Hello SC Blues Families and Friends!

We are gearing up for the 4th So Cal Blues Golf outing and Senior Banquet at the Oak Creek Golf Course in Irvine on June 7th. In addition to being a super fun day, a great fundraiser for our club, this is also a full day of celebration for the Blues Graduating class of 2013. This year's event promises to be bigger and better than ever.

Attached are flyers with all of the details as well as a registration form. The club is looking to get at least 2 foursomes from each team to participate in the tournament in order to make it a "smashing" event. In addition, this year we would like each team to sponsor their coach to play in the tournament; the price of watching your coaches golf is worth the price of admission. Imagine Tad driving a ball 200 yards, Rob putting for birdie, and Tiger Draluck swinging and missing the ball completely...haha.

Tournament Flyer

Registration Form

Ball Drop

Please invite your friends and family to join in the fun! Highlights will include Golf (of course), cocktail hour, a silent auction, a helicopter ball drop, dinner, and an awards presentation...yes cool prizes.

See you there!

In April of this year SC Blues GU15 soccer player Chloe Rice will fly to Florida to attend her first US National Team camp for the hearing impaired.

Chloe will be competing for a roster spot in hopes of representing the United States this summer in Sofia, Bulgaria at the 2013 Deaf Olympics where over 122 countries will be represented.

Professional soccer player and US Women's National Team member Amy Rodriguez stopped by the Ranch and the Blues Club House last week to sign her national team jersey for Cloe, to give her support, and speak with Chloe Rice about her upcoming tryouts.

If you spot Chloe at the fields in the next few weeks wish her good luck.

To learn more about the Deaf US Women's National Soccer Team please visit www.usdeafsoccer.com.

Good luck Chloe Rice!!!

Dear Blues Families,

We are very happy to announce that our soccer fields at Rancho Capistrano will be ready for the scheduled re-opening on Monday, January 7 for practice. The extensive closure period and rehab work performed on the fields have resulted in excellent results. The fact that Mother Nature also provided some much needed rain over the last couple of weeks enhanced the renovation steps that were performed when we closed in November. The fields are looking great today with a couple of minor spots that haven't yet filled in yet. However, by January 7 we believe they will be in excellent shape.

We have sent a message to all Blues coaches asking them to protect the new grass growth by not doing repetitive drills on the playing surface, rather to use the sides of the fields for wind sprints, etc. We also re-emphasized some basic field rules like not practicing in the 6 yard box, no fitness training on the main field playing area, and rotating the areas they use for practice. It would also be helpful for all parents to protect the fields as well which means not playing frisbee or practicing soccer with your daughters before or after practice on the playing surfaces.

Chris Cunningham and Jim Flint from our Club Board will be working with the coaches to rotate their practice areas and perhaps even shut down some parts of the fields so that no one spot becomes excessively used. With cooperation from everyone we will have great fields on which to play throughout the spring and state cup season.

Dave Mildrew, Club GM