Naperville Soccer Association

What the club offers

Travel team soccer serves boys and girls with programs and teams from about ages four through twenty-three. A Junior Training Program that began in 1996 focuses on ages three through ten and prepares younger players for the club travel pathway. Teams typically open outdoor training in August with a week-long camp, then weekly sessions: Under-7 through Under-10 groups usually train twice a week, while Under-11 and older groups usually train three times a week, with optional outdoor sessions. Goalkeeper training and fitness training are included at no extra charge as part of the club model.

Development approach and training extras

Coaches carry USSF licenses and NSCAA and USSF certifications, attend continuing education that covers skills, tactics, injury care, nutrition, and Safe Sport, and work within a defined player-development framework. An added conditioning thread is led by a professional international conditioning coach with weekly sessions for players, built around science-based physical preparation. It also integrates cognitive-learning concepts from Lasting Learning (affiliated with the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab at UCLA) so training emphasizes how struggle, mistakes, and challenge support long-term learning on the field and as people. A character-development guide outlines how staff model fairness, teamwork, respect, self-worth, and confidence.

Leagues, indoor play, and United Elite

Fall and spring teams compete across Illinois youth platforms including IWSL, YSSL, NISL, IYSA State Premiership, Midwest Conference and National League pathways, Illinois State Cup, Illinois President’s Cup, and National League. Teams keep training through winter and play indoor league soccer; indoor practices and games use Naperville Yard, while high-school-age groups also use other local indoor facilities. Teams commonly attend about two to four tournaments per season, with high-school programming adding more national and showcase-style events for college exposure.

NSA partners with eight other area clubs in United Elite Soccer Club, a collaboration of former Chicago Fire Juniors Emerging Talent Program clubs that expands playing opportunities and includes a residential camp at Lake Forest Academy with professional coaching and classroom blocks on technical and personal development.

Tryouts, camps, clinics, and how to reach the club

For the 2026–2027 cycle, team tryouts run on Mondays in April at the Nike Park Sports Complex turf field, 288 W. Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563, with birth-year scheduling in tryout materials and registration through TeamSnap. Families who miss a scheduled tryout can contact the Director of Coaching to arrange another time. Goalkeeper prospects should notify goalkeeper staff and bring gloves. Offers typically go out within about twenty-four to forty-eight hours after tryouts.

NSA also runs free spring clinics, winter futsal registration through TeamSnap, Warrior Nights, a Junior Academy summer camp coordinated with the Naperville Park District camp catalog, and newsletters for ongoing updates.