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The Blazers
June 29, 2009 --
The Blazers for now are combining with the PLRSA Metro Stars.
The newly formed team is The PLRSA Red Devils United!
I will be updating this page to complete the season and with information about a team party. Best of luck to everyone.
Feel free to check out the Red Devils United website as this new team starts
www.leaguelineup.com/plrsareddevils
Thanks to everyone for the great seasons as the Blazers
Coach Chris
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Sports Behavior Bill
Sports Behavior Bill
Sports Behavior Bill
The following article was taken from the August 26, 2002 edition of The Record
Sports behavior bill signed into law
The Record - Monday, August 26, 2002
By BARBARA WILLIAMS Staff Writer
LITTLE FALLS - Steven Esperon remembers having to end a flag football game when the parent of an 8-year-old came to blows with a coach. Esperon was 14, and refereeing the competition.
But a bill signed Sunday morning by Governor McGreevey will now allow local officials to banish such misbehaving adults from future games until they take a course in anger management.
The Athletic Code of Conduct Bill will permit a school board or youth sports organization to establish a code for all athletes, coaches, officials, and parents as a condition of participating in any sport.
"It's a shame that it has to be a law, but unfortunately, it really is necessary," said, Esperon, 17, of Union. "I've seen more and more parents getting out of control in many different sports."
Esperon, who plays high school baseball and soccer, was among a couple dozen people who attended the bill signing at a forum on youth sports at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center on the Montclair State University campus.
The forum was broadcast live during Rick Wolff's "Sports Edge" show on WFAN radio.
"This is a one-strike law," McGreevey said. "You misbehave once and you're out - we're not giving two or three strikes - just do it one time and you will not be allowed to come back to the games until you complete a counseling course."
Earlier this year, the governor also signed a law that calls for a charge of aggravated assault for physical attacks during a youth sporting competition. Those convicted can face up to 18 months in prison and $10,000 in fines.
"We want the people in the stands to demonstrate a model of conduct that our children will see," McGreevey said. "Children learn what they live, and if they see their parents screaming and yelling at the umps, they come to believe this is acceptable behavior."
The law can be applied to all youth sports events - from T-ball and flag football for small children to high school competitions. A model code will soon be developed for local organizations to follow, McGreevey said.
Most of the audience was composed of coaches and parents of children involved in sports programs.
"I'm a soccer grandparent, and I've seen a lot of verbal abuse hurled at umpires or even their own kids," said Doris Leib of Clifton. "One time a team's parents were so noisy and screaming that a parent from the other team pulled her son out of the game - and I really think she was justified - no child should have to play under those type of circumstances."
According to the National Alliance for Youth Sports, a non-profit organization based in West Palm Beach, Fla., the number of confrontations and violent incidents involving parents has tripled in the last five years.
The most widely publicized case of violence in youth athletics occurred in July 2000 when one hockey dad brutally beat another father to death in front of their sons in Reading, Mass.
Sunday's seminar also touched on such topics as giving youngsters time off between sports, and how to train in the off-season.
The panel discussion, which was led by Wolff, featured Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King, St. John's University women's tennis coach Kyle Copeland, and Yogi Berra's son Dale, who is a former professional baseball player.
They encouraged parents to listen to their children, encourage them to play a variety of sports, not to push them into doing anything they don't want to do, and make sure their children's schedules are reasonable. Members of the panel also stressed that parents need to remember that the whole point of youth sports is to have fun.
"I played all different sports - I liked them all and I was encouraged to play a variety," Dale Berra said. "But I think time off is just as important, and a guy who plays football for a good part of the year should take a month and ride the waves in Belmar."
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Travel Soccer
Travel Soccer ??
What have you gotten yourselves involved with?
When you first become involved with competitive travel soccer, there are so many new things you will hear about and should begin to understand. Along the way your family is bound to enjoy many new experiences, meet some really wonderful people, make new friends, travel to places you never would have imagined, watch your child grow and develop, and, hopefully - you all will learn to understand and love the game of soccer!
In an attempt to help begin to educate many of you who are seeking answers to your questions, this page will give you some of the basics. Ever wonder what all the fuss was about age brackets, divisions, flights, and seasonal years? ... What's all this talk about "U" teams, 11v11 and 8v8? ... What's a League? ... The questions go on and on (those were just some simple ones) - and it is not always the newcomers that need some answers!! As you read this page it will probably spark more questions - if so, send them in and we will do our best to address them on future pages! Now without further adu, let's begin ...
The General Structure:
The first basic is to understand the general structural hierarchy: A player is affiliated with a team, a team with a club, a club with a league, a league with a state organization, a state organization with a national organization. If you are a member of MCYSA, your child's Team is sponsored by some Club. That Club is a member of MCYSA - Morris County Youth Soccer Association. MCYSA is a league that is affiliated with the state organization, NJYS - New Jersey Youth Soccer. NJYS is affiliated with the national organization, USYS - United States Youth Soccer. There are rules and laws that govern everyone involved.
Now that you have that understood (well, you can always re-read it later) .. let's go on ... Most of the rest of this is summarized the the table at the bottom of this page.
Seasonal Year: Understand that this is NOT the familiar January-December calendar year. Travel Soccer is played during two seasons of the year, Fall and Spring. Fall is season 1, Spring is season 2. These two season make up the Seasonal Year and players are carded to a team for the entire Seasonal Year. Technically a Seasonal Year begins September 1 and ends August 31. If a team plays both seasons, players are carded in the Fall. Older teams may not play the Fall season - usually due to High School sports conflicts - and may form and card in the Spring.
Divisions: Are made up of Age Brackets. Divisions never change, they always contain the same age brackets. (Division 1 is made up of 3 age brackets - all the others are made up of 2 age brackets.)
Age Brackets: Are simply the age of the team. The age bracket of the oldest player on a team determines the team's age bracket. This is usually the most often confused element. Age brackets are determined by birth dates that fall between the period of August 1 and July 31. (Again, not the normal January-December calendar year!)
Flights: Often indicates the skill level of a team. Teams in each Age Bracket or Division are grouped in one or more flights. The higher the flight, the more competitive and experienced the teams will be. Teams are re-flighted each season within their respective age bracket or division. I will not get into all that goes into flighting teams other than it is based on the past history of a team, the type of information about the team that is available, the number of teams playing each season, etc. This is a very long and difficult process that every league wrestles with each season. If teams in a flight are at the same competitive level one should expect a 50/50 season.
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