DSL Coaches, Coordinators and AD’s,
Good evening, see below for a quick update email on the Spring DSL Season:
- Registration – Thank you for getting back to me on registration. Registration has been closed since last Friday, but I do appreciate that a few of you are still running things down and are doing your best to field the most accurate placements that you can. At a certain point though we need to move onto scheduling, so that means that at a certain point things will need to be finalized. That time is Thursday, March 3 at 11:59 pm. After that no more additions or subtractions will be permitted and you will be required to pay the registration fees for all teams that are registered and will be expected to field teams for all registered teams.
- Registration Fees – Speaking of registration fees, those were due last Friday as well. Please get those to me ASAP, and no later than this Monday, March 7th. They are $100 per team (4 teams would equal $400), are payable in check made out to the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and sent to DSL Soccer, c/o Rob Glentzer, 116 Wickerham Drive, Mars PA, 16046. If you prefer to deliver in person that is fine too, just reach out to me to coordinate.
- Schedules – We will be working on those shortly and they take a long time to put together. The first games of the season will be the weekend starting Friday March 25th and we will have the schedules to you no later than the Monday prior to then, but hopefully sooner. We have received over 350 scheduling requests so those take a lot of time to review and to try to accommodate as many as we can. Please be patient, I could get you schedules as early as the evening, but you wouldn’t like them as no scheduling requests would be reflected in them. That is what really slows this process down. We are happy to do it, just understand it takes time.
- Kickoff Email – I will get a kick off email out later this month with game day and other notes (probably closer to the game week). In the meantime, feel free to familiarize yourself with our league rules at on our website.
- Updated Email Contacts – I received your updated email contact lists in the registration forms and will update our distribution list as soon as we can. I’d ask that the soccer coordinators and/or AD’s from each school please forward this email onto anyone that you think is missing/is new this year until I can get our distribution list current. Also, if you’re no longer involved with DSL Soccer and would like me to delete you from the distribution list, just respond to this email letting me know that and I will delete you. Normally emails will come from me, to me with a BCC to you all. Until I get the email list updated though I will send it to you all so you can see if any key personnel are missing.
- Dick’s Sporting Goods DSL Discount Coupon – Dick’s Sporting Goods is continuing its partnership with us and offering us a 20% off coupon good for most items in the soccer for Friday March 18 through Monday March 21. See attached for the coupon and the list of stores that are participating (although I understand that some stores that don’t participate might (but are not required to) honor the coupon). Please share this with your school families that are signed up for soccer and feel free to share with whoever else you’d like; it is not a requirement to play soccer for the DSL to use the coupon if you want to share it with friends and families.
That is all for me, have a good night and remember any registration changes must be made by end of day Thursday.
Rob Glentzer