Friday, January 30, 2009

Springfield Hotel Reservation Information

Hello Soccer Parents!

You can now start calling the University Plaza in Springfield to book your individual rooms. As you know, we have 15 double-double rooms reserved. The confirmed rate is $99 per night, not including tax. It should be worth it, this is a very nice hotel. It is like the Embassy Suites in design (same parent company) but the rooms are just rooms, not suites like in Little Rock. Suites are available, but not at the team rate. Their AAA rate for a King suite (w/sleeper sofa if above the 4th floor) is $149, if anyone is interested. The hotel address is 333 S. John Q. Hammons Pkwy, Springfield, MO 65806.

The # is 417-864-7333. Ask for Reservations. Tell them you are with ESC '98 White team, coming for the Lake Country Soccer Tournament. They will take special requests, like a King room w/sleeper sofa, or a double-double with sleeper sofa, and everyone please mention that we'd love it if the whole team could be on the same floor. They make no promises, but say they'll do their best. Remember all rooms that have a sleeper sofa in them are on the 4th floor or above.

Rosie, I put in an extra special request for a low floor for Tess with the contact person in group sales at the hotel and she said it shouldn't be a problem. She said they'll treat that a little more seriously than just somebody wanting a particularly type of room.

Now - I have to pass along a very stern warning I got from the group sales contact: She stressed that this is a business hotel. They are not going to be as lenient as hotels in the past have been about kids running around without an adult. She made it very clear that if any other guest complains about the girls and it can be traced to an individual family, that family will be asked to leave the hotel - no refund. So I think we may need to keep a bit tighter rein on the girls this trip. She did say noise levels at the pool (sorry, Austin) are okay, just not out in the halls or too much noise in the rooms to the point where it bothers the neighbors. Apparently this hotel stopped booking teams several years ago because of the disturbance some of them caused, so we just need to be good ambassadors for OFC/ESC.

If anybody has any question, feel free to email me or call me at 359-0998 (H) or 315-7970 (cell).

Thanks! Kacee

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Game Time Changed

For those of you who did not see the notice at our game tonight, the game for Saturday has been moved from 8am to 9am. We are still wearing red (bring gray). See you there, enjoy the extra hour of sleep.

Brian Hancock

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Springfield Room Info Needed

Kacee Van Horn has graciously volunteered to arrange for our hotel in Springfield, MO for the Champions Challenge Tournament. She needs an idea of how many rooms we will need. She is just checking for availability right now, so I need to hear from you if; (1) if you are not going to Springfield, (2) if you do DO NOT need a hotel room reserved, and (3) if you need more than one room. Please reply back by Thursday.

Thanks.

Brian Hancock

Practice 1/28/09

This just in… We will have indoor practice tomorrow at 4:30. See all your smiling faces there!

Brian Hancock

Week 1/26 Schedule, Scrimmages, and Other Info

We have two indoor games this week; Thursday at 7:30pm on field 2 (wear black), and Saturday at 8am on field 3 (wear red). As is the norm, please bring the gray practice outfit in case we have to change.

Austin has set up a couple of 11v11 outdoor scrimmages for us in February (weather permitting). The first is February 15th at 2pm and the second is February 22nd also at 2pm. This will give the girls an idea of what to expect next season.

I have 3 girls interested in being ball girls at an Edmond North game this year (Kelsie, Hannah, Allison), if anyone else is interested please let me know ASAP… I’ll contact Russ and let him know who and see what dates are available.

I’ve been working on our tournaments… I have us signed up for Springfield Champions Cup already and looked at signing us up for the Presidents cup. However, the Presidents Cup has to have a $100 trash fee and a $400 “performance bond” in addition to the registration fee to sign up… I am trying to contact someone at the OSA office to find out what the bond is for before I sign us up. I’ll let you know how that goes.

Brian Hancock

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Welcome to the Team Ashley!

