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| EMAIL PROBLEMS | Many of our coaches and Team Commissioners have an AOL or VERIZON based email address. Both of these services are presently blocking our mass mailings, so you ARE NOT receiving our messages unless you have an alternate address at work or home. We have had such problems in the past, and I anticipate we will have them continuing into the future. See the Site News page for more information on the blocking of our email. This is a new problem pervading the Internet in which the "mega-corporations" are dictating, to you, (the person that pays them money for a service), who you can receive mail from and who they will block at their whim and fancy. This doesn't involve just email, they are also deciding what content you may access through their service and what you can't. Once again, you pay them money to have them tell you what you can and cannot do. For those interested there is more information at this link: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/the-raggie-grannies-greet-the-fcc/?hp If you create another email address , it would allow you to receive club mailings. Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail all offer free web based, reliable email services. Though they sometimes place our mail in the SPAM or JUNK folder, THEY DON'T BLOCK IT COMPLETELY like VERIZON and AOL. We have a page of instructions HERE that explains how to deal with our email being sent to such folders. Please, consider getting one of these free email addresses for use with AYLC mailings, and let the webmaster know of your new address. Thank you. |
| ACTION PAGE IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED !!! | IMPORTANT!!! These items require your immediate attention. Use this link to go to the Team Commissioners / Coaches "Action" Page. It contains IMPORTANT items that must be attended to ASAP. A username and password are required to get to this page. Click HERE to access the login page. |
| AYLC 2008 Communications Directory. | This is the final version of the 2008 Communications Directory. This link is for the use of Team Commissioners and Team Coaches only! A password is REQUIRED to enter this Communications Directory! (Visit the "ACTION PAGE" for links to prior year AYLC Communications Directories.) Click HERE to enter the 2008 Communications Directory. |
| Team Commissioners Responsibilities Checklist | The "AYLC Team Commissioners Responsibilities Checklist" is a succinct enumeration of their tasks. Many tasks are "one time"; some entail periodic conveyance of information or "things"; a few are delegated; and others must be personally performed. All tasks are simple, requiring only a few minutes of instruction prior to performance. Punctual performance is vital to the smooth functioning of each team. Relieving coaches of these administrative details gives them more time to concentrate on coaching. The Team Commissioners Responsibilities Checklist. http://www.aylc.org/teamrespon.htm To download and save a copy of this list right click HERE and choose the menu item save target as. If you just wish to print a copy, left click on the here link and print the document after the page has fully loaded. http://www.aylc.org/teamrespon.pdf |
| REQUIRED: Coaches - NVYLL Code Of Conduct & Safe Kids Registration | The NVYLL requires that each coach in the league comply with the Code of Conduct, and read and agree to the principles stated in the Safe Kid's Policy. You can view these documents at: http://www.nvyll.org/Documents.asp?org=nvyll.org Ignore what it says about printing and signing them; but do read them so you are aware of what is contained in these agreements. Starting in 2008, the agreement between you (the coach) and NVYLL (the league) will be "digitally" completed during your registration process. To register go to http://www.nvyll.org Look in the left hand portion of the screen at the list of choices and select REGISTER ONLINE. On the next screen click the REGISTER BUTTON. Follow the directions to SIGN IN. (Get a temp password if you need to.) After logging/signing in you will be taken to the Coaches Code of Conduct and SafeKids Form Participant Information form. All fields with a red asterisk are required information and must be provided. NOTE: this feature: "If you do NOT want certain personal information to be viewable online, choose the "Private" selection next to this information." Complete all of the required fields and provide any other information you wish to add and then click on the SUBMIT button. The next page allows you to choose your club affiliation, position, age/division and conference. Please click the checkbox in the gray box to aggree to the Code of Conduct. Add your "Background in Youth Sports" information and your "Previous Residences for the last 5 years" information. Finally, click on the checkbox to verify that the information you provided is true and correct. The next page is the "NVYLL - Coaches Code of Conduct and SafeKids Form REGISTRATION REVIEW" page. You're given a final opportunity to make any changes