Old Capitol Soccer League News Archives

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Late Registration for Fall 2005 Season Now Open
July 18, 05
We are currently accepting late registrations for the Fall 2005 soccer season, which will run from September through the first week in November. You can pick up a copy of the registration form in the Rec Office at Walter B. Williams park, or download a copy from the web site. The late registration deadline is August 5th, so be sure and get yours turned in today!

Bobcat Soccer Camps Accepting Registration
April 13, 05


Georgia College & State University is now accepting registration for its soccer camp. The camp will be held June 27-30, 2005.

Cost is $95 per player. The camp is for boys and girls ages 6-18.

For more information, click here.

British Soccer Camp Registration Open
April 13, 05


Registration is now open for British Soccer Camps, to be held in Milledgeville starting on June 27. Camps are a half day and last for five days. Morning and evening options are available.

Camp coast is $94. Age groups are as follows:

Under 6 to 8
Ages 10-14

For more information on the camps, click here.

To register online, click here here.

Late registration for Fall 2005 Now Open
April 01, 05
We are currently accepting late registrations for the Fall 2005 soccer season, which will run from September through the first week in November. You can pick up a copy of the registration form in the Rec Office at Walter B. Williams park, or download a copy from the web site. The late registration deadline is August 5th, so be sure and get yours turned in today!

New Board of Directors Elected
March 23, 05
The new board of directors for OCSL was elected March 22nd at the annual banquet. They will consist of the following:

Voting board members:
President - Rick Ruark (only votes to break tie)
Vice President - Dan Panfil
Secretary - Autumn Hard
Treasurer - Jennifer Smith
Registrar - Jared Johnson
Immediate Past President - Wes Cummings

Non-voting coordinators:
Coaches coordinator - Ken Smith
Officials coordinator - Phil Barber
Field scheduler - David Sheppard
Uniforms - Angie Panfil
Signage - Myron Miller
Equipment - Max Hard

Spots still to be filled:
Concessions
Sponsorship coordinator

The OCSL sends a million thanks to Wes Cummings, who is stepping down as president this year after a wonderful job done last season. We all look forward to a great 2005-06 season!

OCSL Annual Banquet a Success!
March 23, 05
OCSL held its annual coaches' banquet on Tuesday, March 22nd at Crockets. The banquet was well attended and a huge success. Presentations were made by coaches of the U10 all star teams that took 1st and 2nd place in the district tournament and 2nd place in the state tournament last fall. A presentation was also made by the 2nd place OCSL Predators (U17 Classic). Also, it was announced that Gary Bardizbanian, a player, referee and coach in OCSL is the recipient of this year's Jake Heindel Memorial Scholarship. Board members and coordinators were also elected for the coming season. Thanks to all who attended this celebration of our league and its kids!

Next board meeting scheduled
February 08, 05
The next OCSL board meeting will take place on Monday, March 14th at 6pm at Walter B. Williams Recreation Center. All interested in the league are invited to attend. We are currently planning the annual coaches banquet, which is tentatively scheduled for March 28th. Invitations are being prepared and will be mailed out.

Spring Soccer Season is Underway!
February 08, 05
Our in-house spring season kicked off on Saturday, February 5th, as scheduled and with beautiful weather (though cold in the morning). Our teams will continue play through Saturday, March 12th. Complete schedules are posted at the fields. Standings for U-10 and U-12 leagues will be posted at the fields and updated approximately weekly.

OCSL Coaches Meeting
January 11, 05
A coaches meeting will be held for all coaches on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at the Walter B. Williams Recreation Center. The meeting will start at 6:00 pm. All coaches of our in-house recreation leagues are asked to attend. Team rosters will be handed out and you will be able to sign up for practice times. First games of the Spring season are on Saturday, February 5th.

Goalkeeping Coaching Courses
December 14, 04
Georgia Soccer will be holding several Goalkeeping Coaching Courses in February 2005. The NSCAA/US Soccer Level I course will be held on February 12, 2005 from 12:00pm - 6:00pm. The Level II course will be held the next day, February 13, 2005 from 9:00am - 6:00pm. Both sessions will take place at the SuperKick Complex in Norcross. For more information or to download an application form, please go to the Georgia Soccer website.

Registration for Spring 2005
December 14, 04
Registrations for the spring 2005 soccer season were due on December 3rd, 2004, but late registrations will be accepted through December 17th. If you have not yet submitted your registration form, you may do so at the office at Walter B. Williams Park or download a copy from the web site.

