July Newsletter 2026

Welcome to the Kings Hammer Middle Tennessee July Newsletter! This edition features, Team Training Begins August 3rd, Fall Registration Open, Elite Girls Postseason, Boys Elite Preseason Camp, Become a Referee, Dick’s Sporting Goods Shopping Day, Featured Education: “A Letter from the Technical Desk: Start Strong. Stay Relentless.”, and more! If you have a player, coach, or team to be highlighted in future newsletters, please send photos and stories to pmast@kingshammer.com. Each newsletter will be posted on our website as well as our social pages.

Team Training Begins August 3rd!

We’re so excited to welcome our new and returning players back to the pitch for the 26/27 season! Team training begins Monday, August 3rd for our U9–U19 Boys & U9-U14 Girls age groups. All training schedules have been entered into the PlayMetrics system.

As we head into the new season, here are a few helpful PlayMetrics links:

To ensure the best environment for you to thrive, please familiarize yourself with our pathway and leadership:

Direct support

Soccer: Head Coach
Admin: Zone Administrator
Soccer Leadership: Zone Director of Coaching

Umbrella support

Education: National Technical Director / National Director of Data Analytics
Organization: Hub General Manager
Soccer Trainers / GK Director / GK Trainers

If you need anything at all, please first connect with your Head Coach and Director of Coaching. We believe communication is key.

All communication will go through PlayMetrics, and we are here to support your growth every step of the way.

Go Kings Hammer!

Get registered for the fall season!

There is still time to sign up for our programs this fall! Check out the programs here:

The Juniors program registration closes August 2^nd, it is the perfect program for someone looking for a step-up from rec, more structure, and a higher level of training.

The Adult Rec program‘’s registration is now open, get your friends together as a team or be a part of a pre-formed team! The Adult League offers two distinct options tailored to different preferences:

Over 35 League (Less Competitive): Perfect for those who relish the game amidst a backdrop of fun and camaraderie.
Open League (More Competitive): Ideal for players who thrive on the challenge of intense competition.

The Rec Program’s registration has closed, but you can still sign up, be put on a waitlist, and be placed with a team based on their needs! This program is a great starting point for someone who wants to try soccer for the first time or the 50^th time.

The Elite girls took on Kansas and Colorado!

The Elite 07/08s and 10s took a road trip to Kansas and Colorado! Despite not getting the outcome we wanted, they played their hearts out and made the club proud.

Congratulations ladies on all the hard work you have done this past season!

Going on Now: Boys Elite Preseason Camp

Preseason Camp is happening now! Elite Boys players are back on the field sharpening their technical skills, tactical awareness, speed of play, and decision-making under pressure.

Each session features high-intensity training, small-sided games, and match scenarios designed to replicate the demands of elite competition.

Become a referee!

Want to become a referee to earn some cash through the best sport ever? Kings Hammer is sponsoring two local classes in Murfreesboro:

August 7^th : Get your orange badge.

August 8^th : For anyone not certified.

For more information about the courses and sponsor code please reach out to Nathan McBeth, nathan@kingshammer.com

Now is the time to get some gear with these deals!

This tax-free weekend we will be having an exclusive shop event!

You will receive a 20% off coupon on your purchase at Dick’s Sporting Goods with a coupon shared to your Playmetrics. Get those cleats you’ve been eyeing or even your favorite team’s jersey!

From The National Technical Desk: Start Strong. Stay Relentless.

August 3rd. That is the date on the calendar right now, and if you have been through a preseason with us before, you know what that date actually holds. Cleats crunching on fresh-cut grass. A ball popping between players who are still shaking off weeks of summer. Parents standing at the fence line, half excited and half nervous, not totally sure what to expect from the season ahead. A group of kids figuring out who they are as a team, one drill at a time.

That is the first day of the season. And I want to talk about what that day actually is, because it is easy to miss.

