Schedule Week of 3/30 - Note Added Practice

Our schedule for the week is as follows:

Monday – Practice at 5:30 (fields are open)
Wednesday – Game vs. ESC Gold on ESC field 8 at 6pm – wear black
Thursday - Practice at 7:00 (added in preparation for WSA Tourney)
Saturday – WSA Tournament
Sunday – WSA Tournament

If you have not paid April fees I need to get a check from you at practice tonight.

Brian Hancock

WSA Schedule Finalized

The WSA schedule has been finalized and nothing has changed for us.

With that said I know some of you are talking about canceling your Saturday night hotel room because of the schedule. I checked with the Hilton and, after a brief lecture, she agreed to allow it. However you need to do so ASAP. I also spoke with Austin about canceling your rooms and he is ok about it but wants to stress that everyone needs to plan on being at the fields Sunday ON TIME.

To cancel your rooms please call the Doubletree Hilton at 918-587-8000, or sales rep is Angela Mayhew.

If you are going to cancel your room Saturday night please let me know. I was going to make reservations for a dinner somewhere, but if the majority of people are going home I am not going to waste my time.

Any questions let me know.

Brian Hancock

Saturday Game Canceled

No surprise here. The game Saturday with Midwest City has been canceled. I will let you know a reschedule date as soon as I do.

I will check field conditions Sunday at ESC and let you know about that game Sunday morning.

Brian Hancock

WSA Tournament Schedule

Our schedule for the WSA Tournament is out. They did say this is the preliminary schedule and subject to change. As it is right now we play at the following times.

Saturday 4/4 - 8:50am vs. CVFC Black - field 10
Saturday 4/4 - 2:15pm vs. WSA - field 10

Then depending on how we fare in those two games we will play at either 2:15pm or 3:20pm on Sunday and the championship game will be at 5:30pm.

Right now lets plan on wearing red on Saturday (as we are the away teams) and we will wear black on Sunday. As usual, bring all uniforms. Unless Austin tells me different lets plan on being at the fields 30 minutes early.

I will have a handout for each of you next week with maps, game rules, schedule, etc.

The whole event schedule and other information can be found at
http://www.wsasoccer.org/cup/wsa_cup2009.htm

Any questions let me know. Brian Hancock

Monday Practice Moved

Austin is moving our practice tonight, 3/23, indoors due to the pending weather. We will practice at Hat Trick on field 3 from 4:30 - 5:45. It is important to make it if you can as we have games and tourneys just around the corner.

Any questions please call or email,
Brian Hancock

Practice Canceled on Wednesday

This just in... there will be no practice on Wednesday, 3/25. Austin has a game with one of his other teams.

Brian Hancock

Schedule Week of 3/23, Fees, Other Notes

Hope everyone had a good spring break and I hope you’re ready to get back to some soccer.

Our schedule for this week is a busy one, here it is;

Monday 3/23 – Practice, 5:30 – 7:00
Wednesday 3/25 – Practice, 5:30 – 7:00
Thursday 3/26 – Game in Enid - 6:00pm, arrive at 5:30 if possible – Red Jersey – Field 1
Saturday 3/28 – Game at Midwest City – 6:00pm, arrive at 5:30 – Red Jersey – Field 8
Sunday 3/29 – Game at ESC vs. CVFC White – 3pm, arrive at 2:30 – Black Jersey – Field 8

If your child is going to need a ride to the Enid game be sure to speak up at one of the practices this week so we can make arrangements for that. If your child will not be able to attend an event this week please let me know.

I have figured the April Fees. Fees are DUE MONDAY at practice. They are as follows:

Hannah Berndt - $88.13
Macy Collison - $88.13
Tess Dominic - $88.13
Halle Ginsberg - $88.13
Taylor Gross - $88.13
Laramie Hall - $16.79
Kelsie Hancock - $88.13
Madison Huelskamp - $88.13
Morgan Magee - $88.13
Jade Orange - $88.13
Hope Sanders - $88.13
Paige Serup - $73.48
Ashley Snider - $88.13
Alison Van Horn - $88.13

If you have not made reservations for the WSA Cup Tournament you need to do so by Thursday, after that you will not receive the reduced room rate.

