Yearly Archives: 2020

First and foremost, we hope that this message finds you and all those in your orbit healthy and well.  As 2020 comes to a much welcome end, it provides us a time to reflect on the challenges we have endured and how it has made us resilient as we move forward to the challenges ahead.

TSC is a community.  What keeps us moving forward is the consistent interaction of our resilient, creative and dedicated players, teams, parents and volunteers. It has been a privilege to witness and, in a small way, be part of this massive effort to keep the club functioning and moving forward in these challenging times.

We remain optimistic that our Thornhill Soccer Club will emerge from this period wiser and stronger than ever, thanks to the dedication and resourcefulness of volunteers, coaches, managers, and technical staff.

We thank you for allowing us to have served you in the past and look forward to being part of serving the Thornhill soccer community in the years to come.

We wish you all the very best for the upcoming New Year 2021.

Monday November 30th, 2020

Location: The meeting will be held online. All participants will be sent a link to the meeting. You must pre-register. To pre-register please contact admin@thornhillsoccer.com and a link will be sent to those that register on Monday November 30^th. in the afternoon.

Time: 7:30pm

If you would like to nominate some for one of the open positions please contact adult@thornhillsoccer.com

Positions for Election at the AGM:

Vice-President

Treasure

Director of Soccer Services

Nominations open till November 24,2020

Registration is Now Open

To register please go to https://tsc.powerupsports.com

The TSC Indoor Development Program is designed for both competitive and recreational players with a keen desire to hone and improve their skills. The program will focus on all aspects of ball efficiency with multiple surfaces and how to apply those in varying situations building greater awareness and decision making. Working with the staff of The Soccer School and under the guidance and direction of Technical Director Kosmas Mouratidis, participants will be challenged technically, tactically and functionally with age appropriate drills and training, culminating in small-sided matches.

The Program runs every Sunday and is available for children 4 years+.

Start date: Sunday November 1, 2020

End date: March 28, 2021 – 19 sessions.

Holiday schedule will be communicated in advance.

Location: St Roberts High School Dome (8101 Leslie St. Thornhill)

Players will receive a ball, and T-shirt. Player to provide shin guards, special turf shoes are recommended.

Ontario Soccer Return to Play protocols for indoor will be enforced. Limited numbers inside the facility, daily symptoms checklist must be completed before participating.

The Thornhill Soccer Club would like to thank you for your patience and hope everyone has been keeping safe and well. During these trying times, the club has been working diligently behind the scenes, meeting with the municipality, provincial soccer governing bodies and health authorities to formulate a return to play protocol and program.

The regular house league development program that was originally scheduled for this summer will not be able to be offered. Hence, we will be returning your monies that have been paid. Even though the Thornhill Soccer Club has incurred administrative charges in originally organizing the house league program, we will not be passing this on to our customers. You will receive a full refund or if you wish you can leave the money as a credit to be used for future use.

Please send your decision to recprograms@thornhillsoccer.com

Although we cannot offer our usual recreational program this year the club will be offering 3 new programs for the summer instead. All the programs will follow the policy and procedures that have been outlined Ontario Soccer.

Program 1 – Touch, Moves and Ball Control

This program is a six-week once a week program that is opened for players born in 2014 to 2008.

The Touch, Moves and Ball Control Program is designed for recreational players with a keen desire to hone and improve their skills. The program will focus on all aspects of ball efficiency with multiple surfaces and how to apply those in varying situations building greater awareness and decision making. Working with the staff of The Soccer School and under the guidance and direction of Technical Director Kosmas Mouratidis, participants will be challenged technically, tactically and functionally with age appropriate drills and training, culminating in small-sided matches.

Start Date:  Wednesday July 15,2020

End Date:    Wednesday August 19,2020

Time: 6:30pm-7:30pm

Location: Bayview Reservoir

Coaching: 1 Coach per 5 players

Players will be provided:

• Ball
• Jersey

Cost: $110

To register go to: https://tsc.powerupsports.com/

Program 2 – Girls Development Program (with Coach Kevin)

The program will run twice a week and will focus on individual skills training eventually leading to small sided game play, when permissible by the Municipality.

The program is open to girls from the 2007 to 2005 age group. The program will run on Mondays and Wednesday’s.

Start Date: Monday July 20,200 * no session Monday August 3^rd.

