Dick’s Sporting Goods generously donated water bottles to all the players who participated in BRYC’s Spring Break Footskills and Goalie Programs.

Now they’ve given BRYC 10% discount coupons for a variety of soccer supplies including apparel, balls, cleats, shin guards, goals, rebounders, and more.  Simply click on their logo to the right to download your discount coupons, good through July 15, 2013. 

Thanks so much to Dick’s Sporting Goods for their support of recreational youth sports!!

BRYC Coaches... warm up those legs and get ready to take to the field! On June 22 at 12:00, we will have the 2nd Annual Coach's Challenge at Wakefield Park.

The Coach's Challenge is a game that pits the boy's team coaches of BRYC against the girl's team coaches. For the past two seasons, the boy's team coaches have won the game. This season the girl's team coaches are looking for a victory!

The game is meant to be a fun... but it's also meant to be a thank you to our coaches and their families for their dedication, their time and another great season of soccer. So after the game, we will be serving sandwiches from Ledo's courtesy of BRYC, and sharing a  big BRYC cake.

New this season will be the awarding of prizes to the coaches who completed the Coaching Incentive Program. This program is meant to reward you for activities that make you a better and more effective coach. During the season, you earned points for activities and accomplishments. When you get to 12 points, you turn your sheet in to me and you are entered to win prizes. Prizes include team equipment and gift certificates to restaurants and sports equipment stores. (Click on the link below to print the checksheet.)

Coach’s Incentive Program - Spring 2013

Sign up with me, Joan Smith, the Training Director, to play in the game. Let me know which team you will be playing on, and how many people you will bring. Send me an email at:  1candlechick@comcast.net

I hope to see you on the pitch on June 22!!

BRYC will be sponsoring three VYSA Coaching Courses this August. If your license is out-of-sync with your team's age group, or if you have never taken coach's training courses, please mark your calendar and plan to participate in the appropriate course.

For all courses, the BRYC Clubhouse in King's Park Shopping Center will be the site for the classroom work. The field work will take place at Wakefield Park.

• F License U6-8 Module - Saturday, August 3 - 8am - 1pm (5 hours);  REGISTRATION FORM
• F License U8-10 Module - Sunday, August 4 - 11am - 4pm (5 hours);  REGISTRATION FORM
• E License - Friday-Sunday, August 9-11  (18 hours);  REGISTRATION FORM

To register, print the registration form by clicking on the REGISTRATION FORM link next to the course you wish to take. Fax or scan and email the form to Deanna Saracino, at Golden Boot Soccer (see contact information below). Deanna will put you on the list for the course and send you a reminder the week before the course starts.

Submit registration forms to:   Deanna Saracino, deanna.saracino@goldenbootsoccer.org, phone: 703-287-0088, fax: 703-288-4003

If you have any questions about the courses, don't hesitate to call me... joan smith, BRYC Training Director, cell: 703-475-6003.

Hi BRYC Coaches! We are Joan and James Sullivan, and we are happy to return as the Training Coordinators for BRYC. 

For all the new coaches out there, what we’d like you to know is that we were in your shoes. We came up from ground zero... no soccer background, very limited soccer knowledge, VERY scared with 16 sets of expectant eyes looking to us for guidance and knowledge. I often wondered if we were crazy. What did WE have to offer? What we had, and what we still have, is a firm belief that soccer is good for our kids. It teaches life skills on so many levels, how to be a team player, how to get along with lots of different personalities, how to be open-minded and always willing to learn and to try, how to be selfless and most important that "winning" can be defined in many ways, it’s not just the score at the end of the game.

Did I say that soccer was good for our kids? We mean our coaches too, because soccer makes you use all these skills as a coach. The coach always sets the tone for team. Parents and players will all be looking to you and follow your lead through the toughest situations.

We have been coaching for four years now. We’ve learned a lot... sometimes the hard way. What we look to accomplish in the Training Coordinator position is to make it easier for all of you, our coaches. We want you to know that you have resources, and where to find them. We want you to have the opportunity to interact with our other BRYC coaches and share best practices and thoughts. If you are a long-time coach, we’d like to pair you up with a newer coach so they have a go-to person for answers and for reassurance. We also want you to have access to professional training yourselves, so that you can grow as coaches... and that, in turn, will make BRYC grow as a club.

As we have progressed as coaches, we’ve tried many different things with the team through the seasons. Some worked, some didn’t. But we felt it was always important to try new things, because you never know what will be the thing that makes it "click" for the team. I tell you this so you won’t be surprised when you see new things. We’re switching up some of our programs, trying new things for the kids and for the coaches just to see what "clicks".

We hope that you take advantage of the programs offered, and that you find them helpful. Please don’t hesitate to contact us and let us know what thoughts you have to share.

We look forward to seeing you on the pitch! Sincerely, joan and James Sullivan