I wanted to provide everyone with a few pertinent bullet points:

• All soccer activities have been suspended since the first week in March.
• The Spring Recreation Season was cancelled and we have been working on refunding participant families.
• The competitive teams (Matrix) continue to function as best as possible and there have been some fun creative ways to have zoom practices.  Additionally, we’re rolling out a cell phone app that has training videos/challenges for the kids to do on their own.  It’s interactive in as much as they can compete for “trophies” when they successfully complete a challenge and compare their success vs other teammates.  Additionally, parents and coaches can track their efforts; however, there is a safety net as coaches can not directly message any of the players.
• Sadly, our 30th Annual Top Gun Tournament has been postponed indefinitely.  There are many  other AYSO regions that are postponing their spring seasons and are still interested in attending if we host it in the future.  If possible we hope to have a tournament of some sort perhaps the end of June or early July.  This is obviously depending upon directives from AYSO National with respect to return to play and then field availability.  Regardless of whether we have a tournament this year, we’ll probably do a “redo” of the 30th annual next year as we had big plans.
• Wangenheim construction was supposed to begin this summer, but there is no confirmation yet on a start date.
• As I’m sure you are aware, we had a break-in of our container at Wagenheim and an attempted break-in at Hourglass.  Thank you to Denise and Oscar for making us aware; fortunately, nothing of note was missing from the Wangenheim shed.  We’ve replaced all locks with sturdier hardware.
• Christian asked about field use for a 4th of July celebration on October 10th and 11th.  If it’s at the rec center, we typically don’t use those fields on weekends in the fall, though we might have to share depending upon the status of Wangenheim.  Regardless, I’m sure we can help schedule around the celebration (Christian, please remind me in August).

Thanks for all you do and I hope this finds you all healthy!

Scott Potter

Mira Mesa AYSO