PENN
HILLS
SOCCER
ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 27095
Penn Hills, PA
15235
www.pennhillssoccer.org
WELCOME BACK!
PHSA Spring Season begins Saturday, April 5, 2008. Spring registration fee is $60, and will cover the spring season only. Players who registered and played in our Fall 2007 session are not required to re-register. New players can register online for the spring season at: http://www.pennhillssoccer.org/registration/
Registration deadlines
§ March 1, 2008 – last day to register on-line without $15 late fee
§ April 4, 2008 – last day to register on-line ($15 late fee applies)
§ April 5, 2008 – last day to register at Dible Field ($15 late fee applies)
Existing members, please login to update your member account information, including email and phone numbers, before the season starts. If you do not intend on returning for the spring season, please email Brenda Feldman at registration@pennhillssoccer.com. It will allow us to assign new players to teams that are short players and keep the teams balanced.
Coaches will contact
players during the week of March 28th. If you do not hear from a coach by March 29th, please
contact a board member.
PHSA Board Member Directory
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Association President – Michael Davis In House Director– Mike Shulock Treasurer – Dirk Page Registration Director – Brenda Feldman Referee Assignor – Jose Valenzuela Marketing & Sponsorship- Vacant |
president@pennhillssoccer.org
registration@pennhillssoccer.org autumnambush@pennhillssoccer.org |
Spring Season Fields Set-up 
Your help is needed!!! Parents and Coaches are needed to volunteer their time for our Spring Season field set-up. No prior experience is needed, and even if you can only spare an hour, your time will be greatly appreciated. The more volunteers we have, the quicker we can get it done!
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2008
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Place: Dible Elementary School
Snow/Rain Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008
Finder’s Fee 
A Finders Fee of $5.00 will be paid for finding new players to join PHSA. So if you find five new players to join PHSA, you will be paid $25. To qualify, the new player must not be currently registered and cannot be an immediate family member of a player already registered. In order to qualify for the Finders Fee, the new player(s) must identify the referring individual when registering.
Weather
Remember to check the website at www.PennHillsSoccer.org for rain
cancellations or you will get a call from your coach. If you don’t hear from anyone…GAME ON!!
You can also sign up for
eAlerts Online for TXT message to your PDA/Cell phone/Email at www.PennHillsSoccer.Org
Field Set-up and Tear-Down
INSTRUCTIONS FOR TEAM FIELD SET-UP
1) Team parents meet at fields approximately 45 minutes before game.
2) Go to the brown storage boxes and pick up the following
items:
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Paint machine & spray paint cans (for lining the
field)
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Corner flags
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Garbage can and bag for age group
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Soccer ball and bucket for age group
3) Follow previously sprayed lines on your field and spray all lines. This includes touchlines, centerline and center circle, goal lines, corner arc, goal boxes, penalty mark (this is the “X” on the field in the goal box).
4) Drag the goals to goal lines, measure to center the goals in the box.
5) Stake down the goals and nets. Three pegs are used to stake the net down, this keeps the ball from rolling through the nets.
6) Place the corner flags in each corner of the field.
7) Paint all the lines every week, keeping the fields looking good.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FIELD TEAR-DOWN
After the game team parents will:
1) Remove the 4 corner flags.
2) Pull stakes from the goals and nets and place in bucket.
(do not move
U10 and U13 Goals).
3) Move goals back to fence and chain/lock nets to fence:
- The U-10 and U-13 goals are not to be moved from their place
- The U-6 and U-8 goals are staked together then chained as one onto the fence
- The U-6 goals go against the fence (Don’t chain)
- The U-8 goals go behind the U-6 goals then chain to fence
4) Pick up litter and empty garbage bag from can
and place next to dumpster by the concession stand.
5) Place bucket with stakes and corner post back in the garbage can.
6) Drag garbage can, paint sprayer, and corner flags back to the brown storage boxes. Place these items back into the storage box.
NOTE: Goals are to be LOCKED UP after the
last game on that field every Saturday. They are not to be moved for any
practices.
Travel Teams
We currently have 5 travel teams: (1) U14 Girls, (2) U12
Co-Ed, (1) U12 Girls, and (1) U10 Boy’s team.
Some of these teams are in need of players; so if you are interested,
please send an email to travel@pennhillssoccer.com.
Your information will then be available if any of the
coaches need additional players.
Show your support for our players
by attending Sunday games at Dible or Friendship Field. Check out the PHSA web
site at http://www.pennhillssoccer.org/Travel.htm
for dates/times.
