Recreation Program Fees and early-bird discount

Rates for the recreation program will stay the same as last year at $40/player for 6U-8U and $50/player for 10U-12U and $60/player for 14-19u

To encourage early registration though, anyone registering by January 15 will receive a $20 discount and anyone registering from January 16-January 31 will receive a $10 discount.

The $20 late fee will still apply to registrations after Feb 28.

Required Volunteer Hours or the volunteer buy-out

TASK is a wonderful program where all work is done by volunteers.  The work has continued to increase, but the volunteer base has continued to decrease.  To avoid burnout by these dedicated volunteers and to continue to keep costs low, the board is instituting a mandatory volunteer service hours to the club.  All families will be required to provide volunteer service for 2 hours per player.  This is for all players: both classic and recreational.  The service can be provided by any adult family member – parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, etc.

While we understand that some circumstances may dictate certain families cannot volunteer, we are offering the option to buy-out your volunteer hours.  These funds will enable the program to pay someone to perform the work.  For 2022, the buy-out fee will increase to $50 per player with a max of $100 per family

This program requirement is similar to almost all other clubs in the area, but the hours and buy-out requirements are much smaller.

What counts as volunteering?  See the next section.

Available volunteer opportunities

During the October Board meeting, the number of hours provided to the program was estimated by everyone.  Our very conservative estimate of time to put on the programming annually is 1500 hours.

• Serving as an elected officer
  • President  – 2 year term, elected in odd years
  • Vice President – 2 year term, elected in odd years
  • Secretary – 2 year term, elected in even years
  • Treasurer – 2 year term, elected in odd years
  • Registrar – 2 year term, elected in even years
• Coordinator positions:
  • Coaching Coordinator – find coaches, assist in coaching certification, attempt to arrange coaching classes in Seymour
  • Equipment Coordinator – maintains the equipment inventory, determines what needs to be purchased, distributes equipment to coaches at the start of the season, and collects the equipment at the end of the season.
  • Scholarship Coordinator – work with the school to advertise the TASK scholarship, collect the applications, and assemble a committee to select the winners.
  • Volunteer Coordinator – Help coordinate all volunteer activities
  • Fund raising coordinator – Helps determine ways to raise funds, team sponsorship.
• Coaching or assistant coaching (more on this below)
• Working the golf outing
• Ordering team uniforms
• Field setup and tear down

Coaching Bonus – ability to qualify for a refund of their child’s registrations fees

Anyone who volunteers to coach will satisfy their volunteer requirements, plus some.  The coach requires at least 2 hours per week of time for about 10 weeks.  To provide extra incentive, anyone who volunteers to coach and completes the Y1 coaching class and/or the F coaching class and completes their background check and completes the safesport online training and finishes coaching the entire season will qualify to have their child’s FULL registration fee refunded to them! The background check and Y1 coaching class is paid for by TASK.

The coaching classes need to be completed once, and a background check needs to be completed every other year. You will also need to do a safesport training every year which is done online.

Small sided game changes

The United States Soccer Federation (USSF) has mandated that all soccer programs working under it must conform to certain small sided requirements.  These changes must be implemented for the Fall 2016 seasons, but Wisconsin may move to adopt these in spring of 2016.

The requirements are as follows:

• Field Size:
  • U8 and younger must play on a 20 yd by 30 yd field
  • U10 on a 30 yd by 47 yd field
  • U11 & U12 on a 47 yd by 75 yd field
  • U13 & older on a 75 yd by 112 yd field
• Number of players on the field
  • U8 and younger will play 4 v 4
  • U10 will play 7 v 7
  • U11 & U12 will play 9 v 9
  • U14 & older play full sided 11 v 11
• U8 and younger will continue to NOT use a goalkeeper.
• Game Time
  • U6 will play 4, 8 minute quarters (1 minute break after the 1st and 3rd quarter, 5 minute half time)
  • U8 will play 2, 15 minute halves (5 minute half time)
  • U10 will play 2, 25 minute halves (10 minute half time)
  • U11 – U12 will play 2, 30 minute halves (10 minute half time)
  • U13 – ? will play 2, 35 minute halves (15 minute half time)
• Goal size
  • U8 and younger will continue with a 4 ft by 6 ft goal
  • U10 – U12 will use a 6.5 ft by 18.5 ft goal
  • U13 & older will use a 8 ft by 24 ft goal
• The Offsides penalty will start to be called at the U10 age group (instead of at U11 as current)