Parent's Corner

Dear Parent,

You are vital to your child's soccer success and fun!
There are few things more delightful than sharing a green field with the communities' children at play. Lenape Valley Soccer Club wants your child to have a wonderful experience playing the great game of soccer. This is a family adventure. As a Club, we are a community of families.

With the exception of miracles, most wonderful experiences are the result of organization, planning and work. It is the same for LVSC. Lenape Valley Soccer Club is an all-volunteer organization. The many people who contribute time to this Club, do it for no compensation or perks. They do it because they want this experience for their own children. They do it because they enjoy associating with other great parents who share this vision.

You are invited to be a member of this soccer community. We register families, not just kids. The Club is now about 20 years old, however, please do not take it for granted. This is not a babysitting service. This not a privilege you get for paying taxes. It is an opportunity, and a necessity, for each parent to demonstrate to their own children what they are doing within the club to support their child and their friends playing soccer. You can not, in good conscience, put your child in LVSC programs without yourself committing to contribute some of your time, effort and talent.

All the work required is contributed by parent volunteers. If every parent does a small job and does it well, this club will remain a strong, vital organization. If every parent demonstrated his or her responsibility, then there is accountability. Enthusiasm breeds more enthusiasm. Support breeds more support. Much will be accomplished and, even more important, our kids will be in a better supportive community. They will become citizens who have learned by example to do the same for their own future children.

LVSC knows everybody is too busy, we know families are stretched. It is not just LVSC, all organizations are faced with the same challenge. Registration fees are the absolute minimum necessary to pay for expenses. Much more could be assessed. However, LVSC will not use money to overcome this problem, because it really cannot. This is about our community kids and parents participating in the joy of their kids at play. Today kids do not get to simply play and have enough fun. This is just what intramural soccer provides.

LVSC is not a private club. We are not exclusive. We provide for all the kids. We do not own fields, there is no clubhouse, etc. The Club maintains the position that we must put our faith and trust in the community. We depend on the parent's voices within their municipalities to express that it is vital for our community's kids that fields and other amenities are provided. LVSC is just a parental structure, which provides administration and supervision for the activity of community soccer.

Let's put this in perspective. The combined intramural and travel programs have approximately 350 kids registered each spring and fall. In the Lenape Valley, there are more kids playing soccer than any other club sport. In fact, LVSC provides more children the opportunity to enjoy supervised team play than in the local Schools. Pretty amazing!

So, Parent, where can you contribute? Just ask. There is a list of amazingly simple tasks which need to be done. Some jobs are on the field, some are administrative. Always needed are people willing to organize and administer. We need coordination of this, that, and the other. Each parent can make a positive contribution. LVSC has done well, but we can always be a better club.

You are wonderful people,
Best Regards,
Lenape Valley Soccer Club