RAIN/WEATHER POLICY

Below you will find our cancellation guidelines for Spring Soccer Leagues…

NOTIFICATIONS:

There are two ways we communicate this.

POSTED: 

https://ymcasoccer.playerspace.com you will see a “Field Status” link under “News & Announcements” this will have the most up to date info.  Link below.

https://ymcasoccer.playerspace.com/index.cfm?league=4626&action=news&content_action=news&content_id=1852

EMAILS & TEXT:

We will email through the Playerspace system to teams that are affected by weather so please check your email before leaving to come to the fields.  I will do my best to cancel as quickly as I can, for last minutes cancellations we will also text as well as email the notification.  There may be a practice/game or two this season that we wait, do not cancel and as you pull up lighting strikes.  We try to keep these to a minimum, but it happens.  Either practice/game will be delayed 30 minutes or cancelled.

PRACTICES:

For those practicing at YMCA Fields:

Calls for practices are made between 3 PM and 3:30 PM during the week.  Our fields dry quick and weather in NC comes and goes just as quick so we do not cancel until we have too. 

For those practicing at an offside field that is maintained by City, Town or County:

Municipalities will notify us of closures.  Once we are contacted we will notify the league.  There may be cases where on one side of the county we have practices and one side of the county gets cancelled.

Our Volunteer Coaches:

Our Volunteer Coaches are given the choice to cancel practices before we close fields.  As a coach I knew my parents of 5 year olds would not come out if it was sprinkling.  COACHES, please email us so we can remove from calendar.   NAC Teams will follow field closures.

GAMES:

We play in the rain (the kids love it, parents and my staff not so much.)

We only cancel game and practices if there is lighting, thunder and/or standing water on more than 25% of our fields.  If light rain only, we are going to play.  Calls will be made early in the morning (7 AM to 7:30 AM) for a full day closure or if we will cancel on a game by game basis.  Game by game will be called 1 hour before your game time.  There may be some weekends that the 8:30 AM to 11 AM games play and the rest of the day does not.

RULES BELOW ARE IN EFFECT AT ALL LOCATIONS!

-Fields are only for YMCA member and Soccer Program Participants only.
-NO Pets
-NO Tobacco
-Please pick-up your trash after every use.  
-DO NOT HANG ON GOALS.  This is unsafe and repairs cost about $500 a year.  
-Shirts are required at all times.
-YMCA Code of Conduct are to be respected at all times.
-We do not cancel practices/games unless there is lighting, thunder or standing water on our fields.