Keystone Oaks Area Soccer Club

Please come to a meeting of concerned persons to discuss the direction we want to go with KOA Soccer Club.

I have scheduled for 5-10 Saturday @ 10am @ Green Tree Municipal Bldg. Birch Room - enter from rear parking area - room beyond the council meeting room. Please let me know if you will attend. If you can not attend, please give your opinion on the below issues or any other you want.

I have set up this meeting as requested by some coaches to discuss 3 issues  below.   We need to very soon put on our web site: www.koasocer.com how we want to structure our Fall 08 session. Discussion beyond these 3 items are welcome.

1) Do we want to continue the experiment of hosting In-House Program up to u12.  I started the experiment  as a method to interest more kids in Travel Program when I saw declining enrollment and inability to enroll enough players for Travel Program in ages u10,11,12. We have had a u12 In-House League in Fall sessions 05 on Sunday afternoons and Fall 06 on Saturday mornings. It has been fun and  decent number of players played, but the goal of gaining Travel players from it has been limited. We wonder weather we are doing more harm than good with this program. John McGrath would like to explain why it is doing harm. The prime alternative would be to go back to pre-experiment for Fall Session of u10 offering both In-House Saturday and Travel Sunday with all ages above u10 offering only Travel program.

2) We would like to further include Castle Shannon Players in the KOA programs. We have had various degrees of success that over the years. We have Shannon players on most of the older Travel teams and a new u12 all Shannon team managed by Diane Lasko. It has been spotty getting full integration before High School and Middle School. We would like to get better integration in the whole Travel Program starting at u10 Travel. Maybe we could start this fall with the u10 In-House Program playing Saturday games between teams from  and at fields of all 3 Boros.

3) KO High School Boys Coach Mike Gardner has expressed an interest in bring the School and Club programs closer together. We have had varing success with that over the years. We see many Clubs benefitting by close cooperation and would like to have a very cooperative environment in that effort. Mike has talked about doing camps over this summer for all ages. Hopefully he can attend and / or we can get those scheduled and on the website.

John Brosnan 412-337-0300 all and any time.

               

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