Door County Soccer Association: Welcome

Welcome to the Door County Soccer Association's website.  DCSA is a volunteer rec league with 700 players in beautiful Door County Wisconsin.  We are affiliated with SAY soccer.  Games are primarily played at John Miles County Park soccer fields as well as the Sister Bay Sports Complex, Baileys Harbor, and on Washington Island.  Our season starts in June and ends with a championship tournament at the end of July.   We are a summer recreational league who is very serious about our kids having fun!  

NEW FOR 2010!  British Soccer Camps! 

This year in addition to a camp by UWGB Phoenix Head Coach Tom Poitras we are hosting a British Soccer Camp June 28th-July2nd.  This is a great camp for players from 4 to high school (they play in age appropriate brackets).  We are very excited to have this excellent camp coming to Sturgeon Bay.  For details or to sign up on line go to 

https://registration.challengersports.com/FindACamp/FindACamp.asp?IdS=0000B8-F58DB00&Method=CampSession&Key=857122|1|12373&~=

or www.challengersports.com

May 15, 2010 Soccer Kick Off Day meet your coach & reps from British Soccer Camps & Green Bay Soccer Camps.  Ref meeting & training (required for our refs), coaches clinic (free) and more.  At the fairgrounds in the building across from the pavilion in the Junior Fair Building.

9 am  6/7 year olds

9:30 am 8/9 year olds

10am 10/11 year olds

10:30 am 12/13 year olds

11 am    14/15 year olds

11:30 pm Coaches Clinic

Noon Referee Meeting and training

Thanks to all coaches, refs, helpers, players, Door County Parks Dept, and our board for another successful and fun year of soccer!  We are looking forward to next year (see Board Minutes in the handout below) and are trying to offer on-line registration to make things easier.  Stay tuned!

2009 DCSA TOURNAMENT JULY 25, 2009 

Trophies for 1^st & 2^nd place, food & refreshments avail. 

Sponsors

Appletree Kennels                   

Door County Dental

Coldwell Banker Door County Horizons  

Stoneman-Schopf Insurance Agency 

Pinkert Law Firm

Great tournament all! Special thanks to all who helped and our sponsors. We had 4 shoot outs and many close matches.

8/9 1.Haight 2.Glasheen 3.Fischer 4.Brunsvold

10/11 1.Stoeckle 2. Rittle 3. Stawicki 4.Bader

12/13 1.Glasheen 2.Desotelle 3.Rittle 4. Spittlemeister

14/15 1. Glasheen 2. Haight 3. Washington Island CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!! SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

Soccer games begin June 8th.

Our 5 year old program begins June 17th at 6 pm.

U18 League starts June 11th at 7pm.  Tell your friends!

Our league is full be sure to sign up early next year!

PICTURE DAY is Saturday June 27th check with your coach or view the hand-out for the schedule.

Many thanks to;

Dr. Phil Arnold & Northshore Medical Sports Medicine for once again providing our First Aid kits!

Sandy Sannito for putting together our free soccer shoes program (in the shed)!

Bob Desotelle for getting the soccer fields laid out and ready to play on and Dan Lenius for helping to maintain them!

Karen Rittle (and kids) for tirelessly getting ref & game schedules put together!

Tracy Glasheen for the inputting, organizing, registrations, and everything!

Dick Clark for your knowledge and help in keeping a great league going!

All of the volunteer coaches and helpers.  Without you we could not have this great league!

To the Door County Parks Dept for all their help in making our season work and keeping our fields clean and cut!

And, thanks to all the parents for signing your kids up for Door County #1 Sport!

To great soccer,

Scott Bader, President

This winter I stumpled upon a great book called "Soccerhead, an accidental journey into the heart of the American Game" by Jim Haner.  Many  can relate to this "accidential journey" having no idea what the sport was about prior to our kids playing.  I am one one of those who never understood soccer but here I am President of DCSA & have now coached for 7+ years!  Aside from it being a great book he had one of the best coaching tips I have ever read;

 The author was at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Convention and Anson Dorrance (coach of UNC women's team which had a 532-25-15 record under him & he was Mia Hamm's coach) was giving a seminar on the method's he uses to turn his practices at UNC into a "competitvie cauldron".  This is used to boil off the pretenders and temper the survivors.  Anyway a youth coach asked him when he should turn up the heat on his kids back home.  He replied "I don't think junior year in high school is a moment too soon for a coach to start thinking about these things".  Another great coach, Tony DiCicco (Passadena) said "... the best way to coach kids that age (youth soccer) is just to let 'em play."

Food for thought coaches!

 SB

Special thanks last year to Dick "Mr. Soccer" Clark and his assitants for stepping in at the last minute to run this program! REMINDER there is a make up date (because of weather) on Wednesday August 15 at 6pm which will be the final date for the year (no class during fair week). Thanks to all for another successful year!