DRIBBLES AND KICKS

FEATURE SPONSOR- DICKS SPORTING GOODS

January 11, 2014

Hi Everyone

In this issue you will find

1.  Still time to register for AYSO Expo 2014 (Formerly Section Meetings)

2.  AYSO Section 14 State Games Schedules and Bracket Pairings Online

3.  AYSO Section 14 growing and attracting new regions

4.  AYSO Section 14 Section League Annoucement

5.  AYSO Intermediate and Advanced Coach Courses Recap – Weston Florida December 14 and 15

6.  AYSO Section 14 Announces new Section Publicity Director and Section Marketing Director

7.  Twitter- AYSO Section 14 Tweets Away

8.  Website- New Look, New Info, More Exciting

9.  Facebook- American Youth Soccer Organization- AYSO Section 14

Taking a look around the horn of Section 14:

Our AYSO Expo (formerly Section Meetings) is going to be held at the Embassy Suites in Boca Raton Florida Friday January 31, 2014 through Sunday February 2, 2014. Registration for the Expo is ongoing. To register for the Expo, go to our website atwww.aysosection14.organd embedded in the news section is an announcement about the AYSO Expo and also a registration link. You may also go to the national websitewww.ayso.org. Register early to get your early bird discount.

AYSO EXPOs are annual gatherings of a Section and include a whole weekend of activities including training, certification and continuing education for coach, referee, and management volunteers. AYSO EXPOs also include all the fun stuff…the sponsor and vendor show, networking opportunities, and volunteer recognition. Share ideas, stories and your love of soccer with other AYSO volunteers just like you. We will have many surprises and raffle giveaways and are planning a great get together on the evening of Friday January 31 to honor and celebrate all of you and your boards and volunteers efforts during the year.

We are excited to announce a change in our guest speaker this year at the Saturday afternoon lunch. Mr. Mike Veeck will be our keynote speaker this year. Mike is the president and part owner of six wildly successful minor league baseball teams. Son of the Hall of Fame owner Bill Veeck, he has followed his fathers lead with innovative promotions that have captured national attention from national news outlets. Mike will present his simple, no fail formula for business success. Make work fun and you will create a culture of creativity where the best people will want to work and customers will want to spend their money. At the heart of the philosophy is the need to reexamine the way we do business, from employer-employee relationships to customer service. This will be a guaranteed can’t miss event. And every attendee will receive a free autographed copy of Mike’s book “Fun Is Good”

All volunteers within the section are invited to register.

The 2014 AYSO Section 14 State Games will be returning to Wellington Florida Saturday January 18-Monday January 20, 2014. All game schedules and team brackets are now online at our website www.aysosection14.org under the news section and also embedded under the link “Tournaments and Friendlies” on the left side of the home page.

The AYSO Section 14 State Games is a tournament held each January in Wellington Florida and is open to all AYSO regions in good standing. The tournament provides brackets for U10-U19 age groups and has boys and girls divisions.

AYSO Section 14 is growing. We are getting many leads for new regions throughout our section. We recently submitted an application for a region in Boca Raton, Florida and will be submitting one shortly for a region in Orlando Florida. We are in discussion with a group in Flagler County/Palm Coast area and a group in Tampa has inquired as well.

AYSO Section 14 announces the beginning of registration for the 2014 AYSO Section 14 league. The league will be soliciting teams within age divisions U10, U12, U14, U16 and U19 to comprise the league. League games will be on selected Sundays from February through May, culminating with a Section Cup Playoff tournament. Cost per team for the league will be: U10- $150, U12-$180, U14 and U16- $225 and U19-$270. Deadline for registration will be Monday February 3, 2014. To register contact Jamie Cohen at . For the Section League flyer go to our website at www.aysosection14.org

AYSO Section 14 held intermediate and advanced coach courses December 14-15 at the Weston Regional Park in Weston Florida. We had a great turnout for these classes. I would like to thank Kyle, Tony, Paul and Tom for volunteering to instruct the courses over the two days. We will be holding these courses again later this year and will announce the courses on our website and in future issues of Dribbles and Kicks.

AYSO Section 14 is proud to announce our new Marketing and Publicity Director, Brian Tillinghast. AYSO has sooooo many stories to tell and does soooo many good things, not just on the field. Brian will be responsible for collecting information for our monthly Dribbles and Kicks from our regions. He will also help regions convey to the local media, our current and future participants, the community and potential volunteers and sponsors what is going on within the regions both on the field, through special events and in community outreach programs. Brian will also be responsible for promoting AYSO, the section and individual regions in order to obtain more participants, more programming and new regions.

AYSO Section 14 has started a Twitter account to help you stay up to date on all that is going on in the section. Go ahead and “Friend” AYSOSection14 to receive all of the updates for coach and ref courses and interesting tidbits going on throughout the State of Florida.

AYSO Section 14 now has a new look to our website at www.aysosection14.org. It is currently being populated with information that you will find pertinent. From upcoming tournaments, to coach and referee courses and issues of Hey Coach and Whistle Stop, our website is your one stop shop to find out what is going on throughout Section 14. We will constantly be updating the website so check back often.

Like us on Facebook….our new facebook page……American Youth Soccer Organization- AYSO Section 14. Start the discussion, brag about your team, your region….have at it Section 14….show the rest of the organization how involved we all can be.

A special thank you to our section sponsor Dicks Sporting Goods. Dicks has been a sponsor of R345 for many years and has just signed on with R644 in Weston. The company has been a financial supporter for the AYSO Section 14 State Games.

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment. The Company owns and operates Golf Galaxy, LLC, a golf specialty retailer and eCommerce websites and catalog operations for both Dick's Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy.

Visit Dick Sporting Goods website at www.dickssportinggoods.com to view the wide arrange of equipment and apparel offered by Dicks. You can also find your nearest store location within the State of Florida.

If you have any item that you believe should be recognized by our section and announced to the world, please send it to me at . I will take submissions up until each month’s end (or until I have enough to fill a page). This is designed to be informative but also with a touch or fun. For Fun is Good and with a touch of creativity and passion will yield a successful organization.

So Long From The Sunshine State

Richard Schwartz

Section Director 14