Los Alamos Youth Soccer League

April 2006 Meeting Minutes

April 26, 2006

 

Board Members Present:  Wolfgang Runde, John Wilcox, Chad Olinger, Paul Criscuolu, Jim Tencate, Dean Obermeyer, Armand Groffman, Steve Clarke, Karl Hjelvik

 

Non-Board Member Present: Lynn Murrell (Advanced Team Registrar)

 

Absent:  Jay Justice, Amy Lemke

 

Meeting called to order at 6:35 p.m.

 

Items added to agenda:  No new items were added to the agenda.  Dean made the motion to approve agenda; Chad seconded the motion.  Motion carried. 

 

Review and approve February 27, 2006 LAYSL Board meeting minutes: 

 

Jim moved to approve February 27, 2006 LAYSL Board meeting minutes as presented; Dean seconded the motion.  Motion carried.

 

Reports

Past President:

Dean talked about the challenges with having two youth soccer clubs in Los Alamos.  Wolfgang thanked Dean for his work as president and helping LAYSL back on track. 

 

President:

Wolfgang introduced himself and told the board about his involvement in the league as a coach and vice-president.

 

Risk Manager / Vice President: 

Armand introduced himself and he has had 3 kids playing soccer in LAYSL.  There was some discussion on risk management.

 

Treasurer:

The financial report as of April 25, 2006 was distributed. After some discussion, Dean moved to approve the financials and Chad seconded the motion.  The motion carried. 

 

Recreational Team Registrar:

 

Nothing to report

 

Advanced Team Coordinator Report:

 

Lynn informed the board that we had 5 boys and 4girls team for the fall and we had an additional 3 girls team for the spring. We had 184 advanced team players.  The new NMYSA on-line registration system is working great.  We are officially registered with NMYSA to use the on-line system.

 

Recreational Team Coordinator:

 

Nothing to report

 

Advanced Team Coordinator:

Paul introduced himself.  He played on the first competitive team boys team in Los Alamos.  He played High School soccer for Los Alamos.  He has also coached 4 different High Schools in the state and he helping Jiri Kubicek with the girls HS team.  He has also coached recreational in LAYSL the last two years.

He met with the past advanced coordinator.

We will have try-outs in 2 weeks.

There was some discussion on U-10 teams and we need to send out a call for coaches and it was also suggested to distribute flyers to the schools for our advanced try-outs.

 

Referee Coordinator: 

 

Chad introduced himself.  He has been involved in soccer for the last ten years through his kids and he has been a referee since 2000. 

 

Equipment Coordinator:

 

No report.

 

Field Coordinator:

Steve introduced himself.

He is working on getting fields for games this and next weekend.

 

Training Coordinator:

John introduced himself and he has helped coach the Laser 93 for the last 2 years. 

There was some discussion on different licenses and clinics we can bring to Los Alamos.

 

Publicity / Website Coordinator:

Jim introduced himself and he is currently coaching a u-10 recreational team.

Jim talked about the mailing list, newsletter and the web page.

 

Old Business

All issues have been closed.

 

New business

 

Mentorship program was discussed.

Field problems: Western area field and Dara Jones can be used for the fall,

 

Field size for u-10 was discussed and the board decided to have one U-10 larger size game at a time instead of the 2 smaller size games.

 

U-13 boys team-John Wilcox and Graham Rich will coach the team because Dario Castano stepped down as coach.

 

The board discussed the recreational league and how we can increase the number of players in all age groups.

 

The board will contact Northern Soccer Club and Little League to start dialogue with the two leagues.

 

Registrar issues were discussed.  The recreational registrar had turned late registrations away and the board was not pleased with it because we want the kids in Los Alamos to play soccer. 

 

Meeting adjournment:

 

Motion made by Jim to adjourn the meeting.  Karl seconded the motion. Motion carried.  Meeting adjourned at 9:10 PM. 

 

Submitted by,

 

Karl Hjelvik

 

Attachment:  Action Item List

 

 


 

LAYSL Board Members

Action Items

 

 

None