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Porter Ridge Athletic Association

Our association currently includes over 2,000 families in the western Union County areas from the Hemby Bridge, Indian Trail, Stallings, Lake Park, Monroe, and surrounding communities providing baseball, softball, soccer, and basketball to kids ages 3-18.

We are a not for profit organization and comprise our administrative board, coaching staff, and support personnel of member volunteers to ensure the kids have a great experience learning, exercising, and socializing both individual and team participation skills, all while having fun!

Interested in playing soccer? Come and play for the REC Soccer Association of the year!

REC soccer is the entry level soccer program offered by Porter Ridge Athletic Association, and the gateway for future soccer within the North Carolina Youth Soccer Association (NCYSA).

Teams practice twice during the week (1x per week for U6) and have games at the weekend within the Union County Area. Games are typically on Saturday mornings and some Sundays

(U7 and up) Teams compete within the Union County Youth Soccer League and typically play 8 games a season. In addition, there is an entry to the end of season tournament, for all teams U7 and up.

U6 practice once a week at either Hemby Bridge Elementary or Stallings Elementary. U6 Play all their games in house, either 6pm on Fridays or 9am on Saturdays.

REC Soccer emphasizes teaching and learning of core soccer skills over results, aiming to build in fundamentals to help players get ready for the next stage of soccer. All our coaches are highly enthusiastic volunteers who have all completed risk assessment courses within the past year.

If you are interested in coaching with us this season, please email recsoccer@praasoccer.com and we'll get back to you asap! Head Coaches will receive a discount on their registration.

Price of registration includes uniforms as we partner with Admiral Soccer to provide cost effective and high-quality apparel. The cost of registration has been adjusted to account for this.

It is hard to believe but it is time to start thinking about tryouts for Club Soccer next year!

As you know, we are a local soccer club that offers competitive teams with high class training. Along with dedicated coaches, we also have an incredible technical director in Kerlon Souza that works to provide first class training to all Club level players. Porter Ridge Soccer is also proud to work with Evolve Goalkeeping Director Daniel Beaupre for all Classic Level Goalkeeper Training sessions. 

Tryout registrations are now open and live on www.praasoccer.com 

All tryouts will take place at Chestnut Square Park, Indian Trail 

If you are new to the club scene, and would like to find out more, we created a handy 2025/2026 Soccer Pathway information page on the site. Feel free to browse in your own time and get back to us with any questions. We also have more detailed information on our three levels of play, Recreational, Academy and Classic listed under our ‘Levels of Play’ section on the site. 

We look forward to seeing many familiar faces out there this late April and May 

If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. This can be done at: 

General inquiries: contact@porterridgeaa.com
Academy questions: academy@praasoccer.com
Classic Questions: classicsoccer@praasoccer.com

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