More Soccer!

Hi Friends,
    I want to echo what Karin said - I too am very excited for the fall season, and wanted to mention a few things:

1. I will continue to post game and practice information on the Pirate Pixie blog ( http://piratepixies.blogspot.com) as soon as we have the schedule.

2. I went to the coaches meeting last week, and as I'm sure you all know, one of the risks of going to meetings of volunteer-run organizations is ending up with more volunteer duties.. In that spirit, I've become responsible for setting up and maintaining the goals at Dearborn Park, where our games and practices will be. I'm meeting the previous keeper of goals there on Friday, August 31 from 6:30 - 8:00PM to get the fields marked and goals assembled, and he advises that it would be useful to have two other people there for this initial setup. If you happen to be available and willing to help with this, please let me know!

3. The Mt Baker/Lakewood soccer club is trying out the use of International Soccer Schools' "Rec Assist" program this year. This is a program where the ISS professional coaches come to one of your team's practices each week and work with the existing parent coaches and players. You can see some information about it here:
 http://www.intlsoccerschools.com/teamclubcoaching.html
The Capitol Hill club began using them for their older teams a few years ago, and now uses them for all teams, starting at U-6. I knew there was something about that team in black from Capitol Hill that humbled us this spring!!
There is an additional cost to teams that choose to do this. Their fee is $480 per season, and our club would subsidize 50% (or possibly more if needed) of the cost. For a team our size it would come out to roughly $25 per player.
Many of the older teams in our club are already scheduled to use them this season.  Karin and I wanted to mention this for everyone to think about, if not for this year, then perhaps next. My personal opinion after talking to some of their coaches, is that it is a very cheap way(particularly with the club subsidy) to get some pretty high quality training. Please let Karin or I know if you have opinions about this..

See you in a couple weeks!

Ben
benawilson@gmail.com
206-890-2588

PS this was sent using the mailing list piratepixies@googlegroups.com - send to this address if you want to reach everyone on the team. It is currently set so that by default, replies will only go to the author of the original mail.

Soccer ! (from Karin)

Hi friends –

I wanted to let you know what we have just learned about the soccer schedule for the fall. It looks like practices will be at Dearborn Park from 5:30 – 6:30 on Tuesdays & Thursdays. Games will be there too, on Saturdays. Our games will begin on Saturday, September 8^th. We haven’t been told the time yet – I’ll let you know as soon as we’re told.

Our first practice will be Tuesday, September 3^rd. All the Pirate Pixies are returning (isn’t that incredible!!!) and we welcome one new player, Mackenzie.

We need to make sure we have the medical and contact forms updated with current cell phones and emergency numbers.

Ben and I are looking forward to getting the team back together and having a lot of fun in the upcoming months. Let us know if you have any questions.

See you soon!

Karin