Team Admin
Review Registration. You must make sure that all of your players, coaches (including assistants), & managers are registered in Bonzi. Please send Marlene your list by Sunday, August 17 so she can make sure that everyone is registered before the Labor Day Kick and the start of the season.
Club fees: Teams owe their June NWUnited payment. Only four teams have made both the May and June payments. Six teams have not made any payments. If you are a manager or treasurer of one of the latter, contact Duane about making payments. Duane suggested that teams start collecting money now from players and not wait until September. If someone isn’t making effort to pay talk to Duane about what can be done.
Team accounts: The Board approved Executive Committee review of all team checking accounts. All teams should have 2 signors on the checking account. If there is only one signor, statements should be mailed to someone else’s house. Natalie is making a protocol list for treasurers.
Training:
- Coaches need to send in their July and August schedule to PSSA NOW since they are working on scheduling trainers.
- U11 tech training will end this Wednesday, June 25th. It will begin again at the end of July and go through August. PSSA will look at opening it up to more age groups. They are thinking about having u11 and u12 train together, u13 and u14 train together with boys and girls on different nights. There will be more information to come.
- PSSA is also looking at hosting a clinic for rec u9 – u10 players after their season ends. They will tread lightly as to not cause bad feelings between the other clubs and NW United. They will also look at getting word of it out through schools, the YMCA, and mailers.
- PSSA Training of NW United Teams: Click here. Revised April 24.
Tournaments.
- All teams should register for the Labor Day kick by our July meeting.
- During the larger tournaments we need to have a tent on both ends of SRP for communication. It was hard to get help and communicate with the main registration area when injuries happened on the south fields.
League Play.
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At our July meeting, teams need to be prepared to sign up for field times (either 9, 11, 1, or 3pm for their league play at Skagit River Park. All teams who made LPT’s need to pay their $500.
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All league rosters will be set by the State on October 30. November 15 rosters will be frozen for premier teams playing in state cup and wont be unfrozen until 2 weeks prior to state cup games. To play state cup you have to have 11 players from your league play.
Canopies. Chuck looked for a company to silkscreen them and came up empty. Board approved a motion to have teams buys tents and/or banners if they want them.
Medical releases. All teams need to carry their medical releases with them at practice, games, and tournament.
Use of Whitmarsh. Many teams use 2 goals during practice while other teams don’t have any to use. Monico is going to come up with a schedule and map for the fields so that every team has equal opportunity to use the goals. He will coordinate this with PSSA and Christian.
Don’t Talk to Coaches! Please hold your conversations with coaches to the times before and after practices so the teams can make the best use of the practices.
Sideline etiquette. Coaches are responsible for managing their sidelines–and their own behavior–so that they adhere to the high standards the Club expects.
Coach evaluations. The coaching committee will meet to discuss mid season evaluations.
Playing Time. The current Club policy on playing time will be reviewed and may be revised. However, it is club policy and your responsibility to ensure that rostered players have appropriate time on the field in each game. Furthermore, if they are receiving only limited time, it is your responsibility to speak to players and parents and communicate clearly your reasons for limiting their time on the field. Also, you need to provide them with suggestions and/or a plan for improving the plan for additional time.
See “More Information” below for useful coaching resources.
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