Updated September 22nd, 2023
The season has been underway since September 11th. The games will be mostly on Saturdays through the end of October, but the end of the JCPS Fall Break will feature a Sunday game on October 8th.
All practices and games are at Atherton High School 3000 Dundee Road.
Most practices are scheduled for Monday through Thursday night at Atherton. If we get practices rained out on any nights we may have some availability to reschedule, and we will communicate with the coaches to let them know what is available. Please note that there are 2 entrances to Atherton, so check the map below if you have never been there before.
hyr_atherton_map.pdf
Please leave your dogs at home!
HYR asks that you do not bring any pets to HYR practices or games. For a complete look at the school and HYR policy, please click the link below:
HYR Dog Policy
GAME SCHEDULE
An exported version of the game schedule is below with one page for each week of the season.
2023_fall_soccer_master_schedule.pdf
HYR Picture Day is Saturday, September 23rd
After the games on Saturday, September 23rd, teams will come up to the top level and take team pictures. If your player is absent on September 23rd,, we'll look for them in the following weekends, we will take individual pictures of kids who were not in the original team photos and dub them into the official team pictures. To see the process, click the link below.
Coach Contact Info
The Coach Contact Information is listed below. You can look up your coach by Division and Team Name or by Practice Night linked directly below:
HYR Soccer Equipment:
HYR provides a T-shirt, and you pretty much provide the rest. Please review HYR Soccer list of equipment below.
hyr soccer equipment list.pdf
CLEAT EXCHANGE
Every season, we collect used cleats and shin guards from players who outgrow their equipment, and that equipment will be available to any other HYR family on a first come-first served basis. We will set up a couple tables at all of the first week practices and all the games. We repurpose hundreds of used items every season. Over the summer people dropped off 29 pairs of cleats ranging in size from kids size 10 to adult size 11. There are also 13 pairs of shin guards and various socks and shorts. At each practice, cleats and shin guards will be dropped off and picked up, so if you are looking for that perfect Cinderalla fit and it is not there, it might show up 5 minutes later or the next day or not at all, but it is worth a shot.
Team Name Theme and shirt colors - Inventors and Innovators
At HYR, we typically do not have team names that are the same as college or pro teams, so no Cardinals or Tigers, etc. We often lean toward some sort of educational or fun theme that is not a typical team name. In the fall of 2023, the team name theme is Inventors and Innovators. There are 57 team shirt designs active this season. To see a glimpse of the shirts for your child and their peers take a look at the shirts below:
HYR Staff
HYR has a League Director and two college student league associates for the Fall of 2023. We will be available to help locate equipment, help players find their game times and coaches, and assist with unusual league situations. To see our staff, click below:
Volunteers
The league can often use help getting everything together, especially early and late in a season. Please visit our volunteer page linked below to sign up to help.
HYR Volunteer Page
HYR Video Highlights
Want to see what HYR looks like: See highlights below:
HYR Highlights Reel
Read more in-depth descriptions of each soccer division:
(During registration, players will be given the opportunity to select practice nights they are not able to attend. These and other special requests will be honored when possible. If you request to play with another player on the same team please check with that family before putting the request on your registration. Be advised that HYR will also attempt to balance teams on skill level when possible, especially in the older divisions. Team balance may trump player friend requests in some situations.)
HYR Fall 2023 Soccer offers divisions for youth ages 4 through 16.
Division 1: Parent Player Academy - 4 year old players and their families
Division 2: 5 year old and beginner 6-year old players
Division 3: Experienced 6 year-old players and 7-year old players.
Division 4: 8 and 9 year-old players.
Division 5: 10-12 year old players.
Division 6: 13-16 year-old players.
Division 1 meets once per week on Saturday or Sunday mornings between 10 AM and Noon.
Divisions 2 - 6 meet for one 1-hour practice on a weeknight at either 5:30 or 6:30 PM.
Divisions 2 - 5 play games on Saturdays with a randomized schedule between 9 AM and 4 PM (or Sundays between 11 AM and 5 PM.)
Division 6 practices at 6:30 on one or two weeknights to be determined at 6:30 PM and plays the last game on Saturday (3:30 or 4 PM).
What is Hill Rolling?
