About

"World domination one four year old at a time."

When asked about our program I've often jokingly referred to that as our motto. The line never fails to get a laugh and then I go on to explain just what we do and why we're different from everybody else. One of the first programs on the Westside, from an unintended beginning in 1997 on a patch of Barrington grass with a dozen kids, some half-inflated soccer balls and a set of recalcitrant PVC goals, we've grown from one class to a weekly slate of offerings, two thriving summer camps, private lessons, birthday parties and programs with neighborhood schools... We've become a community at once vast and intimate. Each child is the most important child on the field; each family is an integral member of our own family.

Our sign-in table at camp is the Crossroads of the World. Friends who haven't seen each other since college, play-group mommies whose kids go to far-flung schools, even ex-couples now reconfigured who reconnect over children they might have had together (strange but true)... All come together under our umbrella. We have solved the paradox of growing and shrinking the community at the same time.

From the eternally evolving games that we play in class to our camp activities like Don't Do This at Home Day and the Human Car Wash...creativity, innovation and humor suffuse everything we do. Our coaches inspire and stimulate, teach and entertain. Across the board exceptional, they have a loyal fan base that leaps out of car seats, chatters on at the dinner table and streams into camp looking for that warm and genuine, "Hey Ry-man, what's happening?"

"World domination one four year old at a time."

Upon reflection that really is what we're all about. Treating each and every child as an individual, with singular strengths and abilities, instills in that child the confidence to tackle the challenges of growing up in today's world. Be it soccer or handball or...watermelon seed spitting...whatever your child's passion or proclivity, we've got the community to make it happen.

Welcome to Coast Sports.