What is the Select Season?

The Select season is a program following the fall season open only to players who participated in the fall season, in U10, U12, U14 U16 and U19 divisions. This is an opportunity for players to improve their skills in a more competitive environment. Players who are interested need to turn in an application (available from your fall coach or online) by October 9, 2009. The link for the application will be posted on this website.  For U10 boys and girls, we will have two “preview workout sessions”, one on October 24th.and the other on November 1st.  These are voluntary, but they are going to be one of the best ways for the select coaches to see the U10 players that are trying out to be drafted on a team.  Coaches must apply by September 23rd.  The teams are drafted in November, with practices starting in December. The season typically runs from mid-December through the end May.

Draft?

For each age group and gender, the coaches get together and draft the players for that age/gender group. Coaches will have scouted the players at a game. Each coach is looking for different things. It is subjective. Each team needs referees to be eligible for tournaments. It is possible that a player will be selected because one of their parents is a referee. If a coach�s child is the best player in that age group, that team would not get a selection in the first round. We slot the two coach�s children in relationship to their abilities of the other players in the group. We try to make the draft as fair as possible. Once again it is subjective.

Costs?

Registration costs $135. There are a limited number of scholarships for this. The tournament fees can cost $40 per tournament per player. There will be lodging costs, meal costs, and transportation costs. This can amount to $750 depending on the number of tournaments the team decides to play in. There is no financial assistance for these costs. For planning purposes, you should figure it may cost around $900.00 per child to play Select.

2009/2010 SELECT SEASON.

	Select Coach manual (posted soon)
	Select Season Rules
	Select Season Schedule
	Informational Meetings: future meetings will be posted here   If you have questions or comments please contact the Select Committee at:    2009/2010 Select Committee Coordinator: Jim Belenis Asst. Coordinator: Amul Purohit Board Representative: Ed Hubbard Boys Coach Representative: Kurt Austin Girls Coach Representative: Kurt Yeaman Boys Player Representative: Cindi Kerr Girls Player Representative: Mark Bell Referee Representative: John Shields Member At Large: Beth McManis Member At Large: Scott Carpenter

Criteria for the Select Season:

We encourage all eligible players (U10 and above) to apply! ***NEW*** To be eligible to participate in the Select program a player must be registered, and must have participated, in the prior fall season no later than the first weekend in October. The player must participate in at least 70 percent of the Fall Season, which includes the Jamboree (U10 and U12) or Regional Tournament (U14, U16 and U19). Rained-out games are included as games played, and players must meet regional playing time guidelines (currently � of each fall game). Players are expected to attend regularly scheduled practices. Exceptions to the eligibility requirements above may be allowed on a case-by-case basis with approval of the Select Committee. Players must participate in the same division in Select as they participated in during the prior Fall Season. The number of teams that will be formed in each division varies from year to year. In general, you can expect up to 1 Select team for every 6 fall teams. This will primarily depend on the number of qualified volunteer coaches. ***NEW*** U10 coaches must have completed the U12 coaching class in order to be considered to coach U10. All other coaches, including assistants must have the appropriate coaching class level to their age group. There will be no exceptions to this rule. You will travel more than you do in the fall, as the league could involve teams from Concord, Walnut Creek, Mount Diablo, Pleasant Hill, Stockton and Rio Vista, as well as Winters, Rio Linda and Antelope (and possibly others - this may vary from year to year).

A high level of commitment is expected from both the coaches, players and the parents. Select is for motivated and enthusiastic players. For the good of the team, a player must regularly attend practices and games. Parents are expected to participate in league organization, particularly in the running of the Select Tournament and the Davis World Cup.

Additional Information:

• October 1 Decide on Select coaches
• October 9 Registration ends for players
• October 13 Send out confirmation emails of registration
• October 24 Preview workout U10 B & G only TBD
• November 1 Preview workout U10 B & G only TB
• November 15-19 Drafts
• November 21 Email wait list people
• November 24 Coaches can contact their players

Practice can start December 1st. Before the select season games schedule starts, teams can only have 2 contacts a week for a maximum of three total hours. A scrimmage counts as a contact.

For your planning purposes:

The select team will likely play half its games at away locations, so from January through mid-March, expect about five weekends during which you will play away games, usually in the Concord area, but sometimes Antelope or Stockton. All select teams participate in a tournament on a weekend in mid or late March. The tournament may be in the Bay Area or in Davis. Besides the Select tournament, select teams traditionally participate in 3-5 of the following additional tournaments:

Select Season Tournament Results

Tournaments and their dates:

Newspaper Reporting for Select

Only regularly scheduled games and sanctioned tournament results are to be reported.  If you want to report results to the Davis Enterprise. The Davis Enterprise says that they will publish the results of AYSO Select games if they are submitted in the proper fashion. See the Select Newspaper page for details