All parents are invited to attend an informational meeting to learn more about Novato United, our competitive youth soccer program for the upcoming 2012 season: Thursday, Feb 9, 7-9pm at the Hill Community Room (behind Margaret Todd Center.)

If your child loves soccer and would like to join an enthusiastic group of teammates, this is your chance to learn more.

Members of the Board, Directors of Coaching and several of our Select Coaches, will provide an overview of our program, including tryouts, coaching and training, game and practice schedules, cost and much more.  We encourage all parents to attend!

It’s time for our competitive soccer tryouts for the 2012 season, starting with all age groups from U9 to U14.  Recreation players in any of these age groups are welcome and encouraged to attend!  U8 players may try out for a U9 team.

Tryouts for our older players will be in late April/early May - watch for an announcement. 

For more details and a schedule of times, please click here for more information.

The U19 HS Girls Novato Cobras finished their season undefeated with a Championship win over Mill Valley, 3-2 in PK’s. After falling behind 2-1 with only 10 minutes remaining, The Cobras had to reach deep to find the strength of character required for a come back, and did they find it! After a perfectly kicked corner, the Cobras scored with a magnificent header to tie the game 2-2, and then closed the deal on penalty kicks.

This is the second year in a row that the Novato Cobras, led by Coaches Marc Bitbol and Jonathan Aaronson, win the Marin Inter-league tournament in the U19 HS Girls division. Congratulations Cobras!!

Novato United U12 boys player Jacob Kennedy is off to the U.S. Soccer Training Center in November. In the words of our Director of Coaching, Erik Visser, "It is very prestigious to be selected. U.S. Soccer Training Centers are National Youth Team try-outs, staffed by U.S. National staff coaches. Players are invited through the scouting network. The top players will be selected from these training centers to the U.S. Youth National teams. Jacob’s age group eventually will culminate in a U14 National Team, which is the youngest National Team age group."

Congratulations Jacob, and good luck!

 The U10 Airbenders won our Novato City Tournament for the 2nd year in a row, with 3 players from last year’s team returning.  The Airbenders defeated the Shooting Stars in the championship game in a very well played game by both teams, scoring 2 - 1 with Noah scoring the deciding goal, Griffin’s eager energetic play at goalie and Shaun anchoring the defense with a MVP performance. 

The U12 girls Novato Pride completed a perfect season with a 2-0 victory in the Marin Interleague title game against the Ross Valley Bombers.

Out of 17 teams in the county-wide age division, the Novato Pride was the only one to finish indefeated.  Coach John Wyek says "We started the season with our objectives being to have fun, advance our individual soccer skills, and to learn to play cohesively as a team.  We accomplished all of that and so much more!"

Click here for the full story.   Congratulations Pride for a job well done!

Our very own Angry Birds U8 girls team received mention in the Novato Patch recently -- thanks to the humor and spirit of coach Denny Denhert and his team of enthusiatic young soccer players. 

You can read the whole story (with more pictures) here:

http://patch.com/A-mT5T

Novato Youth Soccer "kicked off" it’s fall season with a celebration at San Marin High School, August 27, 2011.  Over 1,000 players and their friends and families gathered to introduce their teams and to the soccer community.

Click here for just a few photos of the many great teams that paraded around the track.

Good luck everyone, and enjoy your season!

Our Novato United U10 boys white team took the championship title in the Puma Harvest Cup Gold/Premier division on Sunday, Sept. 25 at Sonoma State University.  The boys, under the direction of Coach Rob Neville, are going into the Fall season as one of the top-10 teams in the Norcal rankings.  The tournament championship was won in a penalty kick shootout after very spirited competition from the Central Marin Arsenal U10 Gold team.  Congratulations, boys!

Our own Novato United U17 boys under the direction of Coach Julius Ujeh won third place in an uphill battle the weekend of Sept 24-25 at the Roseville Fall Classic.  The boys have been playing separately on their own high school teams since August, until they came together for this weekend.  Despite being short several key players, they made a good account of themselves playing up in the U19 age bracket against U19 teams.  Good job boys, and thanks Julius! 

Congratulations to our Novato Classic Championship winners: Novato United 02 (U9 boys), Briceno Victory (U10 boys), SRU Waves (U10 girls), Atletico Cosmos (U11 boys), Newark Fire (U11 girls), Novato United 99 (U12 boys), Vacaville Explosion (U12 girls), FCA United (U13 boys), Pacific Lightning (U13 girls barcelona), Novato United 98 (U13 girls manchester), SRU Frost (U14 girls), and Novato United 93 (U19 girls).

Thanks and congratulations to all teams that joined our tournament for a great weekend of soccer.