2026 - 2027 School-Year Alignment

Starting with the 2025–2026 season, Hypernova Athletics will follow U.S. Soccer’s move to school-year age groups. Instead of building teams strictly by birth year, players will now be grouped mainly by grade level.

The goal is simple: put kids with teammates they already go to school with and grow up alongside. This helps:

• Keep friend groups together and build stronger team chemistry 
• Cut down on big size and maturity gaps between players
• Improve confidence, enjoyment, and long-term commitment to the sport
• Create a smoother path from rec soccer into competitive play
   

This change supports how we develop players—not just how we form teams. While Hypernova currently competes in local and regional leagues, this alignment gives us more flexibility to place players in environments that match their growth and ability as they progress.

This shift may result in no changes at all to your current team roster. In cases where adjustments do make sense for development reasons, we will offer dual rostering to certain players so they can train and compete at multiple levels.

Over time, this approach allows us to:

• Move players up naturally as their skill and game understanding improve 
• Increase the overall training and competition level as players develop
• Keep options open for higher-level competition when teams are ready
• Build a clear development pathway for players with different goals and timelines
   

Our goal is to place each player in the environment that best supports their development right now, while creating room for them to grow into higher levels of play as they’re ready.