Cletis Smith, Founder; Tiffany Sweeting-Smith, organizer and Wayne Smith, organizer. All Smith, hence "3S Soccer Clinic" Photo: Yasmin Popescu for The Bahamas Weekly

Freeport, Grand Bahama - A soccer clinic featuring visiting American college coaches is set to take place from January 12th to the 15th and is being held primarily at the Bishop Michael Eldon School.  The clinic is being spearheaded by Cletis Smith, Tiffany Sweeting-Smith, Wayne Smith and Trevor Rolle. The cost is $25 per player. and young soccer players 8 years of age and up are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to enhance their soccer skills, and to be seen by college coaches.

The clinic is called S3 as, S3 = soccer+scholarships=success, also, the 3 founders are all Smiths

During this 4 day event, participants will be involved in a panel discussion featuring coaches and college representatives who will offer information on obtaining scholarships, what coaches and schools are looking for, and how to apply to colleges, as well as how to be a successful student athlete. Students will have the opportunity to train daily with professional coaches.

"What we hope will come from this clinic is scholarships! We are hoping that the visiting coaches will see the potential in our youngsters and make them offers. We hope to see the kids motivated to improve their skills and better their games so that their talents can earn them a college degree. We also encourage true student athletes, those being ones that make good grades, and play the sport they love," added Tiffany Smith.

"It's all about the children. to ensure that they have an opportunity to train with, and be seen by college coaches, and we we hope that through this exposure, the children will work that much harder in school and on the field,"  said Wayne Smith.