4/10 Update - Games Cancel 4/10

** IMPORTANT **
Coaches:

1) 4/10 Cancel Games

2) 4/10 Referee Training

3) Twitter !

4) Soccer Fest 6/12

4/10 Cancel Games

April 10th 2010 Games 'Week 1' is canceled. Our web site has been posted with the notification of cancel at our web site ... http://www.ayso183.org

Due to the poor field conditions at Peterson and Hollywood Park, the park district management has informed us that we won't be able to use the fields for April 10th.

Therefore our 1st week of the AYSO 2010 Spring Season is canceled. We will resume the season with the 2nd week on April 17th 2010. Please start the season with 'Week 2' times. Week 1 times are NOT to be used at all. We won't be making up for Week 1.

Referee Training:

If you'd like to become a referee or know of someone who does want to volunteer as a referee

we have training on Saturday April 10th, 2010 too.

For example, volunteers who can't commit time as a coach but still would like to participate with AYSO - being a referee is another great position to be involved with AYSO 183.

AYSO 183 Referee Basic Training

Budlong Woods Library

5630 N Lincoln Ave Chicago IL 60659

9:00am - 4:45pm

Sat April 10th

** Please bring ID (license) if you are new volunteer**

New and Existing Volunteers at - easyo.org registration is also available.

Please log into eayso.org and register for the class and email back.
If you can not log in please email back with your name and interest to attend.
Course #: 6151 Roster #: 201001517

We will also provide lunch during the session.

Cost? Free, for those that will be a Referee for region 183, if you would like to attend and are from another region please reply and will let you know of the price (which would be to cover any cost).

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ayso183coaches

If you use twitter with your mobile device, email or social web sites, please go ahead and subscribe to the ayso183coaches feed. This is good opportunity for you to subscribe to the latest notifications for field conditions or game days status in the future. Therefore you would not have to be tied to your email box and just receive a notification if you subscribe to the ayso183coaches twitter feed. I will be sending out notifications to emails, blogspot and twitter.

I'll post the 4/10 Field Cancel to twitter. When you subscribe, you should see it then.

Soccer Fest 6/12

Please mark down in your team's schedule that we will be having Soccer Fest on Sat. June 12th.

Inform your players that this day is our end of the year celebration of Soccer at Peterson Park South Fields. Essentially its a day of celebration with short-side soccer games, trophies and a picnic.

Coach Update 4/6-2010

Update 4/6-2010:
In this newsletter:
0. Schedule
1. Referee Update
2. Player Form, Accident Form, Lineup Card
3. Email Address, US Mail Address, Phone Number changes?

Schedule
The schedule is posted online at http://www.ayso183.org.

Referee Update
Our AYSO Referee volunteers are in a bit of crunch this coming Saturday 4/10 as a few of our veteran referees are instructors and will be training new volunteer AYSO Referees this Saturday as well. Therefore we'll be running short of volunteer referees for this one day. The AYSO Staff asks that all coaches and parents be patient as referees will be doing the best they can to ensure that a game is staffed by a referee.

If a referee is not present at the start of the game time, I ask that a coach be prepared to referee the game should a referee not be present.

A few pointers, please check the following for safety:

1. Players Uniform (neatly dressed with proper color socks)
2. Equipment (shinguard, soccer shoes)
3. No watches or jewelry worn.
4. Uniform is pulled over any other clothing for warmth (ie. sweat pants, sweat shirt etc.)

For more information on Referee training, see the email below. The training is from 9am-4:45pm. Any volunteer with AYSO 183 can be trained to be a referee.
If for some reason the fields are not playable on 4/10, you are welcome to take this training class. You'll need to register online for this class.
Please email the Referee Admin with regards to attending the class.

If you do know of any parents that are interested in volunteering as a referee. There are different responsibilities for being a referee as opposed to a coach.
For example, one does not need to be involved with team/player management but as instead be a good manager of the game for players, coaches and spectators.
The time commitment for being a referee is different than a coach.

