The goal of the Littleton Soccer Club is to provide an opportunity for every interested child in Littleton to play soccer. We seek to place each child in a setting where he or she will have the opportunity to improve his/her skills while being successful competitively. Given the wide range of talent and interest among our players this is not always easy. However, it is what we are striving for. Our teams are formed through a combination of coaching inputs, player assessment results, current age level and past competitive levels of play. In our In-town Program (PeeWee, U6 and U8) we strive to provide a balance of recreation and competitive teams via like age groups, abilities (from coach input, when available). All U10 and older players play in a Travel Program. With the growth of our program in the last 5 years (exceeding 250 travel players), we have instituted a Spring Player Assessment program. All players planning to play U10 through U14 in the following season are asked to attend the assessment day for their age group. Assessments are conducted by outside professional coaches. Once players move to travel more emphasis is placed on coach inputs, player assessment results and placement at proper developmental and competitive levels. This sometimes requires some movement of players from one season to next to achieve the proper level of play for all our teams. We place our teams in the Nashoba Valley Youth Soccer League. The NVYSL has been in existence for over 30 years providing recreation level play to competitive level play, both non-outcome and outcome based