Coaches Corner 
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All registered coaches must complete the Kidsafe Disclosure Application
(KDA), or provide a copy of their valid Act 33/34. The KDA fee is $10, and is
available from the PA West website at: http://www.pawest-soccer.org/riskmanagement.html. For more information, please contact Brenda
Feldman at uniforms@pennhillssoccer.com.
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$10 KDA fee will be reimbursed by PHSA once the background check is
completed, received and reviewed by the PHSA Risk Management
Committee. The Committee will
contact any person privately to discuss any unfavorable report. All information pertaining to this is
held strictly confidential.
- All coaches are required to sign in
every Saturday at the PHSA Board Tent prior to your scheduled
games. Any handouts and related
PHSA information will be given to all coaches upon signing in. Please disseminate to all players and
parents. You are the source of
information for most parents, so please help them stay informed.
- All coaches (and parents) are encouraged
to participate in the PA West Soccer Coaching Program's licensing courses
as a way to improve their knowledge and add to their bag of tricks.
The State Youth "Y" level certification is a 6 hour course
designed to provide coaches with a basic knowledge of methodology, team
administration, risk reduction, child characteristics and a wide variety
of fun coaching activities. There is a U6/U8 module and also a U10/U12
module. If you have not already done so, please consider signing up
for one or both of the modules at http://pennhillssoccer.org/CoachingClinics.htm.
The course is provided free of charge to both coaches AND parents.
This is one thing the Penn Hills Soccer Association can do for YOU!
Autumn Ambush
The 14th annual Autumn Ambush Soccer
Tournament, hosted by PHSA during the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend, was
another great success! The tournament involved over 46 teams and helped raise
over $5,500 for the Association, which allows us to provide more quality
training and equipment! To all Coaches, Players, Parents and
Volunteers that participated,
THANK YOU!
PHSA Scholarships 
The PHSA will offer $2,000 for scholarships, upon approval
of its Board of Directors. In order to
qualify for this scholarship the candidate must:
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Demonstration of involvement
with PHSA (i.e. as a player, referee, coach, etc.) and the Penn Hills community
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Complete
the application and submit all requirements postmarked by April 1, 2008
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Application
can be downloaded from the PHSA website at http://www.pennhillssoccer.org/Scholarships.htm
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Provide
proof of acceptance by a post-secondary school
§ Provide two (2) letters of recommendation; one (1) from a school official and one (1) from a PHSA member
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Provide proof of your grade point average for all high
school terms except the final term of the senior year
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Mail completed application and supporting documentation
to: PHSA, PO Box 27095, Penn Hills,
PA 15235
Anyone interested in being on the Scholarship Committee,
please contact Mike Davis at president@pennhillssoccer.com
Concession Stand 
The concession stand has lots of goodies for sale,
including grilled hot dogs & hamburgers, soft drinks, Gatorade & water,
chips, candy, etc. Volunteers of the
PHSA travel teams run the concession stand, so please stop by and support them. The proceeds go directly to the individual
teams and helps make playing travel soccer affordable for all. Thanks for your support!
Any travel team
interested in running the concession stand on Saturdays, please contact Shawn
Peterson at travel@pennhillssoccer.org
Dunham’s Sports Discount Cards
Dunham’s Sports Discount Cards will be handed out at Dible Field from 10am to 12pm on March 15, 2008. Dunham’s is also offering a team savings event of 20% off any non-sale purchases during the weekend of March 15th and 16th , at the Monroeville Dunham’s, located off Rt. 22. (Flyers will be handed out with each discount card)
You must present the discount card and flyer on the specified day to receive the 20% discount.
Winter Soccer Camp 
The PHSA held our 1st
annual Winter Soccer Camp at the Fralic Center, with great success. The camp was run by Duquesne University
soccer team coaches, Jake Ouimet and Mike Dumphy. The camp was set up to run each age group for one hour each Saturday
in January & February, for a total of eight weeks. We had almost 60 players attend! The players were split into their age groups
and introduced to new drills to hone their soccer skills. At the end of each session, they played
scrimmage matches.
What a great way to get the kids
out of the house in the winter, and get warmed up for our in-house spring
session. The players learned a lot and
had a ton of fun. Players and parents
alike, commented this was a great camp and hoped there would be a 2nd
annual winter camp. Everyone will be
happy to know that we intend to hold the winter camp again next year!
A special “thank you” goes out
to Jake and Mike for their awesome coaching skills, to Mike Ferraco, Jamey
Pileggi, Josh Weiss of the Penn Hills High School Boys Varsity Soccer Team) for
volunteering their time, and to PHSA’s own Greg Ferraco, who organized the
winter camp session.
