2024 Soccer Season Start - Minis

Hi everyone,

We're almost to the first day of soccer for Minis (U3 to U9), here's a list of things to know.

Quick list:

• First day of soccer is Tuesday, June 11th at 6:30pm.
• Team lists will be posted to the website by the end of next week.  You can use that with the field layout map to know in advance which field your child will be playing on.
• Instead of lining up to pick up the players shirts, please go straight to your child's field - we'll have a shirt for them there.
• Please dress weather appropriately, our weather policy is on our website here: https://northshoresharks.ca/content/programs-and-information

Other items

Map of our field layout for this year (also linked from our website's menu at the top): https://northshoresharks.ca/content/north-shore-fields-2024

U3

Parents of U3 children are allowed and encouraged to join their children on the field.  Our U3 coaches would benefit from the assistance of parents to help guide the players as the U3 group is so young.  Please be supportive.

U5

We have three volunteers to coach U5, but we could use at least one more to volunteer to help run the groups.  We have binders with prepared activities for the kids that are very easy to follow, and many are variants on games the kids already know (eg: red light/green light, freeze tag).  Please let us know if you're able to help.

U7

It would be helpful to have at least one more volunteer to assist our U7 coaches.  We have three adults and one youth coach so far, but this group is the most rambunctious.  The head coach for U7 has plenty of experience, so parents don't need soccer knowledge to help out - you can assist by helping to ensure the players are listening, setting up for drills, etc.  Please let us know if you're able to help.

The U7 fields are on the neighbouring field accessible from the gate in the overflow parking or from the path between the baseball diamonds.  Please see the field map linked above, or ask if you need directions.

U9

The U9s are separated by gender this year in order to participate in the Charlottetown U9 league run by Sherwood.  We have two coaches for U9 Girls, but we need a coach for the U9 boys team - please step forward if you're able to help.

The game schedule with Sherwood and other Charlottetown area clubs are still being worked out but the plan is for them to be on Wednesday nights at 6:30pm.  Last year the following clubs have signed up, which should give us a variety of teams to play against:

• Sherwood
• Stratford
• Winsloe
• Eliot River
• North Shore

If you have any questions please email NorthShoreSharksSoccer@gmail.com or post on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthShoreSharks

Thanks,

Rick Townsend