The first day of the season is not the exciting part. The exciting part comes later – the first goal, the first win, the moment a kid does something on the ball that makes the whole sideline gasp. The first day is quiet by comparison. It is repetition. It is a coach explaining the same drill for the third time. It is a player who has been on vacation trying to get their first touch back. Nobody is filming the first day of training. Nobody remembers it a year later.

But here is what I have learned after enough years in this game: the first day is where the season actually gets decided.

What the season starting really means

Every team that takes the field in October is a product of what got built in the weeks nobody was watching. The habits a player brings to a random Tuesday practice in August are the same habits they will lean on in a tied game in November when the whole thing is on the line. You do not get to choose which version of yourself shows up under pressure. You only get to choose which version of yourself you have been practicing all along.

That is the whole idea behind the KH Way. We are not just running training sessions and filling out a schedule. Every rep, every correction, every “again, faster, sharper” is us trying to build the version of a player who is ready before the moment that actually matters ever shows up. The standard we hold in a Tuesday session in preseason is the standard that shows up in a shootout in the spring. There is no separating the two.

Relentless Action starts before anyone is watching

We talk a lot about Relentless Action around here, and it is easy to picture it as the sprint back on defense or the dive for a fifty-fifty ball in a big moment. But Relentless Action starts long before that. It starts with a player who shows up to the first day of the season and competes in a rondo like it means something, even though nobody outside that field will ever know it happened. It is the discipline to bring full effort to the parts of the season that come with no crowd and no reward, because that is exactly what builds the player who can be trusted when the crowd and the reward finally show up.

Raising the bar is not a one-time event. It is not something you do once in October and then coast on. It is a decision you make on the first ordinary Tuesday of the season, and then again the next day, and the day after that, until it is not a decision anymore – it is just who that player is.

What I want from all of us this season

So as we count down to August 4th, here is what I am asking every coach, every director, and every family in this program to hold onto: do not wait for the big moment to bring your best. Bring it on day one, in the parts of the season nobody is going to remember. Build the habits in August that you want to be able to trust in November. That is how we develop players who do not just perform when things are easy – we develop people who are ready when things get hard, because they have already done the hard, unglamorous work of a hundred ordinary practices to get there.

August 3rd is coming. Let’s build it right, from the first rep.

Bring the Relentless Action.

– Bronson Gambale, KH National Technical Director

Save of the Year Winners Receive their Awards

Trophy time! Congratulations to Kings Hammer Cincinnati Goalkeeper Melody Ashbaugh and Kings Hammer Swan City Goalkeeper Ryder Gilliard on earning the 2025-2026 Aubrey Kingsbury Save of the Year! Well deserved recognition after both outstanding moments of brilliance in goal!

Thank you to our friends at Trophy Awards Manufacturing for this fantastic award!

Learn about GK Union Save of the Month

New to Kings Hammer and the KH GK Union? Get to know our GK Union Save of the Month and the Aubrey Kingsbury Save of the Year initiative!

Save of the Month

Each month, goalkeepers from across the club have the opportunity to submit their best saves from their Kings Hammer matches on our GK Union facebook page. At the end of each month, our National Director of Goalkeeping, Lou Liberatore, will select two participants, one boy and one girl, as the Kings Hammer GK Union Save of the Month winners.

To enter your saves for a chance to be named our Save of the Month winner, goalkeepers from across the club should start by joining the Kings Hammer GK Union facebook page. You can upload your save videos to this page with your name, your team name and where the save took place.

Aubrey Kingsbury Save of the Year

The Aubrey Kingsbury Save of the Year was created in collaboration with USWNT and NWSL goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury who is also an alumna of Kings Hammer. At the end of the ‘26/’27 season, Aubrey will review all of the season’s Save of the Month winners and select a boy and a girl winner for Save of the Year.

We want to wish everyone the best of luck this season. We look forward to seeing everyone’s best saves and blocks!

Out with the old and in with the new!

We will be sunsetting the official Kings Hammer Aris social media accounts. If you haven’t already, make sure to follow the official Kings Hammer Murfreesboro social pages so that you’re in the loop about what’s going on in the club!