Parents & Players,
Lots going on starting in June when school gets out. Important information down below. Please read through all of it and put important dates on your calendar. Sign up for what you can, and reach out to Betty or me with questions. Camp Information Dates: 6/4/24 - 6/7/24 (Day Camp); 6/17/24 - 6/20/24 (Evening Camp) Times: 8:30am - 12:00pm (Day Camp); 6:00pm - 8:30pm (Evening Camp) Volunteering: Rising Juniors and Seniors are given the first choice to be camp counselors. If we need more volunteers we will reach out to underclassmen. Form Link: https://form.jotform.com/240277577009158 *We are trying to raise money to send 30 kids to soccer camps - both our day and evening camps and Dunbar's camp - free of charge. In order to do this we need donations. Please consider donating, and spread on your social media feeds. Link to Camp Scholarship Donation Site: https://givebutter.com/2024Camp Donations are 100% Tax Deductible. ** Also, please spread word of our camp to your friends with elementary and middle school-aged kids. Click here for a flyer that you can share in emails or on social media. Tryout Information Dates: 7/15/24 - 7/16/24 Times: 6:30am - 8:30am Important Information:
Kickarounds and Summer Schedule
Quick recap: Know the important dates listed on the calendar. Make sure you have all your paperwork prior to tryouts. Spread the word about the camp! Volunteer to work the camp. Help a young camper go to Young Devils Camp by making a small donation. Enjoy your Derby weekend! Coach Behler NOTE: To get these notices by email, join the mailing list. Form can be found on the JOIN EMAIL LIST page of this website. Parents and Players,
Happy 2024!!! I hope that everyone used the holidays as a break from work and school and soccer, and all were able to spend time with those that they care about, as I did. I always come away from breaks re-energized and re-focused. This year is no different. Like the varsity camping trip last year, we have some fun new ideas and initiatives that will be rolled out in 2024 to strengthen the program, our core values, and the overall experience of these young men. Here are a few things to put on your calendar and look out for as we get into the new year: Off Season Workouts We will begin our offseason strength and conditioning workouts next week (1/15-1/19/24). These workouts will be Tuesdays and Thursdays through the end of February (when club season starts to take over). The workouts will be from 3:30-4:30pm, outside when over 45 degrees, but in the gym or another indoor space if it is too cold. We will be adding in some ball work activities as well this year. All participants must have an updated physical to participate, but they are open to everyone. We are also looking to do some futsal in the gym on some Friday nights or Sunday afternoons when/if the gym is open. More details to come as availability allows. 3v3 Tournament at Transy Coach Ben Federici at Transy is hosting an all day 3v3 tournament next Saturday, January 20. The cost is $100, and more information is available here: https://www.federicisoccercamps.com/3v3-futsal-tournament.cfm 2024 Tryouts Tryouts will take place on July 15-17, 2024. Please mark your calendars. It is helpful when people are there for tryouts, so if you can plan any vacations and trips to take place prior to July 15 that would be helpful. Uniforms Multiple players have still not turned in kits despite mine and Betty's persistent reminders. Players will need to turn in their kit to participate in off-season workouts if they have not turned in their kit. We will also be sending out assessments for kits that are missing pieces so that we can purchase replacement pieces for next season. Please be mindful that the program pays for and owns these kits (players use them for a season and return them). You can drop them in Coach Behler's room (4). Some players have pieces missing others have full kits and bags still: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xw7zAwrhgSfat70jMqZK0bjVncgIKWgE/edit#gid=389005444 Full Missing Kits: Varsity - 7, 21, 23 JV A - 10, GK 97, GK 98, GK 99 JV B - 25, 14, 30 If players have questions or need anything please come by room 4 to discuss. If parents need anything or have questions email is the quickest way to get ahold of me. If you know anyone interested in the program, please send them to our website henryclaysoccer.weebly.com where they can fill out a form to get on the mailing list. It is going to be a fantastic and fun year for this program to find out how you can get more involved please contact me or Betty Harvey ([email protected]). Thanks for reading and happy 2024! Coach Behler The JV teams have been announced for all players that have completed their tryouts. You can check the team on the website: https://henryclaysoccer.weebly.com/rosters.html
