3rd Grade Travel Soccer Spring 2010 (with limited Winter Practices)
Our Third Grade Fall Travel soccer program has been a huge success with approximately 125 third graders playing on 9 teams within the Westchester Youth Soccer League. Our optional clinics have been well attended, the games have been fun, and the feedback from children and parents has been positive.
Now it's time to RE-REGISTER for Winter/Spring seasons for Travel Soccer. All Third Graders who want to play travel soccer in the Winter/Spring MUST re-register. Your child's birthdate must be no earlier than 8/1/2000 to be eligible for these teams. If you have an "older third grader", you should immediately contact our registrar at registrar@scarsdalesoccer.org to see whether there is room for your child on our U10 teams.
The winter/spring season for the third grade teams is comprised of practices plus 9-10 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 sometimes 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.
**While the games START at Noon or later, your child will be required to be at the field at least 1/2 hour before the start of the game, which may be a distance away. Plan accordingly.
Teams will be determined based on registration for Winter/Spring. If your third grade child played Fall Travel Soccer, there is no guarantee that your child will be on the same team for the Winter/Spring, nor that your team will have the same coach. Teams in Winter/Spring play by neighborhood, and the teams are determined by neighborhood, NOT by previous affiliation with a team.
The WYSL requires that our club determine THE FIRST WEEK OF January 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 Spring 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 DECEMBER 10th 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 2010), 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 . You can access our online coach application system there.
TIME COMMITMENT: If your child is interested in playing Travel Soccer in the spring, you need to commit to getting your child to one coach-led practice on Saturday (time to be defined) and one game each Sunday in the Spring. Games are at different times each Sunday of the Spring. 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.
There are also a limited number of winter clinics during the winter that we encourage you to send your child to. These clinics are included in the cost of the registration.
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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”. We want our young ones to love being out on the field, not to worry about how the game ends up, or where they are in their division.
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.
In each game, the children in attendance who have attended practice, clinics and games regularly will receive approximately equal playing time.
To sign up, go to www.scarsdalesoccer.org and click on Online Registration (on the left). 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 Winter/Spring 2010 Travel Soccer.
Registration for the winter/spring season is $350.
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
PS. If your child played in the Fall, but does NOT wish to continue through the winter, please go online anyway, and register for "Played in Fall 09, not registering for W/S". There is no cost, but it will stop us from continually contacting you.
