New look for soccer this fall
- The soccer home page will provide easy accessibility to anyone interested in the team.
- Information about sign-ups or tryouts will be posted on the website too.
By Matt Bishop, Staff Writer
Adding a little style and creating more chatter about the Club Soccer team is what the Recreation and Community Service department plans on doing this summer.
It will all start with the Club Soccer team getting new uniforms and a homepage on the college website.
Recreation and Sports Specialist Eric Watson said its time for the soccer club to be better known around campus.
“Club soccer has been around for a while,” Watson said. “We want to keep them going as long as possible.”
The soccer home page will provide easy accessibility to anyone interested in the team.
Users of the webpage can upload team rosters, photos, schedules, standings and other information Watson said.
Information about sign-ups or tryouts will be posted on the website too.
Watson said he believes this will bring more players into the club because the students will be better aware of when the sign-ups and tryouts will be happening.
Practices days and times also will be posted when the team is set for the fall season.
Club Soccer coach K. B. Yeboah agrees with Watson on how helpful the website will be.
“It will let players know if there are any last-minute changes such as time or venue.”
Yeboah said posting the news on the website would be easier than calling each of the players individually.
Yeboah and the soccer team ran into several incidents this past season where the time or venue changed. It caused confusion and left the team shorthanded for those games.
Club Soccer also will sport new blue uniforms for the fall semester.
The previous uniforms were white. Having the new blue uniforms will keep uniform conflicts from happening.
“We have ran into incidents before where we played a team with the same uniform we had,” Yeboah said.
“So we had to put on target jerseys to play. If something like that happens again, we will have the old ones for backup.”
Watson said he plans to make the RCS website more accessible for not only Club Soccer, but also for other intramural activities.
Watson said he will work with OCCC Web Administrator Kathy Nix on the website this summer.
He said they are planning to have the new look to the RCS homepage finished before the upcoming fall semester.
Staff Writer Matt Bishop can be reached at SeniorWriter@occc.edu.
