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ELVATON SOCCER

Welcome to Elvaton Soccer: Elvaton Soccer offers youth programs for recreational and elite/select/travel level players in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. On the field, our goal is to develop confident and creative players through fun and competition. Through soccer, we seek to develop players and coaches who will lead on the field and in their communities.

Our Programs: Elvaton Soccer offers two levels of programming: Elvaton Elite (sometimes called County/Premier/Select/Travel) and Elvaton Junior Academy (sometimes called Clinic / Rec Plus). Practices and home games typically take place at Elvaton Park at 311 Dogwood Rd, Severna Park/Millersville, MD.

Fall Tryout Dates for Elvaton Elite Are Complete. We have openings on the following teams:

2013/2014 Boys - 3 openings
2016 Boys - 2 openings
Contact elvatonsoccerleague@gmail.com if interested
Junior Academy - Junior Academy training program enrollment is always open

Tryouts are complete for the following age groups: 2013-2018 Girls and 2013-2018 Boys. To inquire about a late tryout with the team's coach, please contact elvatonsoccerleague@gmail.com. Include your child's gender, birth year, and playing background in the email.

Summer 2025 Programs

Elvaton Soccer has many summer programs designed to provide a great skills foundation for travel and recreational level players. Our technical and games-based practices and internal scrimmages will help your child become a more confident deceptive dribbler, combination passer/receiver, and scorer. Start the Fall season flying!

Soccer Skills Accelerator / Back to Fall Camps: Sessions are aimed at getting our teams ready for the Fall season and will focus on skill development, team building, technical training, and Soccer IQ through game-based learning. Players will be grouped with players from their team/age/gender group. Please register and pay by Friday August 3 so we have a good idea of how many coaches/groups to form. Siblings / travel soccer playing friends are welcome if they can practice at a travel soccer level.
- Week 1: August 11-15 - Click here to register
- Week 2: August 18-22 - Click here to register

Summer Skills and Shooters: Tues/Thurs (2 days/week) or Monday-Thursday (4 days/week) options. June 16 - July 31 5:30PM-6:45PM at Elvaton Park. Ready to take your 1v1, combination, and shooting/finishing game to the next level? Join our Summer Skills and Shooters program. Our technical and games-based practices will help your child become a more confident deceptive dribbler, combination passer/receiver, defender, and scorer. Learn to be the difference maker this summer! Options include Tues/Thurs program or 4 day/week program. Recommended for competitive players ages 7-13. Registration options include individual days, weeks, or whole summer long. Click here to register

High School / College Prep: Monday-Thursday (4 days/week). June 16 - July 31 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at Elvaton Park. Looking to be ready for high school or college soccer season in August? Led by professional high school and college coaches, our summer training program combines preparation for high school and college tryout fitness tests (mile, 1.5 mile, 2 mile, beep test, shuttle run, etc.) with the time on the ball needed to stand out on the playing field. Show up for your Fall season confident, fit, and ready to lead on the field. Includes a complete fitness and training program for home use. Options include Tues/Thurs program or 4 day/week program. Recommended for rising 8th graders and above. Registration options include individual days, weeks, or whole summer long.Click here to register

Fall/Spring Soccer Programs:

Elvaton Elite Soccer (Teams for Boys and Girls Ages 7-14) is our most competitive program designed for dedicated players seeking to practice and play at increasingly higher levels of competition. Players in the Elite program typically play soccer year round and often desire to progress to the high school, college, and/or professional level. Elite requires a higher level of commitment in time, effort, and training, and teams will play against similarly competitive teams from other soccer clubs.

