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Teen volunteer works Mead Cup booth at the 2008 NSCAA

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20080118cusaDAYTON – For years, Laura Shields, 19, has watched her parents, Rick and Nancy Shields dash off to work the Mead Cup exhibit booth at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) while she sat at home. This year, because of some unplanned manpower shortage for the booth, she had a chance to volunteer for the booth, meeting and greeting fellow soccer colleagues. And she jumped at it.

“I’ve always wanted to come and volunteer to work the booth,” Shields says. “It seemed like just a lot of fun.”

A student at Capital University in Columbus, Shields has not been disappointed as she connects with old friends and meets new one. The NSCAA Convention runs from Wed. Jan. 6 through Sat. Jan 19 in Baltimore, Md. and host over 7,000 soccer coaches, administrators and enthusiasts.

For more information on the annual Mead Cup soccer tournament, held each Labor Day weekend in Dayton and Beavercreek, log onto the Web site at www.meadcupsoccer.com.

PHOTO: Laura (right) and Nancy Shields talk soccer with Patrick Ferguson, head coach of the women’s soccer program at Wright State University.

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Soccer tournament directors from southwest Ohio gather for annual meeting

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20080105martellaDAYTON – This past Saturday, almost fifty soccer tournament directors from the Ohio South Youth Soccer Association (OSYSA) gathered for their annual meeting at the Dayton Marriott. Carol Maas, the OSYSA tournament registrar, led a feature-packed meeting that included presentations by Ray Marcano with Cox Ohio Publishing, Zachary Blaine with Athletes in Action and Dante Washington and Mark Santel with Major League Soccer.

“We have quality tournaments by design,” claims Jim Martella, executive director for the OSYSA. “Meetings like this where we get the tournament directors together to share ideas is one of the segments of that goal.” Martella is also the Chairman of the US Youth Soccer National Champion Committee.

The OSYSA hosts soccer tournaments in the Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus areas, servicing over an estimated 200,000 soccer players and their families each year, according to statistics provided by TourneyCentral. About thirty percent of all players in the tournaments travel in from other states.

“This is a great way for the directors to get together and start off the soccer season on a positive note,” says Maas. Maas is no stranger to the soccer tournament market as she is also the co-director of the adidas Warrior Soccer Classic, held over Memorial Day weekend.

For more information on OSYSA, visit the web site at www.osysa.com.

PHOTO: Jim Martella addresses the OSYSA tournament directors at the annual soccer tournament directors’ meeting held at the Dayton Marriott, Sat., Jan 5, 2008.

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TourneyCentral facilitates tournament partnership at the 2008 NSCAA Convention

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Four tournaments, the Novi Jaquar Invitational, the adidas Warrior Soccer Classic, the Pikes Peak Invitational and the Veterans Invitational will be showing at the 2008 NSCAA Convention January 17-19, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Four tournaments, the Novi Jaquar Invitational, the adidas Warrior Soccer Classic, the Pikes Peak Invitational and the Veterans Invitational will be showing at the 2008 NSCAA Convention January 17-19, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland.

The collaborative effort was an initiative by TourneyCentral to expand the tournament presence within the trade.

“Tournaments of this caliber NEED to establish a presence at the NSCAA,” says Gerard McLean, Principle at TourneyCentral. “A booth at the largest soccer trade show in the US tells the marketplace that you are serious and have reached a certain level of sophistication.”

The tournaments have been placed in booth 2724 which is a corner booth.

“Great placement,” adds McLean. “They will do well and the goal is to expand out the tournament presence. Long-term, I hope every tournament we do eventually shows at the NSCAA. We’ll help them get here.”

TourneyCentral will be showing at the NSCAA in their own expanded booth, 2813, which is an endcap placement on a cross-roads aisle. Mead Cup, another TourneyCentral tournament will also be showing in their own booth, 2803 and have been at the NSCAA for the past 4 years.

About TourneyCentral
TourneyCentral.com provides comprehensive, event-focused, web-based solutions for youth soccer tournaments and is wholly owned by Rivershark, Inc. an Ohio Corporation. Since 1999, TourneyCentral has been producing web sites that provide youth soccer tournaments with end-to-end integrated experience management for guest teams, from marketing through scoring. In addition, the advertising tools provide the tournaments with an increased opportunity for advertising and sponsorship revenue as a result of significantly increased traffic to the web site. For more information, visit www.tourneycentral.com.

Companion and marketing partner properties consist of: The Soccer Tournament Review, a blog and iTunes podcast for tournament directors, MyTournamentSpace, a photo-sharing site linked directly into the tournament game schedule and www.ticoscore.com, a single-source database and ranking system for soccer tournaments.

Visit us at the 2009 NSCAA in St. Louis, MO.