Click HERE for details. Current DC Stoddert GU13/U13 and older players can register here, while new players have a two-step process. Younger players, please check tryout results. Deadline to register and pay or submit scholarship materials is July 1.

Despite Saturday’s inclement weather, some 36 coaches from as far away as the Phillippines managed to complete Len Oliver’s USSF weekend ’E’ course from June 19-21. Read Len’s write-up!

Coaching Director Len Oliver guided DC Stoddert’s coed team of parents and two coaches to a 3-2 record, reaching the semifinals Sunday, June 14. It was the club’s debut at DC Scores’ annual Sharks v Suits competition.

Thanks to the scores of talented players who endured rain delays and schedule changes. Results are now posted for U9 Boys & GU9 Girls , GU10 Girls,  U10 Boys,  U11/12 Boys, U11/12 Girls and GU13 Girls. Read Len Oliver’s field notes from the sessions.

DC Stoddert’s travel soccer players were on a roll spring season, with four boys’ teams placing among the top three in their division and thus moving up to the next-higher level in the National Capital Soccer League. (NCSL) Two WAGS girls’ teams also stand to advance.

Fall 2009 recreational league registration is now open! Click HERE to sign up. Late fees kick in July 18.

Want to thank your hard-working coach with something more inspired than the usual gift cards for sports gear or a meal out? Recognize his or her service—and benefit young soccer players citywide--by donating to a DC Stoddert-endorsed soccer cause. 

The GU15 Force beat the Arlington Intensity 2-1 on May 31 to clinch the 2009 US Youth Soccer President’s Cup, a state, regional and national contest. The team will represent Virginia against winners from Md., Del., and N.J. in the mid-Atlantic regionals June 6 & 7.

Think soccer is all about the scoreboard? Talk to insurance giant Liberty Mutual, which just inducted Mohan Telfer, DC Stoddert Soccer’s 2008 Travel Coach of the Year and coach of the U15 Rockets (NCSL Div. 3), into its 2009 Responsible Coaching Winners’ Circle.

In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
    --Jean Paul Sartre

USSF' D' License Aug 21-Aug 30. For more information and to sign up, click HERE