Summer Soccer Camp 
“GET BACK ON YOUR GAME”
Sponsored by the Penn Hills Boys
Varsity Soccer Team
In partnership with the Penn Hills
Soccer Association
The 2nd
annual Summer Soccer Camp will be held in August, 2008, on Tuesday through
Friday evenings at Dible Soccer Fields.
Open to all ages, boys and girls, between 4 and 12 interested in
soccer! The Penn Hills High School Boys
Varsity Soccer Team players and coaches will conduct the camp, which will
include age appropriate games, drills, skill building components and fun
activities. All campers will be divided
into groups according to age. Each
player will receive a camp T-shirt and prizes will be awarded. Everyone who participates in the summer
camp will have a pizza part on the last day of camp. If you are interested in this camp please e-mail Greg Ferraco at fields@pennhillssoccer.org, and
additional details regarding the camp will be sent.
* All
camp proceeds will benefit the Penn Hills High School Boys Varsity Soccer Team
Boosters
Top Soccer - Rama
Date: Saturday, March 22, 2008
Time: 12 noon – 3
pm
Place: Hempfield Township Athletic Complex
Cost: $10 per player
For more information, please call
Marlene Capretti, (724) 836-7900, ext. 125
Soccer Stuff Swap Box 
- The PHSA has a “Swap
Box” available at the Board Tent for items such as cleats, shin guards,
balls, etc., that are available to those who need them. If you forget your cleats for game day,
stop by the tent to see if we have one’s in your size before you head
home.
- If you
don't have someone to pass down your cleats, shin guards or balls to, drop
them in the Swap Box
- Donations Needed!
We are looking for any gently used soccer jerseys. The PHSA sends these jerseys to those
soccer organizations in need around the world. Your donations could make a child very happy! Please bring any donated items to the
Board Tent.
Referees
PHSA will host an Entry Level Referee Course from PAWest at the Penn Hills YMCA in mid March 2008! For pre-registration, please go to http://www.pennhillssoccer.org/events.htm
Anyone interested in refereeing for the PHSA Spring Season, please contact Jose Valenzuela at referee@pennhillssoccer.org Referees are also needed by PA West (www. pawest-soccer.org). Please contact them for certification and availability. Referees are compensated a small amount for their games and certifications.
PA West has selected Penn Hills
senior Teddy Anderson as The East District Youth Referee of the Year for the
second year in a row. Teddy has been a referee for 6 years. He has refereed in
all of PA Wests local tournaments. Teddy has also done exclusive tournaments
such as The Surf Cup in San Diego, California, The Bluechip Cup in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and The Sun Bowl in Tampa, Florida. He has also officiated The Super Y-League
Nationals. Teddy recently passed the test to upgrade to a Grade 7 Referee. Teddy
plans on refereeing professionally someday!
PH School District Reminders 
- No
smoking on the school grounds
- No
dogs allowed on the fields
- Please
watch your speed when on school grounds SLOW DOWN!
The district is
generous enough to allow use of the fields, so please let’s abide by the
rules. Thanks!
Additional Reminders
- Please use the parking lots, and not to
park on the roadside during game days
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Lost and Found is located at the PHSA Board Tent
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PHSA t-shirts are for sale at the PHSA Board Tent for $5. Adult/Children sizes available
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Bring your best attitude and good sportsmanship and be ready to have some
fun
- Please be aware of the "PLAYERS ONLY" areas and "NO
SPECTATORS" areas. These area
are designated to limit distractions to players and referees, and allows
coaches and referees to see the whole field and make better coaching
decisions and penalty calls.
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Bring water, Gatorade, or similar drink to guard against dehydration
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Shin guards are REQUIRED. Wear
soccer cleats- no metal spikes
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Do not wear jewelry or metal accessories
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In cold weather, sweatshirts may be worn UNDER your uniform. Hooded
or unzipped sweatshirts are not allowed as loose clothing may lead to an injury
§ Bring your soccer ball for warm-ups before games (Ball Sizes:U6 #3, U8-U10 #4, U13 #5)
THANK YOU SPONSORS |
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Web Design and Hosting services |
Field Boxes and General Sponsor |
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Pastry items used for Fundraisers |
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Become a PHSA Sponsor and
help us continue to provide quality Youth Sports in our local
community. We need sponsors for SCHOLARSHIPS, EQUIPMENT and TOURNAMENTS
for the fall and spring seasons. If your company would like to become a
PHSA sponsor, please visit us at http://www.pennhillssoccer.com/sponsorship.htm |
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PHSA would also like to extend our thanks to Dan Miller, Director of Penn Hills Parks
and Recreation services, for your continued support and your above and beyond service
to our community.