Volume 1, Issue 1

December 1, 2010

C O U N C I L R O C K U N I T E D S O C C E R A S S O C I A T I O N

The Rock Reporter

Note from CRUSA’s

President

Doug Reichert

Welcome to the first issue of ―The Rock Re-porter‖ - the official newsletter of Council Rock Soccer. Via this newsletter, we will pro-vide you with relevant club information that is also available at www.crusa.net, as well as in-formation for coaches, parents and players that will be contributed by various guest colum-nists. If you have an idea for the newsletter or something you would like to contribute, please contact the office at admin@crusa.net for more information on how to submit your articles.

Thank you!!

Starting in January 2011

U7-U9 and U10-U12 Travel and Intramural Winter Indoor Training at Sportsplex in Feast-erville. The program will run 8 weeks from January to early March. 5:45-7:00 for U7-U9, and 7:15-8:30 for U10-U12. Registration open now at www.crusa.net. Come join us for another

successful indoor training season!

FC bucks Premier

Travel & Intramural

FC BUCKS GIRLS

RANKED #14 in the Country

Soccer America has announced the top 30 girls

youth soccer clubs in America for 2010 and our FC

Bucks Girls have been ranked #14—up 4 ranking

positions from 2009! Congratulations on a

tremendous accomplishment for these teams and

Council Rock Soccer!

CRUSA’S INTRAMURAL

FESTIVAL/TOURNAMENT

WEEKEND

With a Visit from Philadelphia

Union’s Goalie, Chris Seitz

Congratulations to all the intramural teams this Fall for a successful season! The weather could not have been better for our end of the season Festival and Tournament Day, held at Richboro Elemen-tary, Richboro Middle and Rolling Hills Elemen-

tary Schools.

A visit from Chris Seitz, goalie for the Philadelphia Union Men’s Soccer Team, was one of the high-lights of the day. He signed autographs and took photographs with

the players. Continued on Page 2

P a g e 2 T h e R o c k R e p o r t e r

FC Bucks Girls Teams

Compete in First ECNL Event

RALEIGH, N.C. (Dec. 6, 2010) – Featuring 184

teams from 49 different clubs, the ECNL Final

Four Showcase came to a close Sunday in Raleigh,

N.C. Despite a snowstorm on Saturday which

caused the cancellation of all games on Sunday, the

ECNL’s second national event of the 2010-11 sea-

son held December 3rd to 5th featured great com-

petition in front of a significant number of college

coaches.

Our FC Bucks girls teams, U15-18, represented the

club proudly, going 4-3-1 in our first event. Play-

ers, coaches and parents were given their first

glimpse of the league up close and the feedback

was all positive. We are lucky to be able to give

our kids the opportunity to play in such a fantastic

competition and look forward to supporting the

growth of the league and competing in it success-

fully for many years to come.

Follow this link for video of the event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMyc-CzR_9g

CRUSA Intramural, Travel,

Elite and FC Bucks—

How are They Connected?

One of CRUSA's greatest strengths is that we can of-

fer a place to play soccer for almost any child, of any

ability from the age of 4 to 18. CRUSA is one of the

few soccer clubs in the area that offers multiple teams

in each age group at a recreational, travel and premier

level soccer.

We offer intramural starting at U4 and maintain

teams through U18. Our Intramural program is one of

the largest in the area and CRUSA offers both a

spring and a fall season. Some of our oldest age

groups (high school ages) compete with other local

Intramural programs, but most of our Intramural

teams play all games at our home facilities in the

Richboro area. We are especially proud of our small

sided Intramural program for the youngest soccer

ages of U4-U7, which now includes over 400 youth

players enrolled in this fun and educational program.

Starting at U7, children have the choice to stay in the

intramural program or may opt to play in the CRUSA

Developmental Travel Academy. The Travel Acad-

emy is a program designed to help develop individual

skills and prepare children for travel soccer. Small

sided play and individual creativity is stressed. The

Developmental Travel Academy is a year round pro-

gram and requires slightly more commitment than

intramural play. Travel academy teams are split into

even groups based on ability and the primary focus is

on skill development.

Beginning at the soccer age of U9; all CRUSA travel

players are now eligible for the traditional travel soc-

cer program. Players are split by ability into two /

three or four teams in each age group gen-

der. Individual skills and creativity are still the pri-

mary focus with some emphasis on tactical

team play.

Continued on Page 3

Continued from Page 1—Intramural Festival and

Tournament Weekend

A special congratulations to all of our Champions

and Finalists U8 and up:

U8 Boys– Champions: Cardinals; Finalists: Raiders

U8 Girls—Champions: Leopards; Finalists: Cheetahs

U10 Boys– Champions: Shock; Finalists: Eliminators

U10 Girls—Champions: Raiders; Finalists: Angels

U12 Boys– Champions: Blazers; Finalists: Troopers

U12 Girls– Champions: Galaxy; Finalists: Stars

U14 Boys– Champions: Force; Finalists: Matrix

U14 Girls– Champions: Locomotion; Finalist: Alleycats

U19 Boys– Champions: Heat; Finalists: Upper Makefield

U19 Girls– Champions: Mustangs; Finalists: Appaloosas

We hope to see you all back for Spring Season!

Registration opens mid-December !!

V o l u m e 1 , I s s u e 1 P a g e 3

Congratulations on a Job

Well Done!

