Dear SSA Club Members,

In our capacity as a nonprofit youth sports organization, the very core of our existence is to help build strength in our communities through youth participation in the sport of soccer. Given the current environment though, and with our programs remaining suspended through April 30th, I wanted to take an opportunity on behalf of the club to reach out to you all and make an effort to identify and recognize family members of players at our club who are on the ‘front lines’ of the battle against the ongoing pandemic as they serve our communities instead. 

As such, we are asking for nominations for any individual who is related to an SSA player and is currently active in the healthcare profession, public safety, retail, or any other occupation that is helping us all to endure through these challenging times, so that they can be recognized on our SSA Facebook page.

If your player would like to nominate someone, please have them complete the following link with your supervision:

https://forms.gle/EiGK7CaXoEXuqN4G7

Our staff will pick some out at random and, with the nominated individual’s permission, post a message to recognize them on our Facebook page in the coming days.

As for our programs themselves, I will endeavor to keep you updated on when we will be able to restart, and what impact this will have on our calendar of activities location-by-location and program-by-program. Given the current uncertainty though, we do not anticipate being able to provide much in the way of specific details until we are given a confirmed restart date by our national, regional, and state governing bodies in combination with input from our partners in the various City and County Parks and Recreation Departments across our locations.

Once we have those details though, we should be able to form a plan of action moving forwards and establish what impact it will have on our club membership as a whole, so we would ask for your patience in this respect as we make efforts to work through these unprecedented times, especially as it relates to our ability to respond to individual inquiries regarding individual players and programs.  

Sincerely,

Sean Chamberlain

SSA Operations Manager

[email protected]