Attending the meeting were:

The mail-in registration will be eliminated. Instead, several walk-in registrations will be held at which registrees will receive a receipt. This should eliminate many of the problems experienced with Spring 2002 tournament registration. Names of registered players may be posted on the website.

An additional U8 girls team has been submitted to the Danvers Invitational.

U7 teams (Danvers only) will play games at the tournament. This will be administered separately from the general tournament.

The March minutes were approved. Pictures of weekly soccer action will be posted on the website.

Tournament activity was reported.

March activity was reported.

Treasurer’s report was accepted.

Wrapping up travel and intramural registrations.

Working on new and improved registration form.

DYS currently has 1166 registered players, 508 for travel and 658 for intramural.

Dates for Fall Registration have been set:

There is no "field 3" for travel games scheduled on Saturday. All Saturday games are played at Gates Field. On the Schedule, "field 3" is really field 2 at Gates and "field 2" is field 1 at Gates.

Important travel dates for coaches:

May 1: Travel rosters are frozen.

April 23: Last day to reschedule games.

June 2: Last day to makeup games.

Coaches should check the laminated roster they received from Essex County. Several teams have already discovered errors.

A travel committee meeting was held. Some modifications to the tryout format were made. An effort will be made to increase the number of evaluators by aggressively recruiting intramural coaches to attend the travel tryouts.

Tryout dates for Fall 2002 Select teams have been set:

Girls: June 2 and June 3 at Gates Field

Boys: June 9 and June 10 at Gates Field

U14 tryouts: 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

U12 tryouts: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

VP of Operations Report:

Equipment is set for the opening of the season. Nets will be anchored Friday, April 12.

Tom Conway has equipment for travel coaches in his shed:

U12-U14: 1 game ball and medkit each.

U16 and above: 2 game balls and medkit each.

Letters to parents of U6 players were sent out.

Intramural rosters have been updated for the spring. The U8 boys division dropped from 8 teams to 6. Players from the two eliminated teams were distributed among the remaining teams in a balanced fashion. A new schedule is being developed. Changes for the other age groups were minimal.

Next meeting April 23, 7:30 p.m. at the Danvers Stop’n’Shop.

The tournament playing schedule has been finished.

Boston Renegades will be playing the Sunday night of the Tournament at the H.S. field.

Mark McDevitt is the new representative from the Boston Bulldogs (replacing Meiron George). The Bulldogs will be doing game evaluations at the 10:30, noon and 1:30 travel games at Gates Field. Peter Bradley from the Renegades will be evaluating the intramural program.

Coaching clinics are planned to be held Sunday nights at Gates Field, dates TBD.

Spring edition of the Touchline is nearly ready and is anticipated to be distributed within a few days.

Mass Youth Soccer AGM meeting was attended.

Bob Bigelow talk was well attended.

A proposed donation to Project Graduation was approved.

A $15,000 donation to the Danvers American Little League building project at Plains Park was approved. The goal of this project is to add bathrooms and storage space to the snack bar facility next to Memorial Field. DYS will have use of storage space similar to what it has now at the garage on Park Street, which will shortly become unavailable. It is anticipated that the donation will pay for itself in approximately seven years, and will permanently solve DYS’s recurring storage problems.

4 coach’s corner tickets to professional soccer games were raffled off. Please attend the board meetings – maybe you will win some tickets next time!

 

 

Minutes taken by David Tye - Meeting ended at 9:40 PM