New Adelaide United X Woodville High School Football Academy We are excited to officially announce (as of January 1, 2024) our partnership with the Adelaide United Football Club
INTRODUCTION
The Woodville High Football Academy established in 2023 offers students a unique opportunity to further develop their technical and tactical skills, game understanding, as well as promote leadership and confidence to challenge themselves in a nurturing and professional environment.
Our Football Academy is proudly partnered with Adelaide United Football Club. As the inaugural South Australian school with exclusive access to this partnership, our students have the incredible opportunity for authentic learning experiences and provides our students with access to expert coaching, mentoring, elite facilities, and a high-performance training program. This partnership also includes:
Adelaide United Men’s and Women’s player visits
Tour of AUFC training facilities and opportunity to watch team training sessions
Working with professionals of elite athlete development including sleep and nutrition, strength and conditioning, leadership, and performance data
Exposure to school clinics and work experience opportunities for our specialist football students.
We pride our Football Academy students with the values to be the ‘best version’ of themselves through receiving elite coaching and assistance within a positive and safe learning environment to support their football development, academic and personal goals. This program allows for its students an effective pathway to Adelaide United development teams, as well as making them readily available for employment opportunities and tertiary study post school.
2025 FOOTBALL ACADEMY
Registrations for the 2025 Woodville High School Football Academy (years 7 & 8-12) are now closed If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the school or email [email protected]
ACADEMY OVERVIEW
As of 2024, the Football Academy offers students a year 7-12 academic pathway which is aligned to the Health and Physical Education Australian curriculum. The academy outlines student-athlete development with a primary focus on football including strength and conditioning, sleep, nutrition, and goal setting. Also, with the use of technology, it enables students access to performance data to be used for individual and team game analysis, as well as technique analysis to assist with skill development and game understanding. Practical lessons are based on our school oval or at Vipers training facility, as well as the state of the art St Clair Recreation Centre for futsal.
AIM
The Football Academy aims to provide its student-athletes an appropriate football and academic pathway with a total of 215 minutes per week each year throughout their high school journey. This includes one 90 minute, 70 minute, and 55 minute lesson each week for the duration of the year.
These pathways include an understanding and experience in using player data, game sense principles, individual and technique analysis, personal and skill development, fitness and training programs, nutrition, goal setting, and coaching and refereeing accreditation. We provide students the opportunity to work independently, as well as in a team environment to demonstrate good student-athlete habits through effective role modelling and rewarding experiences in connecting within our community.
Our academy students represent Woodville High in the School Sport South Australia boys and girls competitions at all age levels as well as playing friendlies against other prominent football schools within the state also offering exchange opportunities in country South Australia and interstate.
PROBATION & STANDARDS OF THE ACADEMY
Here at Woodville High School, we hold our Football Academy students to high standards of results and performances across all subject areas ensuring that all of our student-athletes meet appropriate expectations. These are measured across 3 key areas:
Academic
Behaviour
Practical
Academic: student-athletes need to demonstrate a positive attitude in all subjects, punctuality to all lessons (given extreme circumstance), satisfactory work ethic and to meet and complete all work by the given deadline. Behaviour: student-athletes need to demonstrate respect to all staff, peers and school property, as well as display selfless behaviours. Students must make every attempt to follow basic school rules and expectations, including positive role modelling and upholding the school values to a high standard. Our students are to not be receiving any of the following: referrals, internal and/or external suspensions nor have to be questioned by the teacher. Practical: student-athletes need to demonstrate above satisfactory ability for performance and improvements on and off the pitch. Students must meet the expectations for attendance to all lessons and in being on time, participation in all practical activities at the standard expected, 100% compliance of staff, leadership in setting the standards (and in positive role modelling) and show a positive attitude, as well as willingness to improve. *Removal from the Football Academy may result at the discretion of the Program Director.
FOOTBALL ACADEMY DIRECTOR
JAMES ANIC-KALIGER E: [email protected] Football Australia "C" Youth Licence Current Head Coach at Fulham United junior girls 4 x years Henley High SSP Soccer Program Boys/Girls Coach 3 x School Sport SA Year 8/9 Boys Statewide Knockout Championship Coach 1 x School Sport SA Open Boys Statewide Knockout All Schools Championship Coach