OCSL All-star Teams Perform Well
December 05, 04
The OCSL U-10 All-star team earned 2nd Place at the State Tournament in early December 2004. The team (coached by Dan Panfil, Joel Smith, and Gary Bardizbanian) made it to the Championship Game, but despite playing their best game of the tournament, they were outscored by the team from Dublin. Previously, the OCSL U-10 All-star teams had finished 1st and 2nd in the regional tournament held in Madison. The OCSL U-12 All-star team put forth a good effort at the regional tournament, but fell short of their goal to reach the state event. The OCSL sends its congratulations to each and every player and coach for their excellent performances this season!

Fall 2004 Picture Day on Saturday, 9/11
September 02, 04
The OCSL will have its annual Picture Day for all teams on Saturday, September 11th, at Walter B. Williams. All teams must arrive in uniform at least 10 minutes before their scheduled time to ensure they are organized and ready for the photographer (see the complete schedule for your team's time slot).

If you need to make changes to the schedule for your team, please contact Paul May at American Fast Photo (453-7285) to work out another time for your pictures. If you have any other questions, please call Wes Cummings at 456-0755 or 452-6039.

Seeking Coaches and Referees!
August 17, 04
The 2004 OCSL season will kick off on Saturday, September 18th, and preparations are underway for another great year of soccer. We have had terrific response to this year's registration drive, and the league is still seeking volunteers to help as coaches, assistant coaches, and referees. No experience is necessary (we will help train you), so please contact Wes Cummings at wescummings@spfs.net if you would like to help out!

Registration Open for 2004 Minikickers Camp
April 29, 04
The OCSL will again be hosting its annual Minikickers Camp this summer at the Walter B. Williams soccer fields. Designed for children ages 4-6, the camp will run from July 12-15, 2004 at 5:30-7:00pm each night (in the event of inclement weather, a make-up session will be held on July 16th). Registration for the camp costs just $25, and includes a free soccer T-shirt, #3 soccer ball, and a pizza party to be held on the last day of camp. The deadline for registration is July 5th, and you can download the registration form from this site. If you have any questions regarding the camp, please call Curtis Yaun at 478-454-1121 or write to him at curtisyaun@axcess.net .

OCSL Fall 2004 Registration
April 22, 04
We are currently accepting registrations for the Fall 2004 soccer season, which will run from September through first week in November. You can pick up a copy of the registration form in the Rec Office at Walter B. Williams park, or download a copy from the web site. The registration deadline is June 28th, so be sure and get yours turned in today!

GC&SU Soccer Camp Dates for 2004
March 11, 04
GC&SU has announced the dates for this summer's soccer camps here in Milledgeville. Led by Head Coach Robert Parr, each camp will provide a fun yet challenging experience designed to improve each player's technical and tactical mastery of the game. Players attending each camp will also receive a free t-shirt and ball.

Dates	Camp	Players	Fee
June 28-July 1	Youth Day Camp	Boys & Girls, Ages 6-10	$95
July 18-22	Striker/Goalkeeper Resident Camp	Girls, Ages 11-18	$325
July 19-22	Girls Day Camp	Girls, Ages 11-18	$95
July 26-29	Boys Day Camp	Boys, Ages 11-18	$95

Each day camp will run from 9am to 12noon at the new intramural complex on GC&SU's West Campus. For more information or to register online, please visit www.GCSUBobcats.com, or write to robert.parr@gcsu.edu. Space is limited, so make plans now to take advantage of this terrific local opportunity!

OCSL Annual Board of Director's Meeting (Saturday, March 13th)
February 19, 04

• OCSL will be hosting it's Annual Board of Director's Meeting Saturday, March 13, 2004, 7:00-8:00PM
• Location: Crockett's Restaurant (by Old McGaw Building)
• Note: Coaches Banquet 6:00-7:00PM (by Invitation Only)
• All parents are encouraged to attend the 7:00PM meeting and elect new 2004-2005 Board Officers. The current Board will be available to answer any questions or concerns. Old Capitol Soccer League needs your support. Please attend and consider helping out. Door prizes will be given away after the meeting. The future success of the Soccer League depends solely upon volunteers like yourself.

OCSL Items of Interest
December 23, 03

• The next OCSL Board Meeting will be held on Monday, January 12th 2004 at Walter B. Williams Recreation Building. The meeting will begin 6:00pm in one of the classrooms, and anyone interested in learning more about the league or volunteering to help is invited to attend.
• Our Mandatory Coaches Meeting for Spring 2004 will be Thursday Jan 15th 2004. AT this meeting each coach will receive an updated team roster, game schedule, and sign-up for practice fields.
• For traveling soccer teams (U13 Athena, U14 Rec, U15 Challenge, U16 Challenge) we need each of the traveling team coaches to provide Sherri Smith with your updated player roster by Jan 15th 2004.
• Our official Spring 2004 Soccer Game Schedule will begin as planned for U6-U12 on Saturday Feb 7th 2004. All U6-U12 games will finish up no later than Saturday March 27, 2004. Spring season games shall be scheduled for Thursday and Saturday, any required make-up games due to bad weather will be scheduled for Monday or Tuesday.

