Thinking about buying or selling your house? Here’s a chance to help the Carlisle Soccer Club and it won’t cost you a dime.

Carlisle soccer parents Deric and Kathy Kidd have teamed up to offer a fantastic deal for home buyers and sellers..and the Carlisle Soccer Club. When you buy or sell your home with Kathy, a Realtor with REMAX Opportunities in Ankeny, she will donate 25% of the net Realtor professional fees to the Club in your name. When you finance (or refinance) with Deric, a senior loan officer with Academy Mortgage in Urbandale, He will donate up to $400 of the banker’s fees.

Buying a $180,000 home, for example, would mean a donation of approximately $1,400 to $1,600 to the Club with no cost to you! If Kathy sells your home and helps you buy one, the donation could be more than $2,500!  

This offers applies when you buy a home, sell a home, or refinance. There is no increase in fees to cover these contributions. This offer applies to anywhere in the Des Moines metro and surrounding communities, so tell your family, friends and co-workers. It’s just the Kidd’s way of giving back to the community.

For more information contact:

Kathy Kidd, Realtor
REMAX Opportunities
515-689-5478
kathykiddrealtor@gmail.com
www.UandYourHome.com

Deric Kidd
Academy Mortgage
515-979-9564
deric.kidd@academymortgage.com

Carlisle soccer refs, it’s time to mark your calendars for the 11th Annual Iowa Referee Academy to be held at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA on Saturday, February 25th.

This is a great opportunity to learn from the best, get connected with other referees in Iowa AND get all your certification hours for the year in one day. That means NO EXAM NECESSARY when you recertify next December.

You may pre-register for the Academy by performing the following actions:
- Go to the Iowa Referee Committee (IRC) Website at http://www.iowareferees.org/
- Click on the Calendar Tab
- Go to February
- Click on �Iowa Referee Academy XI� in the February 25th cell
- Follow the Instructions to Register to Attend as either an Iowa or out-of-state Referee.

(As you pre-register, you will have the opportunity to purchase an Academy T-Shirt, make a monetary donation to the Academy, and select a Group (Color) for the presentation sessions so that you can stay with your kids throughout the day if you want and not get separated from them.)

More information may be found by clicking on ‘About’ under the IA Ref Academy Tab.

Talk to other referees to find out who you can ride with. make it a road trip with your fellow Carlisle referees”

The fast-paced game of indoor soccer is coming back to Carlisle again this winter!

We play a seven-game season in the Middle School and Elementary gyms. You can sign up as a team or as an individual, and be placed on a team as they become available. If you sign up as a team, you must have a coach. All teams must also provide a team manager.

To register, download and complete this registration form, and send your check for $35 per player to Carlisle Soccer Club, P.O.Box 254, Carlisle, IA 50047 by January 6^th. Please make checks payable to Carlisle Soccer Club.

Late last week, the Iowa Soccer Association unveiled plans to build a $6 million, 100,000-square-foot State Indoor Training Center (SITC) in the Des Moines Metro area. The facility will be built on the west end of Southridge Mall which is located on Des Moines’ south side.  A joint venture of Iowa Soccer and the Iowa Barnstormers Arena Football franchise, the SITC is envisioned to serve the statewide soccer community year-round from a centrally-located facility.
 
Plans for the SITC include a regulation 360-foot by 195-foot synthetic turf soccer field, which also accommodates an official 200-foot by 85-foot arena football field. In addition, the facility offers office and meeting space, audio/visual facilities, a concessions area and a coaching education center.
 
The SITC will enable Iowa Soccer to expand its Indoor Championship Series, host state and regional college recruiting events and tournaments, host regional ODP events, train and develop top players through the Iowa Olympic Development Program, offer National and State coach education courses (USYS National Youth License, USSF C-License, NSCAA Regional courses), offer state-level referee courses and provide the statewide Iowa Soccer community with a centrally located year-round athletic facility.  In addition, Iowa Soccer plans to expand its special needs programming (TOPSoccer), underserved-population sports programming (Soccer Across America) and offer a number of Level 3 festivals and events.
 
Iowa Soccer believes that the existence of the SITC and its resulting programming will help create a higher profile statewide for soccer as well as more opportunities to play, which will, in turn, help Iowa Soccer affiliates improve participation numbers.
 
Funding for construction of the SITC is being sought through private donations and public grants. Operated through a separate nonprofit, the Iowa Sports and Wellness Foundation, ongoing maintenance and operational expenses for the Center will be self-sustainable with the infusion of new income and operational revenue generated from Iowa Soccer Association activities, the Iowa Barnstormers, facility rental, and individual usage fees.
              
