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Soccer registration closes

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

We are well into the swing of the season, but kids can still register

September 30. For select the rules are pretty strict and I really rely on Bob Sigley for this.
If you check the WSYSA registrar’s handbook, I think all the deadlines are covered but they often change rules from year to year (not the [...]

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When Players aren’t going to play

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek, Soccer

If you get a note saying someone doesn’t want to play:

Get email from the parents or the participant. You can’t just take the coach’s word
Choose in Quick clicks and assign participant and find the team, click on the person and unassign
Now reject the player
Select the main folder for your registration event
Choose EDIT / FIND [...]

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Seeing schedules and team colors

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

To view game schedules, the need to enter thru the SYSA website. Only the Sept schedule is posted now.
Bblue and yellow are club colors and ALL teams have been asked (repeatedly, over the years) to use these colors per SYSA regulations.

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Code of conduct forms and process

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

The Washington State Youth Soccer Association only requires that every player, parent and volunteer agree to the follow its ethics rules (no screaming at kids for instance) simply by participating.
The Seattle Youth Soccer Association requires that parents, players and volunteers sign a form.
At Capitol Hill Soccer Club, we handle this in two ways:

As [...]

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What is a parent does not have internet access

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

The entire registration system is online with Bonzi, unfortunately, there are still people who don’t have Internet access, so what are the choices. Well, there are two, have the person come by your office or home to do a registration with you.
A better one though is to recommend the person go to a nearby [...]

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Team sweeps

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

When you get a new kid who has sent in proof of age, it is a convenient time to send an update mail to the team:
1. Run Member/Verify Member and find the kid and verify them.
2. Click on the league they are in
3. Choose Find Participants in quick click and enter the kids name
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Require Proof of Age before assignment

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

We didn’t do this this year, but when kids register, we should require proof of age before assignment. That is payment and proof of age are required first (assuming they haven’t played before). This means that every week during registration season:

you have to run the Report/Registration/Detailed Report and select a period to see who has [...]

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Standard reports

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

Bonzi is not very workflow oriented, but now that the verifications are done, here are the daily reports to do:

Unassigned players. You want to get them assigned as quickly as possible. Click on Rec and Choose Reports/Participants/Detailed Reports and pick the fields First Name, Last Name, Registration Category and sort Registration Category (e.g., U-10) and [...]

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Printing all medical forms for a team as their coach

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

With Bonzi, if you want to print out all the forms for your team and you are a coach with coach tools turned on:

you can go to your team page which you access as an administrator at www.capitolhillsoccer.org/sam. # Since your tools are on, I’ve resent your instructions on how to access this [...]

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Refunding payment

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

If a participant decides before August 31 to withdraw, we return the money. Here is how in Bonzi:

find the player on a roster preferably but you could find them under registration (be sure to light it up by choosing rec or select
Click on the player then click on “Registrants Financial Info” on the player’s “page”, [...]

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