Greetings from Stafford Springs Soccer Club
Newsletter, Summer 2023
May 28, 2023
Greetings!
The spring travel and recreational soccer programs will be wrapping up their activities for the season in a couple of weeks. I hope all enjoyed what we could offer, and I look forward to operating in the fall. Enjoy the summer and stay healthy.
We are not offering any summer camp activities in town this year but I encourage anyone to join regional camps as these are fun opportunities to improve your skills.
Fall Soccer
We intend to offer the recreational programs for the three year old microkickers, four and five year old minikickers, and six and seven year old intramurals. These are super dependent on enough volunteers stepping up. The sessions will be activity based for some fun exercise and skill development. We will be very flexible depending upon enrollment and volunteer participation. Intramurals league play in the 4v4 format is an important development format and will be enhanced this upcoming season. We expect activities to commence on or about September 5 but registrations are open now.
We intend the travel programs will again compete in the CJSA NE District leagues. Teams will be formed based on player interest and coach availability. There are two levels of competition within the NE District and we enter teams based on their assessed competence. The club is planning to conduct a player assessment for the travel teams during the first week in August to help us determine the best way to form our teams. Please register on our website and you will be notified of the dates, time and places for pre-season and assessment activities as soon as they firm up. We are holding all registration fees at their same levels as last season.
Registration for all fall activities opens May 31. Please visit our SSSC website at
https://clubs.bluesombrero.com/staffordsprings
We will keep you informed from this website and its mobile friendly interface. We use the website going forward for online registrations and all communications. Please register with an email address that you actively monitor. We ask that you provide and subscribe a cell phone for text messages as the default is to be unsubscribed. We will limit use of that to time sensitive communications such as weather cancellations or field location changes.
Feel free to direct any questions to me at any time.
Thanks,
Dave Bachiochi, SSSC Youth Director, [email protected]
Newsletter, Spring 2023
March 9, 2023
Spring Soccer Registration
Attention Families of all SSSC players
SSSC Spring Soccer Registration Open
SSSC Extended Minikickers
The core age range for Minikickers is for kids born in 2017-2018. We are inviting kids born in 2016 and kids born 2019 to join the core group if they feel comfortable with that level of play. Registration fees are $20/player for anyone new to the program and $0/player for anyone who registered this past fall or winter indoor season. The playing season will be held once per week on Saturday mornings starting on April 22 and running through June 10. We can still use any interested volunteer coaches to facilitate play.
SSSC Travel Teams
We plan to field teams at the Boys U9-U10 and U12-U14 and Girls U9-U10, U11-U12, U13-U15. Registration fees are $35/player. The district playing season will start the weekend of April 22-23 and run through the weekend of June 10-11. We need to know who is playing by March 26 in order to form rosters and enter teams into the district for the spring season.
Newsletter, Winter 2023
January 3, 2023
Winter Indoor schedule
Attention Families of all SSSC players
Registration for winter indoor soccer is now open on the club website. We are opening the SHS gym on Sunday afternoons between 1-6pm starting January 8, 2023, for winter indoor soccer. The registration fee is $25 per player to cover the custodial fees for the 13 Sundays thru April 2. Please register now if you haven't already. We will be following the playing times shown below to start. This is subject to some adjustment in upcoming weeks as interest dictates. As always, volunteers are needed to facilitate the play. The format is casual, and scrimmage-oriented for the exercise and a bunch more touches on the ball.
Link to https://clubs.bluesombrero.com/staffordsprings to register.
1:00pm Minikickers and Microkickers (ages 3, 4, 5) & Intramurals (ages 6, 7) split gym
2:00pm Under 10 Girls (ages 8, 9, 10)
3:15pm Under 10-14 Boys (ages 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
4:30pm Under 15 and Under 18 Girls (together or split gym)
The groupings do not match the registration groups you used to register so feel free to join the group that best suits the player's age and ability.
