Summer Schedules - A few notes

Those of you who read my blog post about the spring schedules have a general idea of the process, and if you didn't read it, here it is. The summer season presents a few challenges, most prominently managing a variety of different venues and rental agencies. This summer we are playing at seven different venues. Dimond High, Begich Middle, Eagle River Middle, and Chugiak High Schools are all permitted by the Anchorage School District. Balto (two fields) is permitted by the Anchorage District Soccer Federation. Anchorage Football Stadium is permitted by the Municipality, and finally there is the Dome which handles its own permitting and scheduling. Schedules are coming out a bit later than I had hoped this year, but this solely due to waiting for permits.

Overall, I am extremely happy with the schedules this season. I used a new scheduling program for the first time, Round Robin Scheduler 5, which was a great asset as it provided much needed flexibility throughout this week as I tweaked things. I made sure that every team has at least 4 games on turf fields, and most have at least 5. Although only two of our fields are grass (both Balto fields), we are using these five days a week and they account for almost half of our total available field space.

In any case, please take a look at your team's schedule and I hope it will work for you. By no means are they perfect, but they are as fair an equitable as possible. If you have any questions, please direct them to your team manager who can contact me. Let's play soccer!