Congratulations to Marissa Weinstein who has been collecting used soccer balls for her mitzvah project. Marissa plays for the U13 CRUSA Ex-

treme. Below is a summary of her experience.

For my mitzvah project I collected soccer balls for a foundation called Kick for Nick. Nick was a young man who went to battle in Iraq and saw some young boys and girls playing soccer with bags of rocks and cans. Nick wanted to collect soccer balls for them but he was killed by a road-side bomb so he didn’t have a chance. So I de-cided to help collect and send soccer balls to Iraq to continue Nick’s wishes. I sent emails, made flyers, and made huge boxes and brought them to tournaments and tried to collect them there. Plus I also got them from friends and family. I col-lected 235 soccer balls! On October 17th 2010, I went to Nick’s dad’s house in Connecticut to drop off the boxes full of soccer balls. He is going to send them to the soldiers in the army so they

could give them to kids in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Thank you Marissa, for contributing to such a worthy cause and thank you, CRUSA Family, for

all of the soccer balls that you contributed!

Winter Indoor Training- January –March 2011, Wednesday evenings, Sportsplex,

Feasterville. Registration now open.

Spring Intramural 2011—Registration to open soon—season to begin April 9th and run through until early June. High School season begins mid-March (weather de-pending) and go until May 21st. We will again incorporate inter-county play for the

high school age players.

Calendar of Events

Continued from Page 2 - How Are They Connected?

Currently at U11, another program within CRUSA

is introduced called FC Bucks. FC Bucks premier

teams have separate tryouts from CRUSA and have

professional head coaches. The FC Bucks program

is intended to give players with this level of com-

mitment and ability the opportunity to train and

compete at the highest level regionally and nation-

ally, which allows for the greatest exposure to both

college and regional/national team opportunities.

Currently our girls FC Bucks girls program is

ranked #14 in the country and are part of an exclu-

sive national league called Elite Clubs National

League. Last year our U18 Vipers team won the

national championship and returned to nationals

this year at U19.

Because of the depth of talent in our program, we

recently introduced our CRUSA Elite pro-

gram. CRUSA Elite was developed for players that

want to play at a premier level for a professional

coach, but with a little less commitment than the FC

Bucks teams. Typically these teams begin at U11

or U12, but can be formed at any older age with the

right playing ability and interest level.

We are very proud of all of our programs

and thrilled to be able to offer children of the com-

munity so many options to fit their level of soccer

interest and ability.

CRUSA Board of Directors

Doug Reichert—President

John Menarde—VP, Operations

Mike Spadaro—VP, FC Bucks

John McGinley–VP, Travel

Bill Procz—VP, Intramural

Mark Reilly—Secretary

Al Hannum—Director of Finance, Treasurer

Gregg Rosenfeld—CRUSA Travel Boys Director

Mark Reilly—CRUSA Travel Girls Director

Jim Amoroso—Adult League Director

Mike Jonovich—Fields and Facilities Director

Rob Flanagan—Fields and Facilities Director

Joe Ugras—General Board Member

Rich Rebh—General Board Member

Fausto Mariazzi—General Board Member

Matt Bernstein—General Board Member

Michael Stolz—General Board Member

CRUSA Staff Positions

Lew Spiewak—Executive Director

Jill DeLucia—Office Supervisor

Cynthia Laggan—Office Administrator

Dan Mannella—Director of Coaching

Rich Finneyfrock—Coaching Director

Eddie Leigh—Coaching Director

League Reps

John McGinley—ICSL Girls Rep

Gregg Rosenfeld—ICSL Boys Rep

Steve Matlack—PAGS Rep

Jim Power—DELCO Rep

John Menarde—US Club MAPS/MSSL/CJYSA (Girls)

Mike Spadaro—US Club MAPGS/MSSL/CJYSA (Boys)

Gregg Rosenfeld—United Junior Rep

C O U N C I L R O C K U N I T E D S O C C E R A S S O C I A T I O N

95 Almshouse Road

Suite 104

Richboro, PA 18954

www.crusa.net

Located in the Weathervane Office Complex, across the street from the Richboro Car Wash—entrance to the business park is on Temperance

Road

267-988-4053

267-988-4029 (fax)

We value your input! If you have something you would like to see discussed or included in the CRUSA

newsletter, please email us at admin@crusa.net.

2011 SportsFit Soccer

Summer Camps

Dates: July 25th

– 29th

&

Aug 1st

– Aug 5th

E-mail rcbrownell@comcast.net

for details

or call Rick @ 267–237–3540

The Right Way

to Train!

Sign up today for small group and

private lessons. All CRUSA members

receive 10% off any Total Soccer

program. For more information visit:

www.totalsoccer.us.

Expires 12/31/10.

All the Right Moves Soccer Summer Camp

Ages 4-14 June 27-August 26, 2011 Sportsplex Feasterville

www.sportsplexpanew.com Mike Nelms 215-510-0236

Sign up for Summer 2011,

come to Holiday camp for free!

TENTATIVE CRUSA CAMP DATES 2011

April 18-22, June 20-24, June 27-1, August 1-5, August 15-19, August 22-26

HELP WANTED !!

CRUSA is going to start using QuickBooks in the office and we are in need of volunteers with experience with this software to help install, set up and get us started! Please contact the office via email at admin@crusa.net, if you can be of assistance.

Your time and efforts will be

greatly appreciated!