Kansas State Youth Soccer Association Annual General Meeting January 28th, 2017 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING SCHEDULE Saturday, January 28th, 2017 Hilton Garden Inn 12080 S. Strang Line Road Olathe, KS 66062 Location: Friday, January 27th, 2017 8:00-10:00PM: Board Meeting Hilton Garden Inn Saturday, January 28th, 2017 8:30AM-10:30AM: Registrar Session Salon B GotSoccer - Billy Powell Got Soccer Tools & New Features 9:30AM-10:30AM: District Commissioners Meetings Lobby 11:00AM: Annual General Meeting Salon B 2017 Kansas State Youth Soccer Awards Banquet Hosted along with Heartland Soccer Association Join us at the Museum at Prairie Fire 5801 W. 135th St. Overland Park, KS 66223 7pm-10pm Kansas Hall of Fame Inductees Founder - Jim Anderson Founder- Joseph Henley Outstanding Achievement - Richard Kaminsky Awards Winners Volunteer of the Year – Kristie Cleaver (MUSC) Administrator of the Year- Pam Gnoza (Sporting Blue Valley) Girls Competitive Coach of the Year – Kat Benton (Sporting Kaw Valley) Boys Competitive Coach of the Year – Keith Sale (SBV/Cobras Independent Team) Young Female Referee of the Year – Emily Astle Young Male Referee of the Year – Braxton Pauls Goal of the Year- Tim Williams (MUSC) Save of the Year- Tori Spurgeon (Kansas Rush) Kansas State Youth Soccer Association 2016 Kansas Hall of Fame Inductees Jim Anderson Joseph Henley Rich Kaminsky Founder Founder Outstanding Achievement Congratulations New Inductees The Kansas State Youth Soccer Association is proud to announce the inductees to the 2017 Kansas Hall of Fame. Congratulations on your achievement! We appreciate your longtime dedication to soccer, especially in the State of Kansas. We applaud each of you for all your effort in helping Kansas become what’s now known to many as the “Soccer Capital of America.” Kansas State Youth Soccer Association 2016 State Award Winners Kat Benton Keith Sale Pam Gnoza Girls Competitive Boys Competitive Administrator of the Coach of the Year Coach of the Year Year Kristie Cleaver Emily Astle Young Braxton Pauls Volunteer of the Female Referee of the Young Male Referee Year Year of the Year Congratulations Award Winners Our State Award Winners are submitted to the Region Selection Committee for consideration and if chosen to the National Board at US Youth Soccer to be honored at the Awards Gala/ Banquest during the NSCAA/ US Youth Soccer Workshop Event. Clubs, players, parents, and team managers should consider honoring someone that has made an impact in their lives through these awards. This year has been a year of vast changes for Kansas State Youth Soccer. One of the changes involved U.S. Soccer announcing the transition to birth year registration in fall of 2016. We worked with our members to help ensure that these changes were implemented as efficiently and smoothly as possible. We provided as much information to our members as early as possible so when birth year registration began it was a success. U.S. Soccer also introduced their Player Safety Campaign-a concussion Initiative that provides guidelines that were implemented in January of 2016. The information that was given to us was for guidance and direction when dealing with head injuries. These actions were a response to U.S. Soccer’s concussion lawsuit settlement and the rollout of their player safety guidelines under “Recognize to Recover.” Those changes included: • Modifying substitution rules to allow players who may have suffered a concussion during games to be evaluated without penalty • Eliminating heading for children 10 and under Please note that U11 is listed in the U.S. Soccer Concussion Initiative document because U11 players can be 10 years old at the beginning of the season • Limiting the amount of heading in practice for children between the ages of 11 and 13 The implementation of small-sided games will be mandated by US Soccer for the fall of 2017, however, Kansas and other US Youth Soccer State Associations proceeded with implementation in August 2016. Those implementations included: • U6-¬-8 (birth years ’11-¬-’09) is 4v4 (no GK) • U9-¬-10 (birth years ’08-¬-’07) is 7v7 (including a GK) • U11-¬-12 (birth years ’06-¬-’05) is 9v9 (including a GK) • U13 (birth year ’04) and above is 11v11 (including a GK) This year with all of the changes with youth soccer, U.S. Soccer felt it was time establish a more collaborative relationship between the State Associations and U.S. Soccer. They invited KSYSA to a meeting, along with several other state associations, to brainstorm ways to have a better relationship with the federation. This opened up a door that had never been in place. One of the largest takeaways the meeting produced from both the group and individuals was that there was a desire for more communication. As a result, they created a monthly membership update through webinars. The intent of these webinars