(October 2008) U14 Boys and Girls; High School Girls Playoff Schedules Posted. U10/U12 Friendship Tournament Schedule is in the Arbiter.
(August 2008) WAYSA 2008 Referee Payment forms and 2008 Rule Book posted to website
(August 2008) 2008 WAYSA league play to include U10B&G, U12B&G, U14B&G, HSG, and O30. 4 WAYSA HS Boys will play in MAYSL.
(July 2008)U10 Referee training planned. July 29, 2008 Paxton Anna Maria College room F117 Foundress Hall, 7.00PM-9.00PM and West Boylston Our Lady of Good Council at the Intersection of route 140 and route 12 August 4th, 2008, 7:00-9:00PM. Course participants are elgible to referee WAYSA U10 games and if selected by their town their U8 games. Attendees receive instruction, referee shirt, referee forms, and referee kit. Registration is free. If you are a Grade 9 certified referee, you do not need to take this class; you can contact the WAYSA referee coordinator to get registered as available to referee games age appropriate U12 and above. For U10 games, you must contact the referee scheduler for each town to make your available services known.
(July 2008) Four (4) WAYSA U16B/U18B teams will play in Fall MAYS league.
(April 2008) Greg Raber returns as League President. Treasurer is Wayne Adams.
In a given year, WAYSA is comprised of between 8 to 14 towns and clubs with between 90 to 110 teams playing every fall season. We have the teams playing in U10B&G , U12B&G, U14B&G, HSG (U16/U18), and O30Coed. We finish each season with a U10/U12 Friendship Tournament and single elimination playoffs for U14-U18. To learn more about WAYSA, go to About WAYSA.
WAYSA is focused on recreational play and has structured its activities in support of player and referee development by:
- All teams are formed by a town/club open enrollment and random team placement. There are no skill divisions in the league. All teams are expected to be balanced, rather than stacked.
- Each team should strive for each player to play at least 50% or more of a game.
- U10 and U12 games are 7v7 to maximize player touches with the ball.
- U10 and U12 games are not tracked for win/loss. The end of season U10 and U12 tournament is to expose teams to other divisional teams.
- League is fair minded to ensure players can play with team roster size waivers, playing down waivers, and combining fractional club teams into a whole team.
- League has a Coaches code of conduct, recommended reading for Parents code of conduct, and is responsive to address incidents as they first occur.
- League develops U10 and U8 referees through in-house unlicensed training and paid games. League reimburses referee's course license fees (eligible for those refs in highschool only). League sponsored referee training.
- Providing non-varsity players an opportunity to continue to enjoy their youth sport with HSGirls and HSBoys (available when 6 or more teams can be formed). Also for the parents of players and coaches, an O30 Coed league.
League play starts Saturday, September 6th, 2008 