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Jan, 2017

Winter Session Update

January 2017

The Winter Session of Futsal has launched and is off and running!  It couldn't have been a success without the help of our wonderful volunteers! 

It starts with ref training before the session even starts - and Tim Cherms, Patrick Stranahan and Kristin Reiner are instrumental in recruiting and training our referees. And thank you to our referees, who stepped up to take the new child abuse prevention and concussion protocol trainings we required this year! We are also indebted to our pre-school program instructors, our school program instructors, Sean Nordquist and Edgardo Garcia who also have taken the additional trainings. 

Thank you to our board members who took shifts on opening weekend to greet all the players and coaches and to hand out team packets of t-shirts, and the ongoing support and advice they provide to keep Inside Sports running. The myriad ways they help behind the scenes are too many to list, but are appreciated in a huge way!  Thank you to Tom Rector, Chris Lawrence, Beth Johnson, Jim Spickler, Robert Nordquist and Ty Watkins.

But the biggest thank you goes out to our volunteer coaches! We could not offer the programs we do without your support and time! This year we asked coaches to take personal time to take almost 2 hours of online training - and they stepped up with total understanding and support of the policy to protect our players, taking two child abuse prevention courses and a concussion protocol training. We know your time is a valuable commodity and we are in your debt for your commitment to bringing our programs to the youth of our communities.  THANK YOU!

We are delighted to have Samantha Bredeson and Justine Crassweller as on site Gym Marshals to step in when a coach is unavailable to coach their team. They are long time soccer players and personable young women who have the ability to connect quickly with the players who are "coachless" for any given reason.  We are lucky to have them available! 


We are also grateful to the organizations which allow us the use of their facilities - Humboldt Bay Christian School and Bethel Church. Please be sure to check lost and found and keep your non-participating children supervised so that we can continue to use these facilities. Our "key carriers" open and set up the gyms so they are ready for games and then come back and break down, clean up and lock the gyms after games are over for the day.  We are happy to have Sean Nordquist, Edgardo Garcia, Max Gambin and Tim Cherms on board doing this for us!

Don't forget Inside Sports has partnered with AC Samoa for a cleat drive for players in Belize. We have bins at both gyms for you to drop off gently used cleats. The drive goes on for the next 2 weekends only.

If you are thinking ahead - the next youth session of Futsal will begin the weekend of March 3-4-5 and end the first weekend of May. Registration will open on the Inside Sports website next week.
The current session of adult coed will end February 1st.  We plan to start he next session immediately, with games starting on February 8 and ending in mid-March.

Thank you once again to all our players, families, board members, referees, instructors, gym marshals, key carriers and volunteers for all your help making Inside Sports successful!  We couldn't do it without you!