Check Rosters for Spelling Errors Please check the rosters on the HCHS Boys Soccer webpage to make sure your names are spelled correctly. If there are any errors, please email [email protected] TeamSnap All new players and parents should have received an invite today to sign up for HCHS Boys Soccer TeamSnap. We sent out the invitations to all family members that were listed on the registration signups. Please review that information and make any edits or additions of family members as needed. If your player did not receive an invite to TeamSnap please send an email to [email protected] and we’ll update your information and resend the invite. Varsity Camping Trip The Varsity overnight camping trip to Red River Gorge is all set for next Wednesday, July 26, 2023. We will meet at HC at 2:30, and try to depart by 3:00pm, and we will be back noon on Thursday, July 27. More details and an itinerary will come in a TeamSnap message to varsity players and families only. All varsity players are expected to attend this trip. Please clear your schedules. Next Week's Schedule Monday 7/24 - 6:30am-8:00am TRAINING (BOTH JV teams) 6:30am-9:30am TRAINING (Varsity) Tuesday 7/25 - 6:30am-8:00am TRAINING (BOTH JV teams) 6:30am-9:30am TRAINING (Varsity) 8:30am KIT HANDOUT (following training) 6:00pm-8:00pm WELCOME MEETING AND POTLUCK Wednesday 7/26 - 6:30am-8:00am TRAINING (BOTH JV teams) 2:30pm CAMPING TRIP (Varsity players meet in HC parking lot - by tennis courts) Thursday 7/27 - ALL teams OFF 12:00pm Varsity team returns from camping Friday 7/28 - 6:30am-8:00am (BOTH JV teams) 6:30am-9:00am (Varsity) 9:00am PICTURE DAY (all teams) Saturday 7/29 - JV A match @ Great Crossing 6:00pm - Varsity match @ Great Crossing 7:30pm Sunday 7/30 - OFF Tomorrow's (Friday 7/21) intersquad scrimmage at 6:30am is for Varsity players, and JV players that we have reached out to fill in for our missing varsity players. No JV Training. Great first week of training on all levels! Thank you, Coach Behler Parents & Players,
I want to start by thanking everyone who participated in tryouts. Unfortunately, we did have to make cuts at all three levels this year, and that is always the most difficult part of this job for me and my coaching staff. Below I have listed this year's Varsity players. Congratulations to everyone on this list, as this was the most competitive tryout and the best quality top to bottom I have seen in 21 years coaching at Henry Clay. All JV players (A and B teams) have been notified that they made a squad. We still need some time to figure out who is going to be on which team, though if you are a middle school player you can assume it will be JV B. We will be trying to pin those designations down by the end of training tomorrow or Wednesday, and those rosters will follow as soon as we have completed them. Lost of important announcements after the varsity roster so please read all the way through!!! 2023 Varsity Squad Diego Sanchez Noah Tinch Griffith Richardson Layth Rahman David Chindo Nash Florence Nate Adkins Drew Ballesteros Curtis Blanche Lawson Shrensker James Clay Daniel Grider Jack Clifford Ethan Long Marco Messerli Luke Rogers Elliott Tiennot Jose Flores Connor Taylor Henry Crawford Ari Agouridis Sam Shapiro Will Potter Nathan Harvey Braden Cundiff Espoir Dieudonne Jacques Baguma SEASON KICKOFF POTLUCK & INFO MEETING We will hold a potluck dinner & information meeting for parents and players Tuesday, July 25 at 6:00 pm in the Cafeteria at Henry Clay. All players and at least one parent should plan to attend. A lot of information will be coming your way during this meeting. Potluck Assignments: Please bring the following: Seniors & Juniors: side dish Sophomores: fruit, cold veggie, or salad item Middle schoolers & freshman with last name beginning: A-G: dessert H-Z: case of bottled water CONCESSIONS DONATIONS Each year we ask all families to participate in donating items to the concession stand. These donations help us maximize our profits and raise money for the program. Below is a list of assignments of items to donate. Please refer to the attached pictures of the items being requested or click here. Donations not sold through the concessions stand will be used for soccer related functions and activities throughout the year. Please bring your donations to the Potluck & Kickoff Meeting. If you would prefer, we are glad to do the shopping. You can donate gift cards for Kroger, Sam's Club or GFS, or you can Venmo $20 to Betty Harvey @BettyCap73. If Venmo asks for the last 4 digits of the phone #, they are 9987.
