FAQ

All players are required to register online at the BASC Registration page. For first time players, a government issued birth certificate will be required to verify your players age. See helpful links below:

Player Registration

Birth Certificate Requirement

SIBLINGS PLAYING ON SAME TEAM
A parent or guardian having more than one child registered with BASC may request that siblings be assigned to the same team so long as the birth date(s) of the players will not cause the team to be formed in violation of team formation guidelines (play up requests must be approved by BASC – see play up form). The BASC Registrar may also consider non-immediate family relations as qualifying for consideration in accordance with this section.

CHANGE TEAMS
A special request by the parent, or guardian, of a player may be made requesting the player not be placed on a certain team, with a certain coach or on a team with certain player(s). If requested, the player will be assigned to another team based upon the Player Team Assignments section in the Team Formation Policy. This form of request will be honored once per seasonal year or as deemed appropriate by the BASC Registrar.

OTHER REQUESTS
Special requests beyond that listed above will be considered, however, the Club shall be under no obligation to honor such requests. The Club’s decision to not honor such a request(s) shall not constitute reason for reimbursement of registration fees if the player’s registration is withdrawn. The consideration of special requests shall be the sole discretion of the BASC Registrar as overseen by the BASC Executive Board (in accordance with the Standing Resolutions of the Club) and shall be considered only after the placement of all returning players to their existing teams during the normal registration periods.

Due to the nature of a recreational soccer program, BASC is under no obligation to honor any request. The Clubs decision to not honor a request shall not constitute reason for reimbursement of registration fees if the player’s registration is withdrawn.

The logistics of placing 1800+ players on teams is very time consuming and requires weeks of planning and hundreds of hours of work!

BASC cannot place a player on a specific team that practices at a certain location.

BASC cannot place a player on a specific team that only practices on a certain day or time of the week.

BASC cannot place your child on a team based on the child’s personal schedule due to conflicts with another activity or sport.

BASC cannot reschedule league games because of conflicts with another sport or other activities.

No refunds of registration fees will be allowed after players are registered with Broken Arrow Soccer Club, except in cases of financial hardship, medical reasons, a move by the player to an area outside the Club’s boundary or failure of the Club to place the player on a BASC team roster. Such refunds will be in the amount of one-half (½) of the registration fee paid, and minus the credit card processing fees which BASC paid upon your completed registration. In the case of failure of the Club to place a player on a BASC team roster which shall constitute a full refund, and must be approved by the Club’s Registrar.

No refunds shall be granted after the first regular season game.

Refund questions can be directed to the BASC Registrar at registration@basoccer.club

If you are wanting to talk to a Rec Select coach about your player, follow the instructions below to see who is available in your players age group.

Go to the Facilities / League Schedule tab at our website.
Choose the Open Rec/Rec Select tab, then open the league schedule.
Click the appropriate gender, then age group/division, and then schedule

BASC Rec + teams will have a + in their team name.

Once you are in the division schedule, click the team name you want contact information for. Once you are in their schedule, click ‘View Team Contact Information’ at the top.

See below example…

Basics:

Your player will need soccer cleats, shin guards, soccer socks for practice, soccer ball and a water jug.

Uniforms:

KICKSTART & U6 registered players will receive a club T-shirt at no charge but will need to purchase shorts, socks, shin guards and soccer cleats or tennis shoes. Your coach will let you know what color shorts & socks and where to purchase them.

(Returning KICKSTART & U6 players will not receive an additional set of shirts.)

U7 through U19 registered players will need to purchase a uniform, shin guards, soccer socks for practice, soccer cleats, and a ball. For additional information regarding uniforms and equipment please contact your coach. Each coach picks out the uniform for their team.

These may be picked from a catalog or a retail store and costs vary.

Size 3: Players in U4, U5, U6, U7, U8

Size 4: Players in U9, U10, U11/U12

Size 5: Players in U13/U14 and older

Does my BASC Registration Fee Include a Uniform?

U3, U4, U5 & U6 – YES – a T-SHIRT – All new registered players in these age groups will receive a club t-shirt at no charge, but will need to purchase shorts, socks, shin guards, and soccer cleats. Your coach will let you know what color shorts/socks and where to purchase them. Returning U3, U4, U5 & U6 players will not receive an additional set of shirts.

U7 through U19 – NO – registered players in these age groups will need to purchase a uniform, shin guards, and soccer cleats. For additional information regarding uniforms and equipment, please contact your coach. Each coach picks out the uniform for their team. These may be picked from a catalog or a retail store and costs will vary.

Rosters are released to coaches 2-3 weeks before the start of the upcoming season. At that time, your players coach will contact you to let you know when and where practices are and where to order your uniform.

If you do not hear from a coach 14 days before the season starts, feel free to email the Registrar at registration@basoccer.club and they can help you.

