Arizona Region of USA Volleyball
Jr Girls 12 Club #4
March 27, 2010

Parents - We are now in the mid-point of our tournament schedule. It seems that the majority of parent issues this season overall has been in the 12's division. Now that we all know how the tournaments work let's work on our behavior at tournaments.

• Parent Code of Conduct - please read this over for your education
• This is 12's - all players are learning and it is supposed to be FUN - not pressure packed and competitive.
• Parents are not to approach the score table nor yell "Score, Score" or "Point, Point" at the kids keeping score. The ref teams are young players, scorekeepers and referees just like your daughter. Please refrain from yelling at them. The coach can take care of any point discrepancies - it is their job to notice it.
• Cheer for all good plays regardless of who makes them.
• Be aware of how your behavior in cheering is affecting everyone around you. Noisemakers are not allowed at our tournaments due to the interference with play on adjoining courts.
• Let the kids learn and play without your "Help". They just need your support. The coach and players need to work together without parental intervention for them to work as a team.

NOTE: A team was added to the division for this tournament and forward. The divisions were reformatted to accomodate the new team and numbers. The teams were moved up or down first and then the divisions were reformatted. No team lost a position as a result of this reformat.

Effective immediately there is no cooking of any kind at any of our sites by teams - no crock pots, sterno heated chafing dishes, barbeque grills (gas or otherwise), nothing that requires heating. Picnic tables are allowed for congregating and keeping food out of the gyms and in the team camp area. But please refrain from banquet tables with food spread out all day. Please also bring refillable bottles of water instead of relying on small bottles of water that are thrown away at the end of the day - most of them still very full. Please bag all your team's trash and take it home with you to dispose of. There is so much trash left at sites that we are on the verge of being charged for a trash dumpster at some sites.

• Coaches Meetings: 1/2 hour prior to tournament start time
• AM Wave - 8 am - Unless otherwise stated in the pool location above
• PM Wave - 3 pm - Unless otherwise stated in the pool location above
• Check-in should be completed at the tournament desk prior to the Coach's meeting. A picture ID for each coach on the roster is required along with a medical release form for each player on the roster. A current signuptoplay roster is required to be signed and turned into the site director for use at the tournament.
• All officiating assignments are shared reffing except during a 3, 4 or 5 team pool.  Individual team ref assignments are listed on the bracket sheet.
• All Divisions - The top three teams will move up and the bottom three teams will move down for the next tournament. Division 5 - one team will ref two courts at the same time.
• PLEASE!!! Let the Arizona Region Office know if you will not be at the tournament PRIOR to Saturday. There is a $100 fine for teams that "no-show". The point is that it creates a big problem if there is a team that does not show.
• Coaches you must be available during ref assignments to help with scorekeeping and officiating.  You are also responsible for your parent's behavior and "team camp" area clean up.
• ( ) around a team name indicates that we know that team is not playing in this tournament.

Updated 3/24/10