Aldergrove Youth Soccer Club prepares for spring<\/p>\n
Published 6:00 pm Tuesday, January 6, 2026<\/p>\n
Aldergrove Youth Soccer Club (AYSC) is opening spring registration as it explores how the community club can better support players, coaches, and families.<\/p>\n
Spring 2026 registration is now open for the season running from the week of March 30 to the week of June 8. The club will offer recreational soccer, LUSA Interlock, and its invitation-only Cascadia League program, depending on age and experience.<\/p>\n
The club is also hosting coaching education courses in February, with costs covered by the club.<\/p>\n
Cameron Ward, the club\u2019s technical development lead, said his role focuses on building structure and consistency across age groups. \u201cI build curriculum and communicate with different coordinators of each age group and try and get them to align with the player pathway progress from U5 to our oldest team, which is U16,\u201d Ward said.<\/p>\n
Ward said continued education is important, especially for volunteer coaches. \u201cPlaying and coaching is a lot different, especially coaching to children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said the club is in a period of transition, working toward clearer communication and shared direction. \u201cBeing a small club, we haven\u2019t had that much direct organization in terms of where everyone\u2019s going,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re kind of just putting more blocks in place.\u201d One change this year is earlier registration dates to give families more time to plan and prepare.<\/p>\n
Ward emphasized that AYSC is meant to serve a wide range of players. \u201cWe are open to the more average player who\u2019s looking to have fun and develop along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club had about 500 registered players in the fall, a number Ward said has remained fairly steady. <\/p>\n
Ward said the club hopes to \u201cGive players an experience where they enjoy hanging out with the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aldergrove Youth Soccer Club prepares for spring Published 6:00 pm Tuesday, January 6, 2026 Aldergrove Youth Soccer Club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-393223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}