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A Note from Director of Coaching for Stow Soccer Club: Rob Marinaro

Hello Coaches,

I have had the pleasure of working with Stow Soccer Club now for five years. Over my time with the club, we have tried to create the best environment for our young players to develop and continue to learn.

I felt it was time to put something together for our coaches to continue developing. I am very grateful for all our coaches who give so much of their time and effort. I wanted to help and see if we could make this a little easier. Below I have listed some websites that I have found to be extremely useful in creating training sessions that are age appropriate and most importantly FUN.

I ask everyone, if you are not doing so already, to bring a practice plan to your training session with one major theme to train that day.

Things to keep in mind:

U5 to U8 – The majority (if not all) of your training should be one player with one ball. If they are not having fun, find a drill where they will. Have FUN!

U9 to U11 –The DOCs will do Footskills Mon through Thursday for your first half hour of training. We have decided, as a club, that we will develop our younger players to be technically sound. The remainder of your training session should be small number games and teachings (1v.1, 2v.2, and 3v.3).

U12 and up - Move from Technical Warm-up, to small numbered games, and then to your tactical session.

Tremendous website - http://www.oysan.org/Coaches/coachingarticles.htm
Tom Turner DOC of Ohio North is my mentor in coaching and shows how the game should teach our kids.

Fantastic website- http://www.soccerxpert.com
This website is broken down to age appropriate drills from under 6 to 17 year olds.

Wonderful website - http://www.jaymoore.com/jpill.htm
Jeff Pill breaks everything down and even gives you characteristics of age group players.

Very nice websites - http://www.nscaa.com/subpages/20060331182857141.php
Great drills, but they don’t break it down to age appropriate.

COACHES / VOLUNTEER BACKGROUND CHECKS

Anyone working on the field with our kids is required to have a basic background check on file with us. This is required for our liability insurance and it must be completed before the season begins.
To complete your background check, please do the following:

Go to OYSAN and fill out the Child Safe Risk Management form: http://www.oysan.org/For_ADMINISTRATORS/Risk_Management.htm

* Coaches please note, this needs to be renewed every 12 months.

LEAGUE DESIGNATION: You must select: STOW SOCCER CLUB and GAASA
Please PRINT and send me a copy of the of the Application Page BEFORE YOU SUBMIT AND THE confirmation PAGE AFTER you SUBMIT.

OYSAN Coach Registration Form. Please complete, sign and send to Zoe Walsh. (New Spring coaches and All In-House coaches) 4790 Lawson Dr., Stow, Ohio 44224 along with:
Copy of you Driver License. (New Travel Coaches)
1 inch Photo. (New Travel Coaches)
A copy of you Coaches license. (New Travel Coaches)

Click here to download the
OYSAN Coach Registration Form

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Other Links

National Soccer Coaches Association of America

Greater Akron Amateur Soccer Association

Ohio Youth Soccer Association North

U.S. Youth Soccer Online

FineSoccer.com

Game Reschedule Request Procedures

1.	The coach requesting the reschedule must contact the opposing coach. They need to agree on a new date and time. (Please check field availability.)
2.	Once a new date and time is agreed on, then each coach must contact their club rep. who handles inputting the reschedule request.
3.	The club rep. for the requesting coach will enter the request into the system and the club rep. for the opposing coach will will then go into the system and verify the request. A friendly phone call to the club rep. to let them know the request is entered and they can now go in and verify.
4.	Once verified, the VP Girls/Boys will then final approve the request.
5.	Once the VP Girls/Boys final approves the request, the change will reflect on the schedule.
6.	A confirmation email will be sent out to the coaches.
7.	Tom Pickett will also be notified of these changes and notify the ref. assignors. (Please remember if your game is verifies the night before, you most likely will not be assigned a ref.)
8.	The VP's will only leave the reschedules request pending for 2 weeks, then they will be deleted from the system.

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