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Palo Alto AYSO Winter/Spring Select Teams: Under-19 Girls
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Tryouts
for the U19G Spring Select Team have been completed
and all players have been notified of their selection status. "Thank you!" to all the players who participated. |
| Coach Lee Berg AYSO Advanced Coach |
Assistant
Coach TBA |
For general information about the Spring Select program, visit the Spring Teams page of the Palo Alto AYSO website.
Team Objective
The objective of the 2010 U19G Spring Select Team is for players to have fun playing soccer at a higher level of competition than the fall season and to further develop each player's individual skills and understanding of team tactics and strategy.
Eligibility
To be eligible to play on the 2010 Palo Alto AYSO U19G Spring Select Team, you must meet all three of these criteria:
(1) Your birth date must be after July 31, 1990.Team Formation
(2) You must have been on the roster of an AYSO team during the Fall 2009 season.
(3) You must have played in at least 50% of the games that your AYSO team played during the Fall 2009 season.
We will have one U19G Select team, consisting of 16 to 18 players.
The goal of the team formation process is to select players for each field position who, individually, have the requisite skills and competitive attitude to enjoy the stronger competition of the Spring season and have a strong interest in improving their soccer skills, and who, as a group, will enjoy practicing and playing together. Players will be chosen for the team based on (1) their practice attendance and game performance during the Fall 2009 season and (2) their performance at the Spring Select tryouts. Factors that play a part in player selection include skill, speed, effort, understanding of the game, sportsmanship, commitment to improving soccer skills and physical conditioning, practice habits, commitment to participating in two practices and one game per week and the tournaments, the team's positional needs, team chemistry, family volunteer commitment, and the recommendations of Fall season coaches.
While the ability to attend every spring practice and game is not an absolute requirement for selection to the team, because space in the program is limited, all other things being equal, players who want to gain the full benefit of participating in the available practices and games of the Spring Select season will be preferred over players who give higher priority to another after-school activity. If you will be concurrently participating in another sport (e.g., track & field, softball, basketball, volleyball, swimming, lacrosse) or will be playing concurrently on another soccer team, your parents must contact the Select Team Head Coach prior to team selection to discuss your ability to fulfill the commitment requirements of the Spring Select Team. Players who, without prior approval or a valid excuse, fail to their fulfill their commitments to attend the team's practices and games, may receive reduced playing time at games and may be subject to dismissal from the team.
| Participating in another sport or playing on another soccer team during the Spring Select season does not automatically disqualify a player from being a member of the U19G 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 as many tryouts as possible. After the tryouts have been completed, we will weigh all the factors, including each player's skill level and other commitments, and will select the group of players that will allow us to field a competitive team during Spring League and at the tournaments. |
Unlike the Fall season, the Spring program is selective and not every player who is interested in playing is guaranteed a place on a team. Player selection is solely the responsibility of the coaches of each team. Selection decisions cannot be appealed. While some players who played on a Select team in a previous season may be chosen for a 2010 team, participation on an AYSO Select team in a previous year is no guarantee of selection to a 2010 Select team.
Tryouts
Players who are serious about being selected for the team are strongly encouraged to attend as many tryouts as possible.
All players will be notified of their selection status by email approximately one week after the final tryout.
| 2010 U19G Select
Team
Tryouts Tryout checklist:
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| Date |
Arrive By |
Tryout
Time |
Location |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, Nov. 21,
2009 |
11:10
AM |
11:30 AM - 1:15 PM |
Cubberley Stadium (turf) |
Completed |
| Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 | 11:30 AM |
11:45 AM -
1:30 PM |
Cubberley Stadium (turf) |
Completed |
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 each week.
In 2010, it may 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 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 7 through May 9.
Games
postponed
due to weather or field conditions will be rescheduled, possibly to
Saturdays or after May 9. About
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 (probably, three) out-of-town, weekend tournaments. Some families may choose to stay overnight in Concord during the Concord Cup (May 15-16) if the team has early morning games on Saturday or Sunday. The Davis World Cup (May 29-31) will require staying overnight in the Davis area over the Memorial Day weekend (2 to 3 nights, depending on 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. (The 2010 dates for this tournament have not been announced yet but it is usually held the first weekend of April. Since the first weekend in April has both Passover and Easter, this tournament will probably be March 27-28 or April 8-9.) 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.
CostThe cost for each player (which covers the cost of purchasing home and away uniforms, registration fees for Spring League and the tournaments, and city field use fees) is expected to be about $350 plus the cost of transportation, meals, and accommodations for the tournaments. (Fees will be lower for returning players who do not need to purchase new uniforms if we are able to use the same uniforms as last spring.)
Parent 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. Descriptions of the volunteer positions can be read here.
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.
Read this entire document. Print and complete the Player/Parent Declaration (click on the link below).
To the first tryout you attend, bring:
- your completed and signed Player/Parent Declaration
Revised: 12/14/09