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Fall 2008 Information
Newspaper Reporting

U5 Program
Registration Info
Important Dates
Wait List Policy
Game Schedules
Volunteer Coach
Age Brackets (FS2008)
Location Map

 

 

 

 

 

eAYSO (electronic-American Youth Soccer Organization) has integrated all AYSO data into one web-based application.

Instead of many programs for each category, AYSO now has a single software program that everyone can use.

By using eAYSO, parents, players, volunteers, and staff will anytime and anywhere be able to update their information as it changes.

For more information on eAYSO please see AYSO National's website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

This is our primary season, with over 2300 players ranging in divisions from U5 through U16/19. Registration for the Fall season usually occurs during during the Spring in April / May. To have guaranteed team placement, you should plan to register early, typically before the summer, otherwise your child could be placed on a waiting list.

 

Take a look at the U5 Program page for more information.

 

Practices usually start in mid-late August. Games usually start just after Labor Day weekend, and continue on through about the second week in November. Some teams will participate in an Area tournament on the weekend before Thanksgiving.

 

All games are held on Saturday, with the majority of the games being held in Davis. In some age groups there may be games in Winters, Woodland, Rio Linda, Madison or Antelope (Sacramento).

 

Each player intending on playing in any of the Davis AYSO seasons (Fall or Spring) needs to register online through http://www.eayso.org . After online registration occurs, a signed, hard copy registration form needs to be received by our Registrar along with the appropriate registration fee in order to be placed on the active registration list.

 

For more detailed information on our Registration procedure and what to submit as well as where to send it, please visit our Registration page.

 

 

 

  Current News For Fall 2008

 

Answers to frequent questions (Also see FAQ page):

 

If you need more info, check there, or contact one of the volunteers in charge of the area of your question. See www.davisayso.org/contacts.htm for a listing of contact positions with their email addresses. We don't have enough volunteer labor to triage phone messages at this point in the season, so email is the only way to reach someone with a question.

 

  • When will I get called? Coaches will receive their rosters near 8/25, and will be calling beginning that date. Many coaches are still on vacation at that time, and it's not uncommon to get calls much later. We have asked all coaches to either call by 8/31 or to let their divisional coordinator (DCA) know that they are still out of town, in which case the DCA will contact the roster to put minds at ease.

 

  • When will practices begin? It's up to the coach. They may start the week of 8/27 with a parent meeting and one practice, or they may only have one parent meeting/practice that week. If they are getting back from a trip, they may start their practices after Labor Day.

 

  • What if the practice date and time is not convenient? [Easy answer: become a coach next season!] It is very common at the first team meeting for parents to have a discussion either during the meeting, before, or after, in which they indicate a need for transportation help. It is almost always the case that arrangements can be made with parents of other children on the team to get a child to or from a practice.

 

  • When is picture day? Dates will be posted late spring or summer. It is up to a coach to determine whether they have a significant number of absences for a photo (like they themselves can't make it, along with three other players for example) in which case they will be given the contact info for the photography company to arrange for another timeslot.

 

  • Any changes in game locations? Yes, we are moving from Holmes to Valley Oak this season for some of the U12 games. Northstar east will be used for some additional U12 and U10 games, as we have more teams in those divisions this seaon. All U6 games will be played at Community 5, which is also known as the t-ball field, near Rainbow City park. We have fewer U6 teams, so the dispersed field concept wasn't practical.

 

  • Any other changes? AYSO National's official short-sided games have been adopted for U6, U10, and U12.
    • U6 teams will play with a super-team of 8 players splitting in to two 4-player teams. We are going to draw two side-by-side fields, and each of the two 8-player teams meeting for the game will play 3v3 (1 sub) for half the game, then swap mini-teams, and play the rest of the game. Coaches will be able to stand between the two fields. If you have not seen 3v3, yet, you'll notice the greater opportunity for ball touches, and the kids will figure out faster, the need to think about moving into space around the ball rather than the 12 player scrum you have seen in the past
    • U8 will play 6v6 with no keepers.
    • U10 will play 7v7 with keepers.
    • U12 will play 9v9 with keepers.
    • U10 will again have a jamboree day near the end of the season, in which several mini-games are played.
    • U12 will have a jamboree day on a different weekend near the end of the season, in which several mini-games are played.

 

Fall Pre-Registration: To pre-register, please go to www.eayso.org. Specific details on our registration process can be found on our Registration page.

 

The Registration fees for Fall are the same as in 2007, at $140 per child. However, if you postmark your registration by June 8th, you will receive our early-bird discounted rate of $125 per child.

 

Davis AYSO has finally been able to comply with National AYSO guidelines in implementing games involving fewer players on the field, see: Short-sided games are here!! (pdf)

The fees for Davis AYSO are being raised this fall after not having had a fee increase for several years. Here are some of the major reasons the board agreed to a fee increase:

  1. Transition costs from the upcoming loss of Nugget Fields to preparing soccer quality fields at
    Harper Jr. High School.
  2. Increased city fees for using city fields on game days.
  3. Need to further build up the field development fund for the Sports Park that is in the
    planning stages in East Davis. This facility will allow us to have a stable platform from which to run
    our volunteer program.