was to keep us informed and up to date with what is happening currently and any future plans at U.S. Soccer and throughout the membership. The KSYSA staff is busy every day working toward building relationships with our members. We are continuing to find ways to provide better customer service and seeking ways to improve efficiency and outreach. We hired Kelly Morgan as an Administrative Assistant to help continue our goal in servicing our membership at a high level. In November, we solidified a partnership with Sporting KC. The partnership involves working together to help increase opportunities for more coaching education, working on enhancing our state competitions for our membership and collaborating on community outreach efforts. some, but we have noted that this is an efficient way for clubs and the state association to document these transitions KSYSA programs’ growth is ongoing and we continue to work with our members to assist new and existing programs. At the last KSYSA AGM the Board agreed to contribute funding for implementing a State Wide Mentoring program. The idea was to build on the program that had been implemented by the Heartland Soccer Association. The focus was to identify activities that would be incremental to the in-place Referee Certification process to improve Referee performance and deliver an even better soccer experience for the players, coaches and fans who are members of KSYSA. The program that was proposed was a multi-stage Mentoring program: · Stage 1: Peer Mentoring with a concentration on the new – 2 year Referees. Peer Mentoring would enable the SRC to expand its resources to touch more Referees. This remained the focus for the Fall season. · Stage 2: Advanced Mentoring with a concentration on the 2 – 5 year Referees. The approach would be to engage more experienced Referees to work with the less experienced to help them understand how to more effectively manage 11 versus 11 matches (where connecting the dots is as important as understanding the Laws of the Game). · Stage 3: The USSF Assessment program which would focus on Referees who were at least 18 years old and the purpose would be to officially advance them in Grade. This would build the foundation to support the highest levels of youth soccer and the growing volume of adult soccer matches. Stage 3 would adhere to the USSF Assessment guidelines. The Referee Mentoring program was implemented into Leavenworth and Topeka in the fall and spring. There has been a lot of great feedback from the program. KSYSA’s Sydney Currier joined the Region II Soccer Across America Committee this fall, in an effort to grow this program at the State and Regional level. There are several ways we will have utilized the SAA program. One of the ways we implemented SSA was by hosting 5 free soccer clinics with the Kansas City Kansas YMCA and Latino Health for All Coalition organizations. The clinics were held in the Kansas City, KS area and run by coaches from the YMCA. In the fall of 2016 KSYSA worked with the Ridgeview After School Program in Olathe, KS; a program that was run by Alec Lemmon of Toca and Olathe Wesleyan Church. KSYSA was present at the program’s year end celebration, where DOC, Nathan Hunt spoke and presented KSYSA donated balls to each participant. The refugee program was started by Mariya and John Goodbrake and was brought to our attention through Pete Weaver, KSYSA Secretary. This program has grown from 12 players to 240 players in a short period of time. KSYSA is helping by registering these players so that they have an opportunity to play in leagues and tournaments like the other kids in Kansas. Most of these players are financially unable to afford the cost of competitive soccer and we will continue to put every effort into keeping this opportunity alive for these kids. The KSYSA state tournaments continue to be a great source of competition and community involvement. There has been an increase in the number of teams participating in these tournaments. KSYSA has outsourced for media production of our games. Video footage from our tournaments has been provided by Jim Braun, owner of ProPotential. -Spring State Cup: 81 Teams registered and participated -Spring President’s Cup: 28 Teams registered and participated -Spring Jr. State Cup: 25 Teams Registered and participated -Fall State Cup (U15-U18 Girls): 28 Teams registered and participated -Fall Presidents Cup (U15-U18 Girls): 13 Teams registered and participated. This was KSYSA’s first year providing competition to the U18 age group for this event. KSYSA continues to show our support and assist in the functioning of US Youth/Region II leagues. Kansas continues to have a high number of teams participating in Midwest Regional League each season. In the fall of 2016, 23 Kansas teams participated. MUSC ran their yearly TOPSoccer program this year during the month of September.