Any questions email taslregistrar1@gmail.com
Any questions email taslregistrar1@gmail.com
Why is summer season 7v7 instead of 11v11?
Most fields in Tucson close down for the summer so that the summer grass can grow in. All the different field entities have different dates that their fields close but most are from June-Aug, making it impossible to schedule a season. TASL has been able to secure fields at Naranja in Oro Valley the last few years, since they are the only entity that keeps their fields open in the summer. They close 1-2 fields at a time and keep the others open so they can rotate users around the fields. The good thing about Naranja is that they just built 2 more fields. They used to have 4 but now they have 6 and they have 2 more slated for next year, bringing their total up to 8 fields in the future. TASL has to run small sided games for the summer to allow more teams to play. With only 2-4 fields available total in the summer more games can be played in the small sided game format. Often teams suffer for numbers on their rosters due to summer travels. So smaller rosters make it possible for more teams to participate during the busy summer months.
Warning about Summer Season
Remember summertime in Tucson is monsoon season. TASL will schedule teams their season's games. If any games are rained out or cancelled due to rain TASL will do everything they can to ensure your team plays all their games by scheduling make ups all the way up to Aug 30. However if by Aug 30 any rescheduled games have not been played the season must end so that the fall season can start on time even if your team has not played all your games. There are 4 extra weeks worked into the game schedule to allow for make up games. If after these 4 dates have been exhausted, the season will end as is.
For the last 3 years TASL has hosted an annual Independence cup near the 4th of July. This tradition was started with Chapman Automotive as the sponsor for this event. Unfortunately Chapman is not a TASL sponsor anymore so they are not sponsoring this event this year. However there has been requests to keep the tournament tradition going and TASL is celebrating their 20th year this year. So it has been decided for TASL to host a 20th year celebration tournament and TASL is working on some new possible sponsors for this event to keep costs down. Once fields are secured registration can open up for teams to sign up.
Tentative plan;
Sat June 29 & Sun June 30 in Oro Valley (Naranja & Riverfront)
2 games each night, 4 games total
Any questions email taslregistrar1@gmail.com
Registration now closed
Any questions email taslregistrar1@gmail.com
Registration now closed