The St. Kitts and Nevis Soccer Affiliation (SKNFA) launched its U15 Research Corridor Program on Saturday, June 7, 2025, marking a big step in its dedication to holistic youth improvement. The initiative is designed to assist gamers within the SKNFA’s U15 program by strengthening their educational efficiency alongside their soccer coaching.
The Research Corridor program goals to foster a balanced method to youth improvement by integrating schooling into the soccer pathway. Through the launch on the Nationwide Financial institution Group of Corporations Technical Heart in St. Peters, SKNFA President Atiba Harris emphasised the significance of equipping younger gamers with each athletic and educational abilities. “As a part of the continued course of in creating and revamping the entire youth system in St. Kitts and Nevis, we need to marry soccer and schooling. It’s key that we develop well-rounded people, wellrounded youths, as we proceed to develop and develop. So we need to begin off in the present day with a sessionhere, a classroom session, faculty corridor, so to talk, in order that means the boys can see a unique method,” Harris mentioned.
“Soccer is just for a brief time frame, however the schooling that you’d have obtained through the years stays with you for a lifetime. So, we need to be sure that our youths are on the suitable path and proceed to develop. And also you by no means know what they could develop into sooner or later. Aside from being knowledgeable footballer, you could be a skilled in every other discipline, and we need to begin this journey now,” the SKNFA president continued.

This system is obligatory for all male U15 gamers, with plans to develop it to feminine gamers in the identical age group. It additionally consists of common educational monitoring and communication with mother and father and academics. “We might have requested them to submit all of their report playing cards from final time period and on completion of this time period, they must submit (their report playing cards). We’ll see and monitor their progress. We’ll be in contact with their mother and father and their academics as effectively. So we already informed them that we’re their mother and father away from their mother and father,” Harris added. This initiative displays the SKNFA’s broader imaginative and prescient of creating youth who should not solely robust athletes but additionally empowered, educated residents of St. Kitts and Nevis.
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