i kind of want to get started with you know like i said get in recruiting coaches and i know the number of coaches that you guys need in these programs is so overwhelming it's rough recruiting those coaches could you potentially and we do need to clear a lot of people cleared unable to do this stuff so that's really actually a challenge for us and we usually go out and really try to recruit guys by just saying hey we know you've been involved in new sports before you know someone who their demeanor would be good for work with these younger children and try and bring them in to this so that's a big i was the grasshopper commissioner when that's a big chore to try and recruit these people and go out so being in those definitely not something you need to look at in fact involve the system we try to have some type of clinics to help people with soccer is not something a lot of people at least in my generation of played were getting more and more younger parents who did play since a parent become more popular sport j very helpful in the in our spring program we have approximately on average about sixty teams every year on each one of them teams we need at least a minimum of four coaches and our summer program we're looking at about half those numbers is about thirty teams that run in the summer and in anywhere from twenty to twenty five or so that run and fall so we're in need of plenty of volunteers we don't turn down help to a number of ways to get involved are to come to the general membership meeting first of all we we meet on the third wednesday of every month typically a pm in the at the the things that we do is it's easy for us to go to an online registration and a number of folks of push for that over the years because obviously it's less work very easy to do we've been a proponent of maintaining th physical registrations so that we can talk to folks when they come in come in come into the peters township rec center our registration dates are saturday the last saturday of every january  the first saturday of every february from nine to twelve which time i believe you'll be able to register for softball as well and if you have questions and you want to get involved come on and talk all the board members will be there working and you're involved at the youth at the younger age group but if you just move into town you know in your son's twelfth is or still opportunity to become involved at that at that level we def we still have opportunities for people at that level to get involved the best thing for johnson go to our website would peter towns just township soccer or go there look all the board members are listed the different age group commissioners are listed with phone numbers email addresses where you can get in touch with them and ask and get yourself involved we're always looking for people who can help especially to knowledgeable people who have kids who played before usually if you have your kids been involved for a lumber years you gain knowledge and i knew nothing about soccer my first and now he's a sophomore in high school and i learned a lot just throughout the years that we met and that's helpful and actually bring ideas from other areas where you moved in from is always beneficial to some like we have a perfect system here good again i would encourage folks to come to the meeting a lot of good information  general membership meetings we have we have one every month with the exception of july come come to these meetings meet the people that are on the board and the other volunteers ask questions a lot of folks and i know that with with your job and your everyday life a lot of folks are frayed to make a full commitment because maybe they travel what have you and that's the reason that there's three or four coaches if you're not able to make a given practice or a game we have two or three guys able to run the team and back you up so it's not like you know if you make this commitment don't feel like you have to make every game or every practice again go to the website game knowledge that you really need to be able to really assist you i would start with soccer the way we have to accept as i mentioned the under six program you know as with you that's really just a kind of very basic rules aren't too many rules  game they start to have corner kicks goal kicks and some things like that and that's where a lot has your not that there are some basic rules but we usually have some coaches clinics in the beginning there that you can learn some information from that or it's a good thing that is the parapet and other guy who might have a little bit more knowledge so that maybe when your child is seven and it's a first year and that under a program they can you can tag up with a tag team with a guy who knows some of the rules most little bit more than dos and you start to learn that's an extra you're the person who can be first and then when  learn the rules as you kind of go along as the kids do you know a little bit and then we look to nine ten and we start that offsides which is and then you're almost up to like playing real soccer you start to learn some additional things yourself and like i said we try to offer some coaching clinics every year at the start of the year for that are provided by pierre west our governing organization to go ahead in let you learn some of these things they give you some coaching tips in some rules things like that sometimes aren't as well as attend as we would like but it does offer the ability for someone who doesn't really feel like they know anything about it to gather some information john similarly we have all the rules first of all or post that for each level on our website basis very similar to what jim said just recently started the ministry administering this is a coach mace come in for the head coach of the of our high school program and we have coach mays come and talk to all the managers about practices drills tips on how to keep the kids have their skills found and refined and get a lot of good advice a lot of good ideas to  systems you know if you're not interested in being a head coach maybe an assistant and what that transition is to be an assistant to maybe want to get more involved and to be in a head coach and   every wreck and we need a score keeper so right there that puts it in a minimum of four coaches and a lot of times what you find out is as the as the teams are developed