Volume 2, Issue 2

October 1, 2011

C O U N C I L R O C K U N I T E D S O C C E R A S S O C I A T I O N

The Rock Reporter

Congratulations

CRUSA Scholarship

Recipients

Congratulations to our Council Rock North and Council Rock South CRUSA Scholarship

recipients! CRUSA offers (5) scholarships every year to graduating seniors. Applications are available through Council Rock North and South High Schools in the spring, with varying

criteria that need to be met, including academic record, soccer

participation and community service.

The 2011 Scholarship Recipients are:

Mary Kate Callahan—Fairfield University

Jessica Rauchut—Shippensburg University

Christopher Devlin Shepherd—Georgia Tech

Michael Spadaro—Johns Hopkins University

Sarah Zuber—Villanova University

Congratulations and best wishes as you

embark on your exciting college experience!

Welcome Christie

Welsh New Head Coach—

FC Bucks U16 Girls

Revolution

The club would like to welcome Christie Welsh as the new head coach of the FC Bucks U16 Girls Revolution. Christie played on the US Women’s National Team from 2000-2008 and spent several years in Olympic and World Cup training residen-cies. She has played internationally, domestically and professionally since her graduation from Penn State University in 2002. There she was the first player in women’s soccer history to earn NSCAA All America honors for 4 consecutive years and the first women’s soccer player to receive Big Ten Player of the Year honors for 3 consecutive sea-sons. She was drafted 2nd overall in 2003 WUSA to New York Power and consistently lead the team

in scoring.

Welcome Christie! We are sure you will see her on

the fields!

Did You Know

That….

In 1950, India withdrew from the World Cup because FIFA refused to let their

team play barefoot.

FC bucks Premier

Travel & Intramural

P a g e 2 T h e R o c k R e p o r t e r

Welcome

Fall Intramural 2011

Welcome Intramural Players to another season of Fall Soccer with CRUSA! A huge thank you to all coaches and volunteers that make it possible for us to have such a successful intramural program! We

could not do it without you!

Despite the weather, we have had a great start to the season and are working on options to make up games that have been cancelled due to bad weather. We would like to hold a coach’s meeting for U4-U8 coaches on Monday, October 3rd at 8:30 pm at the Northampton Library to work out a plan. This meeting will be held right after our volunteer meet-

ing.

The season finale for the U4-U7 age groups will conclude on Saturday, November 5th with our an-nual ―Festival Day‖ with a participation medal ceremony that should be great fun for all! This is a great opportunity to take lots of photos—and we would love to post them on the website, so email

them to us so we can share them!

The U8 and up age groups will be participating in a round-robin tournament, also on Saturday, Novem-ber 5th that could include championship games on Saturday night or on Sunday, November 6th de-

pending on the age groups.

Finally, we are beginning to form our select teams for the U8-U18 age groups that will represent CRUSA at end of season tournaments. Any coaches interested in coaching an age group, please

contact the CRUSA office for details.

Fall 2010 U5 Hurricanes

CRUSA Library

CRUSA is happy to be able to offer items from our CRUSA Library to lend to our coaches and parents. Items include books and videos on soccer training, coaching and fitness. If you are interested in taking a look and borrowing an item, please stop and office during normal office hours. A $10 deposit to borrow an item will be required and returned upon return of the item. Additionally, if you have items that you would like to donate to our newly formed library,

we would be happy to accept!

STATE CUP CHAMPS

Congratulations to the U12 FC Bucks Girls Wildcats, who won the National Championship Series State Cup in May! Throughout this year’s state cup experience, they outscored their oppo-nents 16-0, culminating in a win of 4-0 in the title

match. Way to go, Girls!

This championship win was head coach Ed Leigh’s 19th State Cup Championship, to go along with 5

Region 1 titles and 1 National Championship.

In Memory of

Fausto Mariazzi

August 9, 1956—July 24, 2011

Coach of CRUSA Elite 97

and CRUSA Kix

We will miss you….

V o l u m e 2 , I s s u e 2 P a g e 3

College News

The following players have confirmed commit-

ments to attend and play soccer at the following

colleges and universities starting Fall 2012:

Nicole Baxter—College of William & Mary

Elissa Berdini—University of Pennsylvania

Brooke Boland—Old Dominion University

Kelsey Celline—La Salle University

Alexa Crosier—University of Vermont

Nicole Dennion—Elon University

Colleen Diviny—Temple University

Hunter Filippo—La Salle University

Lexi Golestani—Providence College

Lindsay Horst—St. Joseph’s University

Paula Jurewicz—Temple University

Erin Lafferty—Temple University

Kelsey Pressler—Mount St. Mary’s University

Chrissy Vollrath—La Salle University

Congratulations and Best of Luck!!

Coaching Licenses

Awarded

Congrats to our CRUSA coaches who received

their coaching licenses in August!

―E‖ License—Steve Cairone, Sabu Joseph, Gregg

Rosenfeld, Brian Brossman, Jeff Schuck, Keith

Sison, Omar Jabbar, Glenn Schweidler,

Terry Dillon, Tim Davis

―D‖ License—Uri Abrams, Bob Wright, Henry

Zawodniak, Tom Crossett

For information on future coaching classes,

please visit www.epysa.org

October 3rd—Volunteer Meeting—Northampton Library 7:30 pm—All are

welcome; 8:30 pm—U4-U8 Intramural Coach Meeting, same location

October 8th & 9th—No regularly sched-uled intramural or travel games—Yom Kippur Weekend

October 10th—CRUSA Board Meeting

November 5—‖Festival‖ and

―Tournament‖ Day—CRUSA Intramural

Calendar of Events

THANK YOU TO OUR

FALL INTRAMURAL

SPONSORS

A big thank you to all of the families and businesses that sponsored a Fall 2011

intramural team!

