Scarsdale Youth Soccer Club

• All players must have a birthdate no earlier than 8/1/2001
• Players must commit to attending Sunday games, September to November.
• Games are at different times each week.
• Teams will be determined based on registrations done by June 25, 2010.
• All players registering by June 25, 2010 will be placed on a team.
• Teams will be created so that children will be on teams with other children from their “school neighborhood”.
• All travel soccer players much also play village recreational soccer.
• Teams are coached by parents, parents interested in coaching should go to http://www.scarsdalesoccer.org/coachinginterested.htm
• Your coach will need to quickly collect player documentation – the details can be found at http://www.scarsdalesoccer.org/playerdocumentation.htm
• Registration for FALL SEASON is $300, plus approximately $55 for a uniform.
• At the bottom of this letter is the link to the registration page. 

Third graders play on “U9” teams, which stand for “Under 9 years old as of August 1, 2010”). Your child's birthdate must be no earlier than 8/1/2001 to be eligible for a third grade team. If you have an "older third grader", you should immediately contact our registrar at registrar@scarsdalesoccer.org to have your child placed on a U10 team.

The FALL 2010 season for the third grade teams is comprised of 8-10 Sunday games.  The games for third graders start at Noon** or later. Usually half of these games are in Scarsdale, and the other half of the games are usually within Westchester, but might be in the Bronx or Manhattan. All teams play in the Westchester Youth Soccer League.  Go to www.wyslsoccer.org to learn more about this league.

Teams will be determined based on the registration by JUNE 25th. Once all of the children are registered, the club will determine teams. Teams will be created so that children in each neighborhood are playing together.

The WYSL requires that our club determine THE FIRST WEEK OF July 2010 the number of teams and players that we will be fielding at each age group and gender. Once this is completed, the WYSL creates a schedule for 300+ teams for the season, gets insurance for all players, arranges fields, referees, and registers approximately 16,000 players on 300+teams). Every child also gets a player pass (held by the coaches). Our club organizes medical information, our fields, our equipment, teams, coaches and a compendium of other administration. There’s a lot of work to get your child out on the field each week.

The third grade travel soccer experience is a "total participation program". All age appropriate kids for the third grade program who register by the deadline of JUNE 25th will be placed on a team.

Our third grade teams are coached by parents of some of the children on the team. We welcome new coaches. There is a formal process by which we will evaluate all applicants for our coaching positions. All coaches must complete an official ($10) background check (in which coaches are required to enter your social security number online), attend an 8-hour coaching course (in January or February of 2011), and attend a 2-hour orientation to coach in our league. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THESE POLICIES. If you are interested, please read our coaching responsibilities at www.scarsdalesoccer.org/ForCoaches 

TIME COMMITMENT: If your child is interested in playing Travel Soccer in the FALL, you need to commit to getting your child to one game each Sunday. Games are at different times each Sunday of the Fall season (September through November). There are clinics that will be run during the week. It is important to have your child to attend one clinic per week. Your child's team will be playing against teams that have 2 practices each week.

Finally, all elementary school travel soccer players must register and play Village Recreation Soccer. Please go to www.scarsdale.com to sign up for Village Recreation Soccer.

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The Westchester Youth Soccer League will establish the game schedule which will vary from week to week. There will be a certified, trained referee at virtually every game. Scores are kept internally by the league (for future seeding purposes), but at this age level NO scores are published.  The goal is “playing” not “winning”.  

The most important things about playing soccer at this age are sportsmanship and children learning how to work as part of a team. This is of paramount importance to our club and league, and is the reason for the league’s sportsmanship program. The program exists at all age groups, but it’s highlighted for our youngest players. There are pins to celebrate player acts of sportsmanship, and patches and awards for those teams that show exemplary sportsmanship during the season.  Each team is rated by the referees at each game.  Good sportsmanship is expected of the players, parents and coaches. We are ALL expected to be respectful on our fields.

REGISTRATION: To register, click HERE. Login if you have ever signed up for an SYSC program previously (please do NOT create a new account unless you are ABSOLUTELY SURE you have never signed up any of your children for an SYSC program before!), or create a user id, add your children and yourselves, and then register your child for Third Grade Fall 2010 Travel Soccer. 

Registration for the fall season is $300, plus you will need to purchase a uniform for your child (cost approximately $55). This registration covers the season from September to November. There will be a winter/spring session, which will provide winter training and the spring games. There is a separate registration and fee for this session.

Follow the directions for documentation requirements found at www.scarsdalesoccer.org/playerdocumentation.htm . You MUST collect all required documents immediately. AS SOON AS YOUR CHILD IS PLACED ON A TEAM, you will be required to submit your documentation to your coach.

That’s it! But if YOU have more questions, feel free to email us at registrar@scarsdalesoccer.org

Hope to see you out on the soccer field!

The Scarsdale Youth Soccer Club Board of Directors

Stephen Tatz, President