It is with much sadness that the RYSA Soccer Family has lost one of its own last week.
Please continue to remember his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Jay Ingram
2/16/79-1/27/12

 Registration is now open for the 2012 Spring Recreation Soccer Season. Registration closes at midnight, February 3rd. 
For additional information, including pricing CLICK HERE
To Register for the Spring Recreation Season CLICK HERE
 

RYSA is excited to announce the start of a U8 Pre Academy program in the Spring of 2012. The RYSA U8 pre- academy program is geared towards boys and girls in the U7-U8 age group who have excelled at an early age in the game of soccer demonstrating good basic soccer skills. The focus of this group will be to bridge the gap between the RYSA recreational program and the academy program where sessions would be conducted in a more structured manner by RYSA Academy and Select coaching staff.
The players will train and play on selected Fridays and Sundays. Training, scrimmages within the pre academy program, and matches with outside clubs will be organized and implemented by a RYSA academy or select staff coach.
If you would like to be evaluated for the program, please email our academy director Keion Yearwood at keionyearwood@gmail.com. Evaluations will be held on the 17^th and 19^th of February.
For more information on the U8 pre academy program, please click here.

 RYSA will be offering the G, F, and Rec E coaching courses on Saturday, February 18th.
For more information CLICK HERE 
To register, CLICK HERE

 The U9 boys made it all the way to the finals in the Norcross Nike Cup and came home with finalist medals.  The weekend started off with a very exciting game against NASA Arsenal.  After entering half time down 2-0, the boys pulled out a 5-4 win in the last minute of the match. The second game was another win with a final score of 6-2 against Norcross Premier. Sunday started off with an early morning game against the undefeated #8 ranked LSA Gold. With a final score of 8-2, the RYSA U9 boys entered the Norcross Nike Cup U9 Boys Championship division finals undefeated. The boys played their hearts out but the game ended in a 3-7 loss to TSC. All the parents are so proud if the players. It was an awesome weekend and an even more awesome season!

Flanked by Union Grove High School men's soccer coach Mark Matthews and U19 Rockdale Revolution coach Dusty Fouser, Union Grove High School senior Connor Legg signs his letter of intent with the men's soccer team at Southern Polytechnic State University. A three-year letterman (prior to his senior season), Legg is team captain for the UGHS Wolverines and plays center defender. He was chosen for both the all-county and all-region teams as a sophomore and as a junior, was a county all-star his junior year, and was chosen Player of the Week at Paul Banta's Coastal Carolina soccer camp during the summer of 2010. Banta said of Legg, "He might be the best pure back I've ever seen." Legg also plays center and right defender on the Revolution. He plans to major in aerospace engineering while at SPSU.