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Sherwood Park Distr ict Soccer Associat ion
The indoor season is well under-way and it’s time for teams to start thinking about Provincials. All U14-18 teams registered through the SPDSA are eligible to declare their interest to attend.
Dates: March 14-16, 2014
Locations:
Edmonton
U14 Tier 1 U14 Tier 3 (Girls)
U14 Tier 4
U16 Tier 1
U16 Tier 3
U16 Tier 4 (Girls)
U18 Tier 1
U18 Tier 3
U18 Tier 4
Calgary U14 Tier 2 U14 Tier 3 (Boys)
U16 Tier 2 (Girls)
U16 Tier 4 (Boys)
U18 Tier 2
Red Deer
U16 Tier 1 (Girls)
U16 Tier 2 (Boys)
U14 & U16 Teams
The SPDSA will be sending the top team from leagues within the SPDSA. If the top team is not interested in attending the Provincial competition, the highest placed team declared will represent Sherwood Park.
U18 Teams
The SPDSA will host a two game play-down series if both teams are interested in attending provincials. If only one team is interested in attending, that team will represent Sherwood Park.
The SPDSA provides $500 to each team travelling outside the Edmonton region for Provincials.
If your team is interested in attending Indoor Provincials please email Dean Mastrangelo by January 17, 2014. ([email protected])
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Y O U T H P ROV I N C I A L S I N F O R M A T I O N D A T E S & L O C A T I O N S S E T . D E C L A R A T I O N S N E E D E D .
January 2014
SOCCER IN THE PARK
Important Dates
January 20 Deadline to enter SPDSA Adult Tournament February 1 Early Bird Outdoor Registration Opens
February 15-17 Adult Indoor Tournament March 8-9
U10 Dev. Evaluations
March 14-16 Youth Provincials
March 17-28 SP Phoenix Assessments
Inside this Issue
Page 2 U20 Women’s World Cup SPDSA Adult Tournament SPDSA Staff Page 3 Volunteers Needed Sponsors Wanted Friendly Reminders Page 4 Technical Lead Sessions Alberta Summer Games Page 5 Article by Damien Cox on Long Term Player Dev.
WELCOME TO THE SPDSA NEWSLETTER Welcome to our NEWSLETTER. The SPDSA is excited about this Newsletter, and enhancing the communication to our members.
It is important to the SPDSA that our membership feel connected to the association, and we expect this can be achieved by providing information to our members through this bi monthly publication.
The information will change from issue to issue, based upon the time of year and important news and events, that we feel our membership can benefit from, whether it be within the SPDSA or in the Sports Communities.
We want to Hear from You! We want to hear from you! In order for this newsletter to be a success, we want to hear from our members and share their successes as well. We encourage teams to keep us up to date over the course of their season. This information can be anything from tournament results, to helping out in the community.
Find us on Twitter
@SPDSASoccer
Tweet us your team’s scores, fundraisers, tournaments!!
Canada is busy getting ready to host the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in 2014 as the country builds up to the 2015 Women’s World Cup. Edmonton is one of the 4 cities hosting the U20 World Cup taking place August 5-24, 2014, and will stage a total of 7 games (6 group games and a Quarter-Final).
Secure your seat for 2015! Purchasers of 2014 Edmonton venue packs will have the chance to opt-in to be placed on a priority list to purchase Edmonton venue packs to the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015!! Tickets are on sale now! Buy a Venue Pack starting at only $52.00 for all 7 matches in Edmonton.
For more information click the Canada 2014 Banner!
Debbie Ballam—General Manager [email protected]
Overall Daily Operations, Liaison to Board of Directors, Financials, Website
Dean Mastrangelo—Operations [email protected]
League/Programs, Schedules, Facility Bookings,
Equipment
Natasha Carter—Registrar
Registration, Rosters, Trialists, CRC’s, Sponsorship
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U20 WOME N ’S WORL D CU P—2014 T H E S E G I R L S C A N P L AY !
