• 12 Boys Club
• 13/14 Boys Club
• 16/17 Boys Club
• 18 Premier Boys
• 13/14 Girls Club
• 15/16 Girls Club

Nordic Soccer Club is proud to announce that Wade Jean has accepted our invitation to assume the position of Director of Coaching for the Nordic Soccer Club. After much board discussion and interviews, we are excited to have Wade bring his unique and highly successful approach to the player development efforts of our club. Wade brings a robust resume of experiences as a coach with domestic and international youth programs and at various and far reaching collegiate levels. He has lead by example at each level and has fostered and achieved a culture of effort, commitment and success.

Joining Wade, we are very fortunate to have a broad and talented leadership team in place with our Technical Directors Marcel Choquette and Charley Amblo. Marcel looks forward to continuing to be a key player on this team working with coaches and players, much of which on the girls side. Additionally, Wade looks forward to continuing to work with and building on the stellar work of Charley Amblo to expand his well conceived player development process now used with the younger ages through older groups. Additionally, as Nordic Director of Operations, Jim Goudie will continue to be the glue that keeps the club together as he works to support these player development programs both on and off the pitch.

As Wade takes over we thank Jesse Cormier for his dedicated and inspired work as our Director of Coaching for the last 3 years. He brought his extraordinary talent and enthusiasm to this position and provides big boots to fill. Thankfully, as Jesse leaves to spend more time with his family (including Nordic U11 son Kai!) he has agreed to continue to be a Special Advisor to the club for those times when his input might be irreplaceable.

Much is being done, right away. We have our coaching staff in place for tryouts. The leadership team have put the final pieces in place with some exciting new talent along side some of our great veterans. We are totally convinced this is our best coaching staff ever.

U8G Charley Amblo & Eric LaDouceur
10G Stan Sienko, Carey Rivett, Morgan Young, and Kristy Benoit
11G Jess Valley & Sean McMannon
12G Eric LaDouceur
13G Charley Amblo & Asia Sienko
14G Todd Wenner
15G Tom Schaeffer
16G Hector Tamayo
17G Marcel Choquette
U8B Charley Amblo & Eric LaDouceur
10B Dave Marlow, Tom Schaeffer, and Jim Dillon
11B Kirk Jean and Bay Outama
12B Matt Gazo and Mark Sienko
13B Jim Goudie
14B Jason Burnett
15B Sam Piotrowski
16B Wade Jean
17B Jesse Brady-Searby

The 12 Premier Boys got the week-end off to a great start with an emphatic 6-1 victory over Capital. First half goals from Cole Venner, Cooper O'Connell and Tawn Tomasi gave Nordic a 3-0 half time lead and despite a Capital goal early in the 2nd half, Nordic closed out strong with further goals from Venner, Bobby Navarro and James Raymond.

Jesse Brady Searby's 14 Premier Boys fought out a close 1-0 victory over Far Post on a Joe Castano 1st half goal and a clean sheet from Brandon O'Connell whilst Wade Jean's 15 Premier Boys comfortably beat their Far Post counterparts 4-0 on goals from Shane Haley, Owen Fellows, Noah Lieberman and Danny Samardzic. Matt McBride in goal with the shut-out.

Todd Wenner's 16 Premier Girls got off to a strong start with 1st half goals from Lauren Benard (2) and Meredith Corley and then played tight defense for the remainder of the game as they won 3-0 vs Far Post. Lara Collins in goal, keeping the clean sheet.

Finally, Conor Tobin's 18 Premier Boys rounded off the week-end with a well earned 3-2 win over Capital. Noah Johnson and Erich Schwer got Nordic off to a great 2 goal lead, before Capital pulled it back with 2 goals mid-way through the game. Brock Fortin calmly tucked away the winning goal with 15 mins to go to send the 18 Boys through.

All of our teams will be playing at the Region 1 Championships in West Virginia, July 1st through 6th.

Nordic also had 4 teams that progressed to this week-ends finals. Our 13 Premier Boys lost a close 2-0 game to Far Post, Todd Wenner's 13 Premier Girls fell short in their final, whilst Marcel Choquette's 14 Premier Girls put up a valiant battle, losing 4-3 after being down 3-0 at half time! Our 15 Premier Girls lost a close 3-1 encounter in their final game with Capital, Kristy Benoit scoring the lone Nordic goal.

Congratulations to all Nordic teams on an exciting (and very wet) week-end of soccer.

Nordic Soccer Club is pleased to appoint the Essex Resort and Spa as our "Official Destination Resort".

The Essex is Chittenden County's only AAA Four-Diamond hotel and is truly an "experiential resort", offering luxury guest rooms, plentiful meeting and banquet space, restaurant, cooking classes, spa, golf, tennis, zip lines, ropes course, climbing walls, Orvis-endorsed fly-casting lodge, hot air balloon, and 18 acres of lush lawns and gardens.

As part of the partnership between the two organizations, Nordic families will receive the following benefits:

• Designation of the first Tuesday of every month as Nordic Soccer Club Day at The Essex. All Nordic families will be entitled to 40 percent off Spa at The Essex treatments (50 percent for two consecutive treatments on the same day), 15 percent off food in Butler's Restaurant and Tavern, and 20 percent off Cook Academy classes.
• Waiver of function room fees for Nordic Soccer Club banquets and other food and beverage events. This also applies to Nordic club members who may wish to pursue for business purposes.
• A Nordic Soccer Club friends and family guest room rate 20 percent less than The Essex's "Best Available Rate".

For more information about The Essex Resport and Spa or to book your visit please visit www.vtculinaryresort.com or phone 800-727-4295.

The Nordic Soccer Club would like to announce that John Myhre has been named the new Nordic Board of Directors President. Our thanks go to Bob Morrow for his many years of service to the Nordic Board of Directors and the entire club.

John's letter to the Nordic community can be seen here.