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Practice Guidelines & Policies from Mike Little, ACSC Facilities Manager
Welcome to another Youth Soccer Season! Thanks for your involvement and commitment to the children of Gainesville and Hall County. As I’m sure you will agree, we have the finest soccer facility in the state. Our staff here at Allen Creek is committed to providing your players, as well as future generations of soccer players with the best playing surfaces possible.

Allen Creek Soccer Complex is a very busy place with over 3200 practices and as many as 2200 games annually. With this type of heavy usage, and without proper turf management practices and policies it would be very easy for the quality of our fields to rapidly decline. Please take as much pride in our facility as we do and follow the rules! We need everyone’s cooperation and adherence to the following guidelines.

1. Stay out of the restricted areas highlighted on the field to the left of the office, field 6. Do not set up practices that unnecessarily put wear on the grass in front of the goals or in the center of the field. Limit full field scrimmages.

2. All goals will be placed on the sidelines or out of the restricted areas for practice. If your team needs to move a goal to execute a certain drill please make sure that you stake the goal back down. When your practice is over you are required to move the goal back to its original practice location and stake it back down. The only time a goal is to be placed in the restricted area is to scrimmage full field.
Play small-sided games instead.

3. Rotate to different areas of your practice field for drills. Do not hold multiple drills on the same area time and time again.

4. Use the Corners of the fields. These are good areas for fitness and agility work.

5. Begin and finish your practice on time. Do not permanently change to an unassigned practice field without the approval of the facility manager. Do not schedule an additional practice session without approval.

6. All trash on the field and in the team bench area is to be picked up following both practices and games. Please ask you’re out of town opponents to respect our facility and clean up their bench areas.

Coaches - Thanks for all you do and thanks for helping take care of Allen Creek Soccer Complex!

U-06 and U-08 Coach Positioning During a Match
Coaches are encouraged to be on the field the minimal amount necessary to help instruct players. It has come to my attention that coaches are becoming too involved in the game and not giving the players an opportunity to express themselves.

Coaches are there to encourage and give direction as far as positioning on the field, mainly to keep the players from bunching up and to help them understand the value of spreading out.

If a coach has to be on the field the position he/she should maintain is off to the side, around the halfway line.

We want to give the players as much room as possible to enjoy the game. Coaches should refrain from standing in front of the goal. It can be very intimidating to a young child when they are attempting to dribble down the field, then they look up to see a giant standing in front of them.

If there is a coach on the field, there should only be one coach on the field at a time - acting as referee for basic fouls. That coach should help to instruct and position both teams, not only his own.

We want our young soccer players to learn to think for themselves. Give them a chance to make a mistake and learn from it - you might be surprised at how well a lesson can be learned from first hand game experience as opposed to instruction at practice.

Recreational Program Coaching License Requirements
All LSA Recreational program coaches must meet the minimum coaching license requirement set by GYSA within the time limit allowed.

GYSA Rules state:
2220. All recreation program coaches must meet a minimum coaching license requirement as follows:

2220.1
Age Group - License Level
U-06 to U-08 - G Certificate
U-10         - F Certificate
U-10 to U-19 - Rec E Certificate

2220.2
Coaches have a 6 month grace period to attain initial required license and the same when moving from one level to another.

Select Coaching License Requirements
All LSA select program coaches must meet the minimum coaching license requirements set by GYSA within the time limit allowed.

GYSA Rules state:
220.3. All coaches (head coaches and trainers) must meet a minimum coaching license requirement as follows:

Program Division              License Level
Athena Division C, D, E & F      State "E"
Classic Division III, IV & V      State "E"
Athena Division A & B            State "D"
Classic Division I & II       State "D"
Academy                     State "E"

2240. When coaches move from one program division level to another they have a one year grace period to attain the required level license. [Example: Recreational to Classic IV or Athena D, Athena C to Athena B, Classic III to Classic II].

2243. Coaches found to be in violation will be suspended from coaching until such time as they obtain the proper license. Leagues shall not designate an individual with the proper license as the coach simply to circumvent the intent of this rule. It is the responsibility of the league to insure that its coaches are properly licensed. Failure to do so may result in the league not being allowed to participate in the select programs.