Surrey United Soccer Club is pleased to announce that the evaluation dates for the 2012/13 U13 Boys and Girls EA Sports BC Soccer Premier League teams (2000-born players) have been finalized. Please CLICK HERE for full details.

On behalf of all its members Surrey United Soccer Club would like to wish former Women's Premier players Kaylyn Kyle and Sophie Scmidt and former Youth team player Chelsea Buckland and the rest of the Canadian Women's National Team the best of luck at the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Go Canada Go!

ELITE Soccer Programs will be hosting a spring break camp at CAP turf field during the week of March 19-23. CLICK HERE for all the program details and to register.

Congratulations to our Surrey United Women's premier team on being selected as one of three finalists in the Team of the Year category, for Sport BC’s 46th Annual Athlete of the Year Awards, presented by TELUS. Sport BC’s Athlete of the Year Awards is the longest standing sports recognition event in Canada. Over 500 people representing sport, media and corporate sponsors will attend the ceremony. This year’s event, dinner and ceremony will be held on the evening of Thursday, March 8th, 2012 at the River Rock Show Theatre in Richmond, BC.

Jeevin Kang, captain of the Surrey United U15 BCSPL team, has been signed by the Whitecaps FC for their U16 boys full-time residency program. Well done Jeevin! CLICK HERE for more information.

CLICK HERE to find out about Special Group Pricing for Surrey United Club Members

All scheduled Surrey United home games on turf and grass for this weekend are postponed.
Please advise your opponents.
An update re turf field status for practices will be sent out to Coaches on Monday at 3.00pm

Surrey United Soccer Club will be hiring two new coaches for the Boys and Girls U/13 Transitioning BCSPL teams for 2012/13. Anyone intereseted in applying should complete the Coaching Appplication Form (under Forms and Documents) and submit electronically to Jeff Clarke jclarkesoccer@aol.com by the stipulated deadline of February 1st. Surrey United Soccer Club expects to confirm the appointment of the two coaches by February 15th 2012

Surrey United Soccer Club is proud to announce that the following players from our BCSPL programming were selected as National Training Centre Players and extend our congratulations to them for this accomplishment.

Yolanda Duncan has stepped down from the role as Equipment manager which she has fulfilled for the past 3/4 years. Yolanda did a phenomenal job and we thank her for kitting out our soccer teams who continued to look the best in the province. She has given so much time and leaves behind some mighty big shoes to fill. While she will be staying on as an executive member and still actively engaged in the club she felt she wanted to free herself up to pursue some other personal interests. We are therefore looking for a replacement. The position is available effective January 1st and the position receives an honorarium to reflect the amount of time invested. The incumbent can rest assured that they will not be left to their own devices to struggle through and Yolanda and others will be on hand to help transition the new person into the role. Some of the tasks attached to the role are as follows:-

• Will arrange for the purchase of all supplies subject to Executive approval.
• Will maintain a distribution ledger and distribute all equipment to all teams in accordance
• with the club mandate.
• Will be responsible to take inventory of equipment at the close of the season.
• Will be responsible for the storage and insurance of all equipment.
• Will prepare a recommendation to the Executive at the end of each season regarding
• projected amount of new equipment and uniforms required for the following season.
• Will be responsible to handle the day to day needs of the teams as it relates to all aspects
• about their equipment and uniforms.

Anyone interested in fulfilling this role or anyone requiring further information about the position can contact:
Martin Foden susc.execdirector@live.ca

The above team would still like to add some players to their roster. Anyone interested should contact Coach Rick Jarvis rocket1133@shaw.ca.

