ODSL Award Nominations ODSL wants to honor our Coaches, Administrators, Referees and Volunteers who have given back to soccer in special ways!  To do this we have created several ODSL Awards that we need you to nominate people you think would be deserving of these awards. The ODSL Award Winners will be honored at the August 2012 ODSL Meeting and their names will be forwarded to VYSA for the 2012 VYSA Awards Nominations and winners will be honored at the 2013 VYSA Convention. ODSL is seeking nominations for the following awards: Dave Milne Administrator of the Year Award ODSL Coach of the Year ODSL Volunteer of the Year Bill Brazzle Young Referee of the Year ODSL TOPSoccer Buddy of the Year   The deadline for all nominations is July 13, 2012.  You can either mail the nomination to the address on the application, email it to Lisa4socr@aol.com or fax it 703-910-6665 Any questions, please contact Lisa Wilson. Home Team Responsibilities for Rain-Outs If your club closes its fields for weather you must Continue... Three Ways to Print Roster Labels for Your Game Report Cards For instructions... Continue... Reporting Match Scores All match scores are to be reported online by the Home team. Continue... The ODSL Approves a New Club Pass for Matches Players from Same Club May Guest Under Specific Conditions For rules and procedures related to the new club pass Continue... Sportsmanship Ratings  As covered at the preseason meeting, ODSL no longer has the referees use the 10 point system to rate the teams for sportsmanship.  Now the referees are asked to rate separately the players, coaches, and spectators for sportsmanship on a scale from 0 to 4.  4being excellent, 3 good, 2 average, 1 poor, and 0 being unacceptable.  The referees submit this information in their online match report.  You can see a team’s averages on these points by passing your cursor over the figures in the SP_AVG column on the standings page.  These ratings help the league reinforce the ODSL Codes of Conduct.  They are also used as a tie breaker in the Randy Rawls Sportsmanship Award voting. The League will apply additional scrutiny to any teams that consistently run a negative average. Total cautions (yellow cards) and total ejections (red cards) are tracked separately under the TC and TE columns.  These also figure into the Randy Rawls Awards.   Conduct Committee and Appeals Committee Issues concerning conduct on the part of any ODSL team, player,coach, personnel, or official should be directed to your CLUB REPRESENTATIVE who can in turn contact the Chair of the Conduct Committee, Wayne Gardella, vicepresident@odsl.org Protests for misapplication of the rules, or appeal of a Conduct Committee ruling should be directed to the Chair of the Appeals Committee Karen Klumpp, president@odsl.org through your CLUB REPRESENTATIVE. Disagreement with the judgement of an official is not grounds for a protest. Randy Rawls Sportsmanship Awards ODSL Announces Winners for the Fall 2011 season Congratulations to the winners of the ODSL Randy Rawls Sportsmanship Awards for the Fall 2011 Season. One team from each division is granted this prestigious award based upon voting by the teams in their division.  Winners receive a team trophy and individual player awards.  Teams that return for the following season receive tickets for the players and coaches to a DCUnited game at which they are honored on the field at halftime.  For a complete listing of the winners see the link in the left column of this page or CLICK HERE. Fee Structure for Spring 2012 And Fee Submission form for Clubs U9          $450 League fee (New teams must add VYSA fee of $150) U10        $520 League fee (New teams must add VYSA fee of $150) U11-12  $685 League fee (New teams must add VYSA fee of $175) U13-19  $685 League fee  (New teams must add VYSA fee of $230) Smallsided HS  $520 League fee. (New teams must add VYSA fee of $150) VA teams that played in the ODSL or another VYSA travel league in the Fall of 2011 do not need to include the VYSA fee for the Spring Season. Teams based in MD or WV do not need to pay the VYSA fees. All teams must pay their fees to their sponsoring club that will cut one check to ODSL for all their teams.  Sponsoring Clubs should mail the check to ODSL, PO Box 825, Gainesville, VA 20156 Fee Submission Form  This form must accompany the check from the sponsor club for all team fees Properly Anchored Goals It is the responsibilty of every team official, referee, and even spectators to insure that goals are properly anchored during any match, practice, or scrimmage.  If a goal is unable to be properly anchored, the activity on that field should be abandoned immediately.   US Consumer Product Safety Commission's Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal Safety Important Information About Concussions Do you know the symptoms and how to properly care for a player who suffers a concussion?  READ MORE Sportsmanship Expectations The Old Dominion Soccer League has certain expectations of exemplary sportsmanship on the part of the teams, players, coaches, volunteers, and parents participating in the league. The soccer skills that we teach our players will serve many of them well into adulthood.  In addition, all our players will benefit through-out their lives by what we teach them about sportsmanship, respect for their opponent, respect for the officials, and dignity.  Continue... DC United Discount tickets Visit the ODSL and DC United MicroSite for discount tickets Or use This Form and fax to 202-587-5400  For more information, contact Scott Miller (D.C. United) at 202.587.5435 or smiller@dcunited.com ODSL Night at DC United Representatives from the ODSL Randy Rawls Sportsmanship Award Winning Teams At DC United match Prevent Lyme Disease It's Spring – Time to Prevent Lyme Disease   Protect yourself from tick bites to protect yourself from Lyme disease. Information on how to protect your yard and family from ticks can be found here:  http://www.cdc.gov/Features/LymeDisease/ http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/prev/in_the_yard.html Information on the signs and symptoms of Lyme disease can be found here: http://www.columbia-lyme.org/patients/ld_lyme_symptoms.html http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/signs_symptoms/index.html Continue... HS 6v6 Rules All FIFA, US Soccer, US Youth Soccer, and ODSL Laws apply with these exceptions:  Continue... New Procedures for the Referee Report Card The ODSL Referee Report Card has been redesigned for the Fall 2008 and subsequent seasons.  As part of new ODSL procedures, prior to the match, the home team must fill out the top part of the card and paste their team roster to the card.  They must then present the card to the away team for them to paste their team roster to the card. The home team must then present the card to the Center referee.  The card should be given to the referee in its complete form.  Do not tear off the bottom portion before giving it to the referee as it has instructions for the referee on ODSL Laws of the Game and also instructions for how to file the match report online.

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