Dear Parent:

Welcome to the 2008/2009 RYSA Soccer Season. Our team is the RCH Thunder and we will be playing at the U-15 Silver 1 level within the 4District league.

This is my 9^th year as a soccer coach. I have taken both the Community Coach Children (CCC) and Community Coach Youth (CCY) certification programs and will be undertaking the Community Coach Senior (CCS) program this fall. In addition I am an NCCP certified Level 2 coach. My co-coach this year is Scott Schroeder, who coached with me last season.

This year, our focus will be on challenging for the Commonwealth Cup, The Richmond B Cup and qualifying for the Provincials. In addition, we are hoping to represent Richmond City well in our league play.

We encourage parental involvement and hope parents will attend games and encourage their children and children’s teammates from the sidelines. The players usually respond very well when their parents are at the games. The only thing that we request: Leave the coaching to the coaches...encouraging words from the sidelines only.

Our intention is to rotate the players during game play, and we try to keep the substitutions and game time equitable. This is a policy that I have invoked over the past two season. Equitable play is based on attendance at practices, commitment to the team, coach-ability, and eagerness to compete. If you are ever unhappy with our coaching or feel that your son requires something more than we are providing, please come and talk to one of the coaches in private.

Please try to have the athlete at the practices and games on time and dressed appropriately. Remember to bring water and always have your athlete wear their shin guards and cleats.

Terry Dowle

tdowle@shaw.ca

Home #604-277-9125

Cell #604-760-8221