ASA Membership has its privileges, announcing discount ski tickets to Sunday River and Sugarloaf.

Amesbury Soccer Association has joined Sunday River's and Sugarloaf's Corporate program to offer ASA members discounted lift tickets!

Sugarloaf and Sunday River

1 Day Lift Ticket	ASA Rates		Regular Season Rates**
Adult Lift Ticket	$66		$79
Young Adult Lift Ticket (13-16)	$58		$66
Junior Lift Ticket (6-12)	$47		$55
Kids under 5 ski free!
** Regular season dates are mid-December to late March

What you need to do to take advantage of the Sugarloaf and Sunday River lift ticket discounts:

The U12G Strikers (6-1-1), U12B Raiders (5-2-1), U16B Reds (4-1-1), and U18G Indians (6-0-0) from Amesbury are all headed into post season play in the Essex County Youth Soccer League Championship Tournament that began this weekend. The two girls teams took first place in their respective groups, and the two boys teams each took second. This is the second year in a row for the Indians and the Reds, both of which won their divisions in ECYSA and progressed to the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions last year.

This is a very inspiring article about a soccer team made up of people living in a homeless shelter in New York City. 

"The idea behind homeless soccer is something like this: Take a group of poor people, disconnected from the regular rhythms of life, lacking both physical exercise and much to look forward to. Add soccer." 

For the full article, click here:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/nyregion/03homeless.html?_r=1&em

Access Sportspilot backend

To access the sportspilot backend use the URL http://www.sportspilot.com/isis
Use the same login and password as you would to access your sportspilot Spring Travel team area.  For organization put "amesbury". 
Bob your login is HAZBOB, Ed yours is EDCAMPBE1.   If you forgot your password, you can go to https://www.sportspilot.com/Login/PasswordUtils/ForgotPassword.asp and fill in your email address and bithdate to have it sent to you.  If this does not work, send me a email and I can set the password for you and send it.

To see who is registered in each league (age group)

Select the "Registration" link in the top menu bar
Select the "Teams" tab
Select Program "Summer-soccer-2009"
Using the Leagues pull down menu you can scroll through each age group to see the coaches and players who have registered for that age grouip.
Note that the players will have a $ amount next to there name, it will show how much their transaction fee was.
Note the "U3" following the $ sign amount, this means that they selected "Alternate Payment" as a checkout choice and their invoice needs to be marked paid, see below.

To see if or what a player has ordered merchandise (shirt or sock)

In the registration dialog, "Teams" tab; Double click on the player
select "View Payment Info."
This will show everything that the player ordered.

To move a Coach or Player to a different age group

In the registration dialog, "Teams" tab; , select the coach or player and select move.
In the next dialog, select the league and team you want to move them to.

To get a quick report over everyone who has registered

In registration, select the Reports tab
Select "Total number of registrations by league and program"

To view who paid by check and mark them paid

Select the Administration Menu
Select Invoices (in Miscellaneous Functions section)
In Program Filter, select Summer-Soccer-2009
Coaches and players will be listed
Select the link under the description column for the invoice you want to mark paid
Change Paid Status to "Paid"
Select Apply Payment
Select the appropriate Payment Type
Put in your initials
Select "Save and Email"

To offer a Scholarship

If you cannot pay the full registration fee due to financial reasons, select this option. Send an email to the program’s director summer@amesburyyouthsoccer.org, travel@amesburyyouthsoccer.org or u6-u8@amesburyyouthsoccer.org with a brief statement and how much you can pay towards the program. Alternately you can call the program director. Board members and program director contact information can be found at http://www.amesburyyouthsoccer.org/about .

Upon the registering person hitting the submit button, they receive an email notification as well as registrar@amesburyyouthsoccer.org

The player is not placed in the program and league.   They are in a pending state.
If you go to Administration> Invoices and select the program, you will see them listed there.  They have no category associated with them.

Once notification is received from a board member about the request and the amount.  A sportspilot person with the correct permission can select the transaction (under description column) and edit the amount agreed upon.

The person who is being registered can then log back into sportspilot and pay by credit card or debit card or send a check by mail.

Created to help with Admin functions

1. When the Drupal User does not match up with the correct Civicrm user, you can change this my doing a sql query in the civicrm database to table civicrm_uf_match.
1. for example 

   update `civicrm_uf_match` set contact_id = replace (contact_id, '720', '907'); 

   Where 720 is the civicrm Contact_ID of what it is connected to and 920 is the civicrm contact id you want to change it to.  you can find the contact_id by doing a civicrm search and selecting the contact, the contact id will be in the URL .   The uf_id in the civicrm_uf_match corresponds the drupal user id which can be seen the the URL when viewing the user.

Mass Youth Soccer has developed and produced an outstanding video focusing on the issues of sideline behavior of adults, and specifically on how that behavior is affecting the retention of qualified referees. While many have talked about the issue of adult sideline behavior, Mass Youth is the only organization to turn the talk into a valuable tool that teams, towns, clubs and leagues can put into immediate use to help curb unwanted noise along the sidelines.

You can watch the video by clicking on one of these links: