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Welcome to the TBAYS
Soccer.
The TBAYS Soccer Club is
comprised of three different groups.
TBAYS Juniors players (U4-U7) are grouped together by
school and school grade.
Older players are grouped to create
evenly skilled teams. Age group designations are, for
example, U12B for a boy’s 12-and-under team, or U19G for
a team of girls up through 19 years of age. Birth dates
for determining a player's age group are August 1
through July 31. For example, the 2008-09 season
(beginning August 1,2009), the oldest
11-year-old player was born on August 1,1997, and anyone
born on or before that date can play on a U-11 team.
For more complete
descriptions of each program:
Currently TBAYS has over
1400 families.
TBAYS began as a single team (the Hawks,
U12B) in the spring of 1988. This team was organized by
Fred Haines (TBAYS past President) and coached by
Darrell Rogers (past Director of Coaches). The Hawks
were the first Traverse City youth soccer team to
participate in sanctioned down state tournaments, and
met with surprising success.
TBAYS
has grown dramatically since then, and has become the
preferred soccer program for Traverse City youth ages 4
and up.
TBAYS is
a member league of the Michigan State Youth Soccer
Association.
MSYSA
is a branch of the
USYSA, which oversees much of the youth soccer in
the United States (including Olympic Development
programs). Membership in MSYSA allows TBAYS teams to
compete in and to host sanctioned tournaments, provides
training for coaches and referees, and gives insurance
protection for coaches and players. Like the "Y,' and
other high integrity youth programs, TBAYS maintains
firm standards of behavior and sportsmanship for its
players and coaches, all of whom are governed by a
strict code of conduct. |