We never have enough referees. I encourage you to pass the word on that any volunteer is interested in becoming a referee.

Player Forms, Accident Form, Lineup Card
Some reminders:

1. Player Forms:
Please be sure that you have all of your team's player forms in your hands on Saturday Game Day.
If you don't have these papers, you run the risk of a game not played. This is requirement by our AYSO National organization and board.
Hint: Get those forms and put these in your soccer coaches bag/folder.

** AYSO Staff will be doing spot checks every week for player forms. **
** If you are not available that weekend, those forms must be present with a team parent or assistant coach **

2. Accident Forms:
Please print out 2-3 or more of the following form.
http://soccer.org.clubspaces.com/Libraries/Resources/incident_report_form_with_instructions.sflb.ashx?download=true

We'd like to be sure that you put copies of this form in your soccer folder/bag. I also welcome that you pass a copy of this form
to other coaches who might not have this form.

The purpose of this form is that should an injury happen on the field, the AYSO Staff would like to be sure that it documented.
Upon completion of the document should an event occur, please bring the form to the AYSO Staff Picnic Table on game days at the
Peterson Park South Fields.

3. Game Card
This week, please be sure that you fill out the game card with your player's names. This card will be turned into the referee.
So therefore, if you need to keep track of players time on the field, I would suggest that you keep a separate spreadsheet.

I go into more detail here:
http://ayso183coaches.blogspot.com/2009/09/game-card-management.html

For more information:
http://www.ayso.org/resources/coach_res.aspx

Game Card Link:
http://www.ayso.org/Libraries/Resources/ayso_lineup_card.pdf


4. Contact Information:
We change our contact information from time to time. Please be sure that in the future, if you change your contact information
(ie. email address, phone number, US Mail Address), that I get this updated as soon as possible.

Referee Clinic

Subject: RE: Basic Referee Clinic April 1oth

Just a reminder,

The free referee clinic is coming up fast and still have loads of space for you to attend.

April 10^th 2010

9:00am

Please remember to go online to eayso.org and register for the course and also fill out a volunteer form if you have not already (bring 3 printed copies please).

Thanks to those that have, and see you then.

Remember sign in.

Keith H.

Hello all, We all know you like to learn how to referee or know someone that would like to. So, we have a Basic Referee Course setup for the 10th of April (9:00am to 4:45pm). Please be on time. Please log into eayso.org and register for the class and email back. If you can not log in please email back with your name and interest to attend. Course #: 6151 Roster #: 201001517 We will also provide lunch during the session. Where you may ask? Budlong Woods Library 5630 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60659 (312) 742-9590 MAP IT Cost? Free, for those that will be a Referee for region 183, if you would like to attend and are from another region please reply and will let you know of the price (which would be to cover any cost). To bring? Yourself. Other news. The current 2nd part of the season is to start up an April the 10th (park permitting). We need to know who is going to be returning.

Email Newsletter from 3/29/2010

AYSO 183 Coaches:

Spring 2010 Practice 4/1 Update for PPN:
AYSO 183 has a practice permit for Peterson Park North Fields only.

1. April 6th Tuesday is the first practice date.
2. Practices are only on Tuesdays and Thursdays
3. Practice times are from 4pm-7pm
4. Practices are only at the Peterson Park North Fields (Peterson Ave and Central Park Ave)

Notes: (please read)
1. Please do not hold practices before April 6th. The Park District will ask us to leave.
2. If you mistakenly hold a practice at the South Fields, you'll be asked to move to the North Field.

AYSO 183 Coaches Blog Site
For the latest news and updates for coach management, please see the ayso183coaches blog site at

http://ayso183coaches.blogspot.com

Here you will read about
1. Player Forms Requirement for all Coaches
2. Game Card Management
3. Coach Certification
4. Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Coach Volunteering
5. Coach Coordinators

You can subscribe to the site thru RSS feeds at http://ayso183coaches.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Schedule is now posted
Our Spring 2010 Schedule is posted starting on April 10th. You can find the schedule now which is posted at

http://www.ayso183.org

and is found under the regular season schedule link.