The WSA Cup tournament is only 2 weeks away, I thought I would try to make reservations somewhere for all of us to get together Saturday night for dinner. If you have a suggestion for somewhere our team could go eat please let me know as soon as possible. Our hotel is downtown so someplace near there that would be great.

I have received confirmation on most of our reschedules. I will get a new calendar out in the next day or two.

We’ll see you this week,
Brian Hancock

Doubletree Info - Field Usage Fee Info

Soccer stuff on a down week, don't you just hate me?!

The Doubletree sent me a link that allows you to register online for a room for our tournament. You'll find it below, so if you have not made a reservations please do so. Again, if you are not planning on staying at the Doubletree please let me know. Reservations need to be made by March 26th.

In other news, I got a nasty gram from the ESC treasurer... we have not paid the 2nd half of our field usage fees for the year (whoops, I forgot). The $500 was due February 1st. Anyway. After our tournament entry fees are all paid we have about $300 left from the Cookie Dough fund, I was going to apply that towards the Field Usage fee and collect the remainder from each of you with the April dues. If there are any objections to that please let me know.

Hope you are all having a good spring break, we'll see you next week...

Here is the Doubletree Info...

Your personalized group web page has been approved and has been published to the web.
Your web page address is: http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/TULSDDT-ESC-20090403/index.jhtml

Group Name: Edmond Soccer Club

Group Code: ESC

Check-in: 03-APR-2009 Check-out: 05-APR-2009

Hotel Name: Doubletree Hotel Tulsa-Downtown<http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=TULSDDT>

Hotel Address:
616 W. Seventh Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74127-8983

Phone Number:918-587-8000

Spring BREAK

There are no games or practices scheduled for spring break week (3/14 - 3/22). Please have a safe and enjoyable spring break.

Brian Hancock

Game Canceled for 3/12

Our game for this evening has been canceled and rescheduled for March 26 at 6pm
(still in Enid).

Brian Hancock

WSA Hotel Reservation Info

Parents,
I have reserved 14 rooms at the Hilton Doubletree in Downtown Tulsa for the evenings of March 3rd and 4th. Each of you will need to take a moment to call or email to reserve one (or more) of these rooms for yourselves. If we need more rooms they can be added. They are going to try to put us all on one floor.

I did talk to the WSA soccer officials and they said we probably won't play Friday evening, but will more than likely have an early game on Saturday so I would recommend going to Tulsa Friday evening and staying there that night. Once we get the actual schedules perhaps we can cancel a night if needed.

For reservations please call (918) 732-3603 and speak with Angela Mayhue. Tell her you are with the ESC 98 White Girls team and need a room. The rooms are $95 a night and includes a complementary breakfast each morning. You can also email Angela at angela.mayhue@hilton.com for your reservation. Just include the above information, what type of room you want, and your credit card number. Nothing is billed at this time.

The Doubletree website is http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/TULSDDT/index.do if you want to check that out.

If you will NOT be staying at the Doubletree please LET ME KNOW.

Also, we are Austins only team going to this tourney, but he is staying with family, so we do not have to pay for his room.

Any questions let me know.

Brian Hancock

WSA Cup Hotel Inquery

I have been looking at hotels this morning in the Sand Springs area and have run into a few minor problems. In case you didn't know its GUN SHOW WEEKEND in Sand Springs (Whew HUE!) and many of the smaller, less expensive hotels are full or close to it. For example, the host hotel (Hampton Inn) only has 4 smoking rooms available.

The closest I could find that could get us all in and was a decent hotel is the Hilton Doubletree in Downtown Tulsa (see website - http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/TULSDDT-Doubletree-Hotel-Tulsa-Downtown-Oklahoma/index.do). They are about 15 minutes from the soccer complex in Sand Springs. They have quoted me $95 a night for a double room (others available on request) which includes a full breakfast. There is a restruant and, if you are so inclined, a bar in the hotel.

I am taking other suggestions right now otherwise I will probably book this first thing Wednesday morning. If you have a suggestion of another hotel let me know.

FYI: I imagine we will have to reserve for Friday and Saturday nights. We will probably not have a game friday night, but they said we would probably play early Saturday.

