Sporting Iowa

NEW SUMMER PROGRAM - SMALL GROUP TRAINING - REGISTRATION COMING 3/29 Sporting Iowa's acceleraTioN Program is designed to elevate the soccer experience for youth players by providing a dynamic and challenging environment that seamlessly blends fun, game-like scenarios with purposeful skill development. Our program is designed to bridge the seasonal gap, fostering year-round player growth. For more information, please visit the link here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HUXLTomWZSNL6oI7Sr8e_Vyna44aTivPalclqTx2wgo/edit If you have any questions, please reach out to Trevor Neary - neary@sportingiowasoccer.org

Results are in from the weekend! So many top games all over the Midwest! Well done to all of our players for putting in the work against some tough opposition!

Spring Break Camp was a huge success at @rec_plex last week! 💥 We are excited to be back outside! ⚽️ Head to our website for upcoming Summer Camps! ☀️

The 13U and 14U ECNL Girls have their first ECNL games of the Spring this weekend. They welcome Gretna to GrimesPlex on Saturday! Good luck girls! #sportingunleashed

The 13U and 14U ECNL RL Girls kick off their ECNL RL spring season in St Louis this weekend! They visit SLSG MO and SLSG IL! Good luck Girls!! #sportingunleashed

The 13U and 14U ECNL RL Boys have their first ECNL RL games of the Spring this weekend! They welcome FC United to GrimesPlex! Good luck boys! #sportingunleashed

Spring season is off and running! The 13U and 14U ECNL Boys are off to play FC Wichita and Sporting Springfield this weekend! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

Sign up for Sporting Iowa’s U23 Women’s and Men’s Teams, to be part of the highest level soccer environment in Iowa this summer. At Sporting Iowa we recognize the need and desire for elite training/game environments for young players in the Des Moines metro. With so many quality collegiate soccer programs in the state of Iowa, and ambitious Sporting Iowa Alumni coming home for the summer, we are dedicated to providing a high level environment for players committed to growing their game and preparing for their college seasons ahead. https://www.sportingiowasoccer.org/u23

SAVE THE DATE - Our 5th Annual Sporting Iowa Elite College ID Camp is back this year and better than ever! We are excited to maximize the quality and exposure of our event by moving to our new Grimesplex facility on July 10th and 11th! Mark your calendars! Colleges are starting to commit!! Registration for our Sporting Iowa Elite College ID Camp will open soon!!

Today is the first day of the 2024 Spring Season! Please check your Playmetrics to double check practice times and locations! Looking forward to seeing everyone! #sportingunleashed

Sporting KC Summer Camp. June 17-20th at GrimesPlex! Sign up here: https://sportingkcyouth.com/camp/summer-soccer-camp-des-moines-iowa/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=social

Sign up for MasterClass to elevate your technical game through high level physical and mental training that will lead you to have more comfort, control, and confidence both on and off the ball. This spring for 9U-12U players! . . MasterClass is designed and led by former Ajax professional soccer player Whitney Lewis (Sharpe). Coach Whitney is dedicated to inspiring the next generation of players committed to take accountability for their growth, pursue excellence, and reach their highest potential. Whitney’s journey to becoming a professional athlete has equipped her to lead and develop players in understanding what it takes to play at the highest level: . . •4x Valley High School State Champion • 2x Gatorade Player of the Year • US Soccer National Team U16/U17/U18/U20/U23 • 2x NCAA Final Four Appearances with UCLA • Professional Soccer Player for AFC Ajax • KNVB National Champions with Ajax 2015. Sign up today— limited spots available! Registration Link in Bio.

Congrats to Real Madrid on winning the HS Girls Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Leverkusen on winning the HS Boys Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Man City on winning the 13/14U Boys Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Gotham FC on winning the 13/14U Girls Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to San Diego Wave on winning the 12/13/14U Girls Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Samurai Muskrats on winning the 9/10U Boys Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Norwalk on winning the 9/10U Girls Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Wigan on winning the 9/10U Boys Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Club America on winning the 11/12U Girls Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Celta Vigo on winning the 11/12U Boys Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Valencia on winning the 12/13/14U Boys Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to England on winning the 9/10U Girls Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Dash on winning the 7/8U Girls Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

Congrats to Chelsea on winning the 8U Division in MSL this year!! Well done!!

