Recreation

• Begins at age 4
• Seasonal leagues and clinics: registrations opened seasonally
• Fun filled in-house environment, focus is on learning and discovery
• Teams formed by friend requests, classmates, neighbors, geography
• Lower level of commitment; 1-2x weekly contacts

Competitive

• Begins at U9 (Under-9)
• Year-round team: players need to register for tryouts (end of summer) to be placed on a team
• Traveling soccer against other metro clubs
• Teams formed by tryouts and club staff
• Higher level of commitment; 2-3x weekly contacts (winter contacts vary based on age and level of play)

• Once players are age-eligble,  they have the option to join the Competitive program. Players not interetsed in Competitive can continue playing in Recreation all through high school. 
• Information will be provided directly to Recreation players as they approach the first year that Competitive is offered. 
• Players can move from Recreational to Competitive or Competitive to Recreational once they are age eligible; but players cannot move between programs once the soccer year begins (tryouts in late July through early next July)

• Players join Tonka United at all different ages and stages of thier youth careers. 
• If interetsed in Competitive program, then register for and attend tryouts (July/Aug) to be placed on a team for the upcoming year. 
• If interetsed in Recreation program, then register seasonally. 

Tonka Fusion Elite (TFE) is for U13+ players striving to develop at the national level. 

• TFE Boys teams compete in the Elite Academy League, a national platform that provides full developmental model and pathway with top competition and exposure. 
• TFE Girls teams compete in the Girls Academy League, the leading youth development platform for the best female soccer players in the United States.