During Spring and Fall soccer, the Atherton campus has these glorious hills between the field levels. Kids have always rolled down the hills for fun, so in 2017, we formalized it. At noon on game days, the director blows an air horn, in between the division 2 and division 3 fields, and kids and adults come from across any field to roll down the hill for a couple minutes. It’s sort of a reminder that soccer is just a game, and we are all there to just have a little fun. And like in the last question, just roll with it. (Pun intended)
HYR Hill Rolling Video
HYR T-Shirt Sponsors
HYR has sponsors every season who make a donation to have their logos on the back of hundreds of team T-shirts and also displayed prominently on sandwich boards on the fields. Typically, a 2" logo is $250 on the team shirts, and a 4" logo is $500. To find out more, please send an email to [email protected].
Everything below this line is from previous seasons
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Team Name Descriptions: The team name theme this spring was musicians and composers. Music is a huge force in my life and for a great many of us. I was writing a description of who each musician or composer is during the season, and I got busy and did not finish it until late in the season. If you would care to look at who all the teams were representing, please browse it now by clicking the link below. I hope some of the players and parents have enjoyed figuring it out and listening to their team's inspiration or may take that opportunity now. Or maybe later in life they will discover an artist and realize it was on their shirt when they were younger.
2023 hyr spring soccer team name theme description.pdf
Lost and Found
Every day at HYR, people leave things on the field. If you are missing something, please click the link below to view and claim one of the items.
HYR Lost and Found Page
Team Pictures
If you want to find an electronic version of your team picture, please click the link below and navigate to the season you are looking for.
HYR Team Pictures by Season
HYR Baseball
We are signing up for HYR Baseball through May 4th, 2023 at www.hyrsports.com
HYR Fall Soccer
We will begin signing up for fall soccer on August 1st, 2023.
To see the HYR yearly calendar with all sign-up and season dates click the link below:
HYR Yearly Calendar
Below this line is from the Spring Soccer Season
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All practices and games are at Atherton High School 3000 Dundee Road.
Practices are scheduled for Monday through Thursday night at Atherton. If we get practices rained out on any nights we may have some availability to reschedule, and we will communicate with the coaches to let them know what is available. Please note that there are 2 entrances to Atherton, so check the map below if you have never been there before.
hyr_atherton_map.pdf
HYR Soccer Equipment: HYR provides a T-shirt, and you pretty much provide the rest. Please review HYR Soccer list of equipment below.
hyr soccer equipment list.pdf
HYR Video HighlightsWant to see what HYR looks like: See highlights below:
HYR Highlights ReelRead more in-depth descriptions of each soccer division:
In Divisions 2 through 6, for parents who volunteer to be a Head Coach, there is a $45 discount, and for Assistant Coach, there is a $30 discount on the player registration. (Email [email protected] for a coupon code before making your payment, or email after registering, and we will apply a refund of that amount.) The coach clinic will be held the weekend of March 11th-12th. Details TBD.
(During registration, players will be given the opportunity to select practice nights they are not able to attend. These and other special requests will be honored when possible. If you request to play with another player on the same team please check with that family before putting the request on your registration. Be advised that HYR will also attempt to balance teams on skill level when possible, especially in the older divisions. Team balance may trump player friend requests in some situations.)
Players will be notified of their teams on or before Friday, March 10th. Practices begin the week of March 13th. Opening day for games will be Saturday, March 18th. The games will be mostly on Saturdays with the occasional Sunday for 7 consecutive weeks through the end of April. The exact game schedule will come out by March 11, 2023.
HYR Spring 2023 Soccer offers divisions for youth ages 4 through 16.
Division 1: Parent Player Academy - 4 year old players and their families
Division 2: 5 year old and beginner 6-year old players
Division 3: Experienced 6 year-old players and 7-year old players.
Division 4: 8 and 9 year-old players.
Division 5: 10-12 year old players.
Division 6: 13-16 year-old players.
Division 1 meets once per week on Saturday or Sunday mornings between 10 AM and Noon.
Divisions 2 - 6 meet for one 1-hour practice on a weeknight at either 5:45 or 6:45 PM.
Divisions 2 - 5 play games on Saturdays with a randomized schedule between 9 AM and 4 PM (or Sundays between 10 AM and 5 PM.)
Division 6 practices at 6:30 on one or two weeknights to be determined and plays the last game on Saturday (3:30 or 4 PM) (Or Sunday 4:30 or 5).
If you are trying to register and do not see programs available, please log in first. Complete Registration instructions can be found below
hyr registration instructions.pdf
In Divisions 2 through 6, for parents who volunteer to be a Head Coach, there is a $45 discount, and for Assistant Coach, there is a $30 discount on the player registration. (Email [email protected] for a coupon code before making your payment, or email after registering, and we will apply a refund of that amount.) The coach clinic will be held Saturday, September 9th at 9 AM at the Highlands Community Campus at 1228 East Breckinridge Street (Corner of Barrett Avenue and Breckinridge Street).