Picture & Player Passes Required For All U9 through U19 Teams

A player pass is basically a USYS legal form of ID to play in games showing the name, date of birth and a picture of the player. Player passes are the USYS and state approved way to show proof of age and the identity of the player on the official team roster. Player passes are created administratively through the club the player is registered through or their state association.

Every player in the U9 through U19 age group must have a picture uploaded into their GotSport Player Account at least 2 weeks prior to the first game of the season. This allows the club to print out a legal player pass and give to the coach of the team. If a player does not have a picture on the player pass, it is NOT a legal pass and the player will not be allowed to play.

BASC Coaches will print and keep the laminated player passes for their team players. Referees will ask to see these prior to kick-off of every league game and tournament staff will ask to check these prior to the tournament. It is the Coaches responsibility to supply player passes upon request of game officials.

To Upload a picture in GotSport:

At least two weeks before the season starts, log into the master account your player has been registered through at https://system.gotsport.com/

Choose “Family” on the left hand side.

Click the players name to open their account.

Click “Choose File” to upload a Driver License style picture. (A headshot of the player without sunglasses, a hat, another person, or pet in the picture)

An appropriate picture for a player pass looks like the following.

Step One:

Log into your account at https://system.gotsport.com/

Step Two:

Go to your “Account” tab. Scroll down on this page until you see the “OPT OUT of Email Communications From” area.

Step Three

Check the corresponding box for which organization you want to opt out of communication from, or click on the box for “Opt out of all mass communications” to include all organizations.

“UNCHECKED”, that means you WILL receive email communications from the club.

“CHECKED”, you WILL NOT receive email communications from that club.

Step Four:

Scroll to the bottom and click “save”.

Creating schedules for 150+ teams with 1800+ players is very time consuming.

A breakdown of the scheduling process is below.

The BASC Scheduler creates and schedules all Closed League (U6-U12), BA Academy League (U6-U10), BA 7v7 Spring High School League (U16-U19), and Summer League (U9-U19) games for all teams.

The Scheduler also works in conjunction with other clubs and the state association to ensure all the Open League, Rec Select, Academy, OPL, OPC, and NPL Frontier leagues are scheduled for our teams ages U9 through U19.

Schedules will be posted on our website at the League Schedules link 3-5 days prior to the first game of the season! We will contact coaches via email once the schedule is released.

Due to the lengthy process and the many leagues and clubs involved with scheduling, BASC cannot control the timing of when the schedules are ready. Please be patient while we work diligently to process through all these leagues and teams to create a final schedule – this is a huge job!

ALL BASC recreational coaches are volunteers! We have almost 300 coaches who volunteer their time to coach youth players every season. They are parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles – just like you!

We want to ensure your child plays on a team this season! BASC is a volunteer based club that requires parents to coach teams, manage teams and serve executive board positions. In the instance that a team does not have a parent step forward to coach, the team will not be able to form and all players on that team will receive a refund.

BASC offers coaching clinics every season for brand new coaches and also clinics for seasoned coaches. If you would like to coach your child – Click Here to Volunteer Now! For information on coaching clinics – Click Here.

Things to consider before playing your child up in age group.

With the new birth year changes coming to soccer there will be a lot of coaches, parents, and kids considering playing kids up an age bracket so their kids can stay on the same team. As a coach and as a parent, I’m certainly not against a kid playing up, if it’s under the right circumstances. Unfortunately, it’s not simple; every child and circumstance is different and every child needs to be evaluated on a case by case basis.

I can certainly understand the desire to play up from a child’s perspective. They’ve made friends and want to keep playing with them. Especially if you’re playing in the Rec level where having fun is just as important as growing in the game. That’s one of the primary reasons why Broken Arrow Soccer Club has decided to allow teams to stay together, if they chose to do so and to allow play ups. (NOTE: Playing Up is not automatic. Please refer to BASC’s guidelines on what’s required for a child to play up in age.) However, it’s also important to remember a child can have fun on different teams too. They’ll also tend to have more fun if they’re being successful on the field. So before you decide to play a child up, there are some critical questions to ask and consider. To help in making that decision, I’ve developed a few questions you need to ask that will hopefully guide you in determining if it’s a good idea for this particular child.

Question #1: Why are we considering playing up?

If the answer to that is the child is very competitive in their age bracket now and we want to see further development, then playing up may be a good fit. If the answer is just because he was on that team last year or because he/she has friends on that team, then please reconsider and think carefully. Yes, they have probably made friends on that team. But guess what, they will make friends on a new team too! Children are resilient, they may hesitate and be reluctant at first, but usually within a few weeks they’ll make new friends.

Question #2: Is it safe for this child to compete at this age level?

