From the Desk of the Director
Happy New Year everyone!
As we enter 2018 and we finalize our preparations for the Spring 2018 season, and we ramp up all of our work behind the scenes to prepare for the 2018-2019 season, we want to encourage your support for the continued growth of the club. Late in 2017 we asked for feedback from the membership in survey form. After much participation in that survey we found the feedback constructive and fair. The feedback is appreciated and it gave us a good picture of what the membership sees, and how it lines up with what we have forecasted as our next steps to improve the overall environment of the Burlington Soccer Club. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey. There are still opportunities to provide your feedback and insights in the coming months.
The next step in our process is creating and refining a strategic plan for the leadership, coaches, managers, teams and players. The Board, myself and the directors had decided in the fall this would be a necessary step for the organization; to gain a clear vision and mission for the foreseeable seasons and years. We interviewed companies and came to a conclusion on who we want to work with in this process.
In the coming weeks we will be engaging the board members, directors, coaches, and managers for their input toward that end. We will be working as one group to lend varied insights of the organization and how we currently function, as well as identifying areas we believe we can improve going forward. The end goal will be to find clear unifying vision and mission that will benefit and support the young players of this community based soccer club.
Many of you interact with your coaches and managers and also engage the board members and directors. Please continue to do so, and in particular the next 6-8 weeks. Any and all input can and will be fielded toward a productive strategic planning process.
We would also like to ask all of you in the club membership to consider the following. The directors have worked diligently to organize and reorganize the soccer platforms for the players, coaches and teams. This has helped refine the foundation of the club as we have seen an increase in new members over the fall in to the winter months. We expect the club will continue to grow.
Thus, we are asking all to consider if you know any one person who coaches in the area that may want to coach in the club; or someone who may have a playing background in the game that might want to learn about coaching; or anyone who has experience in soccer that may want to volunteer any time they choose, to help support the players in the club or in any one age group. There are opportunities to coach or help coach in the club and please have any one person you know contact anyone in the leadership team with their interest. Again, it can be anything from wanting to volunteer to seeking out a paid coaching position. You can contact me directly at
director@bscsoccer.net with any potential coaches. We will then go through a process to qualify if the person would like to be involved, should be involved and in what capacity if so. Thank you in advance for any input you provide.
There will be more changes on the way as we work to reinforce the practice environment and improve how the players are challenged to get better. We will also be launching a new web site and club wide communication, notification and registration system - that will be bilingual. We are working on the tryout schedule and processes, tournament calendar for the near future in to next year and bringing coaching education leaders to our club to assist our coaches in their growth. These are just some of the things we are working on to make this a good experience for the players and the families involved in the Burlington Soccer Club.
Thank you for your participation and support of the club!
Sincerely,
Jeff Gross
Director
Burlington Soccer Club