(RE: the $94 Registration fee: Effective January 1, 2023, The Kentucky State Legislature passed a bill stating that leisure, recreational, and athletic instructional services are subject to sales tax. For HYR Spring Soccer, that is broken out as an $88.67 Registration fee plus $5.33 KY State Sales Tax. )
HYR Equipment Collection And Distribution -
Every season, HYR collects gently used cleats and helps them find a new home on the feet of a new player. We were largely cleaned out in the fall of 2022, but people continue to donate them. We will not have a cleat and equipment exchange the weekend of March 11-12, but we will set up all inventory at all the first practices and at the first 2 games of the season.
HYR Team Shirt theme for Spring, 2023:
The theme for the fall teams is musicians and composers. Imagine from Beethoven to Lizzo, and anything in between. We try very hard to have a wide representation and inclusion of classics, modern artists and diversity of gender race, national origin, etc. Music will fit that goal perfectly because of the diversity of amazing musicians and composers. Super psyched!
HYR Soccer Equipment: HYR provides a T-shirt, and you pretty much provide the rest. Please review HYR Soccer list of equipment below.
hyr soccer equipment list.pdf
What is Hill Rolling?
During Spring and Fall soccer, the Atherton campus has these glorious hills between the field levels. Kids have always rolled down the hills for fun, so in 2017, we formalized it. At noon on game days, the director blows an air horn, in between the division 2 and division 3 fields, and kids and adults come from across any field to roll down the hill for a couple minutes. It’s sort of a reminder that soccer is just a game, and we are all there to just have a little fun. And like in the last question, just roll with it. (Pun intended)
HYR Hill Rolling Video
HYR T-Shirt Sponsors
HYR has sponsors every season who make a donation to have their logos on the back of hundreds of team T-shirts and also displayed prominently on sandwich boards on the fields. Typically, a 2" logo is $250 on the team shirts, and a 4" logo is $500. To find out more, please send an email to [email protected].
Below this line is from Fall 2022 Soccer
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That's a wrap for 2022 fall soccer.
The winner of the HYR T-shirt quilt is Theo Ward fro the team Finger Painters in the Parent Player Academy.
Thanks to everyone who donated to the HCM drive collection food and personal care products. We really appreciate the HYR community's generosity in donating over 9 bins of items to the HCM food bank.
The team pictures and awards were handed out on closing day. If you were not present on team day, HYR will make them available to you. The majority of coaches took the left over pics and awards with them and will be contacting players to let them know how to pick them up from the coaches. About 5 teams' awards were turned in to HYR, and we will send out a note to those players to let them know how to pick up their awards from the HYR Director.
We have posted all of the team photos on a Google Drive Folder linked below. You can view or download an electroinc copy of your team photo there as well.
HYR Fall 2022 Team Photos on Google Drive
Watch Video Highlights from the first 2 weeks.
Please browse our opening day photo montage linked directly below:
hyr photo montage opening day 2022-09-17.pdfDirectly below is an exported version of the game schedule.
hyr fall 2022 master game schedule.pdf
We have over 770 players registered for 56 teams.
HYR Volunteer Opportunities:
Volunteers help HYR run smoothly. Please review the available slots on the signup link, check your own calendar, and sign up to help. Additionally, if you have time that you are available to help when there is not a signup listed, we can often still use your help. (Especially the week leading up to the season and the and the first week of the season during the traditional work day. ) Please contact Patrick (
[email protected]) to propose a time you are available. .
HYR Volunteer Sign Up LinkHYR Team Shirt theme for fall 2022The theme for the fall teams is visual art. For many of the younger players, their team names will be based on types of art or public art and architecture. For older players, we focus on visual artists themselves and some of their works. We tried very hard to have a wide representation and inclusion of classics, modern artists and diversity of gender race, national origin, etc. To see a sneak preview of the artwork, click below.
2022 Fall HYR T-shirt DesignsThe season will run from March 13 through April 29th. Spring soccer will be for players between 4 and 16 years old. There will be one weeknight practice per week and one weekend game per week.
REGISTRATION INFO
First time users click "Register" and returning users click "Login" in the upper right hand corner.
If you are trying to register and do not see programs available, please log in first. Complete Registration instructions can be found below
hyr registration instructions.pdf
The cost is $94 for the spring season, but beginning March 5th, a $10 late fee for the Spring season will be added, and placement is not guaranteed. Some scholarships are available. To inquire, please contact Patrick Fitzgerald at:
[email protected].
