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Ohio Galaxies/BSA Celtic Announce u13 and u14 Age Group Collaboration for 2022-2023 Season

Players and Parents,
BSA Celtic and Ohio Galaxies FC are programs that are a part of the Beavercreek Soccer Association. The programs share a registration platform with Demosphere and work together to provide a player development platform for players from u6 – u19.
Beginning with the 2022-2023 season, BSA Celtic and Ohio Galaxies FC announce their expanded collaboration in the u13 (2010) and u14 (2009) age groups for the 2022 – 2023 season in order to provide enhanced competitive opportunities for our players across regional and national platforms.
We are thrilled to announce that our program has been selected to participate in the USYS Elite 64 national competition platform. Elite 64 features competition in six age groups: u13, u14, u15, u16, u17 and u18/u19.
We are one of the few programs in the country selected for inclusion in Elite 64 for both the boys and girls program.
Elite 64 is the elite club based platform in the USYS National League and offers participating clubs an enhanced competitive model built around league play, national tournament opportunities and qualitative and quantitative performance analysis for players.
We are excited to announce that our girls program will be an inaugural member of the ECNL Great River Regional League. ECNL is managed by US Club Soccer and includes both national and regional league platforms.
This club based platform will include competition in the following girls ages groups: u13, u14, u15, u16, u17 and u18/u19.
ECNL is operated and managed so as to ensure a consistent environment and level of professionalism across all leagues and providing a path for more players to reach their fullest potential.
BSA Celtic families with players in the 2009 and 2010 age groups will receive details this week about u13-u14 age group meetings which will provide additional details about our expanded programming for these age groups for the 2022-2023 season.
It is a credit to the players and coaches in our programs that we have been recognized and selected for inclusion in these regional and national competitive platforms and we look forward to continuing to offer a quality program committed to player development for soccer players across the Miami Valley.
Please look for expanded information this week providing more detailed information about our programming for all age groups for the 2022-2023 season.

Lindsay’s Law: Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Youth Athletes

What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest?

A Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) occurs when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating, cutting off blood flow to the brain and other vital organs.  Sudden cardiac arrest is fatal if not treated immediately, most often by a defibrillator.

Who is Lindsay?

Senate Bill 252 is named for national heart health advocate and former Miss Ohio Lindsay Davis who suffers from a heart condition and has since dedicated her career to raising awareness of this potentially fatal condition.

“Sudden cardiac arrest is the number one killer of student athletes,” said Davis. “At any moment I could have died because coaches and teachers had no idea this was even a possibility for someone who looked as healthy as I did at that age.”

http://ohiosenate.gov/republicans/press/hite-joins-former-miss-ohio-to-announce-passage-of-lifesaving-bill-addressing-risk-of-sudden-cardiac-arrest-in-student-athletes

Lindsay’s Law

Lindsay’s Law, Ohio Revised Code 3313.5310, 3707.58 and 3707.59 went into effect in 2017.

In accordance with this law, the Ohio Department of Health, the Ohio Department of Education, the Ohio High School Athletic Association, the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Cardiology and other stakeholders jointly developed guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students and youth athletes participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents, and their coaches about the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest.

The following resources were developed to implement Lindsay’s Law:

For parents/guardians and youth athletes:

For coaches:

  • If you are a coach for an interscholastic sport and are licensed by the Ohio Department of Education, please visit their website for information about their training requirements around Lindsay’s Law.
  • If you are a coach in a community program, please use the following resources:

Ankeney Complex – Restricted Access until Monday, April 17, 2017.

Only the training area at the south end of the complex will be available for training this spring due to the continued recovery of the fields at the Ankeney Complex.  The Ankeney Complex will have restricted access to only the training area until the Ankeney Complex opens for league matches on Monday, April 17, 2017.  Please view the map available below with directions to accessing the training area at the Ankeney Complex.  Families are asked to enter the Ankeney Complex through the first gate on Orchard Lane and exit the Complex from the last gate on Orchard Lane.  The Yellow Brick Road gate will not be open for access to the complex until the start of league matches on Monday, April 17, 2017.