I also got to see the Anson Dorrance field session; the activities were excellent and would be great for pure training purposes, not just for grading players within the "competitive cauldron." That session was one of my favorites, along with two excellent goalkeeper training sessions by Tony DiCicco and Dan Gaspar.
One of the more interesting (and wall-to-wall packed) classroom sessions was "Small-Sided Games and Age Group Changes: A Discussion of Youth Soccer in the US," featuring a panel of representatives discussing and commenting on US Soccer's new player development initiatives. On a topic billed by US Youth Soccer as "for the first time, a collaborative effort among all of the major youth soccer entities in the US," it was very interesting to listen to the actual comments and opinions from the panelists.
