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Tryouts
for the 2009 U16G Select Team have been completed.
"Thank you!" to all players who participated in the tryouts. Player selection has been completed and all players who attended a tryout have been contacted. Registration for the 2009 Fall season opens in early April, 2009. (Click the Home link at the top of this page in March for more information.) |
| Coach Lee Berg AYSO Advanced Coach |
Assistant
Coach Ray Wong AYSO Advanced Coach |
(1) been born on, or after, August 1, 1992Players who played in the U16G division during the Fall 2008 season are also eligible to try out for the U19G Select Team.
(2) been on the roster of an AYSO team during the Fall 2008 season
(3) played in at least 50% of the games that her AYSO team played during the Fall 2008 season.
| Participating in another sport or playing on another soccer team during the Spring Select season does not disqualify a player from playing with the Spring Select Team. Players who have a strong desire to play Spring Select soccer but are unsure what impact their other activites will have on their participation with the Select Team, should (1) fill out the Player/Parent Declaration (see bottom of this page) as accurately as possible and (2) attend the tryouts. After the tryouts have been completed, we will weigh all the factors, including each player's skill level and her other commitments, and will select the group of players that will allow us to field a competitive team during Spring League and at all the tournaments. |
| 2009 U16G Select
Team
Tryouts |
||||
| Date |
Arrive By |
Tryout
Time |
Location |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008 |
12:55
PM |
1:15-3 PM |
Mayfield South |
Completed |
| Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008 | 12:55
PM |
1:15-3 PM | Mayfield North |
Completed |
| No additional tryouts will be held. | ||||
Team Practices
The team will have informal practices (on Saturday
or Sunday) in January. Regular, twice-a-week practices will begin in
February and will continue through May. (Last spring, we had one
weekday afternoon practice and one Saturday morning practice per week.
In 2009, it might be possible to hold one or both practices in the
evening at Mayfield.)
To play
competitively against CYSA
teams and other AYSO Select teams, physical
conditioning must be higher than in the fall season. Team practices
will be more rigorous than Fall season practices and
players should expect some form of running to be a regular part of
practices.
Select Team practices are
expected to take precedence over team members' other non-academic
activities. Except
for brief periods and exceptional circumstances agreed
upon ahead of time with the Head Coach, a player must be willing
and able to attend both
weekly practices on a
regular basis.
Spring League and Tournaments
The team will play in the Pacific Coast Spring Soccer League,
one
Sunday game per week, March 1 through May 3.
Games
postponed
due to weather or field conditions will be rescheduled, possibly to
Saturdays or after May 3.
Roughly
half the games will be
played in Palo Alto and the remainder will be played at other fields on
the Peninsula
(South San Jose to Daly City).
The team will participate in at least two out-of-town, weekend tournaments. Some families may choose to stay overnight in Concord during the Concord Cup (May 16-17, 2009) if the team has early morning games on Saturday or Sunday. The Davis World Cup (May 23-25, 2009) will require staying overnight in the Davis area over the Memorial Day weekend (2 to 3 nights, depending on morning game times). If feasible, the team will also play in a third tournament (likely to be the PHMSA Soccer Festival in the Concord/Pleasant Hill area, April 4-5, 2009). These tournaments feature multiple games per day against top-flight competition in a fun, exciting environment. Most players and parents remember the tournaments as major highlights of the Spring season.
CostParent Volunteers
Because Spring Select teams are self-supporting, providing a
parent volunteer is a
significant factor in player selection. A parent from each team
member's family
will be
expected to perform some significant team support activity during the
season. Click here
to read descriptions of the most
important volunteer positions.
Although each family will usually be asked to perform only one
volunteer
function, when filling out the Player/Parent Declaration, please
indicate all the
positions for which a
parent would be prepared to
volunteer. Indicate any previous experience if you have a strong
preference for a function that you have performed in the past.