News for the Week of May 9, 2011

Program Notes for the Week of 5/9/2011:

Attention parents - there will be a couple of meetings this week that you will want to attend:

Parent Calendar Meeting:
This meeting is held in order to review the season calendar with parents and to outline the expectations for the season.   It will be held on Tuesday May 10th at 7:30 p.m. at ALHS. It is expected that at least one parent will be in attendance.

Shorepals Meeting:
The next Shorepals meeting will be held on Thursday May 12th at 7:00 p.m. at the Old Firehouse at the corner of Lake Rd. and Rt. 83. We will be discussing our preparations for Father's Day along with the Alumni picnic and the Teambuilding outing plus many other activities.

Strongsville Showcase Reminder:
This a reminder to Junior/Senior parents whose daughter may be interested in playing college soccer to sign up for the Junior/Senior spotlight games during the Strongsville Showcase weekend.  These games are held on Saturday night during the Showcase and are scrimmage type games where girls from all different schools are placed on teams which play against each other while observed by a large number of college coaches. It is a good opportunity to be noticed or to solidify in a coach's mind that they would like to recruit you. Each parent must sign their daughter up for the games themselves, the coaches don't handle this for you. The cost is $40 and the games do fill up and then you are placed on a waiting list. Don't wait until June to decide to play, sign up now so your spot will be reserved. You may sign up at:

www.adidasnationalshowcase.com

then go to the Girls tab and then hit Spotlight Player Registration and then follow the directions from there.

Also, be sure to inform the coaches of any colleges that you are interested in playing for that you will be participating in both the spotlight games and regular games with Avon Lake.


Soccer Site of the Week:
This week's featured site is:

http://www.gotsoccer.com/

This site provides information and rankings for club teams and tournaments.  Once on the site, hit the "Rankings" box on the right side of the screen.  Follow the various prompts until you get to the clubs ranking page that you selected.  By the way, Ohio North is located in Region 2.