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of the page as possibletag Town and Country Optimist Club Fall 2020 N Field Status Click on Red Arrow to go to Field Status on T&C Sports’ Main Webpage Register: Coach Application Calendar of Events Dates Notes Registration Open July 9 Registration Ends August 31rd Pre-Season Camp September 12th Time TBD Coaches Meeting & Draft September 12th - 14th Group Practices September 15th - 17th Team Formation September 19th Games Begin September 24th to 26th No Games weekend of Oct. 10th Regular Season Ends November 7th Playoff Dates November 12th- 14th Junior/Senior Divisions Fall 2020 Program Fees & Dates Division Grade* Camp Only Season Only Camp & Season Rookie 1st/2nd $40 $120 $150 Junior 3rd/4th $40 $135 $165 Senior 5th/6th/7th $40 $135 $165 *Grade as of August 31, 2020 Practice Practice at least once a week for 60 to 90 minutes at Town and Country. The volunteer head coach will coordinate with team parents. Season Teams will play two (2) Pre-Season games. There are six regular season games. All teams in the Junior and Senior divisions will qualify for league playoffs. Playoffs will take place Nov. 12th-14th to play for the T&C Bowl Championship. Game Day Games played under the lights on Thursday or Friday night or Saturday morning. Games typically start at 6:30 or 7:45 pm. Some Senior Division games may play games starting at 8:30 pm on Fridays depending on the schedule. Rookies only play on Saturday mornings. Any rain-outs will be played on the next available good weather day. All games are approximately 1-hour long. All games played at T&C Sports complex. All parents must sign T&C medical release and behavior forms prior to first game. Equipment With your registration, we provide NFL jerseys, reversible for home and away game days. Coaches will receive equipment bags with flags and league approved footballs. Parents provide turf shoes black shorts with no pockets reusable water bottle mouthpiece Prohibited items are: jewelry, hats, shorts with pockets, metal cleats, color shorts (other than black). Teams Players should register individually. Siblings, cousins, etc. will be on the same team. We will honor friend and car pool requests the best we can to keep them together. Volunteer coaches will draft players to their teams. Each team will have at least six (6) players per team. No team will have more than ten (10) players. Coaches will strive to provide players with equal distribution of playing time. Volunteers Our association depends on parent volunteers to be team managers, coaches and game day officials (Down marker, clock and sideline watch). Volunteer coaches must register with T&C and complete 1) standard background check and 2) 1-hr online Safety and Abuse Training Course. This is a no cost registration. For questions, please email football@tandcsports.org T & C Sports 2020 Pre-Season Camp & Spring Season Registration The Town & Country Optimist Club (T&C Sports – Austin, TX) has opened 2020 pre-season Youth Camp & Spring season registration. The camp will be held February 22nd & the Spring season begins the week of March 2nd. T&C Sports flag football program is located in Northwest Austin, TX; part of a 95-acre sports complex between Cedar Park and Round Rock, TX. The flag football program is open to both boys and girls. Ages for the pre-season camp/clinic and the Spring season are 1st grade through 7th grade. The Preseason camp/clinic is will be held from 1pm-5pm. All regular season games for the Spring season start the week of March 23rd. Teams usually practice once or twice per week for 60-90 minutes with each team’s volunteer head coach coordinating practice times with team parents. Games are expected to be played under the lights on Friday nights starting at either 6:30 or 7:45 pm or Saturday mornings with games beginning as early as 9am. T & C Sports / Football President, Sebronzik Wright (Coach Z), said that T&C Sports is building an exciting, family-friendly program. We just finished a very successful Fall Season and we anticipate an even larger turnout for the Spring season.” He went on to say that T&C Sports is offering a discount for those kids who attend both the pre-season camp and participate in the Spring season. Friend and coach requests are honored when possible and coaches are allowed to bring a whole team to participate. One of the goals for our flag football league is for kids to get to play with friends, as well as to meet new friends to deliver a memorable experience for our Central Texas football community , said Coach Z. Those interested in learning more about the T&C Sports Program and to register can use this link: https://www.tandcsports.org/tcfootball ABOUT TOWN & COUNTRY OPTIMIST CLUB: The Town & Country Optimist Club (T&C Sports) is a non-profit organization formed in 1974 by a group of North Austin parents to offer youth sports. The Club promotes the ideals of Optimist International and supports the North Austin area by providing quality youth sports facilities and programs. Club goals are to provide opportunities for all who wish to participate and to promote an environment of learning and sportsmanship in all activities. The Club also supports youth development through involvement in selected youth-oriented community activities. The Value of Playing With the continuation of the NFL program hosted by T&C Sports this season, it is a great responsibility to organize the practices and games that your child plays with T&C Sports. We appreciate the opportunity to help reveal to kids the joy of competitive sports. We just opened the Fall NFL registration along with two new summer flag football camps only a few weeks ago and already the response has been great. With our expanded Pee Wee level program, it seems that parents and kids are appreciating the fun of NFL and recognizing it as a great way to develop some of the basic athletic skills that will carry into their later years. If you are exploring your options for this Fall season, give flag football a careful consideration. It is much more different than the flag football games that you may have played when you were a kid. We strive to provide a foundation that gives children the option to play football with the same fitness and competitive benefits of tackle football, but with less risk of injury. This program allows parents to wait until later in a child’s physical grow cycle before introducing them to the much more intense demands of tackle football while still teaching the game of football. Along with the physical benefits of playing a sport like flag football, there are a number of character-building benefits for children. TEAMWORK Youth flag football is a great team sport. Kids have the chance to play, work and interact with other children, teaching them skills to work together. Teamwork is a big aspect of flag football as kids learn how important it is to cooperate with others and work towards a common goal. THE VALUE OF PRACTICE Along with teamwork, our T&C Sports coaches will teach your child the importance of practice. As coaches work on fundamentals to help your child learn the game, players discover that practice is an important part to playing a sport, and that without practice, improvement in any skill can be difficult. HOW TO COMPETE Playing a youth sport such as flag football teaches your child how to compete, as an individual and also as a member of a team. Working hard on the playing field provides learning lessons that can go beyond sports. VALUABLE SOCIAL SKILLS Flag football is also a great way for children to develop social skills. By being a part of a team, children learn how to communicate and work well with others. They will learn how to take initiative and lead, but then they also learn when it is their turn to sit back and follow. The social skills kids gain by learning how to play with other children from...