From Ken:

All of the CASL 00 Premier Black galleries that I put up will be here:

http://www.kenbulmerphotography.com/00PremierBlack

Here’s a direct link to the North Meck tournament:

http://www.kenbulmerphotography.com/00PremierBlack/North-Meck-Kickoff

The password will be ‘casl’ (lower case) on all the galleries.

From this past weekend I’ve got about 350 pictures that I’ve flagged that I’ll export to print quality JPG’s and cut them onto a CD for anyone on the team who wants them to print or use on facebook, etc…

I hope that everyone has had a nice weekend and that the boys had a good first week of training. I’m sorry we haven’t been there – but as many of you heard, Andrew caught a nasty virus last week and missed the entire week of practice. We will be back on Tuesday for the scrimmage game.

The good news is that Conner RC is back from vacation and we should have a full squad as we prepare for Charlotte this weekend (and moving forward).

Now, the notes:

1. Training this week will be Monday and Wednesday ONLY as we’ll be traveling to Charlotte on Friday for the tournament. Do not come to WRAL on Friday.

2. We have a full squad for the scrimmage Tuesday night against the CASL Hawks. They will be wearing black – so let’s just wear our YTS T-Shirts and black shorts for the game. We will start around 6:15P so please be to Dunkin Donuts (#9) no later than 6:00P. We will finish around 7:30P.

3. I will send a separate email out later today about the tournament this weekend.

Let me know if you have any questions or need anything

All-

I am very happy to announce that we’ve added a 12th player for the upcoming season by the name of William Sheehan. William’s parents are Allison and Jeff Sheehan.

He has been out at Team Camp and is now officially on the squad. If you are there tonight at camp – I’ll make sure to point William out.

Welcome!

A few final notes:

1. Please be at the Fieldhouse by no later than 3:50P today so we can finish the team carding processing. For those of you who can’t make it – we’ll make arrangements upon your return.

2. There will be two boys out today: Mihir and Conner. As far as I know, everyone else will be there. Please advise if you can’t make it.

3. There are no pre-set fields for Team Camp – once we are done with carding, we will go outside as all the players will be at the Stadium and will be instructed on where to go (see the note below from Jean). I know that doesn’t help with parking and pick up – but it is how they are handling it each day. Team camp is 4:30P-6:30P.

Dear Managers,

Please let your team members know that all players are supposed to meet on Durham Bulls field (Stadium) at 4:30 each day of team camp. The coaches will take the players to their assigned fields each day following the daily demo that is part of camp.

Have a great weekend! See you next week.

Jean Hogshead | Head Administrator
Capital Area Soccer League
3300 Woman’s Club Drive Suite 1 Raleigh NC 27612

4. I will have the T-Shirts for each family there at 3:50P – so if you are new to the Classic/YTS program, you can put it on right there (which you will need to do).

5. There is no camp tomorrow – and then again on Wednesday and Thursday. Next week we will fall back to M/W/F.

6. Scrimmage – a scrimmage has been organized for Tuesday, August 16th at 7:00P (Field TBD). We will be playing a U11 Challenge team that evening to give Coach Eric the chance to see the boys play prior to Charlotte.

7. Team Fees – thanks to all of you that have worked with Jodi to get your $267 in for team fees. If there are any issues, Jodi will make me aware and we’ll take the appropriate steps to rectify.

It is going to be a great year and it all starts today. See you at WRAL!

A few important items as we near the start of Team Camp on August 1st:

1. Player Cards – Monday August 1st

One of the most important pre-season tasks we must complete is getting the boys player cards ready. CASL helps us with this process by assigning some time prior to one of the Team Camp sessions to have us complete the cards. Our session has been set for Monday, August 1st at 3:50P upstairs at the Fieldhouse at WRAL. At that time, the boys will sign their card – confirm the information and then have them laminated. As of know, I know that Mihir and Conner will be absent so I’ll work with them directly to have it completed.

2. Practice T-Shirts

I picked up the Classic Practice T-Shirts on Friday so we need to figure out a time to pass them out to everyone. Worst case – I can meet prior to the start of Team Camp and hand them out. I was also thinking that – for anyone who is in town next Saturday – we could meet for lunch somewhere – let the boys hangout and give them out then. Let me know what works best for all of you. And to our YTS friends – they are exactly the same as last year.

3. Uniform Ordering Issues

I’ve been alerted by a few families that Eurosport is claiming that there are “delays” in the logos being available for the uniform(s). Please let me know if that applies to you and I’ll escalate it myself.

Countdown is 7 days from tomorrow – see you then.

Here’s the U11 training schedule – starting on August 8th – for the boys:

Monday’s – 4:30 – 6:00P – WRAL – Sherwin Williams (Grass) - this is in the way back of WRAL (Field 8 on the map)

Wednesday’s – 4:30 – 6:00P – Cedar Fork #3 - not the same location as YTS – more towards the middle

Friday’s – 4:30 – 6:00P – WRAL – Centex - on the immediate right when you pull into WRAL

This doesn’t apply to Team Camp which is starting on August 1st at WRAL (field TBD).

• I have turned in all the forms to CASL today.  If you haven’t given me your check authorization form – you must send it directly to CASL if you want automatic bank draft.  Thanks to everyone for giving me the information in such a timely manner.
• Let me know if you are having any problems ordering the uniforms through Eurosport.  I completed Andrew’s the other day and once you hit the “required” button on the left (thanks Doug) – it is pretty straight forward.
• Website - I’ll begin to update the website in the next few weeks.
• Game scheduling – I am currently working with the other U11 Team Managers to start setting some dates down for our internal games.  I’ll update everyone accordingly.
• Lastly, as we discussed during our meeting, the tournament schedule for the boys is written in “sand pen” and I am already hearing rumblings that we won’t be going to Charlotte on the 20th and 21st of August, but now may be going somewhere else on Labor Day.  Although I’ve never been one to let facts get in the way of good fiction, I think at this point I’ll just wait until I hear officially from John and Paul about the plans before I advise further about the tournament plans.  The only definite tournament is the CASL Shootout in November.