AYSES SC - Coach Opportunity

AYSES Soccer Club is a dynamic and growing soccer club. We are looking to add coaches to our club. If you are a soccer coach interested in joining a truly integrated club whose focus is player development, then we are the club for you.

We have a lighted first class facility in McKinney and another facility in Garland.

The requirements for the position are as follows:

• State or National License a plus
• Playing experience beyond High School
• Some coaching experience (willing to consider a promising entry level coach)
• Team oriented and willing to learn

Send resume to olalisamuel@gmail.com or call (214) 734 – 3393

If you guys truly want to add coaches and teams to your club you may want to start by treating coaches and team managers a bit better at our tournaments. You do have a nice facility though.

SEAOTTER wrote:If you guys truly want to add coaches and teams to your club you may want to start by treating coaches and team managers a bit better at our tournaments. You do have a nice facility though.

Ohhhh SNAP!!!!!!

I think you meant to state "your tournament" instead of "our tournament".  

I am not sure what you are referring to, but I can assure you that when you have hosted two tournaments a year for eleven years, you are bound to have a couple issues here and there.  When issues come to our attention, we do our best to resolve them as best we can, sometimes to the satisfaction of whoever is complaining and sometimes not.  I would like for you to share with me what we did wrong because it bothers us when you state that.  Our goal is to learn from our mistakes.

musaisaya wrote:I think you meant to state "your tournament" instead of "our tournament".  

I am not sure what you are referring to, but I can assure you that when you have hosted two tournaments a year for eleven years, you are bound to have a couple issues here and there.  When issues come to our attention, we do our best to resolve them as best we can, sometimes to the satisfaction of whoever is complaining and sometimes not.  I would like for you to share with me what we did wrong because it bothers us when you state that.  Our goal is to learn from our mistakes.

My issue is not a coach issue....but a field issue (Fairview Soccer Park)

If you are going to have games at "Night"......You need lighting on BOTH sides of the fields.
Its horrible to  havonlye lighting on 1 side of a field.  The fields in particular are Field 1 & 3 & possible 6.

Shadows can be misleading, darkness can hide imperfections in the field and cause injury's...and also makes the tourney look less legit/professional.

Please inform the AYSES Chain of Command (which they probably already know )

musaisaya wrote:I think you meant to state "your tournament" instead of "our tournament".  

I am not sure what you are referring to, but I can assure you that when you have hosted two tournaments a year for eleven years, you are bound to have a couple issues here and there.  When issues come to our attention, we do our best to resolve them as best we can, sometimes to the satisfaction of whoever is complaining and sometimes not.  I would like for you to share with me what we did wrong because it bothers us when you state that.  Our goal is to learn from our mistakes.

You are correct, it was your TWC tournament.
The main issue I have is the way your tournament director and club director treated my team mgr when she called and emailed about her daughter leaving her bag at the fields after the trophy presentation. The same bag that was stolen from the locked but not locked barn where you throw left behind gear. Big surprise her bag with over 200.00 worth of gear was gone a couple days later. Your TD and club director treated her unprofessionally when she asked that it be locked until she could get up there.

When it comes to the finals, there was no reason to wait so late and have to play on a half lit field. when I asked your TD about it earlier in the day she just brushed me off with total disrespect. Could be any darker where you guys set up the trophy presentation?
Its all good though, we wont have this issue with you guys again. Non of my teams will enter back into one of your tournaments. just a little respect will go a long ways.

SocDad wrote:

musaisaya wrote:I think you meant to state "your tournament" instead of "our tournament".  

I am not sure what you are referring to, but I can assure you that when you have hosted two tournaments a year for eleven years, you are bound to have a couple issues here and there.  When issues come to our attention, we do our best to resolve them as best we can, sometimes to the satisfaction of whoever is complaining and sometimes not.  I would like for you to share with me what we did wrong because it bothers us when you state that.  Our goal is to learn from our mistakes.

