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NEWS Thursday, March 8, 2012 

In This Issue
Construction Update
Indiana Soccer AGM
Register Now Spring Rec
Upcoming Dates
Great Indy Cleanup

 Pike Soccer Club
2012 Calendar of Events

 

4/13/12 - 4/15/12   

Indy Burn Kapsalis Cup   

 

4/21/12 - 6/9/12 
Seven Saturday morning Rec games
(no game 5/26/12) 


5/7/12-5/10/12 

Rec weeknight games

 

6/5//12  

Indy Burn Tryouts U8-U10

 

6/12/12
Indy Burn Tryouts U8-U19

 

6/14/12  

Indy Burn Tryouts U11-U19

 

8/4/12 -8/5/12

Mayor Latino Soccer Cup, Northwestway Park

8/17/12-8/19/12  

Pike Fest Boys Weekend

 

8/24/12-8/26/12

Pike Fest Girls Weekend 

 

9/8/12-10/20/12  

Seven Saturday morning Rec Games

 

10/1/12-10/4/12

Rec weeknight games

 




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Lots of activity this past month!

February Update

  • During the winter months, many of the children play indoors at Sportzone or Pike School gyms.
  • Pike's Have A Ball free fitness with a ball program continues in area school PE classes, helping keep 1000's active. This winter most of the sessions are in MSD Pike Township schools.
  • Extensive coaching education, referee training, and PYSC Coach Risk Management Certification is taking place over the winter.
  • Indiana Soccer association held its Annual General Meeting in February and presented a great number of helpful             workshops on risk management, children safety, coaching education.    
  • Registration for children ages 3 to 18 continues for outdoor playing in April-May-June
  • Upcoming Dates  
  • Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex CONSTRUCTION UPDATE

Stephen A. Moore

President
Pike Youth Soccer Club
Project Manager

VS Engineering, Inc.     

 

Thomas Geisse

Executive Director

Community Through Youth Sport Foundation  

   
Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex CONSTRUCTION UPDATE

Over the winter and continuing spring and summer, Phase 7 construction is taking place at Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex, Eagle Creek Park. Phase 7 is a large drainage project that is so comprehensive it's divided into 2 parts. It will benefit tens of thousands of children and their families, the Mayor's Gardeners, Eagle Park 56th Street Trail users, and the Eagle Creek Greenway Trail users.    

     

Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex Construction Phase 7, Stage 1 is the $425,000 government bid drainage job project by Department Public Works.It includes installation of a large concrete drainage pipe from 56th Street to the Soccer Tots fields, an open swale between 56th and the safety mound, replacement of the culvert under 56th Street, and an entrance to 56th Street. The primary purpose of Stage 1 project is to accommodate surface runoff that historically a) ponds over the sidewalk trail on the north side of 56th street and b) also ponds in the grassy area between the street and the safety mound on the south side of 56th street. Community Through Youth Sport Foundation and Pike Youth Soccer Club enjoyed working with top DPW executives and 3 engineering firms to give input into the design of the $425,000 drainage improvement project at the north end of Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex. Our efforts greatly improved the project by changing the destination, location and direction of the concrete pipes that will now carry the water through Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex and into the existing three retention ponds. We added drainage intake structures along the entire 2 blocks of newly installed drainage pipe from 56th to the SW corner of the Soccer Tots field intake. We added curbs and drainage structures in 6 places along the new entrance road. Each of these structures has capacity to accept water from future graded athletic fields. 
Click here for photo gallery from December 2011 / January 2012 

  

Click here for photo gallery from March 2012  

 

Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex Construction Phase 7: Stage 2: It was unfortunate that budget constraints (and limits from the source of funding) did not allow the Phase 7 drainage project to, for the first time ever, grade the athletic fields in the north. Working with DPW, we surveyed and located all the areas where water ponds that are NOT included in the construction boundary of Stage 1.  


We've enclosed several pictures of these areas and more are posted here: Click here for photo gallery of before drainage project 

 

Fixing these drainage issues will move ponding water toward the newly installed drainage infrastructure. We secured $15,000 donation of high grade topsoil from Indianapolis Colts, delivered last week. This partnership (DPW, DPW's drainage job contractor, Jim Irsay and the Indianapolis Colts, the Colts' contractor, and Community Through Youth Sport Foundation), will fill holes and address drainage issues in areas of the north part of Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex that are not included in the $425,000 drainage project. It's a fantastic example of public private partnerships that are so crucial to improving our city with its limited public works and parks budgets. It is by no means a substitute for actually grading and creating safer athletic fields, but it is surely a poor man's viable alternative.

 

Brief summary of Stage 2 of Phase 7 drainage project. As the contractor is using all Stage 1 dirt for the 56th Street acceleration and de-acceleration lanes and safety mound repair, DPW was in need of good topsoil for this Stage 2 project at no or low cost. As he has done many times over the past decade, Jim Irsay and Indianapolis Colts stepped up to help and donated $15,000 of good topsoil. 

