S.A.S.S. stands for Speed, Agility, Strength & Skills. It’s designed to complement club and school soccer, not compete with it. Your player keeps their team. S.A.S.S. adds the individual development that team practice rarely has time for.

Every session has two parts. One hour is performance training, and the other hour is soccer skills. Across the session, the focus includes acceleration and first-step quickness, footwork and change of direction, and strength and power. Same night, same building, one drive.

We love this pairing because the two halves feed each other. A quicker first step matters more when the first touch is clean. A clean first touch matters more when you can actually get to the ball.

The focus areas are specific. They’re also the things parents tend to notice from the sideline:

• Acceleration and first-step quickness: winning the race to the loose ball.
• Footwork and change of direction: cutting, turning and staying balanced.
• Strength and power.
• First touch: settling the ball so the next move is ready.
• Decision-making: seeing the play and choosing well under pressure.
• Injury-resilient landing and deceleration: stopping, planting and landing well.

That last one deserves a word. So much of soccer is stopping, planting and turning, over and over. Teaching young athletes how to land and slow down with good patterns is quiet work, and it’s some of the work we care about most.

The progressions are age-appropriate, too. Players ages 8–12 and 13–17 train separately, on different progressions.

S.A.S.S. is small-group coaching, with individual feedback every session. Your player isn’t a face at the end of a long line of cones. A coach is watching how they move, telling them what they did well and showing them what to adjust next.

The soccer sessions are led by two coaches we’re genuinely proud to have on our floor. Coach Tom Bailey leads Tuesdays, and he’s a current ECNL girls head coach. Coach Kevin Salazar leads Fridays, and he’s a Dallas Cup and Norway Cup champion coach.

All levels are welcome, and groups are organized by age and ability. Whether your player is brand new to club soccer or has been at it for years, they’ll train alongside athletes at a similar stage.

We won’t promise you a starting spot. Nobody honest can. What we can tell you is where the time goes: into the individual pieces of the game that a busy team practice has to skip.

S.A.S.S. meets Tuesday and Friday nights from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. You can drop in for one session at a time. Or you can sign up for four weeks at a time.

Most of all, we care about the kid as much as the player. Our hope every session is that your athlete leaves feeling seen, coached and encouraged, and heads into the weekend a little more ready.