Guide – Best Ways to Join LAFC So Cal Rec Youth Soccer Program

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Guide – Best Ways to Join LAFC So Cal Rec Youth Soccer Program

1 - Decide to coach your child. Round up the appropriate number of age-appropriate friends and start a new team

2 - Decide to coach your child. If you do not have any other age-appropriate players for your team we will add players to your team from the player pool

3 - Join a team that is being formed by one of your child's friends parents. (That is coaching)

4 - Put together a group of age-appropriate players (The bigger the group is the more likely you will need to provide the coach)

5 - Sign up as an individual and be placed in the player pool we will add you to a team based on where you go to school / the city you live in (we try to match up individual players with the team from your school or your city but obviously that does not always work)

If we have 60 players registered in an age group that is 6 players per team that would be 10 teams

If all 10 volunteer coaches live in Winnetka technically all 10 teams would be Winnetka based teams.

If you have registered within the open registration period, it is possible without volunteer coaches, you could be placed on a waiting list.

Each year approximately 80% of the players that sign up for our programs are already connected to a coach.

The remaining 20% are in the “draft”

In any age group where we have more players then we have volunteer coaches we would reach out to the draft players parents and recruit the additional volunteer coaches we need

If no parents volunteer to coach players will be assigned to teams based on their registration completion date. Players not assigned to teams in this process can either

A be placed on the waiting list or

B get a full refund

Practice Scheduled -

With so many teams and players, we do not keep track of when and where teams practice. It is always the volunteer coach that decides when and where the team practices.

Obviously, if a player cannot make the team practice just showing up for games is not an option

1 - If we have teams in that division that are still looking for players we can move your son/daughter to a different team although there is no guarantee that the new team does not practice on the same night/time as well

2 - If all teams in that age group are full we will place your son/daughter in first place on the waiting list if an opening on another team opens up we will add your son/daughter to that team but again there are no guarantees that the team would not practice on the same night/time as well