       

The topsoil will be used by DPW for the following purposes:

  1. Elevate the most north row of the Mayor Ballard Gardens so that these plots may be fully rented for the first time in many years.  It is anticipated that the crops grown by these gardeners will now not be flooded and ruined with each rain event. The delivered dirt was spread out this week and the entire Gardens will be tilled prior to the garden season begins.
  2. Repair athletic fields in the old north section of Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex (see pictures).  Children are using this area as athletic fields even though no improvements have ever been made.  Geese have also created significant damage over the years.  The donated topsoil will be used to repair 26 holes and low lying areas in these fields and in any of the fields in the 90 acre Park.
  3. Fix problem drainage areas outside of the current Stage 1 drainage construction area.  There are 5 large areas that flood and pond with each large rain event.  (See pictures). Using the donated topsoil, it is planned to slightly raise the elevation to channel the water to flow into the newly constructed drainage structures or open swales.  Several of these large areas are breeding grounds for mosquitoes and must be continually sprayed at expense to the City.  The standing water continues to kill all grasses planted and replanted in these areas.
  4. Remaining topsoil is made available to the contractor for his use, if necessary, to fill in gaps/elevations between the athletic fields and the newly installed curbs and pavement.  The contractor plans to reshape the safety mound along West 56th Street due to the fact it will be disturbed during construction.  This donated topsoil is offered to the contractor to spread topsoil across the mound prior to reseeding.  This may mean good quality grass could be grown on the safety mound.
  

Pike Youth Soccer Club's efforts to develop this Indy Park are now in its 13th year. Much of the credit for the creation, design, and construction management of Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex, Eagle Creek Park, is deeply shared with Deputy Director Indy Parks Donald Colvin, Director Indy Parks Stuart Lowry, and former Director Indy Parks Joseph Wynns. Thus far, John F. & Mary A. Geisse Foundation, Community Through Youth Sport Foundation, and the families of Pike Youth Soccer Club have raised and donated over $1,500,000. toward turning this old bean field, 50 years a Park that was inaccessible to humans, into one of the jewels of the Indy Parks system. 

 

 

Indiana Soccer Annual General Meeting   

Indiana Soccer association held its Annual General Meeting in February and presented a great number of  helpful workshops on risk management, children safety, coaching education. Westfield Mayor  Cook presented an update on the 400 acre, $40 million government funded soccer complex now under construction. Pike Youth Soccer Club member Matthew O'Dell, Senior scholar at Pike High School, won Indiana Youth Referee of the Year. Indy Burn Coach Theron Smith was named Finalist Indiana Travel Coach of the Year and Debbie Schneider was named Finalist Indiana Volunteer of the Year! It is amazing to have three members of Pike Youth Soccer Club be recognized throughout the State.

2011 State Awards

PSC President and Indiana Soccer association winner at award dinner, 2/25/12 Picture (l to r: Tony Filoso, Theron Smith, Matthew O'Dell, Debbie Schneider, Steve Moore)

In addition, Pike Youth Soccer Club President Steve Moore announced and congratulated: Mark Turpen: 2011 Pike Soccer Club Volunteer of the Year; and Bill Walters: 2011 Pike Soccer Club    Volunteer of the Year. Click here to read more. 

 

Register Now for Spring 2012 Rec season (Tots, 4 years to 18 years).
Rec PlayersRegister now for PSC Community Recreation soccer including Tots, U5-U12 Rec and U13-U18 Rec Plus. PSC Tots, U5-U12 are small sided teams. U13-U14 teams are same sex, play 11v11, and the U15-U18 teams are coed, play 11v11.

 

In-person registration: 

Click here to register for Recreation Tots, U5-U12  

Seven Saturday Rec games 4/21/12 - 6/9/12
One weeknight Rec game week of 5/7/12 - 5/10/12 at 6:00 p.m.

  

Click here to register for PSC Rec Plus U13-U18  

PSC Rec Plus is for U13-U14 (same sex) and High School players U15-U18 (coed).  Register early as teams form and league plays begins EARLIER than in house Rec League.  

   

Exciting new program:  Refer a Friend: save $20 on next season's registration!(Have the name, birthday, and phone number of your referral friend when you register your child online.  Referral player has not played PSC in the past 3 season.  More details in the online registration.) 
Upcoming Dates

As the outdoor fields dry, children in PSC's Indy Burn travel division will move outdoors in March.

3/11/2012 In-person registration Dick's Sporting Goods, Trader's Point
3/17/2012 In-person registration Northwestway Park
3/24/2012 Indy Burn Field Day NWW & MJGSC North fields
3/26/2012 In-person registration Northwestway Park

3/31/2012 Indy Burn Field Day MJGSC South fields
3/31/2012 PSC Coaching Certification Course 101 
3/31/2012 PSC Coach Training Session U5-U8 (3v3 & 4v4) 
3/31/2012 PSC Community Coach Training Session U10-U12 (6v6 & 8v8)
4/2/2012 In-person registration Northwestway Park 
4/7/2012 PSC Coaching Certification Course 101 
4/7/2012 PSC Coach Training Session U5-U8 (3v3 & 4v4) 
4/7/2012 PSC Community Coach Training Session U10-U12 (6v6 & 8v8)
4/7/2012 Indy Burn Field Day MJGSC final prep for Indy Burn Kapsalis Cup
4/8/2012 Easter 
4/10-4/12, 2012 Spring Rec Academy 
4/13-4/15, 2012 Indy Burn Kapsalis Cup 
4/17-4/19, 2012 Spring Rec Academy 
4/21/2012 - 6/9/2012 Seven Saturday morning Rec games (no game 5/26/12)
  
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Great Indy Cleanup Pike Soccer Club
Great Indy Cleanup

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Great Indy Cleanup for Mary & John Geisse Soccer Complex Saturday, May 12 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Stay after your Rec game and help remove litter and debris.
Bring gloves and a rake.


 

 

Community Through Youth Sport Foundation - Pike Youth Soccer Club is a nonprofit organization, and we depend upon individual donations to meet our annual budget.  

CTYSF:  Improving the greater Indianapolis community through youth sport and developing fine young men and women, one child at a time.

PYSC:  Committed to providing the best possible environment for the community's youth through fun, fair play, and player improvement.  

Pike Youth Soccer Club founded in 1979 by parents to provide and promote the game of soccer within the community.

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