to your submission, and are offered the opportunity to print a copy of the information you submitted for your records. You will receive a confirmation email message from NVYLL indicating that your information has been successfully processed. NOTE: The Alexandria Lacrosse Club created a MS-Word document (.doc file) of instructions for completing the registration process. You can download that document HERE When the system asks for a USERNAME and PASSWORD to connect to AYLC just hit cancel and the document will appear. It may be easier for you to follow the process with these directions. If you don't have access to MS-Word, go to the following web page: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/HA010449811033.aspx and download the Microsoft file viewer. It will allow you to view the file. You MUST complete this process before the start of the regular Spring Competitive Season. |
| IMPORTANT MEDICAL INFORMATION ON SPORTS CONCUSSIONS - from the CDC ! | A document containing very useful information related to concussions. ALL coaches and Team Commissioners MUST READ and certify that they have made themselves very familiar with the information provided on this page. Here is a link to the guide. CDC Coach Guide. http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/CGToolKit/Coaches_Guide.htm also available as an Adobe .PDF file at this link: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/CGToolKit/CoachGuide.pdf Additional documents provided by the CDC that are available to you for download and printing.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/Coaches_Tool_Kit.htm |
| REQUIRED: Coaches and Team Commissioners CDC concussion information certification | AYLC requires all coaches and Team Commissioners to read and become familiar with the contents of the guide provided by The Center For Disease Control re sports related concussions. All coaches need to download and sign a copy of the CDC-Coach Guide certification form before the start of regular season play. Click HERE to download a copy of the form in Adobe .PDF format. http://www.aylc.org/cdc-coachguide-form.pdf NOTE: This form needs to be completed and delivered to your Team Commissioner. Team Commissioners need to retain these forms on file for the duration of the Spring Season. At the end of the season, the forms should be returned to AYLC during equipment turn-in times. |
| Additional information on sports related concussions. | Another page of useful commentary related to concussions. ALL coaches and Team Commissioners should make themselves familiar with the information provided on this page. Click HERE to go to this page. http://www.hughston.com/hha/a_12_2_3.htm |
| IMPORTANT! Please read this information on neck injuries. | This information was forwarded to the club by our long-time coach Spencer Norcross. It is imperative that you read it. NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 27, 2006 Lacrosse players with a suspected neck injury should leave their helmets and shoulder pads on until they can be removed "in a controlled fashion" by professionals because removal can cause a potentially a (sic) harmful shift in spinal alignment, according to a new study. Dr. Paul S. Sherbondy from the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, University Park, PA, and colleagues studied 16 Division 1 lacrosse players to evaluate how helmet and shoulder pads affected their cervical spine alignment. Each player had a CT scan with equipment in place, with no equipment, and with the helmet removed. While wearing the equipment, the researchers found, the athletes' cervical spines were extended. Removing the helmet caused the neck to flex forward, while the cervical spine was more flexed in athletes wearing shoulder pads only, compared with those wearing no protective equipment. Studies of football and hockey players have found that while protective equipment didn't affect spinal alignment, removing equipment led to increased extension of the cervical spine, the researchers note in the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Based on those findings, the studies' authors recommended that football and hockey players with neck injuries be "immobilized with both the shoulder pads and helmets left in place." Because any movement of the cervical spine can aggravate an injury, Sherbondy and colleagues conclude, the same approach should be used with neck injury in lacrosse players. "We would therefore recommend that the helmet and shoulder pads be left in place until they can be removed in the controlled environment of an emergency department," they conclude. |
| Coaches - please read this article. | This link will take you to an interesting article from the Washington Post concerning sportsmanship, or the lack thereof. It is an Adobe .PDF file that will open in your browser in a new window. If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer, visit our forms page for a link that will let you download and install a copy of the reader. Click HERE to read the article. http://www.aylc.org/sportsmanship.pdf |
| rev. 05/03/08 |