I. ATTENDEES:
Name |
|
Position / Division |
Brad Carr |
Webmaster |
|
Greg Devine |
Field Coordinator |
|
Sean Downey |
|
Junior Boys Division Director |
Dan Gilbert |
U14 Girls Travel |
|
Christopher Gong |
President |
|
Grant Owen |
Senior Boys Co-Division Director |
|
Nguyet Lam |
Secretary |
|
David MacKay |
Referee Coordinator |
|
Suzie MacKay |
Registrar |
|
Steve McCoy |
Senior Girls Co-Division Director |
|
Rory Murray |
Senior Girls Co-Division Director |
|
Joseph Slankas |
Treasurer |
|
Joseph Theis |
Vice President |
HOUSEKEEPING:
Approved meeting minutes from two meetings in June 2017
Brad will start posting meeting minutes to website. Some modifications to minutes may be needed before posting to public.
NUMBERS
We are down 306 players compared to last year
Senior Boys & Kickers are biggest drop
Suzie reached out to those individuals who did not sign up again
May need to cut back on coaches & spring training
Are we losing kids to club soccer?
We want to run an ad in Hingham Journal, PTO newsletters & ask school principals to promote
Junior Boys - There are currently 8 teams (11 per team for 6 v 6) and may increase to 10 teams if more enrollment
SCHEDULE
We compared our schedule with other sports: LAX, field hockey, baseball
In-Town plays on Saturdays. Season starts 9/16 and ends 11/11
Kickers K |
8:30 & 10:00 |
Middle School |
(Firm) |
Kickers 1 Boys |
11:30 |
Middle School |
(Firm) |
Kickers 1 Girls |
1:00 |
Middle School |
(Firm) |
Junior Girls |
8:30 |
Carlson Field |
(Firm) |
Junior Boys |
10:00 |
Carlson Field |
(Firm) |
Senior Girls |
11:30 & 1:00 |
Carlson Field |
(Tentative) |
Senior Boys |
1:00 & 2:15 |
Carlson Field |
(Tentative) |
No master schedule from Coastal yet
Travel schedule coming soon from Steve Fetsko. Season starts 9/9 and ends 11/11
No games Columbus Day weekend
No make up games
FIELDS
Carlson has four fields available
Union Field Q will change from Fall to Spring to rest it
Waiting for Galway to respond before we can determine layout of field
TEAM PRACTICES
Team practice at 4:00 is just not feasible
Junior & Senior Boys Mon & Wed Select
Junior & Senior Girls Tue & Thursday Galway
UK ELITE
We are officially done with UK Elite
Their rates are higher & our enrollment is down
We terminated relationship on good terms
TRYOUTS
Happy & impressed with Select’s performance at tryouts
They were thorough in their evaluation & kept same coaches every day
There were few complaints from parents but that is normal
For the future, we want to add a third night for “call backs”
U14 Girls (D.Gilbert)
Coach from Kingston moved to Hingham plans to coach. This is okay so long as he passes CORI
Need head coach for Balance Team
Suzie is working on CORIs
Referees (D.MacKay)
Registrations open this week
Cap at 40
Concerned about refs for travel games. Rob Thorne had to borrow refs from adjacent towns last year.
Rockland training session already full
Referee Meeting is set for 9/7 6:00-8:30
U12 Girls (J.Theis)
Jim Roche resigned; his daughter is out. Jim Hughes may be interested in taking his place as Division Director.
Senior Girls (R.Murray)
Made blended 3rd & 4th grade teams
Make a note that we will reshuffle teams if one is too dominant
Field Coordinator (G.Devine)
He has to look at fields
Grab more flags for Union Street fields
Has question re: layout to determine how much paint to buy
Order porta potty to be at Union Street prior to Labor Day (9/1)
Boosters are ready to go!
Kickers (S.McCoy)
Kickers K still putting teams into Sports Pilot
Kickers 1 has 9 teams; working through it
Junior Boys (S.Downey)
Still working on team
UPDATES FROM DIVISION DIRECTORS
EQUIPMENT (C.Gong)
Needs volunteers to help pullovers at games (price $40-$50)
Costs us $5 to embroider
Storage facility needs to be cleaned out; need volunteers
OTHER MISCELLANEOUS
Coastal introducing “Restraining Line.” Suzie will email details to everyone.
C.Gong proposes doing same for Junior & Senior level as well.
COACHES’ MEETINGS
A. Travel |
Wed 9/6 |
7:00PM |
Middle School |
B. In-Town |
Wed 9/13 |
7:00PM |
Middle School |
NEXT MEETINGS:
9/21 7:00PM Hingham Library Fearing Room
10/19 7:00PM Hingham Library Fearing Room