Coach Information from Field and Safety Director
AYSO Region 63
2009 Fields & Safety Notes
| • Field & Safety Director: | Arijs Rakstins |
| | Home: 650-347-3103 |
| | Cell: 650-483-8470 |
• Carry your Field Permit with you to practices (along with your Player Emergency Forms) and produce it if questioned by City employees, other coaches, etc.
• For field closures due to weather, coaches only call 650-344-AYSO (2976). Do not have your parents call; it will jam the line! Have them check the website. Any teams caught playing on fields that have been closed by the City will be disqualified from further league play.
• Please have your team parents take home your game trash (from snacks, fruit, water bottles, etc.). On weekends AYSO typically overtaxes the city’s trash receptacles. Extra trash bags are located in the AYSO equipment boxes/closets located at each field.
• Your game fields should be lined, with flags and goals in place and equipment boxes unlocked (by our Field Crews) by the time you arrive for your game. If not, call me immediately!
• The steel goal cages are generally locked (except for BHS and Lower Bayside) and not available for practices. They are not staked down for practices and can blow over or be tipped over, resulting in injury or even death! If you find the goals on your practice field, please wheel them off the field and discourage children from playing around them.
• Any problems with field conditions, equipment, lighting, sprinklers, etc., call me.
• If you encounter interference from other sports (e.g., football, baseball), call me. Do not engage or confront the other coach! I or City Parks and Rec will intercede on your behalf.
• Washington Park practices, Sector F4: you (and your team parents) are limited by the <b?big baseball diamond left field foul line, not the striped soccer field which pertains only to Saturday games. On weekdays, St. Catherine’s baseball has the use of the small diamond up to the above mentioned foul line. Any questions, call me.
• For any injuries, reporting and doctor release forms are available from me or on www.burlingameayso.org. Please fill out and return to me. Note: supplemental accident insurance claim forms are available from me or on www.soccer.org and must be filed with AYSO National within 90 days of the incident.
• Equipment boxes/closets at all fields generally include extra First Aid kits, ice packs, goalie shirt, doggie bags, game cards, trash bags and referee flags. If any of these are missing or exhausted, call me.
• The combination to the locks on the Porta Johns at Osberg and Franklin fields is “Check Handout or Call”. These locks will not pop open when you dial in this combination; you may have to snap the hasp up and down to open the lock. If unlocked for practices, do not lose the lock! Lock the door at the end of your practice to prevent vandalism.
• Practices start the week of August 17 (August 3 for U16/U19’s). Opening Weekend is September 12 and 13.
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