EDP, non-travel soccer starts Sept 5th - full calendar attached

For some of you this is a final e-mail reminder.  It is not too late to sign up.  Also, tell your friends, who are still thinking about it. 

Everyone who is registered please read!

   Early Development Program
Training Starts September 5^th at Upper Wilkins

In this e-mail – PLEASE READ…

-          Welcome
-          Calendar
-          ASC Event at Southern New Hampshire University – no cost
-          Columbus Day Tournament

Welcome to EDP

We are looking forward to having your player with us this season.  Our philosophy is to teach your kids the love of soccer and the skills to be successful at whatever level they choose to play.  Our philosophy translates into our running multiple sessions per week for this age group because we understand that kids this age have many interests and may not be available for every training session.  We use a set curriculum that builds on soccer basics as the season progresses and do encourage players to make as many sessions as possible.  The sessions run exactly one hour and we strongly request that players do not arrive late as it hurts the organization of the group when numbers shift after breaking the kids into groups.  For all players we have 4v4 on selected Saturdays.  Our older, and more experienced U10 pool plays in Granite State as competitive travel teams.  This season our EDP has 2 boys teams, and 2 girls teams, a great foundation for strong future teams.  Our goal is to develop all of our players to be competitive travel soccer players with a long and successful career built on proper technique and understanding. 

Calendar

Practices:           Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 5:30-6:30 PM., Upper Wilkins
arrive at 5:15 to get settled and avoid late arrival that disrupts the groupBRING: 4 soccer ball, cleats, shin guards, water, sunscreen, bug spray

Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of each practice for the kids to warm-up and greet their friends so that soccer can start and finish on time. 

EDP Jamborees:   Saturdays, 8:00-9:00 a.m., Cemetery Field  - 4v4 jamborees
Note the new time – it is only six weeks so we hope you can all rally out of the house and then enjoy your day!
BRING: ASC shirt from camp (or you will be given one the first week of training)
size 4 ball, cleats, shin guards, water, sunscreen, bug spray

On Saturdays at Cemetery Fields we appreciate help from parents with set-up too and arrival at least 15 minutes prior is appreciated.  Note, this schedule may change during the season.

September 2012

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
3 LABOR DAY	4	5TRAINING STARTS – arrive 5:15 finish 6:30 Upper Wilkins	6	7 Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	8 No Jamboree	9
10Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	11	12 Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	13	14 Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	15 JAMBOREE 7:45 arrival 9:00 finish	16
17 Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	18	19 Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	20	21 Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	22JAMBOREE 7:45 arrival 9:00 finish	23
24 Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	25	26 Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	27	28 Training 5:15 arrival 6:30 finish	29JAMBOREE 7:45 arrival 9:00 finish	30

October 2012

Monday	Tues	Wednesday	Thurs	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 Training	2	3 Training	4	5 Training	6 No Jamboree - U9 and U10 in Pepperell Tourney	7 U9 and U10 in Pepperell Tourney
8 U9 and U10 in Pepperell Tourney No Training for younger players	9	10 Training	11	12 Training	13 Jamboree	14
15 Training	16	17 Training	18	19 Training	20 Jamboree	21
23 Training	24	25 Training	26	27 Training	28 Last Jamboree Halloween Skills Competition	29

SNHU Game
On Thursday, August 30, 2012 the club will attend the SNHU game against Queens College at 4 PM.  Please respond and indicate if you will be able to attend the game and tailgate, and how many in your family will participate. Janet Dunlap is putting together a list tailgate items to send out to everybody. Please respond to Jan Dunlap at events@amherstsoccerclub.com TODAY!

Columbus Day Tournament

Once again we will be taking teams to Pepperell Mass for Columbus Day.  If your child is in the U10 Pool, please let your team manager know if you can participate (typically boys play on sat or sun, and girls play the other day).  If  your child is 8, and not in the player pool, but you think ready to give 6v6 a try, please let Molly Dix know at dix@rti.org

See you on the 5^th at 5:15!

Coach Molly and Josh the rest of the EDP Coaching Staff!