Team,

As some of you may already know, Austin has asked Ashley Snider to join our team for the remainder of the season (indoor and out). I think we'll all agree she played very well at the Winter Magic tournament and now she'll be an asset for the team going forward. So, please help me in welcoming Ashley, and her family, to our team.

WELCOME!

Brian Hancock

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

February Practice Schedule

Starting Feburary 3rd we will start practicing outdoors (weather permiting) one day a week. We will practice every Tuesday from 5:30 - 7:00 with Austin's 97's. In addtion to the Tuesday practice we will also practice on Wednesday, 2/18, as we do not have an indoor game that week (so, that's twice that week).

Austin says if it is 40 degrees or colder we will not practice. I'm sure I will notify you sometime during the day each Tuesday "weather" or not we will practice.

Any questions, see me.
Brian Hancock

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

February Fees

Parents,

Attached is a spreadsheet showing what each of us owe for February fees. Fees are due at practice on Wednesday.

Hannah Berndt - $62.31
Macy Collison - $62.31
Tess Dominic - $62.31
Halle Ginsberg - $82.31
Taylor Gross - $60.00
Laramie Hall - $62.31
Kelsie Hancock - $77.31
Madison Huelskamp - $62.31
Morgan Magee - $62.31
Jade Orange - $62.31
Hope Sanders - $62.31
Paige Serup - $62.31
Ashley Snider - $2.31
Alison Van Horn - $62.31

We are going to pay for the Springfield Champions Challenge ($415) and the Presidents Cup ($525) with Cookie dough money this month, so I will not have to collect for those.

Also, I charged Ashley Snider the same amount I charged everyone else for the Winter Magic tournament ($15 per diem + $40.39 entry fee = $55.39), however since she was not included when I tallied the bills, the money I collected is essentially extra team money. I have to pay Hat Trick for our practice time for the month of January which totals $50 ($25 each time). I will apply the fees Ashley paid to our Hat Trick bill therefore that will not have to be collected. I hope that all makes sense.

If you have any questions about the bill let me know.

I need to collect fees at practice tomorrow if possible. I will not deposit the checks until Friday though.

Brian Hancock

Volunteer for Edmond North Soccer

Parents, here is an opportunity for the girls to be ball girls for the Edmond North Soccer program. Please respond to Russ and I if you are interested. Thanks

Brian

Once again this year, ESC has been given the opportunity to serve as ball boys and ball girls for the Edmond North Varsity Soccer Program. The coaches would like 6 to 8 girls/boys for each varsity game. The volunteers will have their names announced at the beginning of the game, will have the opportunity to participate in warm-ups with the Varsity teams, and get to meet the coaches and players. Those that participated last year enjoyed the experience and have already contacted me about doing it again this year. This is a great opportunity to do things with teammates, friends etc. Volunteers will be accepted on first come, first serve basis. Below is the schedule. Girls games begin at 6:00PM and Boys games at 8:00PM. I will be at the games to coordinate the volunteers and their positions on the field. If you are interested please respond to russ@heartlandtitle.com with the game you would like to volunteer, and whether you want to do boys or girls game. If you have any questions, Please let me know.

Schedule

Tuesday March 3rd Putnam City North

Tuesday March 10th Edmond Memorial

Tuesday March 24th Enid

Tuesday April 7th Sapulpa

Friday April 10th Tulsa Union

Tuesday April 24th Stillwater

Thanks for supporting Edmond North Soccer and ESC.

Russ Lissuzzo

Monday, January 19, 2009

Practice Wednesday 1/21 and Indoor Schedule

Since we don’t have a game this week Austin has arranged for a practice at 4:30 on Wednesday 1/21 at Hat Trick.

