MSYSA Board Meeting
Minutes
July 21, 2010
303 Najoles Road, Suite 109, Millersville, MD
Following members were present: Ben Neil, Cliff Walcott, Bob Deegan, Gina Clapp, Mike Basileo, Mark
Molloy, Rich Fabrizio, Scott Eslick, Mark Cantor, Ray Greenberg
Additional Attendees: Bill Stara and Marie Langford.
Quorum Present
Not in attendance: Arlene Rodway, Linda Norton, Craig Peterson, Alan Buster, Rich Ruiz, Gerry
DiBartolo, Brent Boone, Joe Barger, Sam Mangione.
Ben Neil called the meeting to order at 7:00pm.
May Minutes voted and approved as presented. (June Meeting had been cancelled.)
Ben Neil – President
Ben and Marie will be attending National Championship in Kansas City on Friday to include the US
Youth Soccer AGM. Ben mentioned that Maryland will vote against the registration increase.
Ben brought up discussion on teams that were wanting to card their U8 travel teams.
Bob Deegan mad a motion to not allow the carding of U8 travel teams.
Cliff seconded.
Discussion: None
Vote: Passed unanimously
Arlene Rodway – Executive Vice President
Arlene was not present but sent in her report from State Cup. The State Cup Champions in the U14 to
U18 age groups were crowned on June 5, 2010 at the MD Soccerplex. The 2010 MD State Cup
Champions are listed below:
U14 Boys – Olney Rangers
U14 Girls – SAC United Premier
U15 Boys – AC Bethesda
U15 Girls Freestate Elite
U16 Boys – Freedom United
U16 Girls – Baltimore SC Bays
U17 Boys – Potomac Cougars
U17 Girls – Bethesda Dragons
U18 Boys – Freestate Dragons
U18 Girls – Laurel Lightning
One week later, we also had our U19 Champions:
U19 – SAC United Premiere
U19 Girls – Freestate Sharks
There were two Wildcard Representative:
U17 Girls – FC Frederick Premier
U19 Girls – Freestate Sharks
Additionally, the U15 Boys – Baltimore Bays Chelsea were Maryland’s Premier League Champions
All these teams traveled to the Region I Championships in Huntington, West Virginia on July 1, 2010.
Once the tournament was over, Maryland had four Regional Champions:
U13 Boys – Baltimore Bays Chelsea
U13 Girls – Parkville ‘94s
U14 Girls – SAC United Premiere
U15 Boys – Baltimore Bays Chelsea
There will be two teams traveling to Overland Park, KS on July 21, 2010 who will vie for National
Championships – the U14 girls SAC United Premier team and the U15 Baltimore Bays Chelsea team.
Please join me in congratulating all our teams as they represented Maryland well.
At this time, I would like the Board of Director’s approval to move the U13 age group back to the spring
with the rest of the age groups. This year the total number of teams was down from last year and it is
anticipated that there will be fewer girls’ teams competing in State Cup next year with the advent of the
new league. Given that reality, it would appear that it would not be prohibitive to play the U13s in the
spring.
It is also recommended that the U13 to U19 age groups play their preliminary rounds independently. I
would propose that Cup play start as early as March 1st and then deadlines would be put into play for
each round. A number of clubs have access to turf fields and could start play in March or early April.
The clubs would have to take a more active role in scheduling and teams within each club would need to
help coordinate games. This past spring, each club president designated a “state Cup Club Rep” and
these are the people who would be the most appropriate individuals to schedule games for each club.
The State Cup semi finals and finals would be organized by State Cup Director and a venue will be
selected for these two rounds. My proposal would be to schedule both the semi final and finals prior to
Memorial Day for the U13s to U18s and the semi finals and finals for the U19s the weekend after
Memorial Day. The justification for allowing the clubs/teams to schedule their own preliminary rounds
is that over the past two years more and more teams have conflicts with the established dates. Giving
teams/clubs the option to schedule their matches, decreases the frustrations of scheduling around SATs,
graduation, proms, other high school sports, other leagues, and travel to out of state tournaments and
events. The multitude of requests has become overwhelming and too stressful for the State Cup
Director and the committee and scheduling is nightmarish.
The Board of Directors also needs to approve a monetary award to both teams traveling to Nationals.
My suggestion would be a minimum of $1,000 to a maximum of $1,500 per team.
1st Vice President – Vacant
Gina Clapp – 2nd Vice President
Not Present
Cliff Walcott – 3rd Vice President
Will administer the Holiday Indoor Tournament (H.I.T.). Wants to have early sign up in August. High
Blocker will be the assignor. Cliff would like this to be a money making event.
Mike Basileo – State Registrar
Working on direct registration and roster re-design. Risk Management form needs some editing.
Independent Teams will go through NCSI with results being sent to the State Office.
Linda Norton – Secretary
Not Present
Bob Deegan – Treasurer
Bob reviewed the organizations financial reports. Bob noted that state cup fees needed to be
addressed this year to see if there needed to be an adjusted fee schedule.
At Large Members and Regional Commissioners
No Report
New Affiliations
South River Youth Athletics
Players Soccer Academy
Mike Basileo made a motion to affiliate South River and Players Soccer Academy
Ray seconded.
Discussion: None
Vote: passed unanimously
Name Change: Queen Anne’s Independent Soccer Club to Queen Anne’s Soccer Club
Mike made a motion to accept the name change
Rich seconded.
Discussion: None
Vote: passed unanimously
Future Soccer Club
Mike Basileo made a motion to accept Future Soccer Club on the conditions that they amend their
Bylaws to read that they will abide by the rules and regulation of US Youth Soccer and MSYSA.
Rich seconded.
Discussion: None
Vote: passed
Bill Stara – Director of Coaching
Did not have some of our regional players at camp due to club coach stressing ECNL play.
Discussion on no out of state players will participate in Maryland ODP.
Risk Management – Mike Sidlak
Not Present
Discussion on all registrars having an annual background check through NCSI.
Ray made a motion that all MSYSA registrars need to have an annual background check through the
state’s contracted background company – at present, NCSI.
Mike seconded.
Discussion: None
Vote: Passed unanimously
Ray Greenberg – Adjudication
Ray informed the MSYSA board that he had resigned from the VYSA board.
Received notice that an appeal was filed by Anthony McPeak. The appeal was submitted with no
grounds.
Craig Peterson – SYRA
Not Present
Unfinished Business
None
New Business
None
Executive Director
New system is receiving very good comments. Attended all twice weekly webinars that were
scheduled. Attended BBSL meeting and informed them of new system and handed out cards. Attended
National Presidents Cup in Nashville. Reminded Board members that they needed to update their
background checks.
Good of the Game –
Mike Basileo made a motion to adjourn.
Ray Greenberg seconded.
Meeting adjourned at 9:00pm
Respectfully Submitted,
Marie Langford
Executive Director
MSYSA