2025 Tryouts
RIC Southeast:
Location: Frederica Academy; 200 Murray Way, St. Simons Island, GA 31520
Tryout dates: Dec 7 (Sunday), Dec 14 (Sunday)
Time slots: GIRLS @ 12:30 – 2:30 pm / BOYS @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Training dates: Dec 19 (Fri), 21 (Sun), Jan 2 (Fri), Jan 4 (Sun), Jan 11 (Sun), Jan 18 (Sun)
Time slots: Friday sessions; 6:30 – 8:00 PM (ALL PLAYERS) / Sunday sessions; 1:30 – 3:00 PM (for GIRLS) / 3:30 – 5:00 PM (for BOYS)
Make-up / rain-out dates: TBD
The Southeast Regional Identification Center (RIC) is designed to provide advanced training to players in the Southeast area of Georgia.
The goals of the program are:
- To serve as a process to identify players from around the State of Georgia into the State Olympic Development Program (ODP).
- To give opportunity to players who are looking for additional training to supplement their club activities.
- To help top players of our member clubs reach their potential by providing a challenging program in close proximity that requires a short commute.
- To teach the RIC players the ODP playing style of possession soccer and prepare them for ODP.
Eligibility
For the 2025-26 RIC season, the players eligible for this program are boys and girls born in the calendar years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 (as well as selected 2016), January 1 to December 31.
Program Outline
The pool will train as one group when working on technique, and then be split by age and size for small-sided games. The pool will be split for games against other RIC sites to achieve size-appropriate match-ups. The pools will train once a week throughout the winter and finish with a RIC Festival. The training sessions will start in early December.
Program Cost
The tryout fee is $55 (and includes two sessions). The training fee (once selected) is $95 for a six (6) additional session program
Coaching Staff
The State Director of Coaching will oversee the program and visit each RIC site at least once per month. Each site will have a head coach who will work with staff coaches appointed by the State DOC. The coaches will be from top local clubs and/or colleges.