Check
out New Openings for Coaches
These teams are looking for games.
Notes from AHSAA Soccer
Meeting
There
are some important changes for the upcoming
season that were discussed in the recent Section
8 Soccer Meeting with the AHSAA Staff.
Thanks to Coach John Drake of Cullman for his
notes from the meeting.
Click here to view the minutes of the
meeting.
Nominations/Voting for 2008 NSCAA All-State
Teams
Details for boys' nominations and voting
are here.
Details for girls' nominations and voting
are here.
Nominations for 2008
Alabama HS Boys' Coach of the Year
are
being taken. Click
here
for more information.
2008-09 AHSAA
Handbook is On-line Now
The new 2008-09 AHSAA Handbook (Pages 22-63) is
now
online here. This portion of the
handbook includes eligibility rules,
restrictions on coaches, pertinent dates, fifty
percent rule, ODP exemptions, sports out of
season, etc.
These
schools will have Junior Varsity teams this
spring
Here's
an updated list of those schools that will have
junior varsity teams for the upcoming 2008/09
season. This is provided as a service to
coaches for scheduling purposes.
Link
**
Note:
Junior Varsity Teams may schedule 20 games as
long as they are part of a high school.
Independent JV teams (those not part of a single
high school's program), Junior High and Middle
School teams are limited to 14 games.
The Latest 2009 Soccer
Information from AHSAA!
Includes dates, new rules and requirements,
schedules. Schools will also be required
to post schedules and scores on the AHSAA
website in 2009. And there are completely new
tie-breakers for playoff slots that may
influence scheduling!
Read
more here.
Updated List of Spring 2009 Tournaments
Please provide
updated information on tournaments to Ken at
dsports@hiwaay.net
Soccer
Coach Job Opportunities for 2008-2009 School
Year
Huntsville
High is looking for a Women's Varsity Coach. Click here
for info.
Faith
Academy is searching for a Varsity Soccer
Coach. Click here
for info.
Pell City is looking for a Boys' JV Soccer
Coach. Click here
for info.
Grissom
High School is looking for a Men's Varsity
Coach. Click here
for info.
Cullman
High School is looking for a Girls Varsity
Coach. Click here for
info.
Sylacauga High School is looking for a
Girls
Varsity Coach. Click here
for info.
Coach Looking For Job in Birmingham Area
Click here for info.
Coach Looking For Job in
Huntsville Area Click
here for info.
New Soccer Alignments
Several of you have noted that
AHSAA's new
website shows new alignments and, in fact,
shows different alignments in several different
places on the website. Some schools are shown in
different sections than they should be.
We contacted the folks at AHSAA and the new alignments
shown are a mistake made in their migration from
the old website to the new website.
AHSAA is continuing to update the new website and has
said that their alignment lists are incorrect
but will be updated. The revised alignments list which is
what is on the coaches' website and
also shown
on the AHSAA website here is still correct.
2008 All-Star Soccer Teams
(UPDATED)
Includes links
to Birmingham News All-Metro Teams, 2008
North/South Junior All-Star Game Teams, 2008
Birmingham Coaches All-Metro Teams, 2008 Dothan
Eagle Super 12 Teams, 2008 Huntsville Times
All-Metro Teams, 2008 Birmingham News All-State
Teams, 2008 Decatur Daily All-Area Teams, 2008
Mobile Register All-Area Teams, 2008 Montgomery
Advertiser All-Area Teams [
Click
Here ]
2008-2010 AHSAA Sections Alignments
The new
alignments are out for 2008-2010. To see
how your high school fared
click here.
The Final 2008
Top Ten Rankings
are out
This is the final poll of
the 2008 season which was taken after the
championship games on May 10th.
Final 2008 Top Ten Rankings
Join the
AHSSCA -
Membership Form
Sign up for
the new AHSSCA Email List
here!
All-Star Week Soccer Teams
Named
Seventy-two
outstanding junior soccer players from all over the
state have been named to the
North-South teams for
the 12th annual Alabama All-Star games to be held in Huntsville
July 15th, 2008.
On The Touchlines Soccer Blog
Featuring the
latest stories on Alabama Soccer
New
Rule!
Each head coach shall
be responsible for ensuring that each of his/her players is properly
equipped. An improperly
equipped player shall be instructed to leave the field of play when
the ball next ceases to be in play. The head coach shall be cautioned (yellow card) for improperly
equipped players.
NFHS
Announces Rules Changes for 2008-09
Effective with the 2008-09 high school soccer
season, players will be penalized (yellow card) for
subsequent violations of illegal equipment rules.
A change in the penalty for illegally equipped
players was one of three rules revisions approved by
the National Federation of State High School
Associations (NFHS) Soccer Rules Committee at its
annual meeting January 27-28 in Indianapolis. The
rules changes were subsequently approved by the NFHS
Board of Directors.
CLICK HERE for the full article on the
NSCAA website regarding these important changes.