2010 Regular Season Schedule
In order for you to see your schedule, please follow these steps:

1. At the Regular Season Schedule page, you will see a list of all of the divisions.
2. Choose your Division.
3. At the Division Schedule page, you will see by week all games played in your division.
4. Click on your team number.
5. Note: There will be a commercial page displayed. Click on "No Thanks" and the link will take your team schedule.
6. Your Team Schedule is listed.

Note: Should your print out the entire division schedule, please note specifically the times. Based on the schedule ordering, sometimes the times are not listed in sequential order for all teams. Most schedules are in sequential order.

April 10th Start Date until further notice (4/10 or 4/17)
We intend to start on Saturday April 10th. If the park district management informs us that we can't play on April 10th due to field conditions or weather, we'll start the schedule that is listed on for Saturday April 17th. The games for April 10th are not played at all.

Spring 2010 Practice 4/1 Update for PPN:
AYSO 183 has a practice permit for Peterson Park North Fields only.

1. April 6th Tuesday is the first practice date.
2. Practices are only on Tuesdays and Thursdays
3. Practice times are from 4pm-7pm
4. Practices are only at the Peterson Park North Fields (Peterson Ave and Central Park Ave)

Notes: (please read)
1. Please do not hold practices before April 6th. The Park District will ask us to leave.
2. If you mistakenly hold a practice at the South Fields, you'll be asked to move to the North Field.


Goal Setup
Coaches, if your teams have first games at 9am. Please be sure that you have your parents show 45 minutes (8:15am) earlier to help setup goals. It has been awhile for a few of us regarding goal setup, therefore we'll need the extra time when putting the goals together. Again, we need to start our games on time so that we don't lose time in the 1st hour. The 2nd game starts immediately at the top of the hour (10am).

Goal Take Down
Coaches, check if your team has the last game for the day on that field. If you are the last teams, on the field please be sure that you ask parents to help take down and return equipment to the field lockers and properly stowed away.

Coach Coordinators

The Regional Coach Administrator takes on many coach coordination tasks. The larger that we get as an organization, the more volunteer help that is needed for coach administration and coordination.

I'll need help with regards to division and coach coordination.

AYSO Road Show

Area Section 6 D Road Show Schedule for March 12th - March 14th 2010.
Locations in Skokie
Pre-Registration required at http://www.eayso.org - looks for Glenview/Skokie courses for the following days

Days
3/12 March 12th Friday
3/13 March 13th Saturday
3/14 March 14th Sunday

Coach Courses:
U6
3/13 9:30am-11:30am or
3/14 3:30pm-5:30pm

U08
3/13 3:30pm-5:30pm or
3/14 9:30am-11:30am

U10
3/13 9:00am-12:00pm or
3/14 9:00am-12:00pm

U12
3/14 12:00pm-5:00pm (only)

Intermediate (ie. U14)**
3/13 9:00am-5:00pm (AND)
3/14 9:00am-5:00pm
** Requires completion of U12 course

Advanced (ie. U16 thru U19)
3/12 5:00pm-10:00pm (AND)
3/13 9:00am-5:00pm (AND)
3/14 9:00am-5:00pm
** Requires completion of Intermediate course


Management Courses

Auditor => 3/14 01:00pm-02:15pm
BASIC => 3/14 02:30pm-03:45pm
CVPA => 3/13 01:00pm-03:30pm
Introductory Management 3/14 01:00pm-05:30pm
Regional Board => 3/14 04:00pm-05:15pm
Registrar => 3/14 09:00am-10:15am
Safety Director => 3/14 10:30am-11:15am
Tournament Admin => 3/13 03:45pm-05:00pm
Treasurer => 3/14 09:00am-12:00pm
VIP => 3/13 09:00am-12:00pm