Gary Waltz - TOP Soccer

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About Coach Gary Waltz our TOP Soccer Coach

Fresno State University Women's Soccer hosted a halftime show with TOP Soccer kids playing on small sided fields..Wow did they have a great time and Gary was there to organize his kids!

Gary Waltz, a coach for the North Fresno Soccer League, was honored by U.S. Youth Soccer as Recreational Coach of the Year for Region IV of the U.S. for his work with TOPSoccer, a program for young athletes with disabilities.

Gary Waltz proudly holds his award and his copy of Koach Karl's "9-Step Practice Routine" DVD

Purpose:
The TOPSoccer program TOP SOCCER was created to train young people with disabilities, in a caring coaching environment, to play soccer; to serve as a feeder program to recruit, assess, and train players to participate in competitions offered by existing sports organizations for people with disabilities; and to mainstream higher ability players onto regular youth soccer teams.

Philosophy:
By providing a community-based training and team placement program for young people with disabilities, organized by a youth soccer club, any boy or girl, who has a mental or physical disability will have the opportunity to learn and play soccer and become valued and successful members of the youth soccer family.

Description:
TOPSoccer was designed not as a competitor to the programs run by other sports organizations for people with disabilities, but rather as a complementary program that works hand in hand with other organizations to expand the overall training and competition opportunities for young people with disabilities. The TOPSoccer program often works as a feeder program: recruiting, assessing, and training new soccer players who would benefit from opportunities sponsored by these sports organizations. Many of the sports opportunities currently offered to young people with disabilities are school based. However, many parents of these young people would like their child to participate in the same community sports program as their non-disabled brothers and sisters - to wear the same club uniform, play at the same fields, go to the same awards banquets, and if appropriate, play on a non-disabled team. TOPSoccer can fill this need.

A basic TOPSoccer program consists of two vital components. The first is a field site where soccer players with disabilities can recieve high-quality training to help develop their soccer skills. Training sessins could include activities such as scrimmages, small-sided games (3 v 3, 4 v 4) and tournaments. The second component of the TOPSoccer program is an ongoing player assessment proces that places participants in the most appropriate playing situation, including placement on non-disabled, intramural and club teams, or involvement in programs established by other sports associations for people with disabilities.

Practice Session

TOP Soccer Jamborees

TOPSoccer Jamborees

Saturday August 21^st and August 28^th

9 AM to 11:30 AM

Please Be On Time, Bring water, Shin guards, Soccer Cleats or Tennis Shoes and be prepared to have a great time.

Parents, Guardians we will be talking about Fundraising Activities and what the rest of the season activities will be.

If your child played last year I included the Registration form, please check it over and make any corrections, sign both places or have your players sign if they are 18 and over, bring a check or cash or

to cover registration and we will get the season started. Please bring a copy or the original Birth Certificate I will make a copy of it and return it back to you.

NEW LOCATION

P I N E D A L E E L E M E N T A R Y

7171 N SUGARPINE

PINEDALE, CA 93650

Directions: take Fwy 41 North or South to Herndon Ave.

Get off and go to Blackstone. Go North on Blackstone to the second left turn lane and take it left. You will dead end into the school. KFC should be on your right as you make the left hand turn.

CITY BUS DIRECTION: Take FAX Bus #30 North out to Pinedale and get off at the KFC and cross the street and walk to the School

Tentative Schedule: Saturday’s Jamborees August 21, and 28^th

Saturday September 11 9 AM Start Play - 4 PM

Friday September 17, FSU 6 PM Special Needs Day , National Soccer Awareness

Saturday September 18

Tracy TOPSoccer Tournament in Tracy TBD

Saturday September 25 4 PM

Saturday October 2 4 PM

Saturday October 9 4 PM

Saturday October 16 4 PM

Saturday October 23 4 PM

Saturday October 30 9 AM to 2 PM

Pumpkin Fest held here Place to be determined

Saturday November 5 3 PM

Saturday November 13 3 PM

Saturday November 20 3 PM

Last Game and Awards Even Coach Gary 559 307 9535/ web page http://www.cjsl.info/topsoccer.php

Get your FREE copy of Fundamental Ball Skills

Get your free copy of Fundamental Ball Skills -click here!

by US Youth Soccer Technical Department

Sam Snow, Interim Technical Director

Dr. John Thomas, Assistant Technical Director

Top's Players in Action - having FUN!

East Diablo Youth Soccer League’s TOPSoccer Cherry Pickers from the 2009 Season. East Diablo Youth Soccer League is a league from District IV of the California Youth Soccer Association – North. Thanks to Sash Migay of the East Diablo Youth Soccer League for sending us the link

TOPSoccer is a modified version of the game of soccer. It was designed to provide opportunities for athletes with disabilities. It provides affordable opportunity for fitness, fun, and building self-esteem. Modifications are made to the game to allow full participation and enjoyment for each athlete. One-on-one assistance is available to those who are in need of it. TOPSoccer offers a recreational, leisure approach to the game of soccer.

Free Play and Great Information

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Establishing a Positive Family Structure by Meme Hieneman

Oftentimes we assume that children know what we expect of them, only to find out that we have been vague or inconsistent, and possibly even modeled behaviors that contradict what we want. Family lives can be improved by clarifying expectations – or, more specifically, determining how we want to function in our families and spelling out rules to guide behavior.

Having a disabled child - a Poem

Poem: “Welcome to Holland” by Emily Perl Kingsley
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy.
You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”.
“Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy”
But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language.
And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”.
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.