Coach
Dave White
34 Evergreen Cresent
Whitehorse,YT
Y1A 4X1
867) 633-2612

Manager
Charly Kelly
19 Peel Rd
Whitehorse, YT
Y1A 3K9
(867) 633 – 5779

Name: Yukon Aurora All-Stars
Age Category: 21-over women
Color of Uniform: White/Blue Jerseys

Mission Statement:

• To support the soccer community;
• To promote participation of women 21 and over and to offer another competitive aspect in the women's soccer community;
• To create a supportive, social outlet to promote individual fitness and skills;
• To create a stronger bond between younger and older women through mentorship and volunteering within minor soccer leagues.

Goals:

• To create a developmental team that will practice and prepare for one tournament in the summer 2000 season;
• To select a core group of women from the developmental team to attend tournaments based on practice attendance and skill level;
• To continue into the indoor soccer season and, once established, to become more involved in the soccer community;
• To practice once a week with possible games against established local teams every two week, thus providing additional competitive opportunities to local junior teams through a series of ongoing exhibition and practice games.

The Yukon Aurora All-Stars team has been developed as a result of discussion about the lack of competitive women's soccer in Whitehorse. From the start the team managers have received strong support from the soccer community. Dave White has been organizing practices for the development team since the beginning of May with assistance from members of the Yukon Selects.

Turnout for practices has been excellent with positive comments from all participants. Until now, many of the team members have not had the opportunity to improve their soccer skills since they played as youth in minor soccer or at University. In fact, almost half of the development team members were born and raised in Yukon and played on local representative teams.

We received an invitation to participate in the 10^th annual Kamloops Invitational Soccer Tournament, August 5^th, 6^th and 7^th 2000. Try outs were held at the beginning of June and fourteen players were selected from the development team for the tournament. The fourteen members played exhibition games throughout the summer in preparation for the tournament. Players that did not make this travel team continued to practice with the objective of improving individual soccer skills, fitness, and making the next travel team.

The Team now has a board of players who help with fundraising and accounting. Organization and managing is now a team effort.

May 2000: Began idea of Women's Team, and how to start one.

June 2000: Held a training camp and formal try-outs for a traveling team with plans to travel to Kamloops, B.C. in August to our first tournament.

July 2000: Continued practice throughout the summer with great turnouts. Held a raffle to raise money.

August 2000: Traveled to Kamloops for tournament, see report from Tournament.

September 2000: Continued Outdoor practices.

October 2000: Moved indoor to Vanier Large.

November 2000: Plans in progress to hold women's tournament indoor at beginning of December.

December 2000: Planned tournament and exchange with Juneau for December 1, 2 and 3^rd weekend.

January 2001: Indoor practices continued.

February 2001: Indoor practices continued.

March 2001: Plans to travel to Juneau for indoor soccer tournament.

April 2001: Continue indoor practices.

May 2001: Move outdoor and begin training for Outdoor Tournament.

• Cones: 16 + 20*
• Outdoor Balls: 10

• Indoor Balls: 11

• Ball Bag: 1 + 1*
• First Aid Kit*
• 19 Jerseys and Shorts

Outdoor 2000:

• Porter Creek - Sunday 7 PM – 10 PM
• Jack Hulland - Wednesday 7 PM – 10 PM

Indoor 2000:

• Vanier Large - Sunday 11 AM – 2 PM

The Yukon Aurora All-Stars appreciate that sanctioning and funding was extended to the team. We believe that we have started a quality program for women in the Yukon looking to develop their fitness and soccer skills. We continue to accept women onto our development team, with the hope to one day represent the Yukon in a top-level tournament. We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support: Sportees, Trans North Helicopters, Sam n' Andy's, Roger's Video, Terra Firma, Wadlegger Logging, Si Mason-Wood, High Country Inn, Whitehorse Beverages, Labatts, Norcan, Ketza Construction, Intersport, City of Whitehorse, Lotteries Yukon, Better Bodies.

Report submitted for October 21, 2000 Annual General Meeting by

Charly Kelly