PINELANDS SOCCER ASSOCIATION

MINUTES FROM MAY 4, 2004 MEETING

Members in attendance:

Bill O’Connell                      Terri Binet                           Jim Errico                             Pat MaGee

Mike Angelus                      Antony Lewis                     Cathie Errico                        Patty Angelus

Vicki Landolf                       Dia Melega                          Angela Watt                          Pete Byrne

Steve Kohler                       Vic Moore                            Pat MacNeil                          George Rithianos

Tony Gravato                      Jason Nass                        Jeff Colmyer  

Meeting called to order @ 7:40PM by Vicki Landolf.

Meeting Minutes from April 6, 2004 were unavailable, will be approved at the next meeting.

Treasurer’s Report:

Yellow Jacket’s account was cleaned up and closed.  Falcons transferred to Warriors and closed.  All registrations were transferred.  Victor questioned what line item was the payment for the F license course taken from.  Bill will find out.  Motion made by Victor Moore to accept the treasurer’s report and seconded by Jason Nass.

Vice President Traveling:

Make up games are all up-to-date except for Mike’s two teams at one game for each of his teams.  The referee problem in reference to Pat McNeil’s question was taken care of and the issue is now closed.

Vice President of Recreation:

We have had many complaints from various coaches about the issue of ‘better teams’ running up the score and defeating the purpose of what recreational soccer is all about.  Several ideas were given on how to control the score of the games.  Some examples are:  put good players on defense and encourage them not to score, cap the amount of points you can score, ten passes before a goal can be made, once three goals are made, that team cannot score until the other team scores, move the dominate players up or move to a traveling team.

Each coach has been asked to rate their players on a 1 to 4 scale.  1 being a great player and 4 being a poor player.  Please have your rosters into Vicki by the last game of the season.  Next season we can distribute the players equally so that each team is more balanced.  We also must enforce that players, coaches, and parents, must respect other players, coaches and referees at all times.  If we discourage children at the recreational level they won’t come back to us in the fall.

Also reviewed when it is proper to make a goal kick, corner kick and encouraged all the coaches to use their whistles during the games.

Please take care to call all of your parents if you cancel a practice.  Several times I have run across irate parents that they were never notified that a practice was cancelled. 

We need to use the trainers more for the instructional level.  Watch how they run your practice and ask questions!

Quartermaster:

Traveling teams were asked if there are any issues regarding uniforms that need to be attended to.  Divas are missing the #3 uniform and have a double #5 uniform.  Strikers need 15 pairs of youth socks.  Backpacks have been distributed to all traveling teams.  Pat McNeil needs pinnies.  Also we need to order cases of paint with the correct nozzles, bug spray foggers from Home Depot, straps for the Division 3 nets need to be fixed, and there is a huge divit

Please encourage all your players and parents to clean up after themselves after practices and games. Need more trash cans on Division three fields.

Old Business:

The club is sponsoring a club fund raising spaghetti dinner on Saturday, May 8^th from 5 to 9PM.  Dinner will be $5 and you will receive spaghetti and meatballs, salad, rolls, coffee, and dessert.  If you can come out to help, please do at 4PM.

Sponsor signs will be available for the traveling teams, 2 per team at $200 a sign for 2 seasons.  We need to clarify that one color will be $200, 2 colors will be $225, and a logo will be $270.  These prices are not yet set in stone.

Dribble Pass and Shoot is scheduled for Saturday, June 12^th from 1PM to 3PM.  This date is now confirmed.  Vicki will be setting up a time and date for a committee to organize this event.  People interested as of this date:  Dia, Patty, Terri, Pete, Cathie, Antony, and Pat.  A call will be made to everyone letting them know the time and place of the meeting.

New Business:

New park, Freedom Fields are open.  Field #2 is lined, but doesn’t have any nets.  May 13^th is the Grand Opening.

MLS Summer Camp needs to be pushed.  Our trainers will push the camp for us.  You can register online or mail it in.

Pinelands coaches versus the Metro Stars Player development Coaches proposed date is Saturday May 15^th at 2:30PM.  It will cost $5 per player.  All proceeds will go to PSA.

Various tournament dates were announced by Bill.  If you are interested, please contact him.

Next meeting will be June 1^st at Pinelands Regional High School room to be announced.

Motion made by Pete Byrne to adjourn the meeting @9:30PM and seconded by Antony Lewis.

Respectfully submitted by:

Vicki Landolf, Vice President of Recreation

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