Just like the past two seasons, our registrations are all in one system - "Affinity." The Affinity system required by PA-West (our state-level youth soccer organization) is where our travel registration has been for several years, so if you are familiar with that and have logged in there before, you should skip down to "Registration Steps After Logging In."
If you have only used Blue Sombrero (this site) for registrations, then you'll need to make sure you connect to your Affinity account that was automatically created from your past Blue Sombrero registrations. There is an account for you at Affinity but you will have to have the password reset as if you forgot it. If you use the same email address that you typically used in past registrations, this should be relatively simple. If it has no recall of the email address you think you used, you can call Affinity for help (855-798-0470). In general, once it ties you to the account that is automatically there from past season uploads between the systems, your kids profiles will then be matched by the system.
If you have NEVER registered any kids in ANY NASC systems you will need to create a new free account at Affinity and enter some profile information for yourself and your children that wish to play.
The Affinity registration site is http://pa-nallegheny.affinitysoccer.com if you would like to proceed there to create your account before actually registering.
Registration Steps After Logging In
The Affinity system will automatically show you programs your child is eligible to register for based on their birth date after you have logged in and clicked on the "Register" button at the top right. After you answer questions on each screen, you proceed by clicking the "Continue" buttons at the bottom of the screen. "Register as a Player" for your child and the system will automatically select their group based on their age. You'll then choose "Travel" level for kids born before 2008 or "In-house" level for kids born after 2007.
If you want to "play-up" into an older age group, you must first register in the program the system aligns you with and then fill out this Google Form with your request.
Once you've selected Travel or In-house, you'll get a series of questions designed to help us place your child on a team. It's an imperfect way to place roughly 100 kids per age level onto teams, but we try to make it convenient for you and a balanced experience on the field for your child.
You'll be asked about insurance for registration and we advise that you DECLINE. It is not the insurance that is part of your registration fee should your child be injured, but rather insurance for registration refunds which are rarely questioned by our club. We cannot prevent it from offering you registration insurance. Our refund policy is listed on our website.
We have to start making Travel teams in July and In-house teams in early August. We apply late fees after mid-July as an incentive for you to register early enough for our volunteers to properly make the teams and make sure we have enough coaches to run them. Consider it like an overdue library book charge designed to support a non-profit providing community resources so the whole community is fairly served.