West Ottawa Soccer Club

Girls 2001 OPDL Meeting December 5, 2013

Agenda

1. Welcome

2. OPDL Background

3. Team Specific Information

1. Pre-season

2. In-Season

3. Kit

4. Finances

5. Next Steps

6. Q & A

7. Closing Remarks

OPDL Vision, Mission, and

Values • Vision: “Ontario’s best players are given the opportunity to

reach their full potential”

• Mission: “To help Ontario’s soccer players become their

best”

• Values:

Excellence

Accountability

Commitment

Quality

Integrity

Honesty

What is the OPDL?

Talented Pathway Vision

Ontario’s best players are given the opportunity to reach

their full potential

THE LANDSCAPE HAS……

CHANGED

•What we have been

doing is not working….

• New CSA HP Plan

• Optimal investment

• Research and Best

Practice

• Talent Identification and

Development (TID)

• No All Stars

WHAT CSA NEED

• Provinces to establish standards based leagues

• Players to be developed by qualified and experienced staff – periodised plan

• Top players identified

• Player movement into nationally accredited female academies (REX)

• National Camps (NEX)

• National age group squads

Male players

• Provinces to establish standards based leagues

• Players to be developed by qualified and experienced staff – periodised plan

• Top players identified

• Player movement into professional academies

• Scout pro academies / RTC’s

• National projects and Age Group Squads

Female players

Standards

Technical Director

• The Club must have a paid (either full or part-time)

Technical Director with a minimum qualification of a CSA B

License, a USSF B License or a UEFA B License.

Coaching Staff

• The Head Coach(es) must hold a minimum qualification of

a CSA B License, a USSF B License or a UEFA B License.

• Assistant coaches must have successfully completed or be

registered to take the Pre-B Assessment in 2014.

• On a Female team the Head coach or Assistant coach must

be female.

Standards (cont’d)

• Goalkeeper Coach

– OSA Goalkeeper Certificate (min)

– Must be present for a minimum of two (2) club training

sessions/week

• Fitness Coach

– Undergraduate degree in Kinesiology/related

– CSEP Exercise Physiologist

– Up-to-date First Aid/CPR

• Medical

– Ind/Org Responsible for injury prevention and

treatment of OPDL players

3.2 Playing Season • Season will run Apr to Nov

• Apr and Nov games most likely will be on

turf

• Central venues are chosen by OPDL as they meet a series of standards

Why Use Central Venues? 1. In making our decisions it forced the OSA to look very

closely at a number of facilities province-wide.

2. Allowed us to select some very well developed facilities (mostly universities).

3. Where many of the facilities are universities, it provides us with the opportunity to partner with their students to enhance the game day experience for you and provide practical learning opportunities for them.

4. It mitigates the amount of travel for you.

Central Venues

1. Carleton University – Ottawa

2. Royal Military College – Kingston

3. U of T Campus – Scarborough

4. York University – North York

5. The Soccer Centre - Vaughan

6. McMaster University – Hamilton

7. University of Waterloo

8. Western University - London

Conference Rationale 1. Placement of teams in each conference is

based on travel time and proximity to central venues

2. There will be nine teams in each conference which will allow us to create one game per round featuring cross conference play. Each team will get 3-4 games with opponents from the other conference.

Conferences

East 1. Markham 2. Nepean Hotspurs 3. North Toronto 4. Ottawa Fury FC 5. Ottawa South United 6. Toronto FC Academy 7. Unionville Milliken 8. West Ottawa 9. Whitby Iroquois

West 1. Aurora 2. Burlington 3. FC London 4. Glen Shields 5. Hamilton Elite United 6. Kleinburg Nobleton 7. Richmond Hill 8. Vaughan 9. Woodbridge

League Schedule

• Sole discretion and responsibility of the OPDL

• Schedule issued no later than February 15th of the current

season

• Game days are Saturdays (except for four weekends where

girls will play on Sundays) and venues will be prescribed

• Changes to the game schedule will only be made in

extenuating circumstances and will be issued in writing by

the OPDL

“The best way to predict the

future is to create it”

“Ontario’s best players are given the opportunity

to reach their full potential”

Team Information

Team Staff

Head Coach: Kristina Kiss – National B

Assistant Coach: Heather Ambery - Pre-B

Strength and Conditioning Coach: Alex Veduva (SportsCan),

CSEP, First Aid, Canadian International Hockey Academy

Strength and Conditioning Coach.

Sport Medicine: Carleton University Sport Medicine and

Physiotherapy Clinic, Stittsville Sport Physiotherapy Clinic

Program Manager: Heather Ambery

Pre-Season (Jan-April)

• Training three times/week (starts Jan. 6)

– Monday 5:45-7:00PM Dome 2 - Soccer session

– Tuesday 5:30-6:30PM SportsCan Studio (West

Nepean right off 417) Strength and Conditioning

– Thursday 5:30-7:00 Dome 1 Soccer session

– Sunday (rotating)

• Week 1 (Jan 12): 11:00AM-1:00PM Dome 1 Soccer session

• Week 2 (Jan 19): 3:00-4:00PM Full Field session/exhibition game (Complex Branchaud Briere, Gatineau)

• Keeper Training twice/week – Mondays and Thursdays

(TBC)

In Season (April – Nov.)

• First Game: April 12th

• Training: Three times/week: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday

• Games: One/week (Saturday/Sunday)

• Travel: (travel by bus or car dependant on cheaper option)

– 8 Games Carleton University

– 8 Games RMC (Kingston)

– 8 Games U of T Scarborough (East Side of Toronto)

– 4 cross over games with West Division (2 East, 2

West)

• Mid-Season Break: TENTATIVELY July 30 to August 10

• No Games on Victoria Day Weekend, Easter Weekend,

Labour Day Weekend, or Thanksgiving Weekend

Kit

• OPDL Players will receive (no additional cost):

– Home Jersey

– Away Jersey

– 2 Shorts

– 2 Socks

– 2 Training Shirts

– Soccer Ball

– Track Suit

– Backpack

– Travel Shirt

– Academy Shirt

Finances 2013

• January and February: $0 to $200/month depending

on current winter registrations

• March 1 to December 31: $325/month

• Financial Assistance

– is available. Please contact coordinator@wosc.com

• Transportation Costs:

– we are looking for the safest and most economical

means of transportation for the season. We are

exploring options such as organized carpooling, mini

bus, chartered bus etc. Our transportation plan will

depend on our season schedule (released Feb 15)

Next Steps

If you are interested in the OPDL Program please email

Debbie at registrar@wosc.com she will set up your account

individually

Players who register will be added to Team Snap and a pre-

season schedule will be sent

Continue training as per usual in December (last session is

December 22)

January 6th is the start of the NEW OPDL Training regime

Contact Information

• Coach Kristina Kiss: k.kiss@wosc.com

• Technical Director, Erik Stoffelshaus: erik.s@wosc.com

• CEO, Bjorn Osieck: ceo@wosc.com

• Program Manager, Heather Ambery: coordinator@wosc.com

• Registrar, Debbie Wright: registrar@wosc.com

Questions?