Wednesday, January 14, 2015
TYSA - Meeting Minutes
Start time 7:35PM
Attending: Dinis Anselmo, Adam Boisvert, Kristin Ciampa, Rich Defronzo, Peter Dejardians, Derek Gregoire, Cheryl McCarthy, Jay McGaffigan, Deidre Moran, Rob Strong
1.Introductions
2.Discussion on Coach Mentoring and Player Development direction - YES vs local candidate. This was followed up with a presentation/interview with Tom Bellen.
Questions:
* Time commitment - flexible 2-3 nights/wk-maybe weekend day
* Focus areas - player development and coaching curriculum with a focus on the younger age groups
* Tom said he’s been coaching for 25 years and has a lot of local contacts he can bring in to cover areas that need more attention
Concerns
* Tom’s actual time commitment
* Cost of Tom and his local contacts
Discussion
* He is local and has local contacts
* There would be some consistency with direction of coach mentoring and player development year to year
3.Registration
* U10 closed - 4 on wait list so far
* Many competitive players still not registered
ACTION: Jay will reach out to U10 coaches to encourage their players to register
* There were 3 requests for scholarships - unanimous vote to approve all three
* Family had outstanding registration fee from last year - discussed whether or not to force payment or not - they thought they had paid it - they have 2 kids to register for spring season - informal vote to agree to waive last years outstanding balance
4.Other business
* Fields ok
* Adam plans on having a U19 tryout - has reserved field
* Derek needs info on how to get teams/players registered
* Diedre will be taking class and then will follow up with Rich
* Kristin is looking for assistance to give to coaches - directed to MYSA coaching website
* Dinis had update on schedule. There will be games over the April vacation (4/18 and 4/25). There was also a bylaw change - the game on 4/25 can be rescheduled if 1 coach doesn’t have enough players (needs to give 10 days notice). No other rule changes.
* Rob is looking for picture day leader
* Tina Stamp was not able to make it to the meeting but will contact Jay to get started
Meeting adjourned 9:45PM
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