There continues a steady improvement in the quality of coaching in ABYS. Apart from our regular seasons, ABYS sponsors myriad clinics and courses and pays for coaches pursuing coaching licenses from the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association. We sponsor summer camps. We also will continue to have a Player Development Officer whose sole task is to train and support our entry level coaches and players in the basics of the game. We continue also to benefit from more and more parents coming into our program as coaches who played soccer in high school, college or abroad. In addition, more players and coaches are seeing and learning from watching professional matches. All of these trends lead to improvement in the game. Each year our U9s are incrementally better players than the U9 players the year before. Let's hope the progress continues!