Parents and players of East Haven Youth Soccer,

Practice for In-House and Travel will start this week.  Schedules for practices are on-line.  

Clinic:
The micro and little kicks clinic will be held on Saturday mornings at 9:00am and 10:00am Starting April 17th .  Due to Covid, we will be splitting the group up into two time slots.  As we get closer, you will be notified of your group designation. All children must have shin pads and socks that are over the pads (balls will be provided).  Cleats are desirable, but not required.  Clinic shirts will be handed out at the clinic.  We ask that all players wear their clinic shirt every week.  Upon arriving at the field, we will have a representative check the player into the clinic. 

Parent are not allowed on the field with the players and must wear masks if they are outside of their car watching from the fence/chairs.  Players may wear masks, but not required at this time.  It is important that you leave the field promptly as the session ends so that we don’t merge with the next group coming in.  Also, for players in the 2^nd group, they should stay in their cars until 5 minutes prior to the start of the clinic. 

We are always looking for parent volunteers to help with the clinic program. If you would like to help, please notify John Gildersleeve

In-House Boys and Girls

Games will be conducted Saturdays at 11 and 12:15. Practices will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:30-6:25 for Boys and 6:35-7:30 for Girls. 

Parent must wear masks if they are outside of their car watching from the fence/chairs.  Players may wear masks for practices, but not required at this time.  For games, players are required to wear masks while on the bench.   Players should have a bag to keep their drinks and masks in so they don’t mix with other players.  It is important that you leave the field promptly as the practice/game ends so that we don’t merge with the next group coming in.  Also, for players in the 2^nd group, they should stay in their cars until 5 minutes prior to the start of the practice or game. 

Please make sure that you check the start time of your child's game every week once players are selected to teams.  We will assign every team a different color, players will be placed on teams and uniforms will be given out before the 1st game. Please do not wear old shirts - they change each season as do the team rosters. 

All players must wear soccer cleats (no metal football or baseball cleats) or sneakers, shin pads, socks (over shin pads) to every practice and game and the supplied shirt to each game.

Please be on time to your games, we continually have problems with parents bringing their children late for games, please adhere to the time requests when possible.  If you can’ make it to the game for any reason, notification to the coach is of the utmost importance so other players can be brought in if needed (just RSVP to the reminder).  We don't want to cancel games for lack of players.  Parents sit on the opposite side of the field as the players.  Do not site behind the goals or on the players side of field. 

We are in critical need of for parent volunteers to help with our in-house boys and girls’ programs.  If you would like to help, please notify the league.  What we need are parents to coach the games, and to assist our professional coach at practices.  You don't have to do both, whatever you are available to do.

Travel:

Soccer cleats, height/age appropriate shin guards are a must, and the assigned complete uniform.  Make sure that you are responding to the game/practice availability emails every time.  Coaches will base their practice drills on the number of players that show up. Directions to almost every field in our state are posted on the website. 

All players and parents are asked to be respectful at all times when at East Haven Youth Soccer functions. All players either from East Haven or other surrounding towns are out there giving everything they have.  They deserve our respect.  Parents are the key to teaching our players how to be courteous winners and gracious losers.  

Keep an eye on the website, keep an eye on the website, it can't be said enough.  We do not cancel games/practices just because of weather.  Do not assume a game or practice is canceled, check the website.   

East Haven does not allow pets on the fields.  Please leave them at home!!!  Your pet may be kid friendly but not all kids are pet friendly, this is a place for kids to play, not be scared to get bitten. 

Be sure to lock your vehicles when leaving them unattended and keep an eye on all your property.

EHYS members have access to Sports Sign-Up Play App, you need to logout and log back in (every season) to add the new season's teams.  In order for you to see the team, you have to use the email you used to register in the system.   If you have any issues, email ehyspresident@gmail.com with the email that is not working, and it could be that the email is not in that system and I can add it.  If you want others to be able to use it, just email me with their email address(es).  

Also, when you look at your schedules, you will see from our website, you can add them to your normal calendar systems.

Picture Day for the Spring 2021 season is scheduled for June 5, 2021.  Details will be forthcoming.

To sign up, the process is called registration.   For registration for travel players, you will need a picture of your child (passport/school style) and proof of birth that will be uploaded. 

This will be updated with our new Registration Programs once we return to play