Check-In

There is a Mandatory Check-in from 6-9pm on the Friday evening before your weekend of play. Check-in will be at La Colina Jr High School. The following 4 items will be checked:

laminated picture player cards
medical releases (these forms must have an original signature, no photocopied signatures.)
final team roster 
travel papers (needed by some non-CYSA-S teams such as CYSA-N), 

Click here to print a roster form, then Fill It Out and Bring It In To Check-in (to return from the roster page, click on the "back" button of your browser).  If you already have a similar roster form with the same info on it, you may use that.

Detailed maps of the Friday Check-in location can found here.

Important facts:

• You may use player cards for the playing years of 2005-2006 or 2006-2007 or a mixture of the two seasons.

• The player cards must show a player picture, and be stamped and signed by your sponsoring official, and be laminated.  No exceptions and no tampered cards.

• AYSO, U.S. Club, and other USYSA-affiliated cards as described above are also acceptable, along with those organizations' med releases.

• The player card and medical release form must be of the same playing year.  You cannot use a 2005-2006 player card with a 2006-2007 medical release form.

• Per CYSA-S rules, temporary cards will not be accepted from teams registered in the CYSA-S region.  Players must have been issued an official permanent CYSA card.

• Age brackets will be based upon DOB as of Aug. 1, 2006. If your team has been, for example, U-13 in 2005-2006, be sure your application places you in U-14 for the tournament.  (Incidentally, players reaching their 19th birthday prior to Aug. 1, 2006 are not eligible to play as U-19.) 

• Medical releases require an original signature because ambulances will normally transport a child only if a parent or guardian is present to give permission OR if another responsible adult can show a form giving permission that has an original signature of the parent/guardian.  A photocopied signature is often not considered adequate (the exception being a life-threatening situation).  Tournament personnel have personally witnessed EMT's refuse to treat a player based upon a form with a photocopied signature; fortunately, the parents were shopping nearby and could be called to return to the field quickly. 

If you have any questions about this, please contact our Check-In coordinator, Linda Cataldo ecataldo@semprautilities.com

Teams traveling from outside CYSA-South will need to comply with their sponsoring organizations' travel rules.  CYSA-North teams will need to apply early (1-2 months) to get travel papers from CYSA-N.  U.S. Club-registered teams do not need travel papers (which is why many teams that travel to CYSA-S tournaments such as ours are dual-registered with CYSA-N and U.S. Club, playing league and CYSA-N tournaments with CYSA-N cards/releases, and traveling to non-CYSA-N tournaments using their U.S. Club cards/releases.  (Be aware that a player cannot be checked in with, say, a CYSA-N card and a U.S. Club med release or vice versa.)

Borrowing (loan) players: Any number of borrowed players are allowed in our tournament.  As far as we are concerned, you may borrow players from other USSF-affiliated organizations besides your own, but ALL must have valid laminated cards and original-signature medical releases issued by their sponsoring organizations.  Both items must be of the same year for that player.  The year may be either 2005-6 or 2006-7, but no mix-and-match of item years for a given player (i.e. he/she can't present a 2005-6 card with a 2006-7 med release). 

Team bags will be given out at Check-in and will include the standard items such as the program schedules, line-up cards, information on local attractions, and any free product samples as well as adequate maps of the fields and surroundings.

Exceptions to Friday night check-in will be considered in extraordinary circumstances only: Please forward all requests for late check-in to Linda Cataldo ecataldo@semprautilities.com. If you are allowed to check in Saturday morning, go to the designated headquarters' canopy on UCSB's Storke Field (by Harder Stadium) at least 1½ hours before your first scheduled game. Those teams missing the Friday night Check-in without the permission of the Tournament Director should expect to be assessed a $50 fee payable in cash or by a money order before they will be allowed to play.

If you receive approval to check-in on Saturday, come straight to the Storke field at UCSB.  Take the Los Carneros off-ramp, then turn away from the mountains. Follow Los Carneros Road across Hollister Avenue past the airport runway to the stop light at Mesa Road. Turn left and follow Mesa to the stop sign. Turn right and go just past the Stadium. You will see parking on the left and the right. The main fields are to the right, adjacent to the Tennis Courts.

As in the past tournaments, we will be using separate line-up cards for each game. These will be given out at Check-In in the team bags. For those who prefer to avoid hand-writing or typing the players' names and shirt numbers on each card, you can copy the line-up section of the card by clicking here, then highlighting the table and do an Edit, Copy. Once you have copied it you can paste it into, for example, Microsoft Word, then you can adjust the columns as needed and enter the names of your players. At that point you can print it on self-adhesive paper to attach to the cards after you receive them at Check-In. [The size of the printed table must have the dimensions 3 1/2" x 5 1/4" to fit properly when pasted.] 

Please see attached maps for specific directions to Storke Field, Lot 30 and the Mesa Parking Structure .