Below is our indoor schedule

ESC 98 WHITE vs UNITED 98 BLACK - 01/29/09, Thu 7:30 - field 2
UNITED 98 BLACK vs ESC 98 WHITE - 01/31/09, Sat 8:00AM - field 3
ESC 98 GOLD vs ESC 98 WHITE - 02/04/09, Wed 5:30 - field 2
ESC 98 WHITE vs UNITED 98 WHITE - 02/11/09, Wed 6:30 - field 2
ESC 98 WHITE BYE - 02/19/09, Thu NO GAME
ESC 98 WHITE s ESC 99 VIZARELIS - 02/24/09, TUES 5:30 - field 3
ESC 99 VIZARELIS vs ESC 98 WHITE 02/25/09, Wed 5:30 – field 1
1ST PLACE 4TH PLACE 03/04/09, Wed 6:30 2 SEMI FINAL A
2ND PLACE 3RD PLACE 03/04/09, Wed 7:30 2 SEMI FINAL B

If you have any questions please let me know.

Brian Hancock

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Team Account

Accounting is a total PAIN IN THE ARSE!

With that said, here is the checks and balances for the team account.

Some things to note:

I donated $25 to open the account, but I signed up for the leisure rewards which cost $25. As a member of the leisure rewards club I get points for money deposited and spent… I figured we could use that to get Austin something at the end of the year.

Service Fees; since we are a Business Account we pay a $10 service fee each month unless we maintain a $5000 balance in the account… unless someone wants to donate $5000 for our account to hold we will continue to pay the service fee.

Cookie Dough – We made $4735.00 total. We paid Red Apple $3006.00 for selling us the cookie dough, which means we made $1729.00. Per your feedback, I will use this to pay for the upcoming tournaments. This amount will cover our 3 spring tournaments and leave us $289. We can apply that to the per diem we’ll have to pay Austin for Springfield.

For those of you who have overpaid or underpaid a few dollars here and there, you probably are going to just have to chalk that up to a team donation. Because unless you shorted me a whole bunch or way over paid, you’re out of luck because my record keeping abilities suck. That’s something I’ll work on going forward.

If you have any questions about the spread sheet let me know.

(SEE SPREAD SHEET ON YOUR EMAIL ATTACHMENT)

Brian Hancock

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Added Links

I added the links for the Spring Tournaments

Brian Hancock

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Winter Magic and Practice Info

Hi everyone

We will have indoor practice at Hattrick this Wed 1/14 from 4:30 to 5:30. We don’t have the day and time of our indoor game for this week yet, but I will let you know as soon as I receive it.

The Winter Magic schedules have been posted and I have put the dates and times we play below. I will have packets at Wednesdays practice that will include the formal schedule as well as directions to each of the indoor complexes and the uniform information for each game. According to the schedule it looks like we will only play on Monday if we make it to the finals, so you may want to check with the hotel to see if they will let you cancel if we don’t make the finals and you want to head back home on Sunday. Obviously we probably won’t know whether we are playing or not on Monday until after Sunday mornings game.

Sat 1/17 11:50am BSS Complex

Sat 1/17 4:50pm BSS Complex

Sun 1/18 9:50am OP Complex

Winners of group A and B will play on Mon 1/19 at 10:10am at the LP Complex.

There is a link to the Winter Magic website on blog page if you want to look up any information, otherwise I will bring everything Wed night to practice.

Brian Hancock

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Schedule for Spring Season

Parents,
Located below is Austins schedule for the spring season. We will not start the two days a week practice until March, but we may do one day a week in February, depending on our indoor game schedule and weather. In March we will practice on Mondays from 6-7:30pm with the 97's and on Wednesdays from 5:30-7pm by ourselves.

These are the outdoor tournaments Austin and I have discussed doing in the Spring season.

