Attendance:
It is imperative that players attend training. We expect that players are accountable for their own development in the game. Coaches will be prepared each training session to educate players. A players absence will only effect their own development. Training will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. An absence will result in less playing time
Injury:
AZSC expects that if a player is injured they seek proper medical attention and report it to the coach & team manager. If injuries occur during the course of an AZSC activity, an incident report must be completed. If injury results in loss of participation, player must obtain a written doctors release to return to training. Coaches will consider the health and well being of the player when returning them to training and games.
Playing time:
Gold teams: playing time is a privilege and will be at the coaches discretion. In lue of progress and contribution players will play. Gold teams represent the highest skill of our club. A competitive spirit is needed to advance even the highest skilled player to the next level. We expect our players in the gold team to compete and be accountable for their development. The coach will help guide the players towards the concepts that will help them progress.
Blue teams:
Playing time will be dispersed evenly amongst players. We recognize that a blue team player has different needs. We consider blue players to be good athletes but needing more technical work to elevate to the gold team level. Players will need more playing time to develop their skills; confidence will come from playing time.
On time:
We are aware that most of our players do not drive but we expect all players to be on time. A coach has the freedom to enforce this expectation instilling in our players a discipline. Throughout our lives, in school, in work and in our community being on time is a value and expectation so we expect it here.
The following is a list of expectations for our coaching staff, parents and players:
Unity: Team first, all members of AZSC are equally important but not always will decisions be as we wish. We must remain unified
Discipline: Do the right thing; give your best effort and take care of the details
Professionalism: sportsmanship, come prepared, how we carry ourselves needs to represent a sense of greatness not embarrassment
Commitment: to team and ourselves, showing up and being reliable
We have started something special here at AZSC and all of you are apart of a building foundation. Currently, we are still at a crucial point of our building process. The foresight for us is to produce knowledgeable players of the game, self disciplined athletes, well ordered individuals that strive to become better always in all aspects of their life, accountable individuals, and mostly the development of a strong work ethic that will transcend into each young athletes daily actions.
At AZSC our coaching staff will push each individual but set the bar at a high level for the purpose of maximizing each persons ability. We cannot settle for less than each others best. Beyond developing players of the tactical and technical aspects of the game, we need to help build their confidence and challenge them to be hard working and responsible people on and off the field.
We will embrace the Definite Dozen:
- 1. Respect yourself and others-self respect with respect for others
- 2. Take full responsibility-no shortcuts to success
- 3. Develop and demonstrate loyalty- seek out quality people and acknowledge their talents
- 4. Learn to be a good communicator-communication eliminates mistakes
- 5. Discipline yourself so others do not have to-group discipline produces a unified effort towards a common goal
- 6. Make hard work your passion-think big
- 7. DonÕt just work hard work smart-strive to have understanding in all your doings
- 8. Put the team before yourself- teamwork
- 9. Make a winning attitude- positive outlooks
- 10. Be a competitor-separate yourself from the average
- 11. Change is a must- change equals self improvement
- 12. Handle success like you handle failure-you canÕt always control what happens but you can control how you handle it
Director of Coaching - Alex Fonseca
Thunder Administator- TBD