ODSL Night at DC United Sportsmanship Winners Honored Pictured on the field at half time of the Oct 17 DC United match are representatives of the Randy Rawls Sportsmanship Award Winning teams from the Spring season.  Home Team Responsibilities for Rain-Outs If your club closes its fields for weather you must Continue... Properly Anchored Goals It is the responsibilty of every team official, referee, and even spectators to insure that goals are properly anchored during any match, practice, or scrimmage.  If a goal is unable to be properly anchored, the activity on that field should be abandoned immediately.   US Consumer Product Safety Commission's Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal Safety Sportsmanship Expectations The Old Dominion Soccer League has certain expectations of exemplary sportsmanship on the part of the teams, players, coaches, volunteers, and parents participating in the league. The soccer skills that we teach our players will serve many of them well into adulthood.  In addition, all our players will benefit through-out their lives by what we teach them about sportsmanship, respect for their opponent, respect for the officials, and dignity.  Continue... DC United Discount tickets Visit the ODSL and DC United MicroSite for discount tickets Or use This Form and fax to 202-587-5400  For more information, contact Scott Miller (D.C. United) at 202.587.5435 or smiller@dcunited.com Three Ways to Print Roster Labels for Your Game Report Cards For instructions... Continue... Conduct Committee and Appeals Committee Issues concerning conduct on the part of any ODSL team, player,coach, personnel, or official should be directed to your CLUB REPRESENTATIVE who can in turn contact the Chair of the Conduct Committee, Wayne Gardella, vicepresident@odsl.org Protests for misapplication of the rules, or appeal of a Conduct Committee ruling should be directed to the Chair of the Appeals Committee Randy Martin, president@odsl.org through your CLUB REPRESENTATIVE. Disagreement with the judgement of an official is not grounds for a protest. Reporting Match Scores New procedures for 2007 Starting with the Spring 2007 season all match scores are to be reported online by the Home team. Continue... Sportsmanship Ratings  As covered at the preseason meeting, ODSL no longer has the referees use the 10 point system to rate the teams for sportsmanship.  Now the referees are asked to rate separately the players, coaches, and spectators for sportsmanship on a scale from +2 to -2.  +2 being excellent, +1 good, 0 average, -1 poor, and -2 being unacceptable.  The referees submit this information in their online match report.  You can see a team’s averages on these points by passing your cursor over the figures in the SP_AVG column on the standings page.  These ratings help the league reinforce the ODSL Codes of Conduct.  They are also used as a tie breaker in the Randy Rawls Sportsmanship Award voting. The League will apply additional scrutiny to any teams that consistently run a negative average. Total cautions (yellow cards) and total ejections (red cards) are tracked separately under the TC and TE columns.  These also figure into the Randy Rawls Awards.   New Procedures for the Referee Report Card The ODSL Referee Report Card has been redesigned for the Fall 2008 and subsequent seasons.  As part of new ODSL procedures, prior to the match, the home team must fill out the top part of the card and paste their team roster to the card.  They must then present the card to the away team for them to paste their team roster to the card. The home team must then present the card to the Center referee.  The card should be given to the referee in its complete form.  Do not tear off the bottom portion before giving it to the referee as it has instructions for the referee on ODSL Laws of the Game and also instructions for how to file the match report online. Creating 2008-2009 Player Passes and Roster The complete registration procedures manual for 2008-2009 is available at the Registration Procedures Link in the left column. The following link should be used to file roster information online with VYSA :https://www.youthleaguesusa.com/vysa/2008/TravelTeam.html  The following link should be used to register your team personnel with the KidSafe program: https://www.youthleaguesusa.com/vysa/2008/RiskManagement.html  If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Wilson Listing of All Team Numbers for Fall 2009 To find the Official ODSL Team Number for your team... Continue... ODSL Adds New Registrars The ODSL Head Registrar, Lisa Wilson, has recruited several new registrars and reassigned several clubs to these new registrars.  To determine the registrar for your team check the link in the Right column. HS 6v6 Rules All FIFA, US Soccer, US Youth Soccer, and ODSL Laws apply with these exceptions:  Continue...

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