Varsity Soccer Clinic. 

In its second year, the Hopkinton Youth Soccer Association sponsored this year’s camp and expanded the program to include girl campers and members of the Varsity Girls Soccer team. 

Each day boys and girls worked together on the fundamentals of the game: juggling, shooting, passing, dribbling and one-on-one play.

“From the first day to the last, there was an obvious change in the skill levels of this group of kids," said boys Varsity Soccer Captain Brian Henise.

At the end of the week, tournaments were held in three different age groups.

Teams wore their national colors, had their faces painted, waved giant flags and many had Hopkinton green hair.

Henise said it was great for him and his teammates to be “someone for the little kids to look up to."

He remembered the soccer-camp counselors he had as a child and said he seized the opportunity to become a “cool counselor” like one he once had. 

He also said the camp experience seemed to further solidify the varsity's bonds on and off the field.

“The kids and the hard work from every single coach and counselor really changed the whole dynamics of the camp and made it an amazing experience for all involved," he said.