The SITC Campaign Committee initiated a capital campaign in late November and initial fundraising efforts are focused on major contributions of $50,000 or more. To learn more about the project and how to provide support, visit www.IowaSITC .com, “like” the facebook page, “follow” the tweets, or contact Ian Bradley at the Iowa Soccer Association at (515) 252-6363 ext. 102, ibradley@iowasoccer.org.  

Believe it or not, it’s time to register for spring soccer season!

Please visit the registration page and get your son or daughter registered for the spring season.

Register early to assure that your player will be placed on a team. Players are assigned teams on a first-come-first-serve basic. That’s why we really appreciate it if you don’t wait until the deadline to register. Late fees are applied on Jan 15th because that’s when we start assigning teams. We only have a couple of weeks to organize teams, find additional coaches when needed, and turn in the appropriate paperwork to Greater Des Moines Junior Soccer League.

Please consider coaching. It doesn’t require any special knowledge of soccer…just the willingness to learn and the desire to help children learn to love the great game of soccer. If you’d like to coach, contact our director of coaching, Ken Sadler, for more information.

Limited scholarships are also available. See the link at the bottom of the registration section of the website.

If you have any questions regarding registration, contact Dawn Payne.

Carlisle Soccer Club would like to apologize for the late notice and temporary closing of the concession stand.  We were looking for the crew of parents to volunteer to help with this.  Thank you very much to Julie Harter, Melissa Sadler, Rob Brewer and Renatta Bolen for stepping up and help us out.  As, we have found a few we are still needing approximately 2 more to help open and close a few Sundays this seasons.  If interested please contact Lisa Wilson or Joe Fortelka. 

JK Photography is happy to be providing your soccer pictures again this season. Pictures will be taken at the Carlisle Soccer Complex this Saturday, September 24th.

Here is the schedule (PDF download) and the order form (PDF download). If you have any questions prior to picture day, please give us a call at 710-6726.

An updated schedule has been uploaded to the SCHEDULE page!

We had another great year at the Des Moines Arts Festival. Nice weather on Friday night and Sunday afternoon meant there was a good crowd. Saturday night’s cool temps didn’t scare anyone away, either. 

Total tips for the beef and wine tent staffed by Carlisle Soccer volunteers totaled $1422.11!  That’s nearly $400 more than last year! And we still are weeks away from receiving 15% of our sales for the weekend.

Thanks to all those who gave their time, energy and enthusiastic support to our efforts, including: Joel Pech, Joshua Baxter, Suzie Stewart, Ken Sadler, Melissa Sadler, Joe Fortelka, Ellen Towne, Ricardo Alverio, Gaylene Rick, William Rick, Regina Overton, Steve Overton, Mark True, Suzanne VanVeen, Kevin VanVeen, Paul Gruber, Dixie Staecker, Tom Staecker, Jake Whipple, Vicki DeMoss, Paul DeMoss, John Kamerick, Tiffany Kamerick, Marek Sobieszkoda, Clint Smalley, Melody Jutting, Dan Jutting, Dawn Payne, Brian Payne, Kyle Brown, Mellannie Brown, Connie Larson, Michele Manders, Cheryll Polley, Brownie Polley, Krista Beck, Mark Beck, Brendie Polka and Bill Polka. And we can’t forget the tireless work of our director of fundraising, Lisa Wilson, who managed the whole process.

Please keep your calendars open next year. We don’t have an exact dates but the Arts Festival is usually the last weekend in June. We appreciate all our volunteers did for our club and look forward to having you help again in the future.

We are really trying to raise a lot of funds within the next few months to get help get our irrigation in the ground. So, if you have any ideas or are willing to help in our fundraising efforts please let Lisa know.

Ventsi Stoimirov and the women of the Grandview University soccer team will be back in Carlisle for another great Camp, July 25-27th.

The camp is for boys and girls ages 6-14. Camp for 9- to 14-year-olds is 4:30 to 7 p.m., while the 6-  to 8-year-olds will train from 5:30 to 7 p.m. each evening. We’ve moved the camp to later in the day to keep out of the heat of the day.

This camp is an outstanding value at only $40! While onsite registration is allowed, the Grandview staff would appreciate it if you’d pre-register by downloading the brochure and sending in your check.

If you have any questions, contact Ken Sadler, Carlisle Soccer Club director of coaching, via email or 321-6221.