SPIRITWEAR The spiritwear sale is open and will continue through Monday, July 24. We know this comes up quickly, but the sooner the sales window ends, the sooner merchandise will arrive. Items are available through two online stores. One is sponsored by BSN and contains the Nike merch. (Link: https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/fRavRSksHR). Additional items are available through the TEAM STORE on our website including several Henry Dry Goods items, stadium seats, tumblers, & car decals. Questions about spiritwear? Email Jamie Florence at [email protected]. PRACTICE JERSEYS Players will need to purchase a set of PRACTICE JERSEYS. The practice jerseys are the same as last year's. If you have yours from last year, you do not need to purchase new ones. Due to limited quantities, please purchase a maximum of 1 set. We will hand practice jerseys out to players at practice this week. We are finalizing arrangements with a new sponsor for a warmup shirt/3rd practice jersey. More news soon. SOCKS Field players will need a pair of royal and a pair of white GAME SOCKS. You can purchase these from the TEAM STORE. We offer them as a convenience to you; you are not required to purchase them from the team store. Note that because we are now a Nike program, varsity game socks must be Nike or have no visible logo. Also, they must be solid with no visible stripes or color blocking. JV Players may wear Nike or Adidas socks in games (or socks without logos). If you already own other brands of socks, it is ok to wear them to practice. Keepers will receive their socks at kit hand-out. SEASON PASSES You can purchase season passes from the TEAM STORE. From ticket sales at the gate, we receive a fraction of the proceeds. From season passes, we receive 100%. Season passes are a great way to save money and support the team. $40 Individual $60 Parent/Children $110 Family Season Passes are good for admission to all regular season Henry Clay Boys Soccer home games. Passes are not limited to parents and guardians of players. Other family members and friends are welcome to purchase passes. We won't issue pass cards this year. Season pass holders will just need to give their names at the gate for admission. Note that players are admitted free to all regular season matches (i.e JV-A&B players get into Varsity matches free, and vice versa). 2023 SPIRIT PACK -- NEW! New for this season, the SPIRIT PACK bundles your Season Pass with a tumbler and a car decal for added savings. You can optionally add on a stadium seat. Check it out on the Team Store at henryclaysoccer.weebly.com/store.html VARSITY CAMPOUT Varsity players, save the date for an overnight campout in Red River Gorge. The team will leave mid-to-late morning on Wednesday, July 26 and return midday Thursday, July 27. More information to come. We are still ironing out the details. KIT DISTRIBUTION Kit distribution will take place Tuesday, July 25 after practice in the boys locker room at the back of the concession stand building. 8:15 JVB / 8:45 JVA / 9:15 V PLEASE RE-ENROLL OR ENROLL IN KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS Finally, you can financially support HC Boys Soccer at $0 cost to you by designating Henry Clay Boys Soccer, Inc. as your charity of choice for Kroger Community Rewards. For more information & enrollment instructions CLICK HERE. Already have a Kroger Plus Card? All you need to do is designate Henry Clay Boys Soccer Boosters, Inc. as your charity of choice in your account profile. Instructions:
BANNER SPONSORSHIP Please consider supporting the team through corporate banner sponsorship. Click here for more information and forms. Our goal is to have banners printed and hung by our first home game on August 11. Submit forms early to leave time for banner printing. GAME DAY SPONSORSHIP -- NEW! This year we are excited to offer game day sponsorships in addition to the banner sponsorship. Click here for more information and forms. As a game day sponsor, you will be a sponsor for an evening (or day) of games (first come, first serve). Your sponsorship includes signage at ticket booth & concessions, announcements throughout the evening and your logo/name on game day announcements on social media. OTHER SPONSORSHIPS If you are interested in other types of sponsorship (special events, concessions supply, practice jerseys, professional services/accounting, etc.), we are open to it. Please bring us your ideas. Email Anna Taylor at [email protected] with any sponsorship questions you have. RESTAURANT FUNDRAISER SERIES Mon 7/31 at CITY BARBECUE (Richmond Rd) If you dine-in, carry-out, call-in, or online order from City Barbecue's Richmond Rd location on July 31, HC Boys Soccer will receive 20% of the proceeds. Please plan to eat some Barbecue on Monday, July 31! CLICK HERE for more information. We have a series of restaurant-based fundraisers planned for the fall. These are easy ways to support the team doing something you might be doing anyway during the busy soccer season: eating out. Watch this page for what's up next on the restaurant fundraiser calendar. FALL FUNDRAISER We will be doing a fall fundraiser. We are still in the planning stages and more information will be forthcoming. If you have ideas for a fall fundraiser, please share them with Anna at [email protected]. GAME DAY VOLUNTEER SIGN-UPS We rely on our families to staff the gate, concession stand, and press box for games we host at Henry Clay. Each family will need to work 5 shifts throughout the season. We want parents to watch their kids play. Please sign up for games OTHER THAN your child's. Every family is expected to participate. If you do not sign up, shifts will be assigned to you. Link to SignUp.com form: https://signup.com/go/ZbHVfzS In addition, we will need