MEMORANDUM FOR
FROM: BEREA YOUTH SOCCER
CLUB EXECUTIVE BOARD
SUBJECT: Policy Directive,
1. The purpose of the policy outlined in this document
is to ensure teams representing the Berea Youth Soccer Club in area travel
soccer leagues, tournaments, and in-house programs are outfitted appropriately. Berea Youth Soccer Club is an independent
non-profit organization that is self funded, operated by a 100% volunteer Board
of Directors, and is in no way affiliated with the Berea City School District,
the City of Berea, or the City of Berea’s Recreation Department.
2. Travel Program Uniform Policy
a. All travel teams of the Berea Youth Soccer Club must
wear uniforms and accessories approved by the Berea Youth Soccer Club Executive
Board. New teams will wear approved
uniforms and accessories upon entry to the Club.
i.
The Berea Youth
Soccer Club Executive Board has selected Adidas uniforms and accessories as the
standard uniform kit for ALL Travel Teams.
No other kits or alternate packages will be allowed. The Board may change/adjust the approved
uniform kit as it deems necessary, however due to the need for long-term
consistency, the Board should only approve changes due to Adidas style changes
or major failure on the part of Adidas
a. Adidas was chosen because the lifespan of their uniform
styles is a minimum of 5 years (For instance, the uniform we have chosen has a
release date of 2008 and will be available at minimum until 2013). This ensures consistency within our program
and allows new players who join teams the ability to be sized and fitted for a
uniform that will match the rest of the team.
Currently, the uniforms we provide are mismatched. By ordering off-brands from companies that do
not specialize in soccer uniforms and gear, the pigments and colors change from
year to year and even though we order what we think is the same uniform the
colors often do not match and this creates a negative appearance of our
program.
ii.
Travel team
uniforms shall be at the discretion of the Executive Board and shall be colored
utilizing the Club colors. Red and White
iii.
The following is
the Berea Youth Soccer Club travel team uniform standard:
a. The following are mandatory uniform items: Adidas jersey / Adidas short/ AND Adidas socks. The
minimum kit order per player is the jersey, 1 pair of shorts and 1 pair of
socks.
b. Optional uniform items include an Adidas training
suit (any warm-up training suit with black top and black bottoms is acceptable)
and/or an Adidas backpack or sling bag in black.
c. Optional items are indeed optional. However, if bags will be purchased by a team/as
a team, they MUST purchase Adidas bags.
Teams will not be allowed to purchase these items from other brands or
purchase from other retailers.
iv.
Travel team
members will display the official Berea Youth Soccer Club logo on their uniform
shirts. Travel team members will display
“Berea Soccer” across the jersey chest in the official Club font, color and
size.
b. New teams and teams transferring to the Club’s travel
program must provide a signed statement that the team intends to adopt an
approved Berea Youth Soccer Club travel team uniform within 14 days of
acceptance into the clubs travel program.
The Berea Youth Soccer Club will not allocate practice or game fields or
provide league materials until the new team complies with this policy.
c. The Merchandising/Equipment,/Uniform
Director, Melanie Edwards, will be the single point of contact for ALL Berea
Youth Soccer Club uniform issues. Teams
must have all team uniform purchases documented and checked for accuracy by the
Merchandising/ Equipment/Uniform Director prior to placing a uniform
order. This does not include new player
individual purchases, although they also must comply with this policy. The Uniform Director can provide coaches,
players, parents, etc order forms that outline the required items and optional
items along with pricing. The optional
items include t-shirts/ sweat shirts/ etc. that parents can purchase to support
the Berea Youth Soccer Club and its’ players.
Please e-mail Melanie Edwards at Melanie.edwards@bereayouthsoccerclub.org
with any questions.
d. All Berea Youth Soccer Club travel teams MUST
purchase approved uniforms and accessories from the approved Adidas retailer.
i.
The current Club
retailer for ALL Travel Uniforms is:
The Frontline Soccer Shop located at
Our contact at The Frontline is George Ebenger.
**The
Frontline is a
*Spirit Wear (Hoodies,
Jackets, etc)/Car Magnets/Baseball Caps/ Visors/Etc.
Berea Youth Soccer has partnered with Luna Apparel and
Marketing
Located at
Sportswear and accessories for
parents and players affiliated with
Youth Soccer. Please Visit Luna for all
of your BYSC accessory needs.
e. All Berea Youth Soccer Club TRAVEL
i.
The Club’s Executive
Board Members are also required to comply with the coach’s uniform standard
above. The Executive Board Members will
be outfitted by the Club.
f.
For safety
reasons, absolutely no names (first or last or nicknames) are allowed on
uniforms.
g. Berea Youth Soccer Club travel team uniforms will not
advertise a commercial product or entity.
h. All Berea Youth Soccer Club travel teams MUST use an
Adidas match soccer ball for all of their home games. A Match Ball will be furnished to each Travel
Team by the Vice President, Travel Programs.
i.
Failure to
comply with this policy:
i.
All reports of
Uniform Policy violations will be forwarded to the Vice President, Travel
Program-Michael Harrington for investigation.
ii.
The Vice
President, Travel Program-Michael Harrington, will report their findings to the
Executive Board for resolution.
iii.
The Berea Youth
Soccer Club Executive Board may impose penalties on teams that fail to comply
up to and including suspension by the Club.
3. Recreational/Munchkin Program Uniform Policy
The
recreational and munchkin soccer programs will utilize the t-shirts selected by
the Berea Youth Soccer Club Executive Board.
Currently, the Club utilizes Red T-Shirts with a white logo and numbers
for the recreational and munchkin programs.
The cost of these t-shirts is $5.00 and can be paid when registering a
player for the upcoming season. If a
player’s t-shirt fits from the prior season/year(s) then they do not have to
purchase a new t-shirt for the upcoming season.
Colors for socks and shirts are recommended to be Black Shorts and Black
Socks but this is only a recommendation and is not mandatory. All HEAD COACHES in the Recreation and
Munchkin Soccer Programs will also receive a Coach’s t-shirt
4. Questions concerning this policy may be addressed to
the Executive Board-Merchandising/ Equipment/Uniform Director-Melanie Edwards
via either e-mail at Melanie.edwards@bereayouthsoccerclub.org
or regular mail to the
address found on the Berea Youth Soccer Club web site (www.bereayouthsoccerclub.org).
Executive
Board