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The cost is $87 for the fall season. On-time registration continues through September 3rd, 2022. Beginning September 4th, a $10 late fee for the Fall season will be added, and placement is not guaranteed. Some financial assistance is available. To inquire about financial assistance, send an email to
[email protected].
Read more in-depth descriptions of each soccer division:
COACHING DISCOUNT
In Divisions 2 through 6, for parents who volunteer to be a Head Coach, there is a $40 discount, and for Assistant Coach, there is a $25 discount on the player registration. (Email [email protected] for a coupon code before making your payment, or email after registering, and we will apply a refund of that amount.) The coach clinic will be held Saturday, September 10th at 9 AM at the Highlands Community Campus at 1228 East Breckinridge Street (Cornet of Barrett Avenue and Breckinridge Street).
(During registration, players will be given the oportunity to select practice nights they are not able to attend. These and other special requests will be honored when possible. If you request to play with another player on the same team please check with that family before putting the request on your registration. Be advised that HYR will also attempt to balance teams on skill level when possible, especially in the older divisions. Team balance may trump player friend requests in some situations.)
HYR Fall 2022 Soccer offers divisions for youth ages 4 through 16.
Division 1: Parent Player Academy - 4 year old players and their families
Division 2: 5 year old and beginner 6-year old players
Division 3: Experienced 6 year-old players and 7-year old players.
Division 4: 8 and 9 year-old players.
Division 5: 10-12 year old players.
Division 6: 13-16 year-old players.
Division 1 meets once per week on Saturday or Sunday mornings between 10 AM and Noon.
Divisions 2 - 6 meet for one 1-hour practice on a weeknight at either 5:30 or 6:30 PM.
Divisions 2 - 6 play games on Saturdays with a randomized schedule between 9 AM and 4 PM (or Sundays between 11 AM and 5 PM.)
Division 7 practices at 6:30 on one or two weeknights to be determined at 6:30 PM and plays the last game on Saturday (3:30 or 4 PM).
Yard SignsHYR Advertises via yard signs in front yards and in front of HCM facilities. If you would be willing to host a yard sign leading up to an HYR season, please send an email to
[email protected].
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End of Season Awards
For Divisions 1 - 4, players receive an 8 x 10 team picture and a participation medal at the end of the season. For Divisions 5 and 6, each player receices an 8 x 10 team picture and a gift card to the Homemade Ice Cream and Pie kitchen. These will be given out at the final games.
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Team Name Themes for 2022 Fall Soccer
We do have an over 5-year tradition of unusual team names. My basic rules tend to be not to use any team name that is in use by professional and college teams (bulldogs, tigers, etc.), never repeat team names (We have now gone over 5 years without a repeat), and have the team names be fun, and occasionally informative.
In the fall of 2022, the team names will be based on visual art. Stay Tuned for more details.
What is Hill Rolling?
During Spring and Fall soccer, the Atherton campus has these glorious hills between the field levels. Kids have always rolled down the hills for fun, so in 2017, we formalized it. At noon on game days, the director blows an air horn, in between the division 2 and division 3 fields, and kids and adults come from across any field to roll down the hill for a couple minutes. It’s sort of a reminder that soccer is just a game, and we are all there to just have a little fun. And like in the last question, just roll with it. (Pun intended)
LOCATION - ATHERTON HIGH SCHOOL: For all players registered, all practices and games are at Atherton High School. There are 2 entrances to Atherton. Please look at the map below. The GPS is 3000 Dundee Road . HYR has been requested to park in the teacher parking lot. (If you pull in by the gymnasium and the tennis courts, you are at the wrong entrance.) Please park only in approved parking spaces.
hyr_atherton_map.pdf
HYR Soccer Equipment: HYR provides a T-shirt, and you pretty much provide the rest. Please review HYR Soccer list of equipment below.
hyr soccer equipment list.pdf
Meet HYR Director Patrick Fitzgerald
Not sure who I am? Click the link below. I hope to meet you on the field soon.
hyr director patric fitzgerald.pdf
Please leave your dogs at home!
HYR asks that you do not bring any pets to HYR practices or games. For a complete look at the school and HYR policy, please click the link below:
HYR Dog Policy
Also, if you don't see the answers below that you are looking for, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions below:
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So that’s it for now. Stay tunes for announcements soon about future HYR seasons.
Patrick
Patrick Fitzgerald
HYR Director
Highlands Youth Recreation 502.671.9701
www.hyrsports.com
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