Champions Challenge
Where: Springfield, MO
When: March 6-8
Cost: $415.00
Book By: February 6

President’s Cup
Where: Preliminaries – Norman, OK
Semi-Finals and Finals – Edmond, OK
When: Preliminaries – April 24-26
Semi-Finals and Finals – May 9
Cost: $525.00 (before February 1st), $575.00 after
Book By: February 1

Red Earth Invitational
Where: Oklahoma City, OK (NOKC)
When: May 1-3
Cost: $500.00
Book By: No Date Given (Early April)

These are not set in stone and are open to discussion so please let me know if you have any issues with our choices or if there is another tournament you think might benefit our team better than one of these. The only conflict I can kinda see is if we make the prelims in the Presidents Cup, then that will be 3 weekends in a row of soccer. I think that is fine, but thought I'd point that out.

As stated in the email I sent yesterday, our outdoor Frontier Country league starts March 7th. Keep that in mind.

Any questions or comments please let me know.
Brian Hancock

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Managers,

Here is the training schedule for next semester. It won’t start till March due to us still playing indoor. Starting in Feb we will start going outdoor one day a week and play games indoor 1 day a week. I will try to get a schedule out for febuary as soon as I get a schedule from rasool. But here is the days we will train and tournaments. Let me know what you think

Monday
2001s 5-6
98/97s 6-730
96s 730-9

Tuesday
H.S. Games

Wednesday
98s 530-7
97s 7-830

Thursday
2001s-5-6
96 6-730
97 boys 730-9

Friday
Academy games and hs games

Tournament list: 98- Winter Magic, Springfield, Presidents cup, NOKC tournament

Thanks,
Austin Risenhoover
Edmond Soccer Club
USAO Men and Women's Assistant Soccer Coach
Edmond North Head Girls Soccer Coach
(405) 306-9406(cell)
(405) 574-1308 (office)

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Various News and Notes

Please read all the way through as there is a bunch of different types of info.

Here is what I have for Winter Magic shirt orders. Please let me know if you want anything changed or would like to add to the order.

Hannah -YL -Hoodie -Logo
Macy -YL -Hoodie -Logo -Paid
Tess -YM -Hoodie -Logo
Halle -YL -Hoodie -Logo
Taylor -No -No -No -No
Laramie -YL -Hoodie -Wizard -Paid
Kelsie -AS -Long -Sleeve -Logo
Madison -?
Morgan -No -No -No -No
Jade -YL -T-Shirt -Logo -Paid
Hope -AS -Hoodie -Logo
Page -?
Allison -AS -Hoodie -Logo -Paid
Ashley -YL -Hoodie -Logo

I got everyone’s medical release that is going (except for Maddie, I’ll have her fill out at next weeks game). Thank you for that.

Schedules for the tourney should be out this Friday, I’ll send those out as soon as I see it.

On the Cookie Dough, we sold $4735 worth of cookie orders. We paid the Red Apple organization $3006 and that leaves us $1729 to use at the teams direction. We will play in 3 different tournaments (each will be around $475 to enter) and we have to pay for our outdoor league (It’s not on the website, but I think it is $500). We need to figure out what you want me to use that for. I will have to collect for the outdoor league and our first tournament in the February bill. I think the question is; do you want me to pay for as much as I can until we spend all of our money, or do you just want me to use if for the tournaments? Please send your answer to me by next Monday. Majority will decide. I am still working on our team finance sheet and will get that to you soon. I’m going to have my accountant (Shannon) look it over when she gets some time before I send it out.

The outdoor league starts March 7th. Austin and I have been discussing practice schedules for outdoor as soon as he’s firmed it up I will let you know, but we will probably start at least once a week sometime in February (depending on weather). More on this to follow.

I think that is it for now. Thanks,

Brian Hancock

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Indoor Game week of 1/5/09

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a happy New Years.

Austin has informed me that we have an indoor game this week on Wednesday at 5:30pm. Let’s wear black to this game and bring your gray practice jersey just in case.

Don’t forget that Winter Magic is just around the corner, if you haven’t made your reservations for a hotel, please do so. You can find the hotel info on the team blog… http://ofc98white.blogspot.com/.

See you all Wednesday.

Brian Hancock