Georgia Soccer Day (Saturday Jan 31, 2004 Atlanta GA)
December 23, 03

• Information about Georgia Soccer Day, January 31, is now available on the GaSoccer website. http://www.gasoccer.org/gasoccerday/index.htm
  
  This year they are trying something new by designing seminars and workshops with specific audiences in mind. Of special interest are the workshops designed just for parents . . . to educate and provide information about youth soccer, our leagues and programs and more. Other groups that are targeted include coaches, administrators, team managers and referees.
  
  This is an excellent opportunity provided by GYSA for anyone to take advantage of these "free" workshops to learn more about soccer.
  
  Have a safe and happy holiday season.

Next OCSL BOD Meeting - Monday December 8th at WBW - 6PM
December 04, 03

• The next OCSL Board Meeting will be held on Monday, December 8th 2003 at Walter B. Williams Recreation Building. The meeting will begin 6:00pm in one of the classrooms, and anyone interested in learning more about the league or volunteering to help is invited to attend.

Late Registration Deadline (Dec 15th)
November 22, 03

• It's not too late to Register for our Spring 2004 Soccer Season, our Late Registration Deadline will be Dec 15th. Forms are available on this website, WBW Rec Dept, Old Capitol Trophy, and American Fast Photo. Any forms received after the Dec 15th deadline will be placed on a waiting list based on team availability.
• Our Spring 2004 season will start earlier next year for two reasons 1) we need some additional bank time in our game schedule to accommodate for "rain outs",last year we did not have this time therefore many teams played a short season 2) we need to finish up prior to start of baseball and softball season.
• Our official Spring 2004 Soccer Game Schedule will begin as planned for U6-U12 on Saturday Feb 7th 2004. All U6-U12 games will finish up no later than Saturday March 27, 2004. Spring season games shall be scheduled for Thursday and Saturday, any required make-up games due to bad weather will be scheduled for Monday or Tuesday.
• I need your help spreading the word about Spring Registration Deadline, this process becomes very cumbersome when 70% of the League Registers Late(this is what happened in the Fall). We had many complaints about moving the deadline up this year but it had to be done to start the Spring 2004 Season on schedule.
• Our Mandatory Coaches Meeting for Spring 2004 will be Thursday Jan 15th 2004. AT this meeting each coach will receive an updated team roster, game schedule, and sign-up for practice fields.
• For traveling soccer teams (U13 Athena, U14 Rec, U15 Challenge, U16 Challenge) we need each of the traveling team coaches to provide Sherri Smith with your updated player roster by Jan 15th 2004.

Sign-Up Now for Spring 2004 Registration (Deadline Nov 30th)
October 23, 03
We are currently accepting registrations for the Spring 2004 soccer season, which will run from February through March. You can pick up a copy of the registration form in the Rec Office at Walter B. Williams park, American Fast Photo, Old Capitol Trophy or download a copy from the web site. The registration deadline is November 30th, so be sure and get yours turned in today!

Schedules for Fall 2003 Season
September 25, 03
Practice and game schedules for OCSL teams are now available. To see your team's assignments, please click on the corresponding links below:

Practice Schedules U6 Practices U8 Practices U12 Practices

OCSL League Schedules U6 Games U8 Games U10 Games U12 Games

Georgia Soccer Schedules U13 Athena Games U14 Rec Games U15 Challenge Games U16 Challenge Games

If you have any questions, please contact Chris Hicks or Patrick Donovan.

New OCSL Soccer Field Complex
September 11, 03
Curtis Yaun, David Sheppard, Rick Fathi, John Tighe, Robert Parr, Patrick Donovan and two Georgia Power Reps (Rusty Thompson and Larry Peterson) met Wednesday morning (Sept 17th) with Joan Minton, Dale Epps, and a few other county employees overseeing the new soccer field project. As it stands, the project will take three years (into 2006) to complete based on the county's money situation and availability of county resources. To bid everything out, the total cost would be around $700,000; the county only has $500,000 budgeted to complete the soccer project. So, the county plans to use its own equipment and resources to grade the property, bringing the total cost back below the $500,000 budget. The current complex design includes a concession building, parking lot, irrigation, grass (sod) for five large soccer fields and possibly all the field lighting.

Three more years is a fairly long time to wait, especially considering we have already been waiting several years for this project to materialize. It has been suggested that if OCSL could locate any private company with heavy grading equipment that might be willing to help (volunteer their heavy equipment and resources), this would reduce the project completion estimate by about a year (2005). We would like to complete the grading by Spring 2004, which would allow a window to plant grass during the prime growing season, and then let the fields sit idle for a year to allow the grass to properly take root.

