PSC has 15 teams in 2008 fall season

The Poplarville Soccer Club has formed 15 soccer teams this year. There are 128 players registered from ages 4 - 18 years old. We are excited about this new start and look forward to building on this success in the future. The partnership between Pearl River Community College Soccer and Poplarville Soccer Club has led to our success. The experience our coaches get from interacting with player and coaches from PRCC has been invaluable to their development. The exposure our players get with the college coaches is a tremendous asset when it comes to them graduating High School and looking for a collage scholarship. Each player needs to pay attention and work on developing themselves as they get advice from these coaches. I know one player on the Poplarville team that this has been a benefit too. So I know that it can and will benefit those who choose to take advantage of it.

PSC accepts MYSA Charter

The Poplarville Soccer Club voted to accept the Charter from MYSA that covers North Pearl River County and Stone County. The club will be meeting with MYSA officials in the next couple of weeks to complete membership paperwork and plans for a Spring Season.

What are your thoughts on this change in the Soccer Charter?

MYSA offers soccer charter to PSC

Saturday, November 13, 2004 at its meeting the MSYA Council voted to pull the local soccer charter from the PAA due to failure to responde to its request of a plan of action to address problems in the program. They also voted to offer the territory to the Poplarville Soccer Club. On Monday November 22 the Poplarville Soccer Club will meet to discuss and mostly likely approve the acceptance of the territory. What is your thoughts on the situation? Should we take the charter?

Wiggins Soccer Pulls from MYSA

Recently the Wiggins soccer program has pulled from the MSYA stating price and service as their primary reasons. The price to play within the MSYA is this year $15 per player and climbing to $16 per player soon. Is this price to high? There are other costs involved such as coach and referee clinics and other fees involving tournaments and travel. There are other organizations that are cheaper and provide more services, such as AYSO (American Youth Soccer Organziation) , SAY Soccer, and US Soccer Club. All these organization are less expensive and few of them offer more services and some less. (To view go to www.poplarvillesoccer.org site and go to link section)

As the Poplarville Soccer Club ponders its future in the soccer arena and look at starting our own youth program, what direction should we look to go? Should we stay the course of pursuing the MYSA charter or should we start looking seriously at the other organizations? My conversations with Wiggins has sparked some thought processes. Is this what is going to happen to other organizations within Mississippi? This is at least a topic for discussion so lets get too it!

What are your thoughts?

MYSA Letter to PAA

MYSA gave the PAA another chance to make things right! In a letter written to them after the MYSA Council meeting they were given specific guidelines to which they may keep the charter. Below is a list of the stipulations given them.

1. PAA must develop plan to return to 2 season soccer or at worst a spring season
2. Explanation of how fields are shared and scheduled for practice and games between sports
3. Detail how soccer representation is awarded on the PAA board and what measures are in place that any soccer issue is not automatically defeated by virtue of other sport representation on the PAA Board
4. Include the grass roots parents of the Poplarville Soccer Club in the plan
5. PAA must meet every MYSA deadline as required by MYSA Constitution, By-Laws and policies of the Mississippi Youth Soccer Association.

What are your thoughts on these items? Can they pull it off? What do you think will happen?

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Poplarville Soccer organizations Meet with MYSA

On Saturday August 28, 2004 the Poplarville Soccer Club and Poplarville Athletic association met with MYSA to discuss the current soccer situation in Poplarville. While at times it was a questionable debate at times by the other side, we had our say. It is now in the hands of the MYSA Executive council. We left Jackson with uncertainty and anticipation of the outcome. We will not know the outcome until today or tomorrow when the executive Director of MYSA Brent Clements call each party and gives us the councils decision. We as the PSC board have always said we will have soccer with our without MYSA. We would rather do it under the umbrella of MYSA, but if not possible we will venture out to other organizations that have expressed an interest in our club.

One theme that was brought out of the meeting by board members was working together. Of course PAA has told us they do not want the PSC involved in PAA. The current leadership of the PAA prohibits a mutual agreement. They are not interested in parental wishes. Otherwise they would have at least had a parents forum before making the decision of going to one season to hear out the majority of parents. Parents that only want one season can only play one season if they choose too. They are paying the same price for one season as they did with two. That decision does not hold water.

What do you think?

Poplarville Soccer Club petitions MYSA for Charter

On July 26, 2004, the Poplarville Soccer Club announced that they were petitioning the Mississippi Youth Soccer Association for the youth soccer charter for the local area that encompasses the northern part of Pearl River County from McNeil to Lumberton. Rossie Creel the president of the club said, “In order for soccer to grow in our community we must have a soccer only organization running the program. “ Mr. Creel has been in contact with M.Y.S.A. and they have requested a letter and signed petition in order to consider the motion in the organizations next board meeting in the first couple of weeks of August.
For more information on developments of these events feel free to call Rossie Creel president of the Poplarville Soccer Club or the other Board Members of PSC.

What are your thoughts? Good Idea or Bad Idea? Who Cares?