Recreation and Academy Programs
For kids 5 and younger: The Village of Germantown Park and Rec Department offers 2 fun programs to get your kids started in soccer. One run by the village typically run on Saturday mornings and coached by parent coaches. Click here, to go to the Village Park and Rec website to find the latest brochure to sign up for any Park and Rec run activities. And an additional offering run in a partnership between Milwaukee Kickers and the village Recreation Dept, typically run on Wednesdays and coached by young adults trained/guided by experienced Milwaukee Kickers coaching staff. Click here to go to Milwaukee Kickers website for information on MiKro soccer. Consult the age chart below to find recommended age cut offs between the programs.
GSC introduction and registration: The Germantown Soccer Club (GSC) recreational program takes over from where our outstanding Germantown Village recreational programs leave off. Any kid or parent new to soccer or kids and parent coaches that participated in the Village program through the U6 age group are encouraged to join the GSC which runs through U10. Starting at U7, teams are all boys and all girls, with very few exceptions. Registration is typically from May through July and teams are formed early August. We frequently are able to place kids on teams anytime through the year so please contact the club registrar if you are interested midseason. You can register through our main Club Milwaukee Kickers at www.mksc.org using this link to get to the Germantown region. To read more about our role with the larger club please click the “About the Club” link on the left of the page. The club reimburses all coaching license training required by WYSA and encourages all parent coaches to pursue higher level licenses.
Friedenfeld is our home field and is used for all home league games only. We have 2 U8, 2 U10, 1 U11, and 1 U13 fields all in the same location. The park includes a concession stand and play set for younger kids.
U7 and U8 age levels: Parent coaches at this age level work together and with other experienced professional club coaches to teach the kids soccer fundamentals in an atmosphere of fun. A soccer curriculum was developed by a team from Milwaukee Kickers led by Coaching Director Jerry Panek who holds coaching licenses from throughout the world. Fundamentals include skills such as coordination and balance, first touch, proper dribbling, passing, and shooting techniques, teamwork, and soccer basics like playing goalie, throw-ins, spacing, and defense. Practices are held 1 or 2 days a week at Germantown soccer fields. Small sided 5v5 league games with referees, provide an environment that gets all kids soccer opportunities and encourages many touches on the ball. All kids play ½ game each game learning different positions. Away games are at other suburban areas. Teams are formed from families in the Washington Cnty area so new and old friendships develop while learning this team sport. There are tournament opportunities that have many teams and have 3 to 4 games in the same place on a weekend. There are also indoor opportunities during the winter that allow the kids to experience playing on an indoor turf field. Families are encouraged to take advantage of all these soccer opportunities, but it is understood that kids have other activities. 
U9 and U10 age groups: Parent coaches at this age level continue to work with experienced professional club coaches to build on the fundamental skills developed at U7/U8. The Milwaukee Kickers ciriculum continues to build on what was taught during U7/U8. Advanced ball control using all parts of your body is added while enhancing footwork. Soccer moves are added to dribbling while teaching taking on an opponent. Player movement, spacing, and advanced passing and shooting techniques are introduced. The practices continue to include the entire age level to allow friends to continue to spend practices, the majority of their time playing soccer, together and having fun. Because kids’ progress at different speeds and new kids are introduced all the time, the teams at these age groups provide additional challenges to kids that have developed advanced physical and soccer skills. These additional challenges can include more intense and frequent soccer training, more challenging league, tournament, and indoor games, and are customized each year for the group.
U9/10 Academy groups: Germantown offers an innovative program that combines the best training methods in a community environment to ensure continuity as rosters expand as the kids get older. U9 kids are able play with advanced skilled kids against teams made up of similar kids. Academy also provides advanced strength and skilled U10 kids with the option to play select U11 which is 8v8 on the second largest field and full soccer rules. Teams are coached by experienced and fully licensed parent or a paid coach.
U11 and older age groups: Families with kids not interested in Select soccer, typically have the option to continue playing soccer at a recreational level. While numbers of kids at this level decrease, Germantown is typically able to put together a team for all kids that want to continue playing soccer.
Recreational Costs:
One of the most outstanding things about our club is the value you get. In addition to your kids playing with friends and the majority of soccer activities occurring in town, the cost of your kids training is a fraction of other clubs who don’t have the same results we have.
$140.00 Base fee includes uniform (jersey, shorts, and socks), coach, practice field, game field, referees, 6-8 league games in the fall (September to October) and 6-8 league games in the spring (May to June). A portion of this fee goes to Milwaukee Kickers and a portion to us, the Germantown Region.
Ball, shin guards, bag, and any other equipment are additional.
Any tournaments are approximately an additional $25 per tournament.
Indoor soccer has 3 optional sessions which range from approximately $50 to $75 per session.
Academy Costs:
The base cost does not change from the recreational cost.
However, tournaments and indoor participation is expected. Expect 2-3 tournaments in the fall and 2 in the spring. Expect 2 to 3 indoor sessions offered. Expect additional weekly summer outdoor training and friendly matches with other teams. Expect weekly winter indoor training. Our program understands that kids are involved in more than one thing in life and that education and family come first, so flexibility is provided for those things.
Any paid coaching cost is additional. Some indoor training facility use may be additional.