Awards
Every year, the Wisconsin Youth Soccer Association honors outstanding contributions to youth soccer by asking its membership to nominate coaches, volunteers, administrators, and referees. Awards are presented at the WYSA Annual General Meeting. The 2011 recipients have varied soccer experience, but one thing they continue to share is a true “love for the game” of soccer and a strong desire to have players “do their best”.
Congratulations go out to this year’s award winners:
2011 Boys Recreational Coach of the Year – Clay Nelson coaches in the Elkhorn Soccer Association. Clay’s player’s appreciate his calm demeanor, dedication, and complimentary style of coaching. His off field experience as a teacher might have something to do with that. Whether teaching, coaching club soccer, or high school soccer, Clay’s even temperament is reassuring to his players and contagious to his fans, opponents, and even opposing coaches. Let’s hope we can all catch some of that!
2011 Girls Competitive Coach of the Year – Xavier Rico coaches club soccer for the Lake Country United team where he also serves as Director of Player Development for U-5 to U-12. Xavier “believes we represent more than the team we play on; we represent ourselves as a player, as a parent, as a person, as a friend, as a team mate; as a fan; we represent the club as a whole and we represent our community.” To back up his beliefs, Xavier has recently launched a website to promote cancer awareness (www.xavisangels.com) and hosted a soccer fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House last July.
2011 Volunteer of the Year – Carl Micke has served the Wisconsin soccer community for over 20 years. His leadership has brought the East Central district to almost 10,000 players. Carl continually looks for ways to grow soccer in Wisconsin, serving as WYSA Board member, State Cup director, Regional Championship LOC Chair two times, as well as having coached several teams. His involvement has left Wisconsin Youth Soccer in a better place. Thanks, Carl!
2011 Male Young Referee of the Year – Dylan Seitz of Elkhorn, Wisconsin gets to see the game from all sides as a youth referee and also as a player on his high school team. Since becoming a referee in 2009, Dylan has refereed over 150 matches and 4 tournaments. Dylan also helps to train younger referees. Way to go Dylan! On and off the field!
2011 Administrator of the Year – Vicki Abshere of Madison Area Youth Soccer Association (MAYSA) seems to have been truly “heaven sent”. As registrar, website designer, and administrator, Vicki handles all communications within MAYSA, as well as registrations, and is known as “the face of MAYSA” to all those who deal with her. She has expanded and assisted various ethnic groups and TOPSoccer, for children with developmental disabilities, within the district. No wonder you can often hear, “Thank God for Vicki!” around MAYSA.
Winners of the Wisconsin Youth Soccer awards compete at the Region II level. Region II award winners receive an expenses paid trip to the US Youth Soccer Adidas Workshop in Boston, MA as part of the Annual US Youth Soccer Awards Program. What a great way to have your volunteers, administrators, coaches and referees honored for their service! Consider rewarding your volunteers with a nomination in 2012!
WYSA District Presidents
Kickers - Steve Harris (ssmcharris@wi.rr.com)
Racine - Nathan Thompkins (nathanthompkins@yahoo.com)
Metro - Peter Saemann (psaemann@att.net)
East Central - Carl Micke (cmicke@gmail.com)
MAYSA - Jody Knauss (joday.knauss@gmail.com)
Kenosha - Roger Koessl (roger.koessl@we-energies.com)
Stateline - Vacant
Waukesha - Christopher Zuzick (czuzick@wi.rr.com)
Northwest - Patrick Flandrick (pflandrick@yahoo.com)
Southwest - Andy Olson (andrew.olson@centurylink.com)
Ozaukee - Tricia Wessel-Blaski (graftonrangers@gmail.com)
Midway - Lauri Millot (millot5@charter.net)
2010 Award Winners:
Boys Recreational Coach of the Year – Dorothy Vander Wyst
Girls Competitive Coach of the Year – Derek Crowley
Boys Competitive Coach of the Year – Predrag “Pep” Stojanovic
Volunteer of the Year – Karen Stashek
Male Young Referee of the Year – Nicholas Finch
Administrator of the Year – Todd Felhofer
2009 Award Winners:
Boys Competitive Coach of the Year – John Kaiser
Girls Competitive Coach of the Year – Derek Bell
TOPSoccer Buddy of the Year – Jane McCormick
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