Abstract Overhead Door Company, Inc.

Advantage Car and Truck Sales

AllTown Pharmacy

Bucks Physical Therapy

Dosa Home Improvements

The Malvern School of Richboro

Mom Corps

PennFab

Philly Gear

Remodeling Concepts, LLC

Street One Financial

The Profero Group, LLC

Tri-County Pediatrics

Please support our local sponsors!

V o l u m e 2 , I s s u e 2 P a g e 4

U7/U8 Boys Travel

Academy Festival

Our boys U7/U8 Travel Academy held their first Fall Festival on Sunday, September 11th at the Civic Center. CRUSA combined their U7/U8 age groups and formed 6 small sided teams, and Upper Makefield brought 3 small sided teams. Each team played (4) 15 minute games. Format was 5v5, which includes a goalkeeper. The event lasted

about 2 hours, with most games being back to back.

The basic concept is that our young players do not have the opportunities to simply play freely on their own. Players around the world develop faster because they are playing in the streets. These small-sided festivals are the answer to this void in US Soccer. We are attempting to create ―Street Soccer‖ while keeping players in a safe and

friendly environment.

The next boy’s small sided festival will be hosted by Buckingham Soccer Club on September 25th and will be attended by teams from CRUSA, Buck-ingham, Upper Makefield and Ukrainian Nationals.

CRUSA will be hosting the final event on

November 6th.

3rd Annual

CRUSA/FC Bucks

Tournament Recap

Thank you to all of the CRUSA/FC Bucks teams who participated in this year’s 3rd Annual Tourna-ment! With almost 200 teams in attendance, it was a huge success! While we had games running at five locations, our main hub this year was Council Rock South High, where we not only had 8 games being played every hour all day both days, but also had tents set up from Adidas, Angelo’s and the Philadelphia Union. The weather was beautiful on Saturday and held out on Sunday to make the week-

end a great time for everyone!

MORE ON ODP

Congratulations go out to Aimee

Chimera and Kalin Ojert—current ODP players from the FC Bucks Prowlers U17 Girls team,

who were left off of last issue’s list

of ODP players. Way to go!

Executive and Tournament Director, Lew

Spiewak, Club President Doug Reichert with

Philadelphia Union players Zach Pfeffer and

Danny Mwanga, during a player appearance

at CR South’s Tournament Location

Concession, Adidas and Angelo’s Tents at our

main tournament location, CR South

CRUSA Board of Directors

Doug Reichert—President

John Menarde—VP, Operations

Mike Spadaro—VP, FC Bucks

John McGinley–VP, Travel

Bill Procz—VP, Intramural

Mark Reilly—Secretary

Al Hannum—Director of Finance, Treasurer

Gregg Rosenfeld—CRUSA Travel Boys Director

Mark Reilly—CRUSA Travel Girls Director

Jim Amoroso—Adult League Director

Mike Jonovich—Fields and Facilities Director

Rob Flanagan—Fields and Facilities Director

Joe Ugras—Director, Strategic Planning

Matt Bernstein—Director, Fundraising

Michael Stolz—Director, Strategic Planning and Facility

Development

Steve Cairone—Director, Risk Management and Safety

Committee

CRUSA Staff Positions

Lew Spiewak—Executive Director

Jill DeLucia—Office Supervisor

Cynthia Laggan—Office Administrator

Dan Mannella—Girls Director of Coaching

Evren Asral—Boys Director of Coaching

Rich Finneyfrock—Coaching Director

Eddie Leigh—Coaching Director

League Reps

John McGinley—ICSL Girls Rep

Gregg Rosenfeld—ICSL Boys Rep

Steve Matlack—PAGS Rep

Jim Power—DELCO Rep

John Menarde—US Club MAPS/MSSL/CJYSA (Girls)

Mike Spadaro—US Club MAPGS/MSSL/CJYSA (Boys)

Gregg Rosenfeld—United Junior Rep

C O U N C I L R O C K U N I T E D S O C C E R A S S O C I A T I O N

95 Almshouse Road

Suite 104

Richboro, PA 18954

www.crusa.net

Located in the Weathervane Office Complex, across the street from the Richboro Car Wash—entrance to the business park is on Temperance

Road

267-988-4053

267-988-4029 (fax)

We value your input! If you have something you would like to see discussed or included in the CRUSA

newsletter, please email us at admin@crusa.net.

WANTED— BOARD MEMBERS

CRUSA Board Elections will take place in November. If you have a special skill that would make you an asset or you just want to get involved, please

email supervisor@crusa.net for more information!

WANTED— VOLUNTEERS

Fundraising, Field/Facility Development, Tournament,

Marketing/Branding/Spirit Wear! Interested? Attend a Volunteer

meeting on Monday, October 3rd at 7:30 pm at the Northampton

Library for more info!

Regular Office Hours

Mon/Tue/Thurs/Fri

8-1pm

Wednesday

5-9 pm

Please check the website for any update or changes

before stopping by