Soccer Camp 2024

CAMP DESCRIPTION:  Learning the proper warm-up, individual skills such as dribbling, passing, defending, and shooting. Learning formal soccer terminology. Playing  short-sided and larger games.

Camp Director, Coach Marcus Miller ’76 played soccer at IMS/Hillcrest, in addition to playing at the collegiate level at Eastern Mennonite College. Miller has been at Hillcrest since the fall of 1993 prior to soccer being a state sanctioned sport. Under Miller’s coaching, the soccer team has made three trips to the State tournament in the fall and two trips to state in the spring season. In the Spring of 2003 Miller helped start the boys and girls soccer program at Mid-Prairie High School coaching both the boys and girls teams for the first year, then coaching the girls team for the next two. Miller then oversaw the transition of the IMS team to the spring season in 2006. Miller has been named Conference Coach of the Year several times and is always gratified to see former players enter coaching.

LOCATION: Hillcrest Academy, 1421 540th St. SW Kalona, Iowa 52247 (Hillcrest soccer field) In case of severe weather, the camp will move inside to Hillcrest Union (gymnasium).

ELIGIBILITY: Camp is open to boys and girls entering grades K – 8.

COST: $50 per child
Registration can be done here and payment can be made here.

WHAT TO BRING: shin guards and water bottle

QUESTIONS? Contact Rebecca Beachy Miller at rbeachymiller@hillcrestravens.org or 319-656-2073 (x200).