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There is no clinic currently scheduled. If you would like the Nighthawks to train your team, contact us today!

Our soccer clinics will provide high level technical and tactical training to players of all levels and abilities.

The clinic sessions focus on improving players' technical and tactical skills. Coaches Petra Kowalski, Yang Zhou, and the Nighthawks players will teach fundamental skills such as dribbling, trapping, shooting, and small game strategies. The sessions are designed to improve player techniques and skills and to foster the development of friendships and a love of the game!

Hawks Coach Kowalski has won a variety of awards in college, including Scholar-Athlete, two-time Co-Captain, 1st Team All-Conference, 2nd Team All-Conference, NCAA Regional
All-American, 2nd Team NCAA Regional All-American, NCAA Scholar All-Region, MVP and Rookie of the Year.

Hawks Coach Zhou, former two-time Captain of the Chinese Women's National Team.

Nighthawks players include soccer standouts Gabina Bohlman, MCAL Player of the Year, Nicole Findlay, SRJC All time leading scorer, Cristina Quintero, SFSU all time Leading Scorer, Erica Holland, Stanford's 2006 Starting Goalie and 2006 Satistical leader in the Nation for Goalkeeping and Kristina Hall, Berkeley Player of the Year, just to name a few.

Hawks have attended or are currently attending schools such as: the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State, Stanford, Yale, Georgetown, San Jose State, University of New Hampshire, UC Berkeley, Long Beach State, Princeton, UC San Diego, University of Hawaii, and University of San Diego.

Some of the technical and tactical aspects of the game we will teach in addition to fundamentals are:

  • One-on-one skills
  • Recognizing and creating combination play
  • Understanding team shape
  • A player's role, according to each position
  • Tactical decisions
  • Compactness
  • Doubling on defense
  • Eliminating passing lanes
  • Target play
  • Wing play with runs in the box
  • Playing the width
  • Three person combinations
The 2007 Team : Poster posing and team Group photos- Series
Community Clinics : The Nighthawks players and staff in association with the San Francisco Park and Rec Department hold free camps and clinics for the community.
2006-7 Practices & Tryouts :
Game Pics :
Seattle 2007 USASA National Cup Candids : Things we do to amuse ourselves :)
By Roberto Soncin Gerometta : Archived photos of the Nighthawks, founding memebers of the WPSL 1998-2003
2006 Ghana WNT : The Nighthawks host the Ghana WNT.
2007 Candid Shots of Players : Assorted player shots of those who don't duck when the camera is out!

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