This player is the Instructional Soccer Player of the season.  Her name is Margot - she loves playing soccer, watching her brother play soccer and scoring goals.  She played for the orange team this season and in her last game she scored an impressive 4 goals!  Most importantly, she had lots of fun and that's what playing Madeira Soccer is all about.  Never know in a couple of years, you may see her playing at a High School State Championship game!

Madeira Youth Soccer is a purely VOLUNTEER administrated organization with a goal of providing quality services to the children in Madeira School District and those attending St. Gertrude.  In any given season, we have around 450 players in the program.  We are one of the founding members in The Cincinnati Hills League.  We are a SAY soccer organization were our emphasis is learning while having fun! 

Every season we employ a trainer to assist our coaches with practice lesson plans and to help develop our players.  This is what makes our program so unusal and successful - Madeira Youth Soccer is a Pioneer in our SAY program - in employing professional trainers to work several times a season with our teams as typically that only happens with "Select" clubs.    We believe this contributes to our success both in player and coaching development. All of our Coaches are volunteer coaches and we currently employ the services of a professional trainers.

Also, MYS is a Partner with CincyUnited - www.cincyunited.com - one of the largest and most prestigious select clubs in the area - the only area club allifilated with MLS team - Columbus Crew!  This partnership allows us to extra coaches clinics to ensure our coaches have the tools needed to be successful.

Tim Dicke is in his 10th year of being the Director of the Madeira Youth Soccer program.  He worked with Mariemont to form The Cincinnati Hills League.  He believes that the players should have opportunities to allow them to learn the game with quality instruction, thus is an advocate for certification of coaches, employment of trainers and promoting opportunities like the Soccer Camps we host.  He works countless hours answering questions, organizing and running registration process, maintaining field space, organizing schedules of practices and games, working with the league on tournaments, attending league meetings, ordering uniforms (huge job), organizing and ordering awards, preparing the fields, organizing camps and hosting camps and other items necessary to keep the program on track (just to name a few tasks) and remember this is a VOLUNTEER position. He is thankful to those who assisted him in data entry of registrations along with other volunteers who help including:

Jeff Bauer is the Referee Coordinator in charge of training, certifying, and scheduling the referees.  He is typically at the fields every weekend and attends many of the league meetings for us.  If you are interested in becoming a Ref, look him up!  We appreciate all the work and volunteer hours he puts into the program.

Kristie Lowndes is our Treasurer in charge of the payment of bills, and expense/income reporting- and other items important to keep the Program on track.  We appreciate all the hard work she puts into the program - Thanks for volunteering!

COACHES/BOARD:  Chuck Demmitt, Traci Theis and Jill Dicke round out our soccer board serving on the scholarship committee. Make sure you give thanks to these people and the Coaches for volunteering and giving up much (if not all) their free time - as Madeira Soccer is only as good as it's volunteers and we have some FANtastic Volunteers.