Spokane Shadow Soccer Club

What the club offers

The Shadow Youth Development Program serves boys and girls at U6, U7, and U8. Discovery emphasizes fun peer play with one training session and one game per week across fall and spring, no registration charge, and a thirty-dollar game shirt. Emerging Talent adds a second weekly training session plus extra work with a coach or area director and sessions with the YDP director, carries a one-hundred-ninety-five-dollar registration fee plus jersey cost, and still runs fall and spring with weekly games.

Shadow Juniors covers U8 through U10. The SJP Season track uses two weekly trainings plus a weekly coach-led session and director sessions, plays in Washington Indoor Soccer League fall and spring, and costs three hundred ninety-five dollars in registration plus uniforms, with tournaments and out-of-season training billed separately. SJP Academy targets stronger U8–U10 players with a similar rhythm plus U9–U12 director collaboration, goalkeeper training when a player splits time in goal, an eight-hundred-ninety-five-dollar registration fee plus uniforms, and the same extra-cost tournament rule.

U11 through U19 competitive tiers

From U11 and U12, boys and girls move into advanced development groups that prepare athletes for full competitive placement at U13. Boys tracks include Pre-ECNL Regional League, Rave and Shale, and Copa, with training one to three times weekly depending on season, Polo Fields or team-convenient sites, fall through summer blocks where noted, and bundled Northwest tournaments such as NW Cup paired with Crossfire Challenge, Snohomish Bigfoot, or Battle in the Basin equivalents at each tier. Registration runs from eight hundred ninety-five dollars for Copa through one thousand six hundred ninety-five dollars for Pre-ECNLRL, plus uniforms and the volunteer-hour commitment described below.

Girls U11–U12 mirror that structure with Pre-Girls Academy, Pre-Aspire, Navy, and Copa options at the same fee bands and similar training and tournament packages. At U13 through U19, boys continue in ECNL Regional League at two thousand five hundred dollars, Rave at one thousand eight hundred ninety-five dollars, or Copa at eight hundred ninety-five dollars, with Trace video and coach travel on overnight league trips included on the ECNLRL line. Girls placement includes Girls Academy at two thousand seven hundred dollars, GA Aspire at two thousand ninety-five dollars, Navy at one thousand three hundred ninety-five dollars, and Copa at eight hundred ninety-five dollars, with travel and video benefits aligned to the tier. U9–U12 teams typically stay inside the Northwest for travel while national-event travel for older groups may invoice separately from all-inclusive dues.

Volunteer hours, uniforms, and family budgeting

Families with players on U11 and older teams complete six volunteer hours per year or pay a nominal opt-out fee. Club dues aim to bundle insurance, player cards for GA, ECNLRL, Aspire, Washington Youth Soccer, Washington Premier League, or related pathways, league fees for GA, ECNLRL, Aspire, Regional Club League, WISL, or WPL, referee and field costs, PlayMetrics, athletic trainers at designated league games, coach payroll, and training-field rentals rather than stacking surprise team invoices. Uniforms for U9–U12 follow a two-year Adidas kit cycle on even years with home and away kits plus training apparel, optional bags and warm-ups, and separate fundraising or sponsorship paths to offset dues and team costs.

Training sites, tryouts, and registration

Home matches and most tryouts use the Spokane Shadow Soccer Complex at 7714 West Sunset Highway, Spokane, with additional training and games at Dwight Merkel Sports Complex, Plantes Ferry Soccer Complex, Spokane Soccer Center turf, and The HUB Sports Center in Liberty Lake. Most age-group tryouts land in May at the Polo Grounds, while high-school-age boys tryouts run in February with sessions at DMC and The HUB on scheduled spring dates. Families should arrive fifteen to thirty minutes early with cleats and shin guards; balls are provided. Registration and tryout signup run through PlayMetrics, and mailing correspondence goes to Spokane Soccer Club Shadow, P.O. Box 4786, Spokane, WA 99220.

How families connect

General questions go to +1 509-850-7787. Coaching inquiries go to abbas@spokanesc.org. For current tryout grids, birth-year registration links, and any tryout fees tied to a specific program window, use the active PlayMetrics signup for the player’s age group because schedules shift each cycle.