and  drafted that one particular coach will have a certain strength in one area and one will have strength in another area you know for instance practice we need somebody to throw batting practice and that's and that takes time while somebody might be on the field you know hitting the children grounders or what have you so we don't turn down help at all that help is greatly appreciated and a lot of the assistant coaches do end up becoming managers when they find out that they're able to do so and they feel a little bit more confident with their knowledge and again i'll say it again this time chip is very fortunate i was amazed when i moved here in two thousand and four how many people want to help and how many people have good baseball knowledge and really are able to work well with the kids that they were very fortunate with jim with the movements  you do for baseball to have base coaches in scorekeepers and things like that usually most of our teams have it had coach in the system coach we get to the travel level usually have a few more system coaches it's always good to have at least one other person there to give you a hand because i don't mind with the kids they tend to lose interest very quick so it's good to have different things going on the same time and like i said we usually like to get people to if they can work with someone who has done it before the special case of the big transition is like seven and eight when you start to add some rules in and if yours can help you get help from someone who's done this before then hopefully you can do it though the next step and so on and so forth because as with any sport as you start off in your beginning levels you have a lot of kids and it starts to narrow down because kids lose interest or they want you want other sports and other things on which you don't need as many coaches in our rosters get bigger as you go up in size you play in bigger fields of the kids so you don't really need as many head coaches there are some people  programs baseball called the d all stars i know you guys are travel is there a transition from the right program to to travel or you know what it was a transition and how many of those do you need for well for example for us we start traveled at the age of ten and usually have about sixteen ten year old boys teams for example ten sixteen twelve sixteen year old girls ten year old girls teams and from that we end up with two to three travel teams so from that number of coaches you need to pull out two or three travel coaches we have people actually at that point apply to be a travel coach and then we've been very fortunate person may be selected as the head coach by the board usually works well then with the other guys who don't get selected it depends what team we have one if we have two or three teams your child may be placed on where we are to child's place that's where the coach will usually end up and like have been very fortunate where coach has been able to work together to coach those teams one was selected as the head coach one of the assistant i know i've worked well with a gentleman just happens our daughter and son have been similar ages and we work well together basically the head coach is the one who's more the paper play paper pusher the organizer because it practices we really believe distribute things as i mentioned having more people in a practice is more coaches the better i'd like to have you actually two to three assistant coaches for a travel to ok because that lets you just divide up activities for so there is more opportune there's more opportunity there yeah saw for baseball similar on average will have twelve players per team on each on each travel team and we typically have two teams at every age level two years ago those coaches are picked from a poll of the parents and those parents will typically put their name in and say i would like to be considered for this position the board will look at all aspects and choose the coach and the other two or three coaches that may or may not have put their name in will will certainly chime in and help help help the head coach and it's worked well you know since i've been involved with the program i think it's a very good program a way to get the kids a little bit a higher level of play after the wreck season is over and the coaches as well enjoy it entails like you said one thing from the soccer step one is that like you said it's a little higher level play so it's a little more competitive you're playing it's other communities so we have like an application process that the coaches fill out and it's not necessarily the coach who has the most soccer experience and that sometimes it just deals with how you deal with get along with players and parents that's a big aspect and you may be the greatest soccer coach in the world but you don't relate well the kids or the players doesn't necessarily mean that you can be in a head coach position that someone who needs to really be someone who can interact well from the parent and the  close to one hundred ts just in rec twenty eight travel this year wow and so right there they have at least two assistants there so they need two hundred coaches at a minimum for soccer  to background check done we do try to protect the children in the township and the background check process is done through the chip dot com website you can go to the parks wrecked apartment and follow that out to sports associations and then your background check process right from the website you can get a background check done it's very simple procedure but everybody the coaches from is done a phenomenal job of dating and i might add to that that we do have a lank on the peter's baseball website as well if you go to the manager section and then you go to clarence's and the approved volunteer list and there's a link there that will take you right to the the township website so you can apply for the forms right from our website right for our pleasure cleanse us from our website can you do that also yes i'll do it for ours and also a soccer there's an added clarity you have to get we're governed by a west are the organization governs soccer in western pennsylvania and they have a thing called kid safe that they still require some additional thing you have to go through to be clear that's something that once again there's a link on our website it's very simple to do you can do online