First equipment pick up day is set for Saturday August 28 from 10:00 - 12:30pm at Elsom Fieldhouse (second floor entrance). Please remember to bring a $100.00 equipment deposit cheque made out to SurDel Soccer and post dated to April 1, 2011. These will be handed back or shredded once equipment is returned next year.

Further equipment and uniform exchange dates will be made available in early September.

Thanks,

Monique and Kevan
SurDel Equipment Managers

Coaches, For those of you that are either wanting to get a head start in Aug or to just get your equipment while you are in town the following times will see the Elsom Fieldhouse equipment room open.

• Friday Aug 13, 6:30 - 7:30pm
• Friday Aug 20 6:30 - 7:30pm
• Friday Aug 27 6:30 - 7:30pm

If there are any of you with outstanding equipment from Spring or Provincials please also return at this time.

Remember to bring a $100.00 post dated cheque for April 1, 2011 made to SurDel Soccer This is for your equipment deposit and will be returned or shredded next year.

The U-12 Sting entered a split squad of two teams of seven going into the Umbro Beach Blast at Jericho Beach. Both teams went undefeated thru the round robin with Sting Red finishing 3-0-0 and Sting White at 2-0-1. This saw Sting Red in the Gold match where they narrowly lost 1-0 to a full squad team and Sting White took Bronze in extra time on a golden goal from a Taylor Russell free kick. The Sting had a great time out on the beach, working hard and enjoying a different version of the game. Well done ladies.

Well after months of fundraising, training, games, etc the SurDel Sting finally acheived their goal of playing in the USA Cup in Minnesota. The Sting's first day of the tournament was a big one as they started things off with a bang winning 3-2 against the NSSA Ice, with goals by Jamie Cornes and Hailey Lemon (2). The Sting are playing girls that are anywhere from a year older and the competition is huge both in size and attitude so a win was massive. From there they were off to the opening ceremonies where 15,000 players from approx twenty countries all converge into an Olympic style walk in by the athletes. The Sting were the first Canadian team in and got a massive ovation from the rest of the Canadian fans.

Day #2 was a steam bath as the rains in the morning met the players as they had a private session with Minnesota Thunder head coach Manny Lagos. The Thunder play the Whitecaps so having some one on one time with him was a great experience.

The SurDel FC women’s team competed in the Leeta Sokalski Cup Provincial B Championships, June 18-20th and finished 3rd. SurDel was the only team in the tournament to win all their pool games with victories over Oceanside (6-0), SBAA Ajax (3-1), and Victoria Gorge (3-1). Hilda Simon scored early to give SurDel a lead over SBAA Hellas in the semi-final match, but the Hellas came back to win the game by a 2-1 score.

Although the sun didn't make an appearance and the rain came down, the Surdel Girls Soccer players, coaches and parents enjoyed the North Delta Days Parade.