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All our indoor programming occurs at the BMO Centre (295 Rectory St, London).
It starts just after Thanksgiving in mid-October, skips over Winter-break &
ends until just before March Break.
Please follow the links above for program specifics!
Building a more successful Indoor Soccer Season with your fam!
Building a more successful Indoor Soccer Season with your fam!
Is your player Coachable? It begins LONG before your player hits the pitch! It begins with modelling preparedness as a caregiver and following the season instructions we give you for your player. 😉
One of our jobs is to funnel everyone from Having an interest in your child playing soccer --> down to getting them to a tiny spot on a big field on a giant planet (sorry, I can't help them remember the shinpads, but my professional Soccer Mom Hack🦸🏼♀️#2 is to keep a specific Soccer Bag. & Soccer Waterbottle. EVERYTHING goes back in the bag when it's not being worn or washed - (SM Hack🦸🏼♀️#2: Washing is optional during stressful times). Remind your child this is THEIR responsibility and to do it good-naturedly! SM Hack🦸🏼♀️#3: The water refill station is by the double blue doors near Field #4 - Damian Warner Field, so even if the Soccer Waterbottle doesn't get filled before you leave Home, it can be at the BMO Centre!
We try to find a way to communicate the info so as many of you as possible know where to go and when (on a shoestring budget, as a Not-for-Profit community club). This does take some careful reading and a little trust in yourself, me - and PowerUp:
We anticipate having your season schedule in PowerUp MemberZones by October 1st (except possibly for Teen programming since registration comes in slowly). When you are logged into your PowerUp Member Zone (where you registered), locate the Family Calendar button; it's got the coordinates to help you know where and when! These will also appear in the PowerUp Mobile App. The coordinates refer to a Location with a Field AND a Zone on that field.
Find your FIELD (NUMBER) & ZONE (LETTER) before you leave the house - tell your child. You will kick yourself if you don't!
Our location for Indoor Programming is the BMO Centre - 295 Rectory St (this is also our office location). Arriving at the BMO driveway when our session begins - is a Yellow Card. Please leave at least 15m (extra) to park and hustle your kiddo to the correct Zone on the correct Field so they arrive in as good a mood as possible - as many weeks as possible.
Saturday, 10AM & 11AM, participants will go to Field 2 in the main building (go left once inside the front doors, through the food area, turn right through a set of blue doors, then around the outside of the fields, to the far left corner). Your Zones are lettered A-D(1&2).
Thursday 6:30PM & 7:30PM participants will go to either Field 5 (AKA Hyundai Field) or Field 6 (AKA NorWest Soccer Field) in the Addition to the main building (turn Right once inside the front doors, go left at the banking machine, through a set of blue doors, turn right again, through another set of blue doors). Your Zones are lettered A-C.
*Thurs She's Got Goals: Your Zone may change WEEKLY since SGG is a league and game schedules require some rotation but will remain on Field 5 & 6.
Participants will need to:
Participants will need to:
Wear your Club shirt (once it's provided) & athletic shorts or sweats,
Wear shinpads - covered by soccer socks,
Bring clean and dry indoor running shoes or turf soccer shoes to change into. -
Outdoor Cleats are NOT permitted at the BMO Centre for safety.Bring a full & LABELLED water bottle weekly.
Know what Field and Zone they are participating in weekly
Ask questions if they don't understand ;-)
Smile...RUN!
⏳Timing.
⏳Timing.
It's essential to Indoor programs:
Indoor is different from Outdoor Soccer in several ways, but one that can go un(der)accounted for is Timing...
It's further away for most of you than our Outdoor fields,
SNOW!
Parking at the BMO Centre can be challenging,
Trekking in from the parking lot through the building,
buuuuut the most significant Timing issue for us is that we cannot wait to start programming. We must start and end on time because other groups have rented time slots before and after us at $180/55mins ($3.25/min)😱 and expect to start on time.
So we'd like to ask you to do what you can to avoid rushing out the door at the last minute, fighting with your player to simultaneously eat, find their shin pads from last week, and get in the car - every week. It just doesn't work. I know we all have Things, and I respect that (Honest! I raised kids via Sport, too. It's why I'm so familiar with the toll it takes on family).
The pressure associated with all that rushing can make it harder for us on the field, too. Sometimes they're too sad or mad to enjoy our time. I have also seen it make a kiddo "hate Soccer" because they associate it with the frustration or pain of getting there.
Trains happen during our Indoor season. Anyone coming from the North can be halted by up to 2 trains. I usually use the Adelaide Bridge to cross the one closest to the BMO Centre, then turn left onto Little Simcoe Street, and left again onto Rectory St., then left into the parking lot. It's a lot of lefts, but it avoids the train just north of the BMO Centre driveway altogether!
Please have them ready to run on time. Arriving in snow boots at the start time uses up our warm-up time, where they could get up to 100 touches on the ball or, worse, the feeling of inclusion—something sports science has now identified as one of the significant values for girls in sport. Cite Keeping Girls in Sport
Finally, like other humans, some of our staff excel at leadership but struggle with organization. Some are developing leadership skills & shrink when confronted by authority figures, but are well-organized. They are all eager to spend time with your girls & they are all humans. Please help me "Catch Them Being Good."
Yours in Soccer,
Jenn
Soccer-Mom
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