Skills Institute was started in 2001 as a soccer development program that focuses on 5–12-year-olds who love soccer and have a strong desire to improve their soccer skills. The program begins with an evaluation and assessment of each player’s initial skill level so that we can tailor our curriculum to each player’s needs, while still retaining a strong technical emphasis on soccer progression. Within a group framework, each player receives personalized lessons that move the player to their next level of expertise so that they become more valuable to their current and future teams.

This personalized, adaptive approach to teaching fundamental soccer skills, when combined with the Skills Institutes’ low player-to-coach ratio, results in a fun, fast-paced learning environment that inspires players to achieve their personal goals as athletes, whether playing on club or school teams, or playing pick-up soccer with friends.

The Skills Institute curriculum recently conformed to the USSF’s U.S. Soccer Curriculum. This age-appropriate instructional framework helps to guide overall player development in technical skill, tactical knowledge, physical ability, and social & psychological awareness. With this approach, we can provide age-appropriate clinics and classes that directly meet the needs of local clubs and youth soccer associations. Our classes and clinics are timely too, because we try to schedule them to accommodate the schedules and tryouts of most local youth soccer associations. That’s why the Skills Institute is a great fit for a wide variety of players, including first-time players, Lil’ Kickers graduates who are looking to join local youth soccer teams, and club players looking for a leg up in progressing to higher levels of competition.