Thanks,Brian Hancock

Schedule for Week of 3/9

Here is the schedule for this week.
3/9 - Monday - Practice - 5:30 - 7:00pm - Field 3
3/11 - Wednesday - Practice - 5:30 - 7:00pm, Field 3
3/12 - Thursday - Outdoor Game vs. Enid Pride - 6:00pm - Enid field 1 - Wear red.
3/15 - Canceled - to be rescheduled for later time

I have attached Version 4 of our calendar to this email. The changes to the previous calendar are in red. Directions to the Enid complex are on page 5 of the calendar.

It sounds like it is going to be pretty chilly at our game in Enid, please make sure that your daughter has WHITE under armor to wear under her shirt, if your daughter has a different color they may be asked to remove it.

Any questions let me know.

Brian Hancock

NWO Extreme Game Postponed

I spoke with the manager for the NWO Extreme and they have agreed to postpone our game originally scheduled for this Sunday, 3/8. We have not picked a date for when the game will be rescheduled. She will check availability of their refs and fields and get back with me sometime next week. I will let you know as soon as I do when they would like to play.

With that said we will probably not have any games this weekend. I am still waiting on confirmation from the Enid Pride team, but she didn't think it would be a problem.

I'll keep you informed.

Brian Hancock

Enid Game Reschedule Info

I have rescheduled the ENID game that was originally scheduled for this weekend, 3/7 to Thursday, 3/12 at 6pm. I know that is not much better, but Enid, like us, is not able to reschedule for weekends. The Enid manager has to confirm she can get refs that night, so this is not set in stone just yet, but I wanted to get word to you as soon as possible.

If you are not able to get off work early enough to get your daughter to Enid by 5:40 or so, then we will need to work together to make arrangements to do so. Let me know if your daughter needs a ride and I'll find her one.

I am still working on the NWO Extreme game we have scheduled on Sunday, I'll let you know asap.

Brian Hancock

Spring League Schedule

Well I had warned we could have games this weekend and sure enough they scheduled us despite me telling them Austin would be gone this weekend.

Our schedule is as follows:

3/7 – vs Enid Pride playing at Enid at 1pm
3/8 – vs NWO Extreme playing at Dolese Park at 3pm
3/14 – vs ESC 98 Gold playing at ESC at 9am
3/15 – vs NOKC Black playing at ESC at 3pm
3/28 – vs MWC Fusion playing in Midwest City at 11am
3/29 – vs CVFC White playing at ESC at 3pm
4/11 – vs SLSC Cosmos White playing at Southlakes at 11am
4/18 – vs SLSC Cosmos Black playing at ESC at 11am
5/16 – vs CVFC Black playing at ESC at 9am
5/17 – vs NOKC White playing at NOKC at 5pm

I am going to try to reschedule our games scheduled for this weekend since Austin is out of town, but if the opposing teams do not want to change we may have to just go ahead and play. I am going to try to make some arrangements on Thursday and notify you ASAP.

There are some other dates that present a problem. The following weekend 3/14 and 3/15, is Spring Break weekend and we have 2 games scheduled. Shannon was approached by the Gold team manager (who we play on Saturday) and asked if we could reschedule that game, so that will probably change. However, I will need to know who will not be able to play that weekend should we have to play the other game. Another date is 4/11 which is the Saturday before Easter Sunday. Again, I will need to know who is not available that weekend.

This is a much shorter season and because of tournaments and other things there are very few dates we can reschedule games too, so we may end up playing a lot of these games where they were scheduled. With 14 players on the roster we should be able to put up a team for most of the games.

In addition to all this is our indoor final this Friday at 7:30. We will wear red uniforms.

I have attached our schedule for you to print out with all of this information on it. The changes and additions to the schedule are in red. Please note that the practice time on Mondays changed to 5:30 - 7:00pm (from 6:00- 7:30). The schedule also shows where the games are played, the colors we will wear, etc. We will wear black for home games and red for away games and bring gray for backup. On the last page of the schedule are directions to each of our away games.

Again, I will let you know as soon as I do what I am able to accomplish with our schedule, but be ready to play just in case.

Thanks, Brian Hancock

Schedule for the Week of March 2nd

We have outdoor practice tonight, 3/2, from 6 - 7:30 pm out on field 3.

We have an indoor game on Wednesday, 3/4, at 7:30 at Hattrick, wear black.

Frontier Country has yet to release spring schedules, but games could start as
early as this weekend. I'll keep you posted.

Have a good week,
Brian Hancock