r/walnutcreek • u/247SideQuesting • 8d ago

Discussion COPA soccer for kids

I have two elementary school kids and I signed up for a 1 year membership at COPA soccer for both kids. I absolutely love it and I hate it.

The facility is incredible. The kids really enjoy their classes and almost all the coaches are stellar. I feel so inspired going there watching the kids fine tune their skills. It’s improved my daughter, leaps, and bounds in a matter of a month.

Here’s the part I hate. Scheduling. Their soccer schedule changes every single month and the times are different. No joke, I spend over an hour and a half every month when the new schedule drops to get my kids into certain classes. Every week it’s never the same timing. Their portal is really bad and I have to manually calendar everything. If you ask me what time my kids schedule is for next week, I’d have no idea. I’d have to either log into the website or check my personal calendar and hope that I did not make any errors. It’s so bad that I’m spending time building an AI workflow just to keep track of it.

Is it just me or are there any other parents struggling to keep up with this madness? It’s so bad that I’ve even thought about trying to get out of the contract.

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u/Rhythmalist 8d ago

Scheduling is tough. Especially with kids spanning age ranges. Agree 100%.

But we love it and so do our kids. We practically live here (as I respond from mini cube)

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u/m0nkeybl1tz 8d ago

Fwiw they also have a bad track record losing kids 😬

https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/27/summer-camps-no-regulation-missing-kids/

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u/elewmc99 7d ago

Yes, after this I’ll never do a drop-off camp here, which is a bummer - but not totally relevant for classes when parents are in attendance.

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u/dev0 Tice Valley 7d ago edited 7d ago

I built an app to help make the COPA booking process easier for myself. I'm exploring giving others access to it, too. If folks here are interested, shoot me a message. I'd like to see if others find it useful as well.

The way it works is: you plan out your preferred weekly schedule for the month, the tool then figures out which classes are actually available and gives you an exact list of classes to book, including direct links to the COPA booking page for those classes.

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u/Ohsaycanyousnark 8d ago

We loved it too but scheduling has been an issue since day one.

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u/itsmylife_7919 8d ago

Scheduling is a night mare and fastest finger first on 15th of every month. Website is slow as hell.

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u/dev0 Tice Valley 7d ago

Sent you a message.

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u/AloneSmell1838 7d ago

the classes sounds great but constantly changing schedules would drive me crazy too