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Weston Soccer Club
Proposed Draft
Policy re: Conflicts with Other Activities
11/04/2008
The Soccer Club’s mission is primarily developmental, not competitive. The Club seeks to help its players develop their soccer skills, their love for the game, their teamwork and sportsmanship and their character. The Club believes that attendance at practice is a vital component to such development. Playing time in games should be seen as a reward for hard work in practice and a chance to try out developmental lessons learned in practice.
The Soccer Club also recognizes that its players appropriately play other sports and enjoy other activities beyond soccer. Conflicts with soccer practice may arise, and the Club is committed to working with players to enable them to enjoy multiple sports/activities.
The Club therefore expects players to attend an average of one practice per week if they wish to play for a Weston Soccer Club team. Without this commitment, players miss an integral part of the Soccer Club development experience. They also prevent a player from a different team taking advantage of that experience, and they make it more difficult for their coach to plan and for their teammates to enjoy productive practices.
Therefore:
- If a player is able to foresee a practice conflict BEFORE registering for a soccer season, and knows that he/she will not be able to make one practice per week, the Club expects that player to skip that soccer season. There will be no placement penalty in future seasons for a player who skips a soccer season and is able to satisfy the practice requirement in future seasons. In other words, the placement of that player in future seasons will be based on the standard Club criteria including a) coach evaluations, b) Age Director input and c) tryout results.
- If, as sometimes happens, scheduling conflicts are not evident until a player has registered for a soccer season (or after teams have been selected), the Club expects the player to notify his/her coach or (if teams have not yet been selected) Age Director that unforeseen conflicts make it impossible for that player to attend one practice per week. The Club will ask the player who cannot make at least one practice a week to withdraw from playing soccer for a season or move to a different team. There will be no placement penalty for any player who withdraws from a WSC team and who is able to satisfy the practice requirement in future seasons.
- In exceptional cases, the Club may allow a non-practicing player to play games for the WSC team. This decision rests solely with the WSC.
Re: Club Soccer
The WSC recognizes that many of its players also play club soccer, and that there may be instances in which club and WSC practices conflict. The WSC acknowledges the development opportunities that club soccer provides, and accepts that in certain cases where practice conflicts exist, a player and his/her family may feel that the player’s development is better served by choosing club practices over WSC practices. However, this choice does not alleviate the need to attend at least one (1) practice per week. In such cases, there will be no placement penalty for any player who withdraws from a WSC team and who is able to satisfy the practice requirement in future seasons.
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