The start of the pathway
ORIGIN Kids.
Same name. Same fire.
Every ORIGIN team wears one name, from the youngest player on the field to the oldest. ORIGIN Kids is the beginning of that name: the same club, the same Phoenix, the same values, drawn small and bright for the littlest players just falling in love with the game.
Joy first.
Nobody earns their way into loving the game.
ORIGIN Kids is the one part of the pathway that is given, not earned. Every little one who shows up belongs from the first day. There is no tryout for joy and no standard to clear before you are allowed to play. The work and the earning come later. First, you fall in love with it.
The teams: ORIGIN Diamonds.
The Kids teams take the field as ORIGIN Diamonds, playing 8U and 10U in the sport’s learning years: the eleven inch ball, thirty five feet, and formats built so every player touches the game. Diamonds are formed, not found, and so are ballplayers.
On tournament schedules they are ORIGIN Diamonds. The jersey says one word across the chest. Inside, they are Diamonds.
What it's built on.
Fun first
At this age, fun is the whole curriculum. Players who enjoy it keep playing, and the ones who keep playing are the ones who grow.
Fall in love with it
Before technique, before competition, the goal is simple: love the game enough to come back next week.
The Kids Phoenix
Same bird, same meaning, drawn to be high-fived. Little ones meet rise, resilience, and conduct as a character first, and a standard later.
Belong from day one
No earning your place here. Every ORIGIN Diamond is ORIGIN, fully, from the very first practice.
The joy is the point. Everything ORIGIN asks of its oldest players begins as something its youngest players simply love.
The Phoenix, drawn for kids.
The same bird that flies over every ORIGIN team has a cartoon of its own, drawn to be high-fived. Same fire, same meaning, made for little hands. It stays veiled until launch, the same as the others.
It starts here.
Every ORIGIN player started somewhere. For some, it starts at six, in love with the game long before they know what it will ask of them. The Phoenix they high-five today flies over every ORIGIN team. Same fire, all the way through. We coach toward the college game from her first season, with the joy kept first.
Where it begins.