Before practice starts |
| O | Check out the leagues website at www.ssjysl.org, it has lots of information available and a page for your team!
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| O | Find an assistant coach if you don't have one already. At least one coach must be present for all games, so if you have no assistant coach and cannot make it to a game the game will have to be canceled. |
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| Fill out the coaches registration form (your assistant coach needs to fill it out too) and send it to the Registrar Rosemary Alvarez at [click to show email] or 578 5447 (or drop it off at the door). Comp teams and U12 and older: include a picture . |
| O | Find a team parent/manager to help you get the team organized. |
| O | Make sure that your teams page has your correct email address on it. This is the main way for the league to contact you!
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| O | Select a team name and edit your teams page on the www.sjysl.org webpage. |
| O | Reserve fields for practice (once or twice a week, between 60 and 90 min) by editing your teams webpage in the SSJ website www.ssjysl.org |
| O | Inform all parents of the players of your team about the practice time and place and invite them to a parents meeting. Let them know what the players will need (refer the parents to the SSJYSL website, under the parents menu they will find some important information). All players need: - shin-guards (mandatory!)
- shoes (soccer shoes preferred, but other types of shoes EXCEPT baseball shoes are OK).
- a ball (optional, but you should insist, size #3 for U6/U8. #4 for U10 and U12, #5 for older teams)
- sunscreen and water for all practices and games
- they will eventually get a uniform from the league (shirt, shorts, socks)
Let them know when and where you will practice. |
| O | Make sure all parents have signed the registration form (sometimes they forgot, you need to make sure to get those signatures!). Also have them print and sign the zero tolerance form, which is availabel through your teams webpage. You keep those forms, no need to turm them in. |
| O | Check The law of the game to find the specific rules for your age group. |
| O | If you have any constraints with respect to scheduling games please send an email to either the Recreational Director Claudio Fleiner at [click to show email] or 629 0870 or the U8 Director Ghassan Khadder at [click to show email] so that it can be taken into account. Any requests after the schedule has been made will probably be ignored.
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| O | Your teams website offers many options, you can for example setup a mailing list for your parents, inform them about practice and other issues, etc. There is a help page available. |
| O | U10: get a picture of all players, paste it on the player passes (you will get them from the registrar) and laminate all passes. U12 and older: our Registrar will do the pictures but might ask you to hunt down missing pictures if necessary and you will have to laminate the passes.
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Before the first game
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| O | Get the team uniforms, balls and cones (the Equipment Director Mike Karr at [click to show email] will send out information via the mailing list). This usually happens around 10 days before the first game |
| O | Let the team parent organize a banner if your team wants one. |
| O | Start practicing with your team a few weeks before the season starts (Fall starts with the first weekend after Labor day, Spring around April first). |
| O | Your game schedule will show up on your teams web page as soon as the games have been scheduled. Make sure the parents know about it.
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| O | Make sure you have game cards ready (you should get them at the coaches meeting or from the registrars front door, you will get an email from the registrar when they are ready). |
Prepare for the first game
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| O | Go through the game check list. |