My issue is not a coach issue....but a field issue (Fairview Soccer Park)

If you are going to have games at "Night"......You need lighting on BOTH sides of the fields.
Its horrible to  havonlye lighting on 1 side of a field.  The fields in particular are Field 1 & 3 & possible 6.

Shadows can be misleading, darkness can hide imperfections in the field and cause injury's...and also makes the tourney look less legit/professional.

Please inform the AYSES Chain of Command (which they probably already know )

I totally agree with you on the lighting on three fields. They are not ideal (we actually do not schedule night games on one field because the lighting is not acceptable). We recognize that and hope to get light on the other sides installed in the future. As you can imagine, it is very expensive. We have looked at other options as a solution but have yet to come up with one that makes sense. We will keep looking.

Having said that, our fields are some of the best in North Texas. The truth is that the single biggest tournament request we receive is teams wanting to play at Fairview Soccer Park. That to me is a testament to the quality of the park as a whole (not to diminish the lighting issue).

Our goal is to host a tournament where the fields, lighting and everything is perfect. The reality however is that unless you are playing at FCD facility or Moneygram in North Texas, there are not many complexes where things are perfect. Plano Labor Day for example (over 400 teams), and even some of the top ranked tournaments in the country sometimes use fields whose surfaces are quite frankly not safe. Carpenter was very bad last summer. I would imagine that most teams would take playing on our fields with less than ideal lighting over playing on fields that some of the tournaments use. I would judge the quality of a tournament in totality as opposed to just one thing.

As far as scheduling games at night. We do it based on the number of registered teams relative to available fields. We would rather finish games early but sometimes do not have a choice.

Your point in regards to lighting during trophy presentation is well taken. We add more lighting in the future.

SEAOTTER wrote:

musaisaya wrote:I think you meant to state "your tournament" instead of "our tournament".  

I am not sure what you are referring to, but I can assure you that when you have hosted two tournaments a year for eleven years, you are bound to have a couple issues here and there.  When issues come to our attention, we do our best to resolve them as best we can, sometimes to the satisfaction of whoever is complaining and sometimes not.  I would like for you to share with me what we did wrong because it bothers us when you state that.  Our goal is to learn from our mistakes.

You are correct, it was your TWC tournament.
The main issue I have is the way your tournament director and club director treated my team mgr when she called and emailed about her daughter leaving her bag at the fields after the trophy presentation. The same bag that was stolen from the locked but not locked barn where you throw left behind gear. Big surprise her bag with over 200.00 worth of gear was gone a couple days later. Your TD and club director treated her unprofessionally when she asked that it be locked until she could get up there.

When it comes to the finals, there was no reason to wait so late and have to play on a half lit field. when I asked your TD about it earlier in the day she just brushed me off with total disrespect. Could be any darker where you guys set up the trophy presentation?
Its all good though, we wont have this issue with you guys again. Non of my teams will enter back into one of your tournaments. just a little respect will go a long ways.

I will speak to this because I was at the after tournament meeting. All issues are normally brought up, good or bad and discussed. This issue came up as well. We always want to make sure that things are done correctly.

My understanding is that your team manager called after the tournament and reported that her daughter had forgotten her bag at FSP. The TD told her that she had found the bag and put it in the barn. Your TM wanted to come get the bag, but the TD told her that she does not leave close to FSP and that she would let your TM know when she went there. She wanted a specific time and the TD was not in a position to give her that. Your TM then reported the issue to the Club Director who listened to her complains and told her the same thing the TD had said; your TM would needed to wait until somebody got to FSP. The Club Director also at some point spoke to your TM's husband and told him that he would check on it as well when he got there.

When the TD had the first opportunity to check on the bag in the barn, it was not there. I can understand why your TM was angry from losing the bag, but as you can imagine, lots of people leave their items at the facility, and the only place they can be placed is in the barn. The barn is not completely safe and there is a risk of the item being stolen and that is what happened with the bag.

Your team manager feels she was disrespected and we are sorry she feels that way. On the other hand, the TD feels that she was professional and respectful the whole time, but was not in a position to give a specific time she would be at FSP.

