Clinic 1: July 26, 2025
Clinic 2: August 9, 2025 - This date has been cancelled.
Registration for this camp is now closed.
Email sportscamps@mtu.edu to be added to our list for future announcements, notifications, and reminders.
Camp Overview
This camp is open to girls entering grades 9 and up as of Fall 2025. The Michigan Tech Soccer Identification Clinic provides players the opportunity to gain a greater knowledge of Michigan Tech soccer program and what it takes to play at the Division II level. Players will receive college-level training while interacting with the current Michigan Tech coaching staff and players. There will also be Q&A sessions with current players to help provide greater insight into life at Michigan Tech and within the soccer program. It will be a combination of technical, small side, and 11v11 play.
What to Expect
Our camp is intensive and games and scrimmages are highly competitive to keep all players challenged. Come prepared to run drills, face off in small side games, and perfect your technique. Participants need to bring shin guards, a water bottle, and clothing for all weather. Outdoor training sessions will be held on Sherman Field. In case of rain, camp will be moved to the SDC Multipurpose Room. So please bring the proper footwear to play on a gym floor.
Daily Schedule
| 10:15-10:45am |
Check-In |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Training Session 1 |
| 1:00-2:00pm |
Lunch (bring your own) |
| 2:00-2:30pm |
Tour of SDC & Athletic Facilities |
| 2:30-3:00pm |
Player Panel |
| 3:00-5:00pm |
Training Session 2 |
| 5:00-5:15pm |
Final Remarks |
*After the close of camp, a player-led lower campus tour will be offered.
Location
Michigan Tech Student Development Complex
500 MacInnes Dr, Houghton MI, 49931
SDC Multipurpose Room or Sherman Field
Registration
$120/participant
Commuter only. On-campus housing and meals are not available for this camp.
Registration tentatively opens: March 3, 2025, 8:00 am EST
Deadline to Register for July 26 Clinic: July 21, 2025, 11:59 pm EST - Registration is now closed.
Register online, in person at the Ticket Office, or by calling 906-487-2073. Payment in full is due at the time of registration.
Helpful registration instructions can be found here (coming soon!).
Additional information, including a confirmation packet, will be made available after registration. The confirmation packet must be submitted within two weeks of registration.
Cancellation Policy
For all MTU Recreation programs and events, a 100% refund will be issued if the program or event, in its entirety, is cancelled by MTU Recreation. If an individual session of a program is cancelled by MTU Recreation, a partial refund may be granted.
Refunds requested before a program’s registration deadline will be granted less any convenience fees.
No full or partial refunds will be granted for programs, activities, or sessions within a program past the registration deadline.
Extenuating circumstance refunds may be granted after the registration deadline due to illness, injury, or other special circumstances. All requests for an extenuating circumstance refund need to be requested in writing and will be granted on a case-by-case basis by MTU Recreation. Documentation (i.e. doctor’s note) may be required.
Parking
Visitors may use Lots 22 or 24, located outside the main entrance of the SDC, for parking during camps. There is no overnight parking. Please do not park in the UP Health System and Rehab Services lot (north end of the SDC).
Questions?
Michigan Tech Recreation: 906-487-2975, sportscamps@mtu.edu
Camp Coordinator: Coach Kuhar, 906-487-2887, makuhar@mtu.edu
Meet the Coaches
Melissa Kuhar is the third soccer head coach in the program's history. Kuhar has served as an assistant coach under head coach Justin Olson, spending the last four seasons at Division II Institution Drury, an affiliate of the Great Lakes Valley Conference. She helped the Panthers to an overall record of 39-18-15 in four seasons, which included a GLVC Championship in 2021 and the program's first NCAA Tournament bid since 2007. That year Olson and Kuhar were honored as NCAA Midwest Region Coaching Staff of the Year.
She was also the head girls' soccer coach at Greenwood High School in Springfield, where she guided the Blue Jays to the Missouri state semifinals, a third-place finish in Class 1 and a 16-4 record in her first season at Greenwood.
Prior to her four seasons as the assistant coach for Drury, Kuhar served three years as an assistant coach at Bethany College under Coach Olson where the Swedes went 27-24-4 during the duos three years at Bethany. She also worked as a sports information assistant and an adjunct professor teaching classes in the Exercise Science department.
Kuhar also coached at the high school level with stints at Salina and Saint Joseph High School, where she helped Saint Joseph reach the Indiana 3A State semifinals.
Kuhar played collegiate soccer at St. Joseph's, Ind., a former NCAA Division II GLVC affiliate institution from 2014-16 and graduated with a degree in Sport Management. She also owns a master's degree in Sports Administration from the American Public University System.
Hunter Stoddard is a current Ph.D. student at Michigan Tech studying Chemical Engineering. He is in his third season as graduate assistant coach/goalkeeper coach in 2023-24. He calls Hemlock, Michigan home and earned his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in the spring of 2020. Stoddard played four seasons of varsity soccer in high school as well as four years of club soccer in the Michigan State Premier Soccer League (MSPSP). He is still a member of MTU's club soccer team and has experience coaching youth soccer and recreational soccer in Hemlock.
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