Hello Sting Soccer Families                                                                                Jeff Lathan, President

Well we have made a few changes this soccer season.  After a few extra years as the President of our soccer club, John as transitioned out of that role.  A big thank you to John for his time spent as President.  I have now taken on the role as President and my hope is to continue the progress of our club that develops our young soccer players. 

We are now on Facebook.  Check it out and "Like" us to keep up to date with the Sting happenings.

Some changes will be coming to Robins Brook this Spring.  The Sting Soccer Club along with the Town of Bergen have placed an order to purchase two new goals for our newest field, the upper back field.  There was a desperate need to replace the old and possibly dangerous existing goals.  This purchase will greatly improve the use of this field.  It is a large investment on our part.  Our organization supports itself solely on the registrations we collect along with a sponsor for each team.  We are in a process of writing and applying for a grant that we hope we receive and will defiantly assist us in offsetting the cost.  In addition we are currently organizing a Chiavetta's Chicken BBQ.  Amy Drake has offered to lend her fundraising experience and plan this event.  It will be unique in that we are offering a Drive Thru service.  No need to get out of your vehicle, we will be providing car side service.  The event is planned for February 21, 2012 at the Gillam Grant parking lot.  We have set a very ambitious goal of over 400 chickens.  To achieve this goal we will need every player to commit to selling 5 tickets.  All the proceeds will go directly to pay for these goals (Sting share is $1800 of the total $5000).  Information will be sent to our families soon and tickets ($8.50) will go on sale January 2, 2012.  Check the website for additional information.  We will need volunteers as well, please contact Amy Drake to sign up.

Our registration process is complete we are very close to having 8 teams this year, we have a few slots to fill yet for our U17 Girls team.

I would like to welcome a few new faces to our list of awesome volunteers.  Wayne Donnelly will be coaching our U10 Boys.  Tammy Fuller along with her manager Tammy Menzie will be leading our U10 Girls.  Scott and Laurie Morgante have returned to Sting to take on the U16 Girls as Coach and Manager.  Even though John has gotten a little relief by not leading the helm he will now be coaching both the U15 Boys and U17 Boys.  Don't worry he will have help, Carol Coffta will be adding another year to her career with Sting as the U15 Boys Manager and Gina Lathan will take  on the U17 Boys as their Manager.  Rob Swapceinski has stepped off the sidelines and will be coaching our U12 Boys.  Finally Ken Kruppner is working hard to register the last few girls to round out the U17 Girls roster. 

We do have an open position on our Board.  The VP slot is available.  If you are interested contact myself or any of our Board Members.

By this time many of our players have begun practicing and some have been participated in their first indoor tournament.  Cheer on your teams and have fun watching them score some goals.

To a great soccer season....

Jeff

12/16/11