What are Ayses plans for girl's soccer in the future?

Right now it looks like you only host one girls team in LHGCL (& I believe that team & bye was obtained from another club, solar or texans?).

What are your details on developing more strong girl's teams that have the strength to qualify for Classic? Right now, it looks like girls soccer is a back seat to the strong boys program at Ayses.

Mia Hamster wrote:What are Ayses plans for girl's soccer in the future?

Right now it looks like you only host one girls team in LHGCL  (& I believe that team & bye was obtained from another club, solar or texans?).  

What are your details on developing more strong girl's teams that have the strength to qualify for Classic?  Right now, it looks like girls soccer is a back seat to the strong boys program at Ayses.

By no means is the girls program taking a back seat to the boys. We started the club as a boys program and so are mature on that side. Our goal is to start the girls from the academy and build from there. It is how we build our strong boys program. We believe in building a strong foundation from a young age. We have a good group of three 04 girls teams. They are not in LHGCL because the talent level is spread across the three teams. The age pure alignment should help us form an 03 and 04 team that have a good chance of qualifying for LHGCL. On the academy side our 07 and 08 age groups continues to grow. We are also working on 06 and 05 as well. Our merger with OTB has helped.

Long term systematic plan is start assigning our experienced coaches to the program. Hopefully you will begin to see the results of what we plan to do in the next year or two. We started late on the girls side, but we believe we can build a program just as strong as that of our boys if not stronger.

J
My opinion, their are better club and team options available for girls. It is very important in choosing the best option for your DD to make sure you are doing your homework before committing.

My 2 cents...

I live 3 miles from Ayses.  My dd was a good player in the fall of U5 in rec, when I accidentally(made wrong turn) found this place on the back way to 380.  They had open skills so I took her out($10 and 3 miles from home, couldn't beat it).  In the Spring of U5 Rec, she was unstoppable thanks to the training at Ayses.   The trainer(Jerry Medina) was excellent and developed the foundation for her to build on.  Ayses is individual skill intensive, they aren't worried about winning U-Little games, which could be why they have a hard time drawing players/parents...that and location.  Parents will drive 30 minutes on crowded highways, but not 30 minutes through winding country roads w lots of scary trees.(I don't get that).

As we know, most parents want to win now...at every age group, this hasn't been the Ayses way, that is, not their focus.  The real truth, if the better athletes went there, they would win with the skill they teach. We guested whenever Jerry called if they were short of players for their 06 team.  We never joined Ayses, because they didn't have a group of 07s at the time.  I tried to get girls there at U6 when we formed an academy team, but back to the scary trees.

Ayses isn't for the win now crowd, one has to have a longer term vision, but I will always be a fan of Ayses for how they trained my dd.

boilerjoe_96 wrote:My 2 cents...

 My dd was a good player in the fall of U5 in rec...In the Spring of U5 Rec, she was unstoppable thanks to the training at Ayses.  

Now that's the kind of results I've been looking for. UNSTOPPABLE a few short months later. I wish I had done that with my 06, we didn't find a skills trainer until she was already half way through 1st Grade. Missed almost 2 years, and now we're getting ready to go select.

I won't let that happen with my kid born in '12, that's for sure.

I'm guessing your dd is still unstoppable?

The facility may be great, but the location will always be a challenge. DD's team used to practice out of the Solar North location that is within shouting distance of FSP. Tell someone that isn't from McKinney that you practice East of 75/North of 121 and you might as well be telling them that you practice in Oklahoma.

5050Ball wrote:  

I'm guessing your dd is still unstoppable?

Not at all. In u5 rec in Allen, she was. but that was many years ago. My point was she learned some skill quickly as they focus on that...  

Nowhere did I say she was unstoppable anytime since.  Typical jack*ss forum response, you didn't disappoint.

Um, actually, she is still excellent.  One of the hardest working kids every time out there across multiple sports.  I have only seen her in games but this kiddo will not be out worked.  Fun to watch, wish I didn't have to root against her;).