REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL COACHES:
Start of Season:
Recreation coaches are required to attend the coach's meeting prior to the start of the season. (This meeting is virtual).
Coaches Bag:
Head coaches can arrange to pick up their coach's bags (balls, scrimmage pinnies, cones, gloves, first-aid kit) by contacting the club administrator.
Players Uniforms (Rec):
Please advise the parents that they are responsible for purchasing uniforms at the Sterling soccer retail store (see uniform page) for new players. Uniforms numbers are required for the U11 and over age groups, and all numbers are always assigned by the club administrator.
View the Spring 2024 Rec Coaches Meeting Presentation
Communication with Parents:
After you have been contacted by the club administrator and have received your team roster, be sure to contact the team parents as soon as possible before the first week of practice.
You will need to inform the parents about:
Inform parents that Sterling Soccer's focus on the recreation side is on skills development, sportsmanship, making new friends, having fun, and learning the game. Not winning games.
Parent Volunteers:
The club administrator will email you the names of the parents who volunteered as team parents or game day assistants. Please make sure to assign them to team tasks such as game-day support, snack scheduler, and other logistical help that you may need.
Field closures:
Ensure that team parents opted-in to text messages in our league's system. If they aren’t certain, have them log back in and check their Sports Engine user's profiles to receive texts and emails from the club administrator. This way they get league-wide text and email notifications when fields close. As the coach, you can also communicate with the team parents by using text and email on the Team app.
Team Portal:
Please familiarize yourself with the team portal app (read below), as this is a valuable tool for communicating with parents and players for games & practices, alerts for weather cancellations, and other important team events.
Sign up now to be a Head Coach or Assistant Coach
Sterling Soccer Club has adopted the following Code of Conduct, expected of all spectators at Sterling Soccer events, to create the best possible environment for our children and to foster sportsmanship by positive example.
Sterling Soccer has a Zero Tolerance policy for verbal or physical abuse toward players, coaches, referees, or parents, be they part of Sterling Soccer or associated with an opposing team. Parents or coaches who verbally or physically abuse another player, coach, referee, or parent, will be banned from Sterling Soccer events.
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Field status
Fields | Status |
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Algonkian Elementary School | OPEN 4/30/2024 |
Hencken Fields #5, 6, 7 (Grass) | OPEN 4/30/2024 |
Hencken Fields #8, 9 (Turf) | OPEN 4/30/2024 |
River Bend Middle School | OPEN 4/30/2024 |
NOVA Loudoun Fields | OPEN 4/30/2024 |
Please direct any questions to Tara, our club administrator.
Sterling Soccer Club is now using the GotSports sports team management system for all our team and players registration and management.
Parents, players and coaches can download the use the Team app on their phones or desktop computers for the following:
GotSport for Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gotsport.mobile
GotSport for Apple iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gotsport/id1559685064
GotSport Desktop/web:
https://teamapp.gotsport.com/
Helpful Support Links for all users:
Helpful link for parents to add additional parents so they have access to app:
ADDING MORE USERS:
Each player can have up to 4 users attached to their account, but they need to be added in GotSport and are brought into the app automatically every evening when the app synched with GotSport system (6-10pm EST nightly).
All users are added to Parent group. Each user has to have own email address for security purposes. Athletes are the only users that can be added to the app without an active email address, the system creates a unique one for them for security purposes & SafeSport compliance.
QUESTIONS
Please contact our club administrator for any GotSports related questions.