Registration Fees Field Safety Email
Welcome to Nanaimo Women's Summer Soccer! We are not a league, but a just-for-fun, adult (18+) women's recreational team. We meet two times each week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from early April until late June. Kick-off for each game night is 6:30pm. This simple little homepage is here to give you all the information you should need to find out about us, where we play, why we play, how much it costs and how to register.
2005 Season begins Tues/Wed April 5th and 6th
Registration
Register to play by simply coming out any Tuesday or Wednesday night at 6pm. You need to fill in a registration form giving your name and contact number, and sign a waiver releasing the rest of the team from responsibility if you hurt yourself while playing. We don't play a rough game at all - in fact, we don't allow slide tackles - but injuries can and have occurred when someone takes a fall. You can avoid injuries by taking proper precautions. Home
Fees, Full Registration and Drop-In
The cost to play is $25 for the 3-month (13 week) season, which allows you to play every Tuesday and Wednesday of the season. You play as much or as little as you want. If you don't think you'll be out every time, it may be worth it to just pay the $2 drop-in fee. If you're going to come out every week, it's cheaper to pay the $25. In 2005, we'll be playing 26 times. Why do I have to pay to play?
Why Do I Have to Pay to Play?
This isn't a formal league team and we don't use referees: it's purely for fun! But we do need to pay School District #68 (Nanaimo) for the use of the field. Any money we collect over and above what's needed to pay for the field goes toward any equipment we might need - in 2004 we were able to finally purchase several good practice balls at a great deal (thank you Soccer Zone). Also, to celebrate the end of the season we meet after the last games of the week at a local pub and some money is spent on finger food (you buy your own beer if you want some). Home
Every year we use Woodlands Secondary school playing fields. It's easy to find. Woodlands' address is officially 1270 Strathmore Street, but the fields are on Boundary Avenue, which is the road you take from the Island highway to get to the hospital.
From the North: Travelling from the North (North Nanaimo, Lantzville, Nanoose) down the Island Parkway, you'll take a left onto Northfield at the lights. You'll go through one set of lights at Bowen Road; don't turn, just go straight. At the bottom of Northfield, just before you cross over the railroad tracks where Northfield joins onto the old Island Highway, turn right onto Boundary.
Or, just come down the old Island Highway and turn right at the lights at Boundary Avenue (the Hospital sign is there before the lights). You can see the fields on your left whichever way you come. Park on the street or in the parking lot that faces Boundary. Don't go through the swing gate at the end of the fields or they could lock the gate and lock your car in!
From the South: Travelling from the South (South Nanaimo, Cedar) you'll probably want to take the old Island Highway and turn left at the lights at Boundary Avenue. You can see the fields from the old Island Highway just before you reach the lights, and they are on your left after you turn onto Boundary. When you turn left at the lights you will cross over railroad tracks immediately. Make a left right away after the tracks - that's Boundary. If you go straight you're on Northfield. (The two roads intersect right there after the tracks.)
If you come down the Island Parkway, you'll turn right at the lights at Northfield and follow the same directions as given above from Northfield and the Parkway. Home
Safety
Even if you are in good physical condition and exercise regularly, you still need to warm up before you begin playing each night. Game start is 6:30pm, so you should be arriving at the field around 6pm in order to have time to get your boots on, have a jog around the field a couple of times and then stretch your body. Take the time to gently stretch your legs well; calf muscles, quadriceps, hamstrings and don't forget your ankles. In 2004 several players had to go home with mild to moderate injuries to their quads and hamstrings because their muscles were pulled. Another common muscle pull is in the area of the groin. Both the motion of kicking the ball and sprinting can cause you to pull the muscle in the groin. Don't forget, soccer isn't like your morning jog - you will be doing sudden sprints and stops, and so you need to warm up (run first) and stretch those muscles really well to avoid injury.
Although there's plenty of 20-somethings who come out to play summer soccer, many of our players are in their 30's and some are in their 40's and up. If you are not in "soccer shape", just pace yourself and don't go crazy out there on your first few weeks! If you're a very competitive person who tends to push hard in sports, remind yourself that this soccer is purely for fun and you won't win any trophy for knocking yourself out. If you feel that you have spent all your energy and need a break - take one! Get off the field and walk (don't go from running to sitting), and stretch those muscles again. Home
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