S P D S A O F F I C E A N D T E C H N I C A L S TA F F Office Hours and Locations
#102 241 Kaska Road
Mon/Wed/Fri : 9:00am—5:00pm
Tues/Thurs : 12:00pm—5:00pm
2000 Premier Way (Millennium Place)
M/T/TH/F : 9:00am—1:00pm
Wed : 3:00pm—7:00pm
Phone: (780) 449-1343
Fax: (780) 464-5821
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Graeme Dickson—Admin
Administration, Adult League, Newsletter
Eric Munoz—SPDSA Head Coach
Academy, Technical Coaching
Daniel Drummond—Technical Facilitator
Academy, Technical Administrator
2 0 1 4 S P D S A I N D O O R A D U L T T O U R N A M E N T The SPDSA is once again hosting its annual Adult indoor tournament. Registration deadline is January 20, 2014
Dates: February 14—17, 2014
Divisions: Men’s Competitive (Div 2 & Below)
Men’s Recreational (Div 3 & Below)
Women’s Competitive (Div 2 & Below) Women’s Recreational (Div 3 & Below)
Masters Recreational (Div 1 & Below)
Classics Recreational (Premier & Below)
For more information contact Graeme ([email protected])
Saturday February 22
11:00am - 3:00pm
Tuesday February 25
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Monday March 3
5:00pm - 7:00pm
241 Kaska Road
Soccer in the Park
There’s still snow on the ground and plenty left to play for in the indoor season, but the SPDSA is encouraging current and prospective coaches to volunteer for the 2014 outdoor season. The ‘Coach Application’ can be found on our website under the community tab. Without the great work of our volunteer coaches, the SPDSA would not be able to run such a successful community program within Sherwood Park. For any questions with regards to coaching, please contact Daniel ([email protected]) The SPDSA also requires Age Group Coordinators for the upcoming year. Positions available include: Little Kickers, U8 Girls, U10 Boys, U12 Boys, and U16/18 Boys. The main responsibilities of this position is to create community teams based on registration information and to act as a liaison between the SPDSA office and parents/coaches. Age Group Coordinators will receive a $100 honorarium. If interested in either of these positions please contact Natasha with any questions ([email protected])
Ensure the main contact email is updated in your profile. Children’s Tax Receipts will be emailed in early February. Early-Bird Outdoor registration begins February 1. Register Online early for Best Rates!
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SPON S OR S WAN T ED M U L T I P L E S P O N S O R S H I P L E V E L S F O R A L L B U S I N E S S E S
T H E SPDSA N E E D S VO L U N T E E R S ! O U T D O O R C O A C H E S & A G E G R O U P C O O R D I N A T O R S R E Q U I R E D
A F R I E N D L Y R E M I N D E R T O A L L P A R E N T S
Sponsorship Levels
Bronze - $500 (1 Team Sponsored)
Logo on jerseys & website (Sponsors Page), Plaque or trophy
Silver - $1,500 (5 Teams Sponsored)
Bronze + Screened jersey to display + linked logo on website
Gold - $3,000 (10 Teams)
Silver + Logo on Age/Division page of website
Platinum - $5,000 (20 Teams)
Gold + Logo on Home Page of website
For more information contact Natasha ([email protected])
The SPDSA is a not-for profit association, and the 2013/14 indoor season saw 1,700 kids register in our youth program. The help of sponsorship allows us to keep registration costs down, while also providing your company with some noticeable marketing.
Adult Program
Survey
The SPDSA needs
your input at the idea
of a Co-Ed league for
the upcoming
outdoor season.
Please click here to
complete the survey
C O A C H / V O L U N T E E R A P P R E C I A T I O N We will be holding the Coach/Volunteer appreciation night on Friday March 7th. It will be the same format as last year, which will include a mini tournament of games, followed by refreshments at Average Joes. The first game will begin at 6:30pm. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to [email protected] Further information will be updated on our website as we get closer to the date.
Coaches without the
Pre-B but have
Soccer for Life &
considerable
experience will be
considered and are
encouraged to apply.
Assistant Coaches
must be certified to
the Soccer for Life
level.
All coaches must be CPIC
(CRC) cleared and be at
least 18 years of age by
the start of the Alberta
Games.
Coaches must reside
within the zone they wish
to coach, or be coaching
within the zone during the
2013/14 Indoor Season
and 2014 Outdoor season.
The 2014 Alberta Summer
Games are being held in
Airdrie from July 24-27.
The games attract over
3,200 athletes from all
over Alberta, participating
in 15 sports, ranging in
age from 11-17 years old.
Alberta is divided into 8
zones, of which, the
Sherwood Park District is
in Zone 5.
Soccer is contested by
players born January 1,
2001 or later.
Head Coaches are
required to be National
Coaching Certification
Program certified to the
level of Intro to
Competition or Pre-B.
Application Deadline—
February 3, 2014
For more information about
the Games and for the
coaching application
please email Dean
COAC H ES NE E D ED 2 0 1 4 A L B E R T A S U M M E R G A M E S - Z O N E 5
From the Technical Area
Are you out of ideas as a coach? Not sure if what you’re doing is right? The SPDSA is proud to offer our coaches valuable development opportunities through the year. Our technical leads are experienced and educated coaches, dedicated to helping you with any questions you may have. You can find your age groups technical lead on our website here
Our Technical Leads will also be doing specific coaching sessions for our coaches for specific age groups. Attending these sessions are free and a great way to learn and develop as a Coach. All sessions take place on-field at Millennium Place.
