THANK YOU! 

A big thank you to all who attended NAGM 2022 this year, both in-person and virtually. We appreciate your patience and engagement as we had our first hybrid event. 

Also, thank you to our presenting sponsor, SCORE, as well as our event sponsors, Augusta Sportswear, Soccer.com, The Coaching Manual, Sator Soccer, New Balance and Sport Pins for your support in bringing NAGM 2022 to our members. 

Thank you once again to Jane Prado and Section 1 for being a gracious host section. We appreciate all the fun events, from the Golf Tournament to the Casino Night, that you and your amazing volunteers put together, as well as all the volunteer logistical support before and during the event.  

If you were a registered attendee or guest, and missed any of the sessions or would like to rewatch, the site it still open, just use your login credentials to access the site. 

We also have a survey on the front page of the site and would appreciate your feedback as we look forward to next year. Again, use your login credentials to access it. 

To recap:
MOTION to AMEND: FAILED
Rules and Regulations Motion to allow 14U Unlimited Substitution aka “Free Substitution” failed. You can read more about the motion here. 

MOTION to AMEND: FAILED
Rules and Regulations Motion to Eliminate the rule using the BOL to determine offside in 10U failed. You can read more about the motion here. 

ELECTIONS:



Congratulations to Michael Karon on being elected as the AYSO National President once again. 


We are excited to welcome two incumbents and one new member to the National Board of Directors this year. Congratulations to Yvette, Dan and Rick.

We also say goodbye to one Board member, Cathy Farless. Cathy, thank you for your service to AYSO on both the board and as a whole for all these years. We wish you all the best!

AWARDS:
Spirit Awards - We were thrilled to honor three members this year for their commitment to AYSO. You can read more about them in our NAGM Information Booklet, found here. 

• Spirit Award, Management - Michael Sansone, Section 9
• Spirit Award, Coach - Gary Van Otten, Section 11
• Spirit Award, Referee - Rick Roberts, Section 1 

Region Recognition - This year, we are thrilled to honor our Section, Area and Region of the Year. 

• Section of the Year - Section 10, Rich Pagliari
• Area of the Year - Area 5/B, Michael Mays
• Region of the Year - Region 6/E/1103, Jeremy Mize

Congrats to all our honorees/winners this year! Very well deserved!

Photos from the event will be up next week, so make sure to check out our Flickr gallery in the AYSO Volunteers Marketing & Media area of the website. 

If you have any questions about the above information, please contact Patty Mallan (patriciamallan@ayso.org) or Yvonne Lara (yvonnelara@ayso.org).