The primary thing to consider is safety and it varies greatly depending on the size and athletic ability of the child and the age groups you’re looking at. In general, a lot of it depends on when the various genders hit their growth spurts. Of course, there are always kids that are bigger or faster and some are smaller or slower within every age group. That’s going to exist even if your child plays within their true age group. So for this, we have to use something closer to the average. For example, let’s look at a 3 year age gap which should be about the most of any child playing up. There is typically not that much size difference between a (U16) 15 year old girl and an (U19) 18 year old girl. In that situation, the “average” size difference really isn’t that significant. The 18 year old may have a slight advantage, but a 15 year old could effectively, and more importantly safely, compete against an 18 year old, especially if they are already above average skill in their age group. However, there is typically a significant difference between a 12 year old boy and a 15 year old boy. I would be hard pressed to consider playing a 12 year old (U13) up two levels to U15 where they would have to compete against 14 and 15 year olds in a U16 league. I’m not saying it can’t happen, but the child would most likely need to be above average in both skills and physical stature to be able to effectively compete. On average, the size and strength differences for that age difference are enough that I’d have to worry about the 12 year old getting hurt. Soccer is a physical sport. While we do try to prevent injuries, contact does happen, kids collide and, occasionally, someone gets hurt. It physics, the larger mass is going to come out on top most of the time. The physical size and development differences can be even more significant at the younger ages.

Question #3: Does this child have the skill set and maturity to compete at this level?

While I think it’s important to challenge kids to develop, it also has to be at a level they can find some success. Playing a child up an age level where they struggle to compete doesn’t help them. If they are constantly losing possession of the ball or can’t keep up with older kids, not only will the coach and their teammates get frustrated, so will the child. They’ll actually digress in their skills and just start clearing or kicking it away so they’re not the one responsible for losing possession or giving up a goal. In those cases, the child will develop more and enjoy the sport of soccer more if they are competing against kids closer to their physical and mental abilities. (I say mental because it does come into play. The concepts you can teach a 9 year old are more advanced than what you teach a 7 year old. We’re also not talking advanced tactics. But U7 & U8 should be more focused on basic fundamentals. U9 & U10 is starting to work team shape.)

Whatever the decisions, we encourage you to keep playing soccer. It’s a great sport that can help kids grow just as much off the pitch as they do on.

Where: Practice fields are located within the city limits of Broken Arrow with the exception of the Health Department Fields. Approximately 150+ teams and 1800+ players share practice fields stretched across the City of BA! Parents should plan accordingly to drive their player to practice within the vicinity of BA or to the Health Department fields. All BASC coaches pick out their practice field locations based on its availability to them – just because you live in a certain area does NOT mean you will practice close by! You may practice 8-10 miles away – plan accordingly.

Practice Field Locations

BE AWARE! BASC cannot place a player on a specific team that only practices at a certain location or on a certain day or time of the week. The logistics of placing 1800 players on teams takes several weeks and hundreds of hours by a parent volunteer! BASC cannot pick a team based on where or when they practice. Do not email the club to request this.

Time: Your coach will let you know what time practice begins. Usually, but not always, practices begin around 5:30pm, depending on the coach’s work schedule, daylight savings time and the availability of a practice field for the team. Your coach will let you know what time your child’s practice will be at the beginning of the season.

⚽️ U6 players practice once per week for approximately 60 minutes.

⚽️ U7-U19 players practice twice a week for approximately 90 minutes.

Most recreational teams begin practice 2 weeks before the first game of the season.

Rec Select teams may begin as early 3-4 weeks before the first game.

BASC has developed an Inclement Weather Policy for closure of ISSC to play during or after severe weather events. Please see links below for more information.

Field Status

Inclement Weather Policy

Thorguard Weather Prevention System at ISSC

Playing and/or practicing in all types of Weather

Did you find or lose something at Indian Springs Soccer Complex? See below on how to proceed.

FOUND A LOST ITEM

Turn found items in at the concession stand on either side of the complex or the Ref Shack on the east side of the complex.

If during a tournament, turn the found item into Tournament Headquarters.

LOOKING FOR A LOST ITEM

Day of: check with the Concession Stand and Ref Shack to see if it has been turned in.

Afterwards: Call, email, or text the BASC Business office during office hours. Contact information can be found here. You are also free to stop by to look through the Lost & Found during office hours. If you choose to stop by, call or text ahead of time to make sure someone is in the office before you come out.

Tournaments: Check with Tournament Headquarters anytime during the tournament. If afterwards, follow the instructions above. If the tournament is not a BASC Tournament, you will need to contact the organizers of the tournament for them to check Lost and Found.

Need to communicate with someone in the club? Follow the link below to get contact information for the Executive Board, Staff Members, and the Club Business Office.

Executive Board and Staff

Business Office

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