Key program features:

Teams formed based on player evaluations in May and play in leagues commensurate with their playing level.
Typically practice 3 times per week during the Fall and Spring outdoor seasons
- 2 professional-coach run skills training sessions per week
- 1 parent-coach-run practice per week
Play an average of 1 game per weekend against other select/travel/elite teams in the area. Most teams will play in the Anne Arundel County with our most advanced teams playing in the Elite Development Program / USYS National Leagues.
Fall season: Late August to early November
Spring season: Mid-March to early June
Winter/Summer: optional team and training activities
Cost: $450/season for AAYSA teams, $500/season for EDP teams
Costs include all field permits, league fees, referee fees, team equipment, and professional trainer costs
Costs not included: additional team social activities, outside tournaments (coach/team discretion), uniforms
Team uniforms will be purchased separately through the uniform store after team formation and will consist of a home jersey, away jersey, team shorts, team socks, and a reversible practice jersey.
A note on “Travel Soccer:” While this level of soccer is often called “Travel,” our program seeks to minimize travel because it’s not necessary: travel drives up costs exponentially, puts players in cars and hotels when they could be playing, and is a major contributor to player and family burnout in sports.

New Players - tryout required: Please contact elvatonsoccerleague@gmail.com and provide your player's age, gender, and playing experience prior to registering for Elite.

Elvaton Junior Academy / Elvaton Soccer School: (Ages 4-12) is ERAs professionally coached program designed for the player looking to learn and grow in skill while playing at a recreational level of competition. This program focuses on building bravery, creativity, and leadership through soccer. All participants will have an average of 2 weekly professionally run Junior Academy training sessions that will help them develop the foundational soccer skill to be confident on the field. This is the perfect program for players who are not ready for the Elvaton Elite skill level or commitment but want to experience all that ERA Soccer’s development curriculum has to offer. Through our team of skilled professional youth soccer coaches and our unique, player-centered development curriculum, players will build the dribbling, shooting, and combination passing skills to be a great individual and team player. Our fast-paced and game-based practices are fun and develop players better than any other approach. Sign up individually or with friends and get started today. Since players progressively develop through our curriculum, Junior Academy / Elvaton Soccer School is also a primary pathway into the Elvaton Elite Soccer program.

Key program features:

Open Registration (No Tryout Required)
Fall and Spring Sessions
Average of 2 professionally run skills sessions per week (typically on Mon/Tues/Wed/Thur after 5PM at Elvaton Park)
Games are a component of practices; if numbers allow, Elvaton Soccer may form an internal league or county team
Fall season: Late August to end October;
Spring season: Late-March to end of May
Cost: $200/season (Uniform purchase only required for teams enter county league)

Coaches / Parents / Groups / Volunteers: Have an existing team or group of friends and looking to play together? Looking for other ways to volunteer? There is always a role for anyone looking to create joyful memories for our players. Email the Elvaton Soccer commissioner at elvatonsoccerleague@gmail.com.

Our Development Approach

For a child to reach their potential in any activity, they need to find joy in the activity and enjoy the process of learning and growing for many years. Behind every “natural,” “prodigy,” or pro is a real-life story of a kid with an obsession with the sport so strong that it led to hours of practice and playing outside of any professional environment. For these reasons, Elvaton soccer focuses on making the playing environment fun, player-centered, and built around play that will grow the love of the game and keep players in the sport. This means having a “NO LAPS, NO LINES, and NO LECTURES philosophy,” where players learn the game by being put in challenging game-like situations as much as possible. Players will have a ball at their feet and a competitor in front of them more than any other approach. Coaches and trainers are there to teach the game and create an environment where taking chances is encouraged. Making mistakes are a part of the game and are seen as a mechanism to learn and improve, not as something to turn into a negative.

Our training is modeled after the methods used to develop the best players in the world, combining aspects of Brazilian street soccer and futsal and the best of the Dutch and Spanish professional development academies to maximize individual and team skill development while building a life-long love of soccer. All programs feature an emphasis on building a foundation of dribbling, 1v1 moves under pressure, shooting/finishing, combination passing, and defending skills. Players immediately apply those skills in highly competitive 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 matches or skills games. Because our players are developed to be exceptional dribblers, shooters, and combiners, they will be prepared to shine in high school / college / Olympic Development / pro team tryouts.

Need to order uniforms? Want to order Elvaton Elite Soccer merchandise? Check out our Team Store: https://rebelsportsgroup.com/elvaton_soccer/shop/home

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Questions? Suggestions? Contact the soccer commissioner at elvatonsoccerleague@gmail.com