Friday, May 9

Wakefield Park Field #5 Open

All Other BRYC Rec Soccer Fields Closed

Registration at the cheapest "Earlybird" rate has now begun. Players can register on-line through the Player Registration Link on our Registration Page. Register early and save $ or register for both Fall 08 and Spring 09 and save even more! Please don’t wait until the end of the season to sign up for the fall. Often times parents delay, go on summer vacation, and remember too late to enroll their children for the fall season.

Don’t lose your soccer skills during summer break! Get out there and advance your soccer skills while having a lot of fun! Tamir Linhart Golden Boot Soccer offers special $15 discount per player to all BRYC members for their Half Day Summer Camps and $30 discount for all Full Day Camps. Teams and groups of 10 or more players receive $20 discount per player for Half Day Camps and $40 off for Full Day Camps.

Golden Boot offers a variety of Summer Camps including the NEW AC Milan Camp. Download the camp flyer.

• The Art of Scoring Goals camp
• Player Development camp
• Mini Kickers camp for ages 4-6
• Goalkeeper camp
• Performance Training camp at Velocity
• High School Performance Training camp
• Team Pre-Season camp

For more information and to register please visit their website www.GoldenBootSoccer.com or call 703-287-0088.

Special Offer for BRYC Members from D.C. United

For being such great fans of D.C. United and supporting us in 2008, D.C. United would like to offer a special rate for our next home match on Thursday, May 8th against Chicago Fire at RFK Stadium. The game kicks off at 7:30 PM and will be LIVE on ESPN2. Tickets are only $15 (reg. $28) and can be ordered by calling Scott Miller (BRYC - D.C .United Representative) at 202.587.5435 or using the PDF flyer. Youth Team activities are available for this match and for more information on inventory, please contact Scott Miller at smiller@dcunited.com.

For ticket information and order links, please check the D.C. United page.

All BRYC coaches are encouraged to check out our ever-expanding Coaches Corner. This web page provides helpful information for coaches of all ages. Recent page updates include a coaches handout from Bill Creswick and a great US Soccer coaches' reference provided by long-time BRYC coach, Joe Willmore. If you know of a good reference we can add to this page, have coaching questions that you would like feedback on, or have advice to share, please email brycallstars@hotmail.com.

Many of us were shocked and saddened to hear about the death this year of a young soccer player caused by a soccer goal falling on him during practice in Fauquier County, Virginia. There are approximately 500,000 soccer goals on fields across the United States. Many of these goals are unsafe because they are unstable, unanchored, poorly anchored, or counter-balanced. They can - and will - tip over and fall when children climb or hang on the goals or nets. Let’s be safe and protect our kids...securely anchor those soccer goals!

  Area youths killed by goals:
      -  5/7/07 NBC4.com story
      -  9/30/02 Wash Post story
  Anchored for Safety
  Safety Alert message 
  Soccer goal safety from CPSC