Message From President
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Spring Soccer Rules
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Spring Ref Requirements
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JLYSSL Class I and III Tryouts
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U8-U10 Jamboree
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U6-U8 Academy Training
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Julie Foudy Event
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Soccer Success - Yokers
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Beach Soccer
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Coaches Across Continents
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Newsletter Submission Guidelines
The JLYSSL Newsstand is a quarterly newsletter for members of
the JLYSSL community.
Created in partnership with Sutton Soccer in order to create better community
awareness of our league we aim to inform our members of happenings in our
league each year..
The newsletter will include such content as open volunteer positions,
upcoming events, referee news and
information, tournament results, and general interest local soccer news.
Items should be as complete as
possible and include appropriate contact information. Most articles should
be limited to a couple of paragraphs.
Send them to:
newsletter@suttonsoccer.com
The winter rains have finally arrived just in time for the ramp up of
the soccer year here in JLYSSL. We all want and need the rain in order
to grow the grass on our precious fields but sometimes it can amount to
too much at the wrong time. March brings the start of the tryouts for competitive
soccer in JLYSSL. Bay Oaks and our class I program and each of our member
clubs and their class III programs have tryouts on board soon. [See
the article below for more info on tryouts] But the recent rains could
be playing havoc with those schedules.
JLYSSL has adopted a new rule for spring soccer in 2009. Please read up on this
and pay attention so that your team does not get punished.
The new JLYSSL policy for
Spring Teams- "Two 'No-Shows' OR Cancelled Games & a team will
be
dropped from the Spring Schedule. So if during the spring season this year your
team does not show up twice to scheduled games...
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Referee requirement for Spring Teams
JLYSSL requires each team to provide an adult referee which will do at
least 5 games during the spring soccer season which runs from March 28th
to May 30th, and at least 4 of those games need to served as Center referee.
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JLYSSL is pleased to announce a fantastic new addition to our youth soccer
program in 2009. Recently the league approved funding to begin a U8 Soccer
Training Academy program which will commence in Spring 2009. League Coaching
Director Glenn Van Straatum has put together a training program that will
for the first time provide key soccer skills training to our youngest players
in our organization.
Your Jack London Youth Soccer Sports league (JLYSSL) is proud to announce the third year of its league wide tryout schedule for all clubs. The "2009 JLYSSL Master Tryout Schedule for Class 1 and Class 3 Competitive Soccer” is now available online.
What is the goal for JLYSSL with this information ?
The league’s goal is to make it easy for parents, coaches and players to find out what opportunities are provided within our eight JLYSSL clubs to play competitive soccer.
On
February [] JLYSSL hosted a great event for our U8 and U10 teams out at
Alameda Pt. 30 teams in the U8 and U10 age groups (both boys and girls)
representing MSC, OSC, RSC, PSC and Bay Oaks participated in a fun 7v7
Jamboree that got the kids out ont he soccer field after the winter layoff
and gave everyone a chance to play some fun games, share community, and
eat a free lunch meal.
Luis Barranco was the league organizer for this event that brought over [] youth soccer players out to the Point. Teams brought their spirit, food contributions, and smiles out for these games. The weather was full of sunshine, the fields were dry due the mild winter we had till that weekend, and the competition was friendly.
As all the youth teams in my area are approaching tryout time, and parents
are looking for training options to prepare their players for tryouts,
I find it interesting to be in a similar position. I recently attended
three different tryouts for the new Women’s
Pro Soccer league, and have been invited in to join the team
in training camp for the Bay Area’s FC
Gold Pride. There are seven teams total in the new
league this year across the nation, with a few cities marked for expansion
next year. In training camp, 28 players will compete for a spot on
the 22-player roster (4 players of which will not be paid, but will train
with the Pride and play games with the Bay Area’s “farm” team – the
Storm).
more...
JLYSSL
is proud to bring to our players and families a special event featuring JULIE
FOUDY , 2x World Cup Champion & USA National Team Captain, 3x Olympic
Medallist and US National Soccer Hall of Fame 2007
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The
new sport of beach soccer has become one of the
fastest growing and most popular beach sports in America. The Beach Soccer
Championships presents a 5 on 5 tournament at the Main Beach, Santa Cruz
in front of the Beach Boardwalk this June 20-21.
As the plane touched down on the orange dirt path that was used as a runway
I was excited and ready to work with the people of Kigoma. Before leaving
for Africa I prepared the best I could; I read the lonely planet for Tanzania,
I learned a couple of phrases in Swahili, I watched some documentaries
on Africa etc… However for an American girl who has never traveled
outside of North America my efforts to be ready wasn’t enough to
prepare me for the emotion packed adventure I was about to take.