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🚨THE BEST EVER COLLEGE BASKETBALL PLAYERS SIGNED APPAREL🚨We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Silent Auction as part of the HOF Dinner, benefiting the KCFAF Financial Assistance Fund! In our bio, you’ll discover how to register for a bidder account and what items will be up for grabs. Be sure to read the Silent Auction FAQs and get prepared! What can you expect to find at the Silent Auction? In addition to Caitlin Clark’s Autographed Merchandise, we’ll feature approximately 20 valuable and enjoyable baskets generously donated by our teams, individuals, and local businesses. Some highlights include: a Traeger Smoker & Extras, Sporting KC Tickets, Yoga Starter Pack, Wild Wells Fargo Game Suite, At-Home Training Basket, Action Photo Package, Sporting Gameday Wagon, Adidas Basket, Urban Grille Basket, Sporting KC Autographed Gear, Margarita Basket, and many more!

Congratulations to the 2007B Team for qualifying for ECNL Playoffs once again. This group worked so hard on and off the field to get the job done! Congrats boys and we can’t wait to watch you in Cali this Summer! 😎⚽️

SAVE THE DATE - Our 5th Annual Sporting Iowa Elite College ID Camp is back this year and better than ever! We are excited to maximize the quality and exposure of our event by moving to our new Grimesplex facility on July 10th and 11th! Mark your calendars! Registration for our Sporting Iowa Elite College ID Camp will open later this Spring!

Don’t forget, the Hall of Fame Dinner is coming up! Registration closes Monday 26th! $65 individual ticket cover 3 course meal with choices of entree. Discount available for the full table. Register at https://www.sportingiowasoccer.org/kcfaf

⚽️❄️ WINTER DISCOVERY recap!❄️⚽️

Our 15U ECNL Girls are off to Dallas this weekend for the last ECNL Girls event of the season! Good luck girls! #sportingunleashed

Good luck to our 16U ECNL Girls down in Dallas this weekend! Playing some brilliant games while down there! #sportingunleashed

Good luck to our 17U ECNL Girls as they head to Dallas this weekend! They play some top teams! #sportingunleashed

Our 15U - 19U ECNL Boys host their last ECNL games of the 23/24 season this weekend! They welcome in SLSG MO and SLSG IL! Games are at RecPlex and GrimesPlex! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

Happy Valentine’s Day from everyone at Sporting Iowa! ❤️💙❤️💙❤️

Massive congratulations to Carson Bohonek, as she was selected for the National Selection Game down in Dallas! Carson will play with some of the best girls in the country on Saturday night! Good luck Carson!

Our 15U, 16U and 17U ECNL Girls are off to Dallas this weekend for their last ECNL event of the year!! Good luck girls!! #sportingunleashed

Another Saturday enjoying the Metro Soccer League!⚽️🔥

The 15U - 19U Boys are off to Wichita this weekend! They play FC Wichita and Sporting Springfield in ECNL league games! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

Breaking barriers, shattering stereotypes, and chasing dreams! Heres to celebrating the countless girls and women who have paved the way, proving the playing field is for everyone. Every girl deserves to know their goals are possible! #NationalGirlsandWomeninSportsDay ⚽️ #Gamechangers #empoweredathleteseries

The 19U ECNL Boys kick off their Florida Showcase at 4pm! They play Albion first! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

The 16U ECNL Boys get their Florida Showcase off and running today! Playing 3 teams we have never played before from different parts of the country!! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

The 17U ECNL Boys kick off their Florida Showcase today!! They start off against Hex FC! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

The 17U Boys ECNL RL started the ECNL RL Boys today! They started off against a top Indiana Elite team! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

Today the 19U Boys ECNL RL kicked off their Florida event! They play 3 top teams! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

🦬 taking over! Good luck to Coach Jack as he coaches the West Team in the ECNL National Selection this weekend!!

Massive congratulations to Perry Neuman for being selected for ECNL RL National Selection Game down in Florida this weekend! Good luck to Perry as he plays against some of the top talents in the ECNL RL tomorrow! Congrats!!

