Summer Contact Days
The WIAA (WI High School sports governing board) allows us 5 days during the summer where we can coach and be together as a team. We had our five contact days the week of July 11th-15th from 3:30-5:30pm. The summer 2012 contact days have not yet been decided, please refer back to this website in April, 2012. For future reference, the practices will be held at the JV field behind Hortonville Elementary School. While the practices are voluntary, I would like anyone interested for going out for the upcoming soccer seasons to attend. You will meet your coaches and teammates. We will run drills and have some game play. If you are unable to attend, please let me know you are interested in playing once the season starts but are unable to attend the contact days.
Hortonville Soccer Youth Program
We have started up a youth program for soccer! Boys and girls in grades 4-8, who are interested in playing soccer once they enter high school are invited to attend practice sessions. Practice session one is currently being held at Greenville Elementary School gym every Wednesday from 5:30-7:00pm until February 29th (no practice on Feb. 15th due to conferences). They consist of skill development at individual players' levels and are a mix of drills, team working skills, and game play. As the sessions progress, we will have some mini tournaments on Wednesday nights (same time and place). It is a great opportunity to meet other soccer players around the district, play with your future teammates, increase skill level, and have some fun playing soccer! These sessions are free of charge and are lead by current HHS soccer coaches. HHS boys and girls soccer players also volunteer at the sessions. For more information, or to have the forms sent to you, please email Paul Everett at pauleverett@hasd.org. Session two will be held on the JV soccer field from 5:30-7:00pm, which is located by Hortonville Elementary School and will be on Monday evenings. Practices begin on Monday, April 2nd and go until Monday, June 4th (weather permitting).
Polar Bear Soccer Camp
Each year we host a soccer camp at Greenville Lions’ Park. It’s a great opportunity for our soccer program to impress on the kids a love for the sport. We ask that as many soccer players (boys & girls) from the HS program be involved as coaches. The hours can be put toward your community service hours required for graduation. The camp dates for 2012 have not yet been decided. Please refer back to the website in April 2012. Incoming Freshmen and graduating Seniors are very welcome to participate as coaches. Players from ages 3 to 13 are invited to participate. Please register using the registration form.
Pizza Fundraiser
Each year we make homemade pizzas as our fundraiser. It’s been our most successful fundraiser in our continual effort to improve the soccer environment at HHS. The monies raised in the past have gone back into rebuilding the fields and improving equipment. We’re working toward getting fencing around the current JV field with our long term goal to add lights and make that the JV & Varsity field. The day for For the boys 2011 season, pizza making was Saturday, October 15th. The date for pizza making for 2012 will be determined once the season begins. The pizza forms will be handed out once practice begins. Each player is expected to sell pizzas and be present for the pizza making. Parents are encouraged to help make the pizzas as well. It is actually a fun day and is usually over by noon. In the future, we will have the boys and girls sell and make pizzas twice a year. Currently, we have the boys sell in Fall and the girls sell in Spring. We will be having the two join together.
Forms
Any athlete participating in any sport must turn in a series of forms. These forms must be turned in before an athlete can participate in practices. These forms include: physical (or alternate), Co-Curricular, Emergency Medical Information and Media Release. These forms are all available off the HHS Soccer website: http://www.hasd.org/schools/hs/hhsactivitiessoccerboys.cfm (lower right hand corner). Return the forms to the Student Services office. Your coaches are unable to drop the forms off in the office for you. If you do not have your forms in, you will not be allowed to take part in the Tryouts. So please find a day during the summer and take care of all of your forms.
Schedule
Pre-Season meetings:
Middle School Students: There will be a pre-season meeting before the 2011-2012 school ends for 8th grade boys and girls for both Hortonville and Greenville Middle School students interested in playing soccer in high school. This date is yet to be determined, but will be held in one day in May. If you have a child interested in playing soccer in high school who is in 8th grade (or not yet in 8th grade), please feel free to contact me with any questions at any time. We look forward to having your child become part of the Hortonville soccer program!
Current boy high school students: There will be a meeting in April of 2012 to discuss summer contact dates and other information for the upcoming season. Stay tuned! We will have summer contact days and summer practices. These practices will be run by the Varsity captains and will have a parent there to supervise. Coaches may be present, but they are unable to actually coach on these days. The practices will run from 3:30 – 5:30 on the JV field. These practices will include a fair amount of cardio along with drills and ball work. Please come to practice in shape and ready to work hard.
"Open field:" Just as the girls have a soccer "open gym" in the fall and winter, the boys will have an "open field" in the summer. The girls have weather to contend with, so they must practice in the gym during the off season, but the boys are lucky because they can play soccer outside on our home field during the summer. The open field will be available for players to come and bond as a team, learn some skills, and play some games. This is not mandatory by any means, but is a great opportunity to bring new players in and to mix old players with new players. The coaches will not run or work with atheltes at these open fields. An adult will be supervising. If you are a parent and are interested in supervising an open field, please contact me. Dates have not yet been decided, please check back soon!
Tryouts Dates for tryouts for the 2012 are not yet determined. Once tryouts occur and practices begin, all practices will run from 3:30 – 5:30. Practices will continue to go until 5:30 once the school year begins, but players who need to catch the activity bus will be allowed to leave at 5 in order to catch the bus.
The season game schedule can be found at the HHS Soccer website: http://www.hasd.org/schools/hs/hhsactivitiessoccerboys.cfm (lower right hand corner) and www.bayconference.org . The Bay Conference website has the most updates and current schedules. The schedules can change due to weather and other teams needing to make changes, so please refer to the Bay Conference website often to check for changes.
Uniforms
Both Varsity and JV players will receive a home and away jersey, shorts, warm up top & bottom and a bag, which are returned at the end of the season. Players are responsible for purchasing their own socks. Both a white and a red pair are required (the needed socks will be explained when the season begins). There will be an order form passed out to players once the teams have been decided. The mandatory socks will be on that order form, as well as extra items such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, and Hortonville Soccer attire that players and families will be able to order if they wish.
Comment from the coach: 2011 was a GREAT season for boys soccer! We had a strong season and ended up tying with Seymour for a second place in the Bay Conference, being only one point behind first place, West DePere. Some highlights were: beating Luxemburg- Casco for the first time in school history, scoring 67 goals (a school record), we had some positive news coverage for our program, and we won the Polar Bear Invitational! With only four senior players leaving us, and some strong players coming up, we are looking forward to another strong season in 2012!
Paul Everett
