Location

• The primary site will be Covenant Park in Ellicott City, Maryland
• Registration will take place at Covenant Park 1 hour before your first game.

Age Groups & Eligibility

• U9 - U10 (7v7) and U11-12 (8v8) - $525 entry fee* - 3 games minimum
• Boys and Girls divisions at each age with premier and classic brackets at all ages, depending on quality of entries
• Application Deadline: February 15, 2012
   

The Amanda Post Memorial Tournament is open to all competitive and classic club teams. This is a US Club Sanctioned tournament. All teams must be affiliated and their players registered with USYSA through their respective state associations or US Club Soccer.

There is optional tournament insurance available for individual non-US Club Soccer teams where the State Association has wrongfully denied them insurance to attend. Individual teams should check with their state associations about their secondary insurance coverage as each state may be different. Individual teams in need of more information regarding insurance can find it click here. Completed forms and any questions regarding individual team insurance can be addressed to Sharon Young insurancequestions@usclubsoccer.org

About the Tournament

In Loving Memory of Amanda Post

The Amanda Post Memorial Tournament is a tournament that has a lot of meaning not only to the organizations and participants of this event, but also the community around it. This annual tournament is dedicated to the memory of Amanda Josephine Post, who passed away in 2009 during her freshman year at River Hill High School and in her ninth year as a Soccer Association of Columbia/Howard County soccer player, when she developed complications from a bone marrow transplant (BMT) for her relapsed Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Read more+

About the Scholarships and Past Winners

The Amanda Post “AmandaWins” River Hill High School Student-Athlete Scholarship and The Amanda Post “AmandaWins” Soccer Association of Columbia/Howard County Student-Athlete Scholarship were created by Amanda’s family, friends, teammates and classmates based on how Amanda would want her memory perpetuated and focusing on that for which she was so passionate … excellence in academics and athletics, and being part of the RHHS and SAC communities. Each scholarship is awarded annually to help defray tuition/room & board/expenses for the recipient’s freshman year of college. Read more+

Applications

• Applications will only be accepted through the SoccerSheduler program. If you have previously registered for another tournament whose applications are processed by SoccerScheduler, you will already have a team page in their system. If this is your first application to a tournament processed by SoccerScheduler, you will need to create your team page at the start of the application process.
• Deadline for on-line registration and payment of entry fee is February 15, 2012. Applications received , or applications still unpaid after February 15th will be placed on a waiting list.

NOTE that applications are not considered complete until payment of the entry fee is made. We suggest that you send your tournament fee payment check by postal mail to the Elite Tournaments' office immediately after you apply online and receive your application confirmation number. Enclose a copy of your confirmation e-mail with your check (and confirmation number or team name on the check) to assure your check is credited to the proper team. Mail requiring a signature (certified, registered, etc.) will not be accepted.

• To complete applications:
  • Submit by the deadline in one envelope:
    1. Your confirmation of Registration from SoccerScheduler.com.
    2. A check or money order for the full tournament fee payable to SAC (U.S. dollars only), if entry fee is not paid by credit card. Application will not be considered complete without payment. If your team is accepted, the fee is non-refundable. If your team is accepted and later withdraws, the fee is non-refundable and sanctions may be placed against your team for participation in future tournaments. Should your team not be accepted, the fee will be returned by March 1, 2012.
    3. Mail a confirmation of registration and the entry fee to:

Amanda Post Memorial Tournament

401 Center Street

Suite 205

Mount Airy, MD 21771

Acceptance

• Acceptance notification will be posted on this web site by February 20, 2012. Upon acceptance, teams will need to complete a number of tasks, including:
  1. Booking hotel reservations with THS.  All teams that are accepted in this tournament and have a need to stay overnight must use the THS reservation system. Any team that does not use THS will be disqualified from the tournament.  No refund will be issued.
  2. Entering player names and jersey numbers into the roster page of the team's SoccerScheduler page for use in the tournament game reports.

Registration

• Registration will take place at Covenant Park at Tournament Headquarters one hour prior to your first game. All teams are required to register before playing or will risk forfeiting the tournament. Only a team representative needs to be present for registration. Teams that do not register on Saturday will be fined and will forfeit all games until the team is properly registered.
• Teams are required to present at registration:
  • 2 State Association or US Club Soccer approved rosters
  • Player cards for each player, including guest players
  • Non-Notarized medical release for each player, including guest players
    • The medical release forms must be signed within the last 12 months
• State Association approved permission to travel form (not necessary for Region I teams except teams traveling from New Jersey )
• Add all guest players to the bottom of the roster being submitted. Guest players information must include a unique jersey number, player identification number and birthday, as well as their name.

Games, Rules, Awards

• For all age groups, the usual format is three preliminary games plus a championship final.  Two matches on Saturday, one on Sunday morning and the final on Sunday afternoon.  Depending upon the number of participants in an age group, some divisions will play two preliminary games on Saturday, either a semifinal or consolation game on Sunday morning and the final on Sunday afternoon. All games are played in accordance with FIFA rules, except as specifically modified by Tournament Rules. A full set of Tournament rules will available online by clicking Rules in the left menu
• Awards are presented to first-place and second place teams in each division.

Rosters & Guest Players
The following are the maximum roster size per age groups:

• U9-U12 (Small-sided) 14 players

A team may use no more than four (4) guest players, which must be approved by the Tournament Director at registration.

Sponsorship & Advertising Opportunities
Interested in becoming a sponsor of our tournament?  Looking to place an ad on our website?  Contact the Sponsorship Coordinator

Referees

Referees from out of the area are welcome.  Any USSF licensed referee interested in participating in our tournament should contact our referee assignor Mark Jennings.