January 12 9:45am-10:45am Little Kickers / U6 January 15 8:30pm-9:30pm U14 - U18 January 19 9:45am-10:45am U8 January 22 8:30pm-9:30pm U10 January 29 8:30pm-9:30pm U12
Thank You to our Sponsors
CAMROSE SHEET METAL
Brent Sutter can identify “skill” as our national shortcoming in hockey if he wants. That’s intriguing coming from a member of an amazing hockey family that was, for the most part, known more for emphasizing grit than skill, although this Sutter was a very skilled player. But now he’s a coach and a very successful one, and now times are a lot different from when he was the fifth centre behind 99, 66, Dale Hawerchuk and Mark Messier on the 1987 Canada Cup team. Whether it was fair to Sutter to say that about his juniors after a very tough bronze medal game loss to Russia, well you be the judge. He was asked, he answered. Here’s the problem. We already held a summit on hockey development back in 1998, and many good things happened. The skilled talent we are producing as a country now is as good as ever. In five of the last six NHL drafts, the teenager judged to be the best on the planet has been a Canadian. That’s just one measure, of course, but when as a country you’re producing Steven Stamkos, John Tavares, Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Nathan MacKinnon, it doesn’t suggest the country can’t produce skill. And that’s before, as many believe, Sam Reinhart and Connor McDavid go first overall in the next two drafts. The question, Sutter seems to be asking, is whether Canada produces enough layers of skill, and it’s hard to answer that without knowing how much is enough. Moreover, the recipe for changing the system to produce more skill is clearly unpalatable to most Canadians. Just look at the way people responded to the moving of ages for when bodychecking is permitted among children. Outrage? How will they learn how to hit and take a hit? There are all kinds of clinics and hockey schools out there that teach the finer points of the game, but when it comes to playing games, most people, it seems, want to mimic the NHL.
You want to change hockey in this country? Follow the soccer model being used in Ontario these days. Smaller nets. Fewer players. Smaller balls for younger children. Smaller fields. And the big kicker. No keeping score. Just let ’em play. Think that’ll go over in Canada? Not a chance. Some people might want things to be different, but they don’t want to change. Instead, we want more of what we have. More time on the ice, in particular, which blocks out all the cross-training possibilities in other sports. It’s nice than Canadian kids now routinely kick a soccer ball around for practice before games. Nice because none of them can actually get the opportunity to play the sport. No time. Their calendars are filled with hockey and more hockey and more training and more hockey. And then hockey games and more games and more games. Look, with four kids in the sport, I’m okay with it as it is. They’ve all had, and are having, good experiences in the game. I’m not necessarily advocating great changes, but then, I’m not pushing my kids to be elite hockey players. I want them to enjoy the game for the their entire lives. I try to put them at a level that fits their abilities and commitment. But if the system changed tomorrow to something like the soccer model, I sure wouldn’t object, either. Last week, I found myself at a rink in Oakville looking up at banners of previous teams that had won AAA provincial titles 15 or 20 years ago. Didn’t recognize a single name. Thought I’d recognize at least one. I’m certain those teams and those players and those parents and those coaches believed back then they were on the fast track to somewhere, maybe the NHL. But it almost always doesn’t happen because of the numbers game. But did we teach them? Did they learn how
to play the game or just how to compete and win? Great questions to which only they would have the answers. Skill? I think Canada has lots and lots of skill. You’ll see an awfully skillful Olympic team announced Tuesday. We lost to Finland, and then Russia, at the world juniors because the team wasn’t good enough, the team might have been too young, opposition goaltending was excellent and because European teams always feel more comfortable on the larger international ice surface. It doesn’t mean we can’t win on it. But they’ll always have a great comfort level. And when that tournament is played repeatedly in North America on smaller rinks as has been the case, it might give us a false sense of security as to where our game matches up with theirs. Look, I’d love to see the Canadian system embrace a model that allowed kids to play other sports more and emphasizes development over competition. I just can’t imagine it happening. Moreover, understand this; when Canadian wins gold at the world juniors again, as it will, there will be many who say all is fixed. Or that nothing was ever broken. We only really care about the results. Not the process.
The above article was written by Damien Cox,
taken from his blog “Spin on Sports”
The article was published January 6th, 2014 in
the Toronto Star.
The Published article can be found here
World Juniors: Want to change hockey in Canada? Follow Ontario soccer system: Cox