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The Lubbock Soccer Association offers players an opportunity to play at a purely recreational level and also the opportunity for players to compete for all positions at all levels of youth play offered by North Texas State Soccer Association, United States Youth Soccer Association, and United States Soccer.

7.4. PERSONNEL
      Many dedicated volunteers are needed to make all of these opportunities available to
      the players of the Lubbock Soccer Association. These volunteers include the
      coaches of the League teams, the All-Star teams, and the Lubbock based coaches
      who are on the State coaching staff. The Youth, Group, and League Commissioners
      serve as the link between the coaches and the Association Board of Directors. The
      Coaches’ Committee serves to advise, recruit, and team coaches. The Coaches'
      Representative is responsible for making every one aware of the importance of the
      Olympic Development Program.

    7.4.1. The Coaches’ Committee is appointed by the Coaches’ Representative on the
             Board of Directors. The Coaches’ Representative is chairman of this committee.
             The Coaches’ Representative may appoint such individuals as the Coaches’
             Representative believes desirable to fulfill the duties assigned to the Coaches’
             Representative.

             The Coaches’ Representative is encouraged to recommend individuals for
             assignment as Recreational team coaches, All-Star team coaches. The
             Coaches’ Representative is encouraged to recruit new individuals to volunteer
             their time and energy to coach these various teams.

            The Coaches’ Representative is responsible for offering educational programs
            locally to allow the coaches of the Association to develop their coaching skills
            and obtain United States Soccer Federation licenses.

    7.4.2. Recreational team coaches are selected by the League (or Conference)
             Commissioner with advice from the Group Commissioner, the Youth
             Commissioner, and the Coaches’ Representative.

             Recreational team coaches are expected to develop the individual skills of the
             players assigned to their team. Coaches are expected to use practice time to
             bring each player’s individual skills up to the level appropriate for the player’s
             age and physical development.

             Coaches will teach the principles of good sportsmanship to each of their
             players, and will set an appropriate example for their players of good
             sportsmanship in action. Coaches should not place undue emphasis on winning
             and losing (Under-6 and Under-8 team coaches should communicate that all
             their players are winners no matter how many goals may have been scored by
             which team). Recreational team coaches must provide an environment where
             their players can have fun, learn to play the game of soccer, develop their own
             individual skills as appropriate to their physical development, and build a
             foundation for playing the game at whatever level the player desires to perform in
             future years. Recreational team coaches must also teach the players and their
             families the Laws of the Game and appropriate behavior during games.
             Recreational team coaches are expected to assist the all-star team coaches
             during all-star team practices.

    7.4.3. All-star team coaches are selected by the Youth Commissioner with advice from
             the Coaches’ Representative and the Group and League Commissioners.

             All-star team head coaches will work in practice with all the players who desire
             to participate in these practices. All-star team practices are an opportunity for
             the best coaches in the Association to help all the players in an age group to
             develop to a higher level of play. All-star team coaches are expected to use the
             recreational team coaches as assistants during practices, to utilize the
             recreational team coaches’ talents for the benefit of all the players in an age
             group, and to help the recreational team coaches develop their own knowledge
             and skills so that they may progress to higher levels of coaching.

             Each player who desires to compete at this level will be given the coaching
             which that player needs in order to successfully compete. No player will be
             refused the chance to play with an All-star team for his League. Even though the
             All-star teams will play to win, the coaches must teach winning and losing with
             good sportsmanship. The coaches themselves must be living examples of good
             sportsmanship.

    7.4.6. The most important person in the player development process is the player.
             With the support and encouragement of the player’s parent or guardian, each
             player registered with the Lubbock Soccer Association has the chance to play
             soccer at whichever level the player and his family feel comfortable. If a player
             only wishes to have some fun and kick the ball around with some friends, the
             only effort necessary is to attend a couple of practices and a game each week
             during the outdoor soccer season. If a player wishes to be competitive on any
             higher level, the player must devote some time on his own working on the skills
             being taught to him during those practices. All the work expended by the
             coaches and other volunteers of the Lubbock Soccer Association cannot make
             any individual player successful without the player’s cooperation and active work
             on his own time to improve his individual skills. Players who desire to play on an
             all-star team are required to be a member of a recreational team and to attend
             the practices and games of that recreational team on a regular basis.