ball boys for Varsity home games. If ball boy slots are not filled, players will be assigned. (Being a ball boy does not count toward your family's 5 volunteer shifts.) NOTE: We will host at least 3 games for the JV-B Sunday league on Sunday August 27. We don't know yet who is playing when. (Last year, games were at 11,12:30,&2.) If you are willing to work that Sunday, please indicate your willingness on the signup form above. We will reach back out to you once the schedule is published. As an incentive, Varsity and JV-A parents working these games will get double credit for their shifts. JV-B parents, this is a good opportunity to get volunteer commitments out of the way by working games before &/or after your kids play. COMMUNICATIONS We will be loading emails and cell numbers from the Player Info/Registration Forms into TeamSnap and will be using that platform for communications during the season. Also, there is a lot of great information on the henryclaysoccer.weebly.com website. Note that there is a NEWS page which houses all team announcements and emails in blog format. No need to dig back through old emails to find sign-up links or other information! HC Boys soccer also has Twitter and Instagram accounts. Follow us! TEAM & INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS Photo day will be Fri 7/28 beginning at 9:00am. All squads need to arrive at the grass field at Henry Clay by 8:45am. Wear blue kits, including game socks and cleats for photos. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR FOOD HANDLERS LICENSES We are looking for 6-8 people who would be willing to get their food handlers license for the concessions stand this year (ideally 2-3 parents per team). The training and exam can be found at https://lexingtonfayette.statefoodsafety.com/. If you like to do your volunteer shifts in concessions, please help out by taking this course, the booster club will pay the $23 cost. The course takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. If you already have a food handlers certificate, please let us know. This will not lead to you being stuck in concessions for the season. We will spread the shifts out. If you are willing, email Melinda Blanche at [email protected]. As always, if you have any questions or issues please contact me. Thanks for taking the time to read through all of this. Jason Behler Parents and Players,
Welcome back! Can't begin to describe how excited I am for this upcoming season. Dead period is always the perfect time away for me to not think about soccer just long enough to realize how much I miss it when it isn't there (my wife does not likely share that sentiment...but the family is excited, too). We have a busy week to prepare for tryouts on Saturday and Monday. Both sessions are 6am-9am on the turf at Henry Clay. Players should bring cleats, running/tennis/gym shoes, shin guards, and a water bottle. We will provide balls throughout the season. Players do not need to bring one. Work Day There is quite a bit of prep to do to get ready for the season: pump up balls, put together some new game goals that the athletics department purchased for us, secure nets with clips and zip ties on new and existing goals. These are no small tasks and too large for me to do alone. I will be working on these things tomorrow, Wednesday 7/12 from 5pm-8pm, and am looking for volunteers - parents and players. Please text or email (jason.behler@fayette.kyschools.us) if you are able to help out. Paperwork Dropoff This year's paperwork dropoff will be held Thursday, July 13 from 5:30-7:00PM outside the Henry Clay Gym in the student parking lot. We are expecting a large turnout at tryouts, as usual. If at all possible, please turn in your paperwork on the 13th so we don't spend the first half hour of tryouts on paperwork and can give players as much time on the field as possible. If you need to make alternative arrangements to turn in forms, email Betty Harvey at [email protected]. For more information on what you'll need to turn, see the website at https://henryclaysoccer.weebly.com/tryouts.html. Tryout Registration Checklist in Team Snap Returning players, you can see what you've turned in and what you haven't for Tryout Registration in Team Snap. Look under the Tracking tab. If something is incorrect, email [email protected]. We are managing a lot of paper, and there may be errors. For those of you who submitted physical forms digitally, please bring a paper copy to turn in on the 13th, if possible. It will save us a lot of printing and copying. Informal Q&A The booster club will hold an informal new parent Q&A at 6:15AM on the 1st day of tryouts (Sat 7/15). Meet in front of the concessions stand. This is optional. Team Store Be on the lookout for the team store to open up this week. We have a new vendor and process that we are working with that we are excited about. An email will go out when team store is officially open. TEAM STORE LINK Master Calendar This is a master with dates, times, locations, and events for planning purposes, and there will be adjustments made to this document. When there are changes, I will also email them out and they will be posted on the website. I send a weekly calendar snapshot via email, as well, but this is for planning of the season, and identifying any potential conflicts. Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11sbDmf_P3K9O3fKtA1WknMPL3YAS0v_qc_10dZhHC9Q/edit?usp=sharing Finally, the season is upon us and flies by once it is here. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me or Betty ([email protected]) to ask how you can help out. And please read these emails, as the information is important!!! See everyone one on Saturday if not before. Thanks, Coach Behler |
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