Our 16U, 17U and 19U ECNL Boys are off to Florida this weekend as well! This is their last event of the season! Good luck lads!

Our 17U and 19U Boys ECNL RL are off to Florida this weekend! This is their first ECNL RL event! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

Join us for an evening of community, friendship, a silent auction, and a raffle as we celebrate our new Hall of Fame Inductees and support a cause that is close to our hearts. Our 2024 Hall Of Fame Class: Volunteers: Billy Scott ⏐ Brian Mamola ⏐ Penny Luthens Players: Caton Johnson⏐ Allie Brees (Uhlenhopp) ⏐ Solomon Mamola More details and Registration at https://www.sportingiowasoccer.org/kcfaf

Our 11/12U Boys Divison winners were Sporting United! ⚽️ Well done lads!

Our 9/10U Boys Division winners were Sporting!! ⚽️ Congrats Boys!

Our 13/14U Girls Silver Divison winners were The Dino Nuggies! 🦖 Well done Girls!

Our 13/14U Girls Gold Division winners were Ninjas! 🥷🏾 Well done Girls!!

We have our winners from our Winter classic last weekend! Our 13/14U Boys division winners were Galaxy!! 💫 Well done lads!

Our Winter Classic kicks off tomorrow! Make sure to double check when your teams are playing in Playmetrics!! Good luck everyone!

Good luck to our 16U ECNL Girls down in Florida this weekend! #sportingunleashed

Good Luck to our 17U ECNL Girls down in Florida this weekend! #sportingunleashed

Our 16U and 17U Girls ECNL are off to Florida for their second ECNL event of the season! Good luck girls!

2023 was massive! We can’t wait for 2024! Gonna be an even bigger year!! Lets goo! #sportingunleashed

Happy 2024 from everyone at Sporting Iowa!! We all hope you had a great night last night! Lets be great in 2024!

Everyone at Sporting Iowa wishes everyone a Merry Christmas! We hope you have a great day! ❤️

Sporting Iowa Hall of Fame Dinner! March 2nd 6-9pm location TBD! Save the date! Check link in bio to nominate any Volunteers or Former players!!

This holiday season Sporting Iowa, West Des Moines Soccer Club, & JUSC - Johnston Urbandale Soccer Club are asking our existing membership to “GIFT THE GAME” to any non-existing member. Simply encourage a new player to register for Spring Discovery at JUSC or WDMSC and they will receive $25 off their registration fee. To thank you for your efforts and share the holiday spirit, all existing members who successfully refer a new registration will receive a Sporting Iowa scarf! For more details, check your inbox!

Congrats to @coltonhorn_27 on getting selected for the National Selection Game in Las Vegas this Friday!! Colton will represent Sporting Iowa against 35 other top players from around the nation! Good luck mate!

The 15U Boys ECNL are off to their first ever ECNL Event!! They can’t wait to get out there! First game is against undefeated San Antonio FC! Good luck boys! #sportingunleashed

The 16U ECNL Boys are heading to Vegas today!! They can’t wait to get going! Looking forward to a tasty matchup with BVB on Sunday! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

The 17U ECNL Boys are off to Vegas today! They play some top teams! Looking forward to the matchup with an Elite club like Crossfire on Sunday! Good luck boys! #sportingunleashed

Our 19U ECNL boys are off to Vegas today! Good luck lads! They play some top top teams and can’t wait to get the first game going on Friday! #sportingunleashed

Our 15U, 16U, 17U and 19U boys ECNL teams are off to Las Vegas this weekend for their first ECNL Event of the season! Good luck lads! #sportingunleashed

Some great games for the Boys down in KC!! Well to fight lads!

