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Proving Scholarships

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Capitol Hill Soccer does provide scholarships for children who want to play for whom the registration would create difficulties for the families. Here’s the process in Bonzi:

The parents need to register, provide proof of age and so forth
They should register with a pay by check
Email registrar explaining the circumstances

If approved, then the registrar comps the [...]

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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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Assigning new players

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

While some kids come in knowing they want to play on Team X. Actually, while we acknowledge the preference, they really sign for the league in Recreational and then get assigned. In practice most people get their preference. The rule in Seattle is that you don’t get assigned unless you submit your proof of age [...]

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Printing out a roster and signing it

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

OK, when the coaches have turned in their forms and all kids have proof of age verified, you are ready to have a signed roster. This gets sent to the coaches and the registrar job ends
Here are the mechanics:

Click on the league like 2008 Fall Rec
Click on the quick link called Find Participant
Type [...]

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When you get a coaches form

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Soccer

In email, here is what you do:

Start Bonzi and click on the current league (for instance 2008 Fall Rec)
Click on Find Participants button in QuickClicks
Search for the last name of the coach, and make sure to select the coach radio button
You should see that person’s history of coaching
Click on the last link which is his [...]

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Finding unverified participants

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

If you want to figure out all the unverified folks, you have to:

  1. Select the correct league on the left hand side. For instance Select teams
  2. Then choose run the following fields, first name, last name, registration category (this is GU-15), assignment (this is the team name)
  1. click on unverified and assigned to get [...]

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Soccer registration

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Ok somehow I’m Noe a soccer registrar so here ate notes ok how to do it. Assuming you use Bonzi which is a soccer club manager. It’s a remarkable database with a terrible interface (and it’s Windows only).
In Bonzi there are four important concepts to understand otherwise you’ll never figure any of it out:

League. Every [...]

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