GE Lakers FC Meeting Minutes

GE Lakers FC Meeting Minutes

April 12, 2010

Call to order at 8:06pm

Officer Reports

Co-Chairperson – Keith Gibson

Nothing to report

Vice-Chair – Kelly Swartz

Nothing to report

GEPD – Brenden Berry

• Discussion of social and fundraising events for Lakers

- World Cup viewing: Saturday, June 12 @ 2:30 USA vs. England

To be held at ASC. Tony Saguto volunteered to help Brenden coordinate the event.

- Chicago Fire Game: Wed., Aug. 18^th Fire vs. Revolution –

Brenden will confirmed date we just need to coordinate with them

- Sunset Pool Party – confirmed for Friday, July 30^th 8p-10p.

Treasurer – Tony Saguto

• As discussed at the March Coaches Meeting…. Coaches need to let Tony know how they plan on spending their money from the 2009 tournament.

• Year-end financials to be completed soon.

Fields – Mike Diletti

• Maintenance of fields was discussed. The GEPD cuts and lines the fields once a week.

• Discussion of field #4 and its condition. The field has major flaws and as many games as possible have been moved off this field. Mike requested that the Brenden look into what it would take to fix the problems with this field.

• U16 still needs 2 sets of lights set up on field #7. It was proposed that padlocks be put on the lights so that other people do not use them.

• GEPD still looking into putting ‘screens’ between fields #1 & #2 and the Prairie Path.

• FIELD CONDITION HOTLINE – to be updated twice on game days.

The weather hotline will be updated at 7:30a and again at 12p.

Girls Coordinator –

• Nick has spoken to the coordinator for the Grove United Tournament held over Memorial Weekend. They are thrilled we have so many Laker teams, however, many teams have not paid at this time.

Boys Coordinator U8-U10 – Steve Olechowski -

• Nothing new to report

Boys Coordinator U11-HS – Bill Cleaver -

• Waiting for U16 player cards to come in. Team has 15 boys to date.

Lakers Academy -

• Still working on frame page for website and blurb for tryout flyer.

• Product still needs to be set up through GEPD

• There will be a Fall, Winter and Spring sessions. Kids enrolled in Fall will be asked back for Winter and Spring seasons.

Summer Training –

• Lakers will still do the Wednesday night pick up games.

• Ruben looking into setting up camps during the summer for Travel kids.

• Ruben will finalize Laker Camp dates and times for August.

-U8s & U9s receive 3 days of camp – 1.5hrs each day

-U10 and up receive 4 days of camp- 2.5hrs each day

-U8, U9, U11 & U13 Co-Rec teams will have camp the week of August 2-6

-U10, U12, U14 Co-Rec teams will have camp the week of August 9-13

-All Girl teams will most likely have practice the week of August 16-20

Webmaster / Pictures-

• Pictures went well. It was suggested that they not be so close to Spring Break in the future. Photos should be available for pick up at the Mandatory Coaches Meeting in May.

• A ‘tech’ committee is up and running. The Blog is great – very helpful.

Training –

• Spring training is up and going. All coaches should have received the schedule for use of Ackerman Sports Complex that was put together.

• We are looking into the possibility of adding Finishing Clinics along with our Goalie training. Not sure if it will be available this spring, but would like to add in the future. The Club could really benefit from it.

Equipment & Uniforms – Mary Kostolansky -

• $900 worth of Spirit wear was sold at Picture Day.

Tournament -

• Director still needed for Tournament

• Brenden to register Tournament on US Soccer and IWSL websites

Tryout Committee – Kelly Swartz -

• Tryout times and dates are posted on website

• In an effort to promote Tryouts we will be hosting a Lakers Day during the House League games Saturday morning, May 15^th. We will have a Lakers Tent and flyers to hand out. We will need team participation. Sign-ups will occur during our Coaches Meeting in May. It was suggested that we invite potential players to come watch a Laker game at their age level to see what we are all about.

• There was some discussion about the Tryout Make-up day. The committee will discuss at their April 19^th meeting and get back to the Board.

Coaches Committee –

Nothing to report at this time

Meeting adjourned at 9:30pm

Next Meeting – May 10, 2010 8pm at Spring Avenue Rec. Center

This is a mandatory coaches meeting.