Pre-season - It is a good practice to have team meeting or send a detailed email to your team in order to set out the team expectations - here are a few things you might want to go over: 

• do you want a manager to help you?
• set practice time/location
• equipment - bring ball to practices, wear shin guards
• communication - stress the importance of informing you beforehand if they're unavailable for an event. Check out TeamSnap app to help with team communication.
• timeliness - arrive 15 min or more before games
• snacks - ask parent to organize a snack schedule if desired
• winter/indoor - gauge interest  

First practice - set out your expectations to the players. Things you might want to talk about: 

• equipment - bring your ball, wear your shin guards, bring a water bottle, both jerseys to all games! 
• fields - leave them the way we found them, pick up everything - your equipment, your trash, etc. 
• Behavior - you're here to learn and have fun, listen and follow instructions
• Competitiveness - we are here to compete, this is a contact sport, we want you to work hard and try to win but being aware of your surroundings and the consequences of your actions is an important piece of being a good competitor.
• Sportsmanship - it's part of the game

All coaches are required to complete Risk Management training.

Please see the Coaching Resources page for more information and instructions.

•  Regent-Shorewood In-house League -Kinde - 6U, 7U and 8U teams
• Alliance League  (MU, Shorewood, and Regent)- 9U and 10U teams
• MAYSA (Madison Area Youth Soccer Association) Leagues - 11U and older teams

Kinde through 10U Shorewood and Regent teams - Look at the "Game Day Reminders" on this website to see your league rules.

11U and older Regent teams - Look at the MAYSA League rules which can be found HERE - (scroll down the page a bit and you will see tabs labelled: Game Day Rules, Player Rules, Coach Rules etc.)