Surrey United will again be hosting the highly popular U5 Future Stars program during the 2011 winter season. This 8-week program acts as an initiation program for any and all young players looking to test out the beautiful game of soccer prior to the formal club registration. Surrey United technical director Jeff Clarke has created the program curriculum and all sessions will be lead by members of the Surrey United technical staff; parent participation will be strongly encouraged. The program curriculum will be based on the teaching of basic soccer skills and lots of fun soccer activities.
CLICK HERE for full details of the program

As discussed in the pre-season parent meetings it is our intention to continue with our existing rosters, for the most part, until the conclusion of the 2012 season. However, this does not mean that all of our players will be retained. We mentioned at the outset that there will always be an access gateway for players to move in and out of the program dependent upon their performance and development. We anticipate the number of players exiting our program at this stage will be very minimal and similarly there will be some new players entering into the program and added to our rosters.

Player Releases
Our Team Head Coaches have been conducting on-going evaluations and player assessments throughout the mini-season and have been providing regular feedback to players. Each Head Coach, in our program will have personal discussions with any released player/family. Where possible and on a best efforts basis the Club will help with the location of displaced players to find suitable opportunities at other BCSPL teams or MSL teams. At the recent EA Sports Board of Governors Meeting it was agreed that franchises will have up to December 15, 2011 to release players. However, we shall make every effort to identify those displaced players at the earliest opportunity.

Roster Additions
As mentioned previously we anticipate a small number of players exiting our program and we shall therefore need to add players to our rosters.
We shall not be holding any form of “mass evaluation” but we shall have the opportunity, after the conclusion of the Mini season, to invite interested players to participate in our training sessions so that we can conduct a player assessment. Players interested in signing up for a specific team training session can do so on-line at our EA Sports BCSPL website: It was agreed at the BCSPL Board of Governor’s Meeting that each BCSPL team must have a minimum roster of 14 players signed by December 15th for the 2012 season. All BCSPL franchises have agreed they will not contact players currently signed by BCSPL franchises until the end of the mini-season (ie November 15th). For players seeking to move from one franchise to another after the Mini season the BCSPL clubs have further agreed that the first step in this process would be to contact your Technical Director.
Please note that there are BCSPL and BC Soccer Association rules governing the transfer of players.

 Eight time BC Soccer Provincial Champions Surrey United women went one better this year as they took the Gold medal in the Jubilee Trophy competition, the annual senior women's club soccer championship.

 CLICK HERE for more... (BC Soccer)

Congratulations to last year’s Provincial cup Champion U/14 SGU metro girls who won the Bronze medal at the National Championships in St John’s Newfoundland this past Thanksgiving weekend.

The girls, featuring many players on our U/15 BCSPL team, beat the Alberta team 2-0 team to win the bronze medal . The SGU team was once again dominated play with their possession and ball movement.  They took the lead early in the game with a goal from Harman Billen from 25 yards out.  Monpreet  Heer followed up with a second five minutes later again with a long range effort. Goalkeeper Alanna Carmichael who had a fine tournament throughout the week had a number of shots to contend with during the game but performed admirably to record the shut-out.

The team who had gone unbeaten in the round robin portion of the tournament rebounded from their disappointment of losing the semi final game to Quebec 2-1 in overtime.

Congratulations to all the players and staff.

We are very proud of your accomplishment and also the way in which you represented our clubs.

Registration is open for all 2011/12 SU Academies. CLICK HERE for all program details.
For information about all Surrey United player and coach development programs you can also click on the 'Player & Coach Development Programs' link on the main SUSC Portal menu.

Want to earn four credits towards high school graduation?

In a partnership with Surrey School District, SUSC is offering players between the ages of 16 and 18 years old the opportunity to earn four credits towards graduation while being mentored by seasoned Surrey United coaches and staff.

To earn the four credits, players will need to complete 100 hours of service. These hours will be dependent on the player’s availability. For example, they can take place two days per week after school and 4 to 6 hours on Saturdays and Sundays until the requirements have been fulfilled.  Location of work experience will be at Cloverdale Athletic Park.

To learn more about this new venture, please contact your high school career facilitator or Yolanda Duncan, Surrey United executive member.  Yolanda can be reached via email at duncan_y@sd36.bc.ca.

For all available information on the Children's Fitness Tax Credit please visit the Canada Revenue Agency website at www.cra-arc.gc.ca. This tax credit is with effect from the 2007 tax year.