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REGISTRATION DATES AND FEES

Registration is open now through 11:59 PM August 17th. 
Late Registration will be open through 11:59 PM on August 23rd
$20 late fee will be charged for registrations completed beginning at 12:00AM (Midnight) on August 17th.

Player Registrations Fees for Boys and Girls are as follows:
Rug Rats: $65.00
U5 & U6:  $85.00
U8 thru High School (U18): $95.00

Uniforms (shorts, shirts and socks) ARE included in your registration fee for the recreation program.  

The fees above are for the first player in your family, all additional Rec Program family members receive a $15.00 discount off the applicable registration fee at the time of registration (when all the players are registered together). 

CANCELED REGISTRATIONS: Any registrations canceled in the period beginning with our late registration period and through the second scheduled game weekend are subject to a 50% cancellation fee. Registrations canceled after the second scheduled game weekend are non-refundable. While not expected, if our Spring season is canceled due to suspension required by a city/county/state/federal executive order or similar, any refund by NRSA will be subject to the timing of such an order. 
 
SecureFee Insurance: SecureFee registration insurance is a product offered by a 3rd Party insurance company during player registration. SportsConnect, the vendor that hosts NRSA’s website, makes it available to you, but is not the policy issuer. NRSA does not necessarily recommend this product, as the SecureFee policy has a number of exclusions and conditions, but we cannot stop its being offered by our website host. Registrants are encouraged to read the policy thoroughly and understand what it does and does not cover before purchasing. NRSA will NOT be able to assist you with a claim, all claims are handled solely by the issuer of the policy. In the event a player registration is canceled, NRSA cannot refund what is paid for the policy, that refund must be requested by the registrant directly from the policy issuer. 
 

IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE SEASON

Note: WE WILL NOT send out rosters for any teams in an age group until ALL teams in that age group have coaches. This is necessary to allow the Commissioners to keep coaches with their players and attempt to balance team rosters.


Saturday September 7th, 2024
- Opening Day/Volunteer Workday (Skills Clinic for Age Groups U5 - U10): This day is for players to get started on the learning and fun process. In addition, we will give parents the opportunity to start earning their volunteer hours by helping to prepare the field and the Grimes Complex. While players participate in the skills clinics or games, parents will attend a brief informational meeting with details about your child’s specific age group. We don’t schedule activities for the Rugrats on Opening Day, but if you are new to NRSA and want to see what Opening Day and our program are all about, please feel free to come and attend one of the Parent Meetings and help get the Grimes Complex ready for the season. Yes, Rugrat Parents get to volunteer, too! 


Saturday September 14th, 2024 - First scheduled weekend of Rec games

Saturday October 19th, 2024 - We will not schedule Rec games for the last weekend of the HCDE Fall Break 

Saturday November 16th, 2024- Play Day/ End of Season Fun Day 


NOTE: We schedule doubleheaders throughout the season to avoid having to make up rainouts. 


AGE GROUPS 

This season the NRSA age groups will be set as shown below: 

(“U” stands for “under”. For example, a “U5” age group is for kids Under 5)
Rugrats: Older U3 (Birthdates 1/1 and 6/30/22) & U4 (Birthdates in 2021)**
U5: Birthdates in 2020
U6: Birthdates in 2019
U8: Birthdates in 2017 and 2018
U10: Birthdates in 2015 and 2016
U12: Birthdates in 2013 and 2014 
U14: Birthdates in 2011 and 2012
High School: Birthdates in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 

**Younger 2022 birth year players can be registered, with prior permission from Rugrats’ Coach Mark, and some assistance from our Registrars. Email us at [email protected] to make this request.  
    

COACH AND TEAMMATE REQUESTS

We make an effort to balance teams to improve your Player’s experience. Meeting new people and playing with friends and classmates are both important life experiences. Here are some guidelines we use to try to achieve balance between these life experiences: 

1.  NRSA will try to honor coach and teammate requests; however, these requests may be limited to maintain balance in player experience.

2.  As many teammate requests will be honored as possible but honoring them may not allow for coach requests as well.

3.  Any coach and teammate requests made after the end of the REGULAR online registration period (after LATE Registration starts) will likely not be honored.

4.  NRSA reserves the right to assign players to teams at its sole discretion based on the needs of NRSA, the registrations received for a season and the volunteer coaches available at the time - and does not guarantee any specific requests will be honored. Further, NRSA reserves the right to create a coed team from a mix of male and female registered players in the same Age Group in the event that registrations do not allow for creation of gender-specific teams in an Age Group.

5. We understand that your players' may have other activities that create conflicts during the week, however, we allow our volunteer coaches to choose the night of their practice and cannot swap players to new teams to accommodate conflicts or preferences for practice nights.    


Age Group Notes:

All players will register to play in the Age Group designated by their birth year (as shown above). We allow requests for players to play up an Age Group, if it is right for the Player. If you would like to request that your player to “play up”, you can do this during registration in the section where teammate and coach requests are made. Please be sure to list the reason(s) why you are making the request. This information will help us look for the right spot for your player.

Rugrats, U5 and U6 teams are typically co-ed, while U8, U10, and U12 teams are generally not. Age U14 and High School teams are likely to be co-ed, depending on the mix of registered players and the gender of the teams from the other associations. In some seasons we have been able to create gender-specific teams at the U14 and High School levels. Even in those instances, many of the teams they play from other associations in the area may be co-ed as well. 

Rugrats practice/play on Saturdays, typically. Their practices are a progressive style lesson plan. Each practice lasts from 45 minutes to an hour, depending on the weather and the mood of the team.

The remaining Age Groups will practice one to two nights per week. Each team practices on a night of the volunteer Coach’s choosing and subject to space availability.

U12, U14 and High School teams will play against rec teams of other associations in the area. Not all games will be at the Cleveland T. Grimes Soccer Complex (NRSA’s fields). 

Note: U16 and U18 are combined into one single Age Group, referred to as “High School” - The associations in our district agreed a couple of summers ago to try combining the U16 and U18 players into one age group, the “High School” age group. We found that only a few of the associations could register enough players for both age groups, so U16 teams were required to play U18 teams. By combining them, our players will be playing on a team with an age group that will match their opponent’s team (and what they would experience if playing with their high school’s team).

High School games will be played as either 11 v 11 or 6 v 6 (depending on the number of players registered in the age group at NRSA and at the other local associations).     


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4502 N. Access Road, Chattanooga, TN  37415
423-505-9451

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