 

The AYSO board does not want our participants to have to fundraise or have mandatory raffle sales to
supplement our program budget. We offer full and partial scholarships to those families that fall
below fifty percent median family income levels as determined by HUD. The board feels that AYSO provides a healthy, nurturing environment for your child. The fall season runs for ten weeks. The board strongly believes that each family is getting a great value for the registration fee.

 

 

Important Dates

 

Please see the following dates for important information:

 

  • June 30 - Guaranteed Team Placement registration deadline
  • July 1 - Registration forms received from this date on will be placed on a Waiting List for the player's age division, and then placed only as openings become available. Incoming forms are date stamped and then placed in priority of receipt date.
  • Sept. 6 - First fall season game.

 

For Refund cut-off dates and procedures, please see our Registration page under Refund Policy.

 

 

Reasons for not hearing from a coach immediately could be a result of the coach(es) being on vacation, OR, we are lacking coach volunteers for your child's division, resulting in a "coachless" team, whereby we would need a parent volunteer from that team to step up and become a coach. If the last scenario was to happen, each parent would be notified by the DCA of this situation.

 

 

 

Volunteer to Coach or Referee

 

To volunteer as a Coach or Referee, please be sure to contact the appropriate AYSO staff so they can be sure to add you and your contact information to their list. Also, as a requirement, a Volunteer Application Form must be submitted each year if you plan to participate as an AYSO volunteer. Please visit the Coaches and Referees pages for more specific information and upcoming clinics. Because of the smaller-sided games format, we will need more coaches and referees than before. This season in particular, help us out by stepping up to fill these important positions. No experience needed ! We have a great training program.

 

To register online using eAYSO.org, please follow the Volunteer Application Instructions found on our Volunteer Main page.

 

If you are interested in becoming a COACH,

please contact either the BOYS RCA or GIRLS RCA with your contact information, such as: name, phone number(s), email address, and division you are interested in coaching, either as a Head Coach or an Assistant Coach.

 

If you are intrested in becoming a REFEREE,

please contact the Referee Administrator, with your contact information, such as: name, phone number(s), email address, and what level of refereeing you are interested in; Parent Referee (U6 / U8, or Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Referee levels).

 

* NOTE: All Volunteer Applications filed with AYSO are good for one year.

 

 

We anticipate 2200+ kids playing this Fall, with teams being formed as early as mid-June so we can start our Coaching Clinics. Please be sure to check the Coach Clinics page for the schedules to be posted when available.

 

Please volunteer to be a coach or referee! Look at the Referee's Call page for a list of excuses!

 

 

 

  AGE BRACKETS / DIVISIONS (Fall 2008)

     

  • The age division cut-offs for the Fall 2008 Season are as follows:

     

    U16/19:
    		8/1/1989 through 7/31/1994
    U14:
    8/1/1994 through 7/31/1996
    U12:
    8/1/1996 through 7/31/1998
    U10:
    8/1/1998 through 7/31/2000
    U8:
    8/1/2000 through 7/31/2002
    U6:

    8/1/2002 through 7/31/2004

    5 yrs old, or 4 yrs old and entering Kindergarten and/or parent approval
    U5:

    8/1/2003 through 7/31/2004

     

     

For further registration questions, please email .

 

 

 

Area / Location Map (used in Team formations)

 

In using one of AYSO's philosophy's, "Balanced Teams", we first need to divide the City of Davis into locations, i.e. N, S, E & W (see map below for reference). Then within each of those locations, we run our team balancing program which sorts each of the player's first by age, then by their rating, resulting in equally competitive teams within the same location.

 

The location boundries have been slightly modified to help evenly distribute the number of players among the four areas shown below. Unfortunately these location boundries may not agree with current school boundries. However, this is the only way we can evenly distribute the number of players fairly.

 

 

 

 

 

Game Stats for Newspaper Reporting

 

For U08 games and above, the Davis Enterprise will run scores in Thursday's Youth Sports roundup. For Fall AYSO, they don't want narrative such as; "Bob took a long high pass from Bill, and bicycle-kicked the ball past the outstretched arms of the goalkeeper". Instead, they want very short key items.

 

Please use the following template and email it to sports@davisenterprise.net. They will recognize team names if both teams submit a game report and the will merge the information. You don't need to coordinate with another team on this. The Enterprise prints results by division and gender. It would look like this...

 

Subject should read (showing example division, gender, names, scores, etc.)

Youth Sports: AYSO Boys - U10 Division

Leopards 3, Tigers 2

Identify each stat with the initial of the team in paranthesis ( ). Body of email should read (if you are reporting a score for the Tigers):

Goals (T): Jenkins, Espinosa; Assists (T): Smith; Oustanding Defense (T): Ho, Goin, Jones