If the county were to bid out the grading, they estimate the project cost would increase by approximately $250,000. There's no money at the moment to bid anything out so this is not even an option. There aren't a lot of local organizations capable of moving this amount of dirt: CT Harris, Graham Construction, WF Jackson, the US Army Corps of Engineers, and Engelhard all have the heavy equipment to handle such a project. Engelhard is already out because of their current backlog status with land reclamation.

If you can provide any help with getting in touch with any of the above heavy equipment resources or maybe an alternate resource not mentioned, please call Patrick Donovan (454-3211).

To enhance player development, the GYSA is encouraging all leagues to implement a small-sided soccer philosophy for the U10 and U12 age groups. Smaller teams will require more scheduled practices and games. This new soccer complex would resolve our field constraint issues and provide opportunities to host future soccer tournaments here in Milledgeville.

OCSL Fund Raiser (Express Auto & Tire)
August 30, 03
At the mandatory coaches meeting on August 14th, each coach was provided with "green forms" to pass out to each of their team players. These "green forms" will inform the parents that Old Capital Soccer League has been chosen to participate in a national youth soccer program by Uniroyal Tire and Express Auto & Tire. The program is designed to support community soccer leagues and their families by raising funds and supplying equipment.

To celebrate their 2003 Fall sponsorship of the Old Capital Soccer League, Express Auto & Tire and Uniroyal will provide free soccer balls (good while supplies last) and conduct a fundraising promotion for our league families. A donation of $4.00 per tire on all Uniroyal tires sold in September by Express Auto & Tire to the general public, will be presented to the league. Let's spread the word to make this fundraiser as successful as possible.

To find out more information on the Uniroyal Tire TOPSoccer Program, visit the Uniroyal website at www.uniroyal.com or the US Youth Soccer website at www.youthsoccer.org. To learn more about Express Auto & Tire, contact Charles Burrell at 478-453-8416 or exp@alltel.net.

OCSL Items of Interest
August 05, 03

• The GC&SU Bobcats are requesting our U6 and U8 soccer teams to participate in a "fun scrimmage" during the halftime break for home soccer games. The OCSL team players will be recognized and will get to meet with the Bobcat soccer players following the game. Also, any U12-and-up OCSL soccer player interested in helping out GC&SU as a ball boy or ball girl should contact Robert Parr (478-445-5112 office or 478-288-0395 cell).
• The next OCSL Board Meeting will be held on Monday, October 13th at Walter B. Williams Recreation Building. The meeting will begin 6:00pm in one of the classrooms, and anyone interested in learning more about the league or volunteering to help is invited to attend.
• After each scheduled soccer game, coaches must remember to submit game results to the Union Recorder to acknowledge our OCSL sponsors and soccer players. Coaches can fax the game results to the Union Recorder at (478) 453-1459. For the coaches' convienence, we have additional Union Recorder Game Sheets and Referee Team Roster Line-Up Sheets available at the soccer field concession stand.
• If any of the teams/coaches/parents still require "make-up pictures", please call Paul Mays at American Fast Photo to schedule an appointment(work 453-7285 or home 452-6929).

Fall Soccer Registration Closing Soon
June 08, 03
We are currently accepting registrations for the Fall 2003 soccer season, which will run from mid-September through mid-November. You can pick up a copy of the registration form in the Rec Office at Walter B. Williams park, or download a copy from the web site. The registration deadline is July 17th, so be sure and get yours turned in today!

Camps, Camps, Camps!
June 07, 03
This summer, youth players in Milledgeville will have a number of soccer camps available to them here in town. As we have for several years, the OCSL is once again sponsoring the British Soccer Camp for ages 6-15, and the Mini Kickers Camp for ages 4-6. In addition, the new GC&SU soccer program will be holding two weeks of Bobcat Soccer Camp for ages 6-10 and 11-18.

	Bobcat Soccer I	British Soccer	Mini Kickers	Bobcat Soccer II
Ages	6-10 yrs.	6-15 yrs.	4-6 yrs.	11-18 yrs.
Dates	June 23-26	July 14-18	July 14-18	July 28-31
Times	Morning (9am - Noon)	Morning (9am - Noon) or Evening (5pm - 8pm)	Evening (6pm - 7pm)	Morning (9am - Noon)
Fee	$85	$85	$25	$85
Contact	Robert Parr (478) 445-5112	Buddy & Sharon Hood (478) 452-2821	Buddy & Sharon Hood (478) 452-2821	Robert Parr (478) 445-5112

All four camps will include a free t-shirt and free ball for each camper. Application deadlines will pass soon, so submit your registrations right away and come on out for some "fun in the sun" this summer!