The 15-19U Boys ECNL teams have ECNL games this weekend against KCSG and KC Athletics!! Good luck down in KC lads! #sportingunleashed

Our 16U Girls ECNL RL kick off their ECNL RL event today against FC Pride!! Good luck girls! #sportingunleashed

Our 17U Girls ECNL RL start their ECNL RL girls event today! Good luck girls!! #sportingunleashed

Our 16U and 17U Girls ECNL RL are off to St. Louis this weekend for their Girls ECNL RL event! Good luck girls!! #sportingunleashed

The final count is officially in! Once again the power of our sporting community has left all involved with the club feeling incredibly grateful. While the financial number is one thing the true value of this generosity is time. Children time to play this wonderful game with the best staff in the state, family’s time to create new connections and memories as a family and with new families, and finally as coaches we get a chance to share time with even more incredible young people. Truly, from everyone at Sporting Iowa, thank you so so much! Congratulations to our 5 top raisers we will be in touch to get your custom cleat order !! Congratulations to the Royal U11B you guys were truly rockstars on the night, pizza party incoming !!! ❤️⚽️❤️⚽️

Congrats to Coach Ross Moffat and the US Men’s CP National Team as they won the Bronze Medal in the 2023 Parapan American Games! Ross assisted the team as they played the games in Chile last week! Well done Rossco!

Don’t forget that Winter Training starts this week! We hope everyone enjoyed their breaks! We look forward to seeing you all soon!! #sportingunleashed

Happy Thanksgiving from our Sporting Iowa Family to yours! We hope you enjoy this time with family!

We have the last games of the fall season this Saturday as our ECNL RL Boys travel to Sporting Nebraska! Good luck boys! #sportingunleashed

We have our last Team of the Week/Tournament of the Fall season! We have our HIT Boys 11s and 12s Team of the Tournament here! All the boys played great stuff! We had a Champion and a few Finalists within the groups! Congrats to these lads of having a great weekend! #sportingunleashed

We have our October Coach of the Month! Congratulations to Sanel Dzinic on absolutely smashing it this season! He is happy to take any session or game. Sanel has shown how much he wants to improve. He wants to learn as much as possible and take his coaching to the next level! Thanks for all you do Sanel!! Class act! #sportingunleashed

We have our 11U/12U girls HIT Team of the Tournament from last weekend! These girls smashed it down in KC and had a great weekend! Well done to all of our teams!

We have our last Girls Players of the Week for the fall! These girls had a great week! Well done girls! #sportingunleashed

We have our last Boys Players of the Week from this fall season!! Congrats to these lads on great week! #sportingunleashed

Lots of big games last weekend against some good opponents! Well done to all our teams for putting in a top shift!

Congrats to all our 2024 Graduates that are signing today!! Can’t wait to see how all your journeys continue! #signingday

Our 16-19 Girls ECNL are off to Phoenix this weekend!! This is our first ECNL event of the season! We can’t wait to see how the girls do against some of the best from around the nation! Good luck girls! #sportingunleashed

The 13-19U Boys ECNL RL teams welcome Sting and VSA to GrimesPlex this weekend for the ECNL RL games!! Good luck lads!

Our 13-19U Girls ECNL RL teams are off to Kansas City this weekend for ECNL RL games against KC Athletics and Sporting Blue Valley!! Good luck Ladies!!

Our 13-19U ECNL Girls take on Sporting Blue Valley in ECNL games this Sunday! 13s at 11am 14s at 1pm 15s at 3pm 16s at 3pm 17s at 11am 19s at 1pm 📍GRIMESPLEX Good Luck Ladies!!

Our 15-19U Boys take on VSA Rush in ECNL games tomorrow out at Grimes!! 15s at 1pm 16s at 3pm 17s at 5pm 19s at 7pm 📍GRIMESPLEX Good luck Lads!!

The 17U Girls ECNL RL won their State Cup this last weekend!! Great performances at Waverly and TBK! Great stuff girls! #sportingunleashed

The 15U Girls ECNL RL won their state cup this past weekend! Girls played brilliantly!! Well done! #sportingunleashed

The 17 Boys ECNL RL won their 3rd straight State Cup!! Well done guys!! #sportingunleashed

The 15U Boys ECNL RL won their State Cup this past weekend! Adding another one to the collection! Well done lads! #sportingunleashed

Happy Halloween from everyone at Sporting Iowa!!

Massive weekend ahead! We have tons going on! The ECNL girls are away to play against Midwest United and Liverpool. The ECNL RL 13s and 14s boys host FC United. Then we 11 of our teams in the Semis and Finals at US Club Soccer State Cup in Bettendorf. Also sending some 11s and 12s boys team to the SDL Championships. We still have some CDL games in town as well!! Good luck to everyone!! #sportingunleashed