Remember:
SOCA’s goal is to provide enjoyable, high quality soccer programs which develop participant’s skills and encourages citizenship. SOCA is open to all youth in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area. The Recreational Program contributes to the overall mission by providing the opportunity for all players to have a safe, positive and educational recreational soccer experience through active participation, regardless of skill level.
The emphasis is on developing soccer skills in an enjoyable environment where players learn the rewards of contributing to a team effort. Enthusiastic participation is the primary objective.
SOCA Coaches Clinic:
Due to the weather, we have decided to move the Coaches Clinic to Tuesday, March 9th from 5 to 6 pm, here at the SOCA South Fork Soccer Park. SOCA Staff Coach Bill Mueller will be leading the session. Please come dress to play!
Recreation Coaches Handbook VYSA Kid Safe FormCoaches Handbook Agenda:
COVID-19 Policy Review: (Same policy that was in place for the Fall season. No major changes except that 2 spectators per player are allowed to attend the games on Saturday.)
SOCA is a club affiliated with Virginia Youth Soccer Association, which is does require that all coaches fill out a Kidsafe form and complete the Safesport Trainging.
SAFESPORT TRAINING INSTRUCTIONS
1. Go to: SAFESPORT TRAINING LINK
2. Applicants may need to create an account and then verify their account with a link emailed to them from SafeSport.
3. On the “Add Membership” form, select ‘U.S. Soccer’ as your organization.
4. Enter Access Code: YC3E-6P5G-YYIL-CS2M
5. There are 3 modules in order for the applicant to be SafeSport trained:
a. Sexual Misconduct
b. Emotional & Physical Misconduct
c. Mandatory Reporting
Once complete, the SafeSport certificate will automatically be uploaded into Sports Connect (Affinity) within approximately 24-48 hours.
6. Have everyone save a copy of their certificate for their own files!
HELPFUL HINTS
Coaches make sure to use the same name and email address as your Sports Connect (formerly Affinity) profile. This is how the SafeSport training certificate will automatically upload to your Sports Connect profile. Manually uploading certificates should not be necessary.
The training will take at least 90 minutes to complete. Applicants can start it and come back to it later.
For technical issues with a SafeSport account, contact their Help Desk at 720-676-6417 or complete the online help form at https://safesport.org/contact
Thank you for your continued hard work to keep our athletes safe! If you have questions for VYSA or Safesport you can contact Kristen Osteen = Kristen@vysa.com
My Top Online Practice Websites:
My Top Youtube Channels for Practice Ideas:
Practice Requests for varying field availability. Remember practices are flexible, if you are in need of changing something please feel free to reach out to me and I can let you know what options that I have available.
You may have fallen into one of three categories.
When can practices begin? — March 1st!
If you have your practice request all set, then you are free to get started the week of March 1st. If you need more time while you coordinate your schedule, feel free to communicate with your team to let them know when you intend to start practices.
This season, the maximum team roster size that I am looking to hold is 11 players per team this should keep crowd sizes down.
Ultimately, the most current and update Official Team Roster will always be located in your SOCA Account. If you have had some team changes and you are not sure about your players, just re-download the team roster from you SOCA Account for you to review.
If you wish to contact your team, you may do so.
Team Bags will be ready for pick up at the SOCA office next week. Please stop by during out office hours (Tuesday thru Thursday 10am to 6pm / Friday 10am to 4pm).
Expect to see:
***Team Bags will be available to pick up on Tuesday, March 2nd at the SOCA Office on Polo Grounds Rd.***
We are looking to offer a couple of opportunities for coaches to attend a clinic ran by one of the SOCA Staff Coaches. This will be a good opportunity to see how to run a practice session for this coming season. As well as get some suggestions that can help to manage the team.
Please come dressed to participate, light activity will be used.
Schedule: ***UPDATED*** (due to weather conditions, it has now changed)
Coaches Handbook Agenda:
COVID-19 Policy Review: (Same policy that was in place for the Fall season. No major changes except that 2 spectators per player are allowed to attend the games on Saturday.)
SOCA is a club affiliated with Virginia Youth Soccer Association, which is does require that all coaches fill out a Kidsafe form and complete the Safesport Trainging.
SAFESPORT TRAINING INSTRUCTIONS
1. Go to: SAFESPORT TRAINING LINK
2. Applicants may need to create an account and then verify their account with a link emailed to them from SafeSport.
3. On the “Add Membership” form, select ‘U.S. Soccer’ as your organization.
4. Enter Access Code: YC3E-6P5G-YYIL-CS2M
5. There are 3 modules in order for the applicant to be SafeSport trained:
a. Sexual Misconduct
b. Emotional & Physical Misconduct
c. Mandatory Reporting
Once complete, the SafeSport certificate will automatically be uploaded into Sports Connect (Affinity) within approximately 24-48 hours.
6. Have everyone save a copy of their certificate for their own files!
HELPFUL HINTS
Coaches make sure to use the same name and email address as your Sports Connect (formerly Affinity) profile. This is how the SafeSport training certificate will automatically upload to your Sports Connect profile. Manually uploading certificates should not be necessary.
The training will take at least 90 minutes to complete. Applicants can start it and come back to it later.
For technical issues with a SafeSport account, contact their Help Desk at 720-676-6417 or complete the online help form at https://safesport.org/contact
Thank you for your continued hard work to keep our athletes safe! If you have questions for VYSA or Safesport you can contact Kristen Osteen = Kristen@vysa.com
My Top Online Practice Websites:
My Top Youtube Channels for Practice Ideas:
Practice Requests for varying field availability. Remember practices are flexible, if you are in need of changing something please feel free to reach out to me and I can let you know what options that I have available.
You may have fallen into one of three categories.
When can practices begin? — March 1st!
If you have your practice request all set, then you are free to get started the week of March 1st. If you need more time while you coordinate your schedule, feel free to communicate with your team to let them know when you intend to start practices.
This season, the maximum team roster size that I am looking to hold is 11 players per team this should keep crowd sizes down.
Ultimately, the most current and update Official Team Roster will always be located in your SOCA Account. If you have had some team changes and you are not sure about your players, just re-download the team roster from you SOCA Account for you to review.
If you wish to contact your team, you may do so.
Team Bags will be ready for pick up at the SOCA office next week. Please stop by during out office hours (Tuesday thru Thursday 10am to 6pm / Friday 10am to 4pm).
Expect to see:
***Team Bags will be available to pick up on Tuesday, March 2nd at the SOCA Office on Polo Grounds Rd.***
We are looking to offer a couple of opportunities for coaches to attend a clinic ran by one of the SOCA Staff Coaches. This will be a good opportunity to see how to run a practice session for this coming season. As well as get some suggestions that can help to manage the team.
Please come dressed to participate, light activity will be used.
Schedule: ***UPDATED*** (due to weather conditions, it has now changed)