End Date Wednesday August 19,2020

Time: 6:30pm-7:30pm

Location: Green Lane Park

Players will be provided:

• Ball
• Jersey

Cost: $150

To register go to: https://tsc.powerupsports.com/

Program 3 – Half Day Recreational Camps

The club will be offering 3 weeks of half day camps. The camps will run from Monday to Friday. The camps will offer the players to improve their individual skills. The Camp will be supervised by the club’s technical director Kosmas Mouratidis.

The camp will be open to recreational players born from 2014 to 2008

Camp Dates:

July 20-July 24

July 27-July 31

August 10-August 14

Camp Times 9am-12pm

The club will provide all balls and equipment.

Cost: $150

To register go to: https://tsc.powerupsports.com/

You can contact the club at recprograms@thornhillsoccer.com for multiple players or weeks discounts.

To register for any of these programs, go to your Powerup account and select 2020 Revised Outdoor Recreational Program under Registration Centre. Here you will be presented with an option to select the programs detailed above.

Grassroots Girls Competitive Program

The club is still looking to put together a girl’s competitive program. I your daughter is born in 2012/2013 or 2009/2010 and are interested please contact Steve at steve.kokkoros@thhornhillsoccer.com as soon as possible so we can get the girls organized.

Ontario Soccer, in consultation with Canada Soccer and Provincial Government authorities have been monitoring the most recent developments of COVID-19 and are currently assessing operational plans for Return to Play, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold and potentially wind down.

The Ontario Provincial Government made an announcement on April 27, 2020 and within it has laid out a phased-in approach to de-escalating the State of Emergency in Ontario.

Other Canadian provinces have also begun the process of re-opening businesses, easing social restrictions and gradually moving towards modes of operation that work in each region.

Ontario’s Provincial Government has not yet set a date for the beginning of the province’s phased-in approach but there is now an opportunity to begin thinking about what that Return to Play might look like for soccer in our province
The safety and health of our participants will be first and foremost in the decision-making to come.

The Thornhill Soccer Club has been working on safety plan, which will outline detailed safeguards in order to create and maintain a safe soccer community where our members feel more comfortable.

These provisions might include:
• Coaches equipped with hand-sanitizer and wipes available if Parents cannot provide
• Managers or parent volunteers taking temperature of individuals before commencing practice and regularly using non-touch thermometers. (If this is not feasible, then having parents agree to take temperature at home before and after each soccer activity and report fevers with stay-at-home directives)
• Disinfecting/wiping down all equipment and surfaces before and after activities (in our case it would be cones, balls, goal posts/bow nets, etc.)
• Pinnies would have to be laundered or not used at all.
• Outline a plan for social distancing such as:

1. Limiting frolicking between players before and after activities.
2. Utilizing drills that involve spacing rather than lining up.
3. Train the players to form spaces during chalk talks and down time.
4. Line up bags with spacing between, etc.

The Club has prepared a Return to Play Survey for the Parents to help with this planning. Assuming that the provincial government and public health authorities deem it safe to resume soccer activities, with the necessary precautions in place.

The survey can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQ7_V8LiNSQRnv-o7VycQodiHf3xhIA9ccmJpuhd5JqYzjpw/viewform

Please take a moment of your time and complete this survey, so that we may prepare to better serve you.

Managing Registration Uncertainty.

In preparation for a quick start to a delayed season, we ask for your assistance in our planning and encourage you to register now.

Recreational Program
Those who may be worried about signing up, as of today, you can register without any payment until the season begins, simply choose the “Office Payment “ option when checking out.

This will assist us in creating team rosters, and assigning spots for each player, we do not want any child to miss out on any more of their activities, as they have missed so much already.
If your family is experiencing severe financial difficulty due to the crisis, we will be open to discussing payment options and assistance on a case by case basis.

By registering now, you will guarantee a playing spot for yourself or child and it will allow us to prepare the teams and leagues for the re-opening.
To register go to: https://tsc.powerupsports.com/

Competitive Program:
The coaches will begin sending out the registration process as of Saturday May 2nd for the U13-U18 age group. For the U8-U12 group they will begin that process on Tuesday May 5th.

Adult League Men’s and Women’s
Please contact Russell Hamilton at adult@thornhillsoccer.com to reserve your spot.