West Michigan Youth Soccer Association

Look here: WMYSA has a new club logo! WMYSA appreciates the grapic art assistance we received from Melinda Nikitas.

WMYSA Registration: Club registration deadline for player and coach registration submissions is August 25, 2010. After this date the late fee for registrations begins. There is $15 late fee for registrations submitted after August 25, 2010. WMYSA Academy registration due date is September 15 which is slightly later since player’s cards and rosters are not used.. For more information contact Gil Urban WMYSA Project Manager at gilurban@aol.com.

Misprint (Spring 2010 Season) on 40 of the 176 teams for WMYSA Roster and Cards ... if your team is 1 of the 40 then CLICK HERE for WMYSA letter to be printed and brought with you to games this fall

WMYSA COACHES Meeting: WMYSA annual fall coaches meeting is Monday August 30th at 7 pm at KVCC Auditorium. Each team is required to have a coach, assistant coach, or team manager attend. Team envelops with schedules, rosters, and player cards will be distributed to the individual team representative.

Local Area Player/Coach Development Opportunities

There are E and D coaching clinics throughout the state. Click http://ssl.hammerhead.net/MICoaching/DisplayCoachingClinicsnew.asp to see the enter state schedule

NEW: WMYSA introduces newletters to improve communications to WMYSA members and referees

WMYSA Coach and Manager Newletter (April 2010)

Click here to read Newlsletter

WMYSA Referee Newsletter (April 2010)

Click here to read newletter

WMYSA Board defines Tournament Sponsor Policy

The process for tournament approval includes an endorsement by the league for games played in our boundaries under the large umbrella of MSYSA and USYSA. Prior to 2006, WMYSA approved tournaments for the Portage Soccer Classic and the KISS Tournament run by TKO.

WMYSA does not charge any fees for reviewing and endorsing a tournament application. WMYSA receives no benefit from any tournament held within our geographical area.

Starting around 2007, Kingdom soccer began running tournaments under the approval of US Club Soccer, with a tournament over Labor Day weekend. Around the same time, TKO began running a second tournament in addition to KISS called the Fall Futbol Frenzy in August, promptly followed by a second tournament from Kingdom in early April 2008 prior to the WMYSA season, also under the approval of US Club Soccer.

In 2008 SoccerZone started a tournament that was for U12 & under division, which was heldover the Labor Day weekend. This tournament was not approved by WMYSA and was not sanctioned by MSYSA. In 2009, SoccerZone expanded their tournament to include full field games and requested WMYSA endorse their tournament to be covered under MSYSA/USYSA.

Since WMYSA was getting more and more request the board defined a policy for tournament sponsorship. The board felt WMYSA should place minimal restrictions to sponsorship for tournaments. The policy can be reviewed in detail by clicking on this Tournament Sponsorship policy link.

New Rules and Regulations:

WMYSA (together with MSYSA) administers 4 types of Special Requests. These are:

Player releases
Player transfers
Dual rosters
Play-up requests of more than one year

WMYSA has adopted going forward the following rules related to each type of request. Click here for details.

Click here for Rules and Regs information, including referee fees which are used for all home WMYSA league and home Elite games

CHECK OUT CALENDAR LINK FOR OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS

CHECK OUT LINKS PAGE FOR LOCAL 2009 TOURNAMENTS

Brian Kastman WMYSA Administrator at:

wmysasoccer@aol.com

1523 Edgeridge Cir.    Kalamazoo, MI 49008



WMSYA Statistician: Bill Rhodes. If you have any questions about score reporting or player cards please contact Bill at whrhodie@yahoo.com

WMYSA Supports USSF World Cup Soccer Bid.

WMYSA made a total donation of $4,350 to the US World Cup bid. This was a combination of club donations of $1850 and WMYSA of $2,500. Thanks to all that contributed. WMSYA was recognized at the MSYSA AGM as one of two Platinum level league donors. Also, MSYSA will match that donation making our combined MSYSA/WMYSA donation $8,700.

At the MSYSA Annual Meeting a board member of USSF addressed the members and requested in addition to funds that we Encourage our Members to Sign the World Cup Support Petition. Please consider doing this by going to http://www.gousabid.com/page/s/sticker and entering your information.

  Clubs Supporting US World Cup Soccer Bid

Thank You Clubs - You have donated collectively over $1500 !!!

TKO Soccer Club

Portage Soccer Club

Sturgis Soccer Club
River Oaks Soccer Club
SWM Select Soccer Club

Marauders Elite Soccer Club

Shoreline Breakers Soccer Club

Red Arrow Soccer Club

Kalamazoo Soccer Club

BC Fire Soccer Club