Travel

Travel Tryout Dates for 2020-21 Season

THE SCHEDULED TRYOUTS HAVE BEEN POSTPONED. WE WILL POST DATES AND TIMES WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. Please contact the appropriate travel director listed below if you have any questions.

Girls Travel Director: Matt Zakel (mzakel@yahoo.com)
Boys Travel Director: Jim Hibler (j_hibler@yahoo.com)

Birth year 2009/2010 players will be evaluated together as one age group.

Birth year 2006*/2007/2008 players will be evaluated together as one age group. *2006 birth year players must not be playing high school soccer.

Boys

Birth year	Date	Time
2006*/2007/2008	TBD	TBD
2009/2010	TBD	TBD
2011	TBD	TBD
2012	TBD	TBD

Girls

Birth year	Date	Time
2006*/2007/2008	TBD	TBD
2009/2010	TBD	TBD
2011	TBD	TBD
2012	TBD	TBD

Travel Program Overview

The Avon Lake travel program provides a higher level of competition against other communities throughout Northeast Ohio. Any players considering making the jump to a traveling team should be made aware of the following:

This program begins at the U9 level through U14
Teams are selected through a tryout that occurs in May/June each year.
There can be multiple teams in each age group.
There are 8 games in the Fall and 8 games in the Spring with 4 games being played at home and 4 games played at other community sites.
Games are normally played on Sundays.
2 practices per week at Avon Lake fields.
Team technical training offered 6 times per season and may be separate from practice.
Optional winter indoor training is also available.

Information on how tryouts and team formation works for our travel program coming soon.

Travel Tryout FAQs

Important FAQ information regarding the tryout process including attendance, playing “up”, what birth years are eligible to play travel, and the tryout dates that were originally published on March 18, 2019.