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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 |
(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.
| 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. |
| 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.
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. 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.