Logistics
Enter the high school at the rear entrance nearest the cafeteria. Wear street shoes to enter the building but change into sneakers for the playing surface action to keep the winter weather off the gym floor. Bring water only to drink, and the water fountains will also be available. Arrive a few minutes before the scheduled start time so you are ready to get onto the gym surface at your assigned time.
Weather postponements will be posted on the website and sent via email and text message (check to be sure you have enabled that with us) in the event of inclement weather. Basically, if the weather is bad enough that school would be cancelled, soccer will be cancelled. And vice-versa.
Newsletter, Summer 2022
July 10, 2022
Fall Travel Pre-Season schedule!
- U13-U15 Girls - Coach Al Lemoine's group opens pre-season on Tuesday August 23, and will be training Tuesdays and Thursdays starting August 23 at 5:30pm at the Stafford High School varsity soccer North field.
- U12 Girls - Coach Anna Murphy's group opens pre-season on Monday August 29 starting at 5:30pm at the Stafford Middle School. Training will be held Mondays and Thursdays.
- U10 Girls - Coach Mike Richards opens pre-season on Wednesday August 3 and will be training Monday and Wednesdays at the Stafford Middle School.
- U13 Boys - Coach Mark Miller's group opens pre-season on Tuesday August 23, and will be training Tuesdays and Thursdays starting August 23 at 5:30pm at the Stafford High School varsity soccer South field.
- U12 Boys - Join either the U11 boys or U13 boys for pre-season workouts.
- U11 Boys - Coach Joe Introvigne's group opens pre-season on Tuesday August 16, and will be training Tuesdays and Thursdays starting August 16 at 5:30pm at the Stafford High School varsity soccer South field.
- U10 Boys - Coach David Blais' group opens pre-season on Monday August 22, and will be training Monday and Thursdays starting August 22 at 5:30pm at the Stafford Middle School field.
- U9 Boys/Coed - Anticipating having a team to compete in U9 Boys Division 4. Need kids and a coach. Schedule to be determined.
The registration categories are set up by age. If you find that you need to register into a different group than what your coach is covering, just do so, join their training session and we will make the corrections as team rosters are formed. Players are invited to join other groups for extra workouts during August as vacation season winds down at different times.
Newsletter, Summer 2022
May 30, 2022
Greetings!
The spring travel and recreational soccer programs will be wrapping up their activities for the season in a couple of weeks. I hope all enjoyed what we could offer, and I look forward to operating in the fall. Enjoy the summer and stay healthy.
We are not offering any summer camp activities in town this year but I encourage anyone to join regional camps as these are fun opportunities to improve your skills.
Fall Soccer
We intend to offer the recreational programs for the three year old microkickers, four and five year old minikickers, and six and seven year old intramurals. These are super dependent on enough volunteers stepping up. The sessions will be activity based for some fun exercise and skill development. We will be very flexible depending upon enrollment and volunteer participation. Intramurals league play in the 4v4 format is an important development format and will be enhanced this upcoming season. We expect activities to commence on or about September 1 but registrations are open now.
We intend the travel programs will again compete in the CJSA NE District leagues. Teams will be formed based on player interest and coach availability. There are two levels of competition within the NE District and we enter teams based on their assessed competence. The club is planning to conduct a player assessment for the travel teams during the first week in August to help us determine the best way to form our teams. Please register on our website and you will be notified of the dates, time and places for pre-season and assessment activities as soon as they firm up. We are planning to refresh our travel uniform kit this season. Details about how to order online are forthcoming. Stay tuned.
Registration for all fall activities is now open. Please visit our SSSC website at
https://clubs.bluesombrero.com/staffordsprings
We will keep you informed from this website and its mobile friendly interface. We use the website going forward for online registrations and all communications. Please register with an email address that you actively monitor. We ask that you provide and authorize a cell phone for text messages. We will limit use of that to time sensitive communications such as weather cancellations or field location changes.
Feel free to direct any questions to me at any time.
Thanks,
Dave Bachiochi, SSSC Youth Director, [email protected]