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 About Coach Gary Waltz our TOP Soccer Coach

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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 USYS Coach of the YearGary 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

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 TOP Soccer Jamborees

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 TOPSoccer Jamborees

Saturday August 21st and August 28th
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 28th                
                        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

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 Get your free copy of  Fundamental Ball Skills 

by US Youth Soccer Technical Department

 

Sam Snow, Interim Technical Director

Dr. John Thomas, Assistant Technical Director