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Practice Schedule Request Form
Only coaches who have completed all coaching certifications and background check are allowed to host a team practice. If you would like to request a new practice time and location, fill out our Practice Request Form by clicking the button below. Once submitted, email [email protected] to confirm that your practice request was received.
Coaching Certifications
If you plan on coaching for Willamette United Football Club in any capacity, you need to complete the following certifications every season. You will not be confirmed or assigned to a team until all of these requirements have been turned into the administration office.
Please complete your concussion certification and SafeSport certification before applying for your OYSA background check. Please email [email protected] both of your concussion and SafeSport certifications when completed.
Step 2
Complete SafeSport Certification
- Coaches taking SafeSport training for the first time need to complete the SafeSport Trained Core (90 minutes) module.
- Coaches who have previously completed the SafeSport Trained Core (90 minutes) module from the previous seasonal year only need to complete ONE (1) of the 30-Minute Refresher courses (Refresher 2 or Refresher 3) to be certified for another seasonal year.
- Once both 30-Minute Refresher courses have been completed, coaches will need to start over and complete the SafeSport Trained Core (90 minutes) module.
Coaching Identification Cards
All coaches will be required to show their OYSA Coaching Card to the referee prior to their game starting.
If a coach fails to show their approved player card (physically or digitally), the game will not be played and referees will leave the area. The game can be rescheduled later if both teams can agree on a new date and time based on the home team’s field availability.
Coaches need to complete all certifications (concussion, SafeSport, OYSA background check) and upload a photo of themselves to their OYSA profile before their card can be printed.
Coaches will need to pick up their card in person after they attend the WUFC coaches meeting.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have a child who has been registered to play for an OYSA member club at any time since the fall of 2008, you very likely have an account. Try clicking on the Forgot Password link to either retrieve or enter a new user name and password. If you did not register an email address or the system is unable to locate an account for you, contact our club registrar to reset your username and password.
No. The risk status in your account is only visible to a WUFC club official with proper security clearance or to an OYSA staff user. The detailed background report is only available to OYSA’s Risk Management Coordinator (RMC), and only the RMC can change a person’s risk status.
Yes, you can. Just click on the forgot password link on our club’s Affinity page, on the OYSA page for Affinity, or when you have started a coaching application. Once you enter some identifying information, you will be emailed a link that will allow you to set a new password and or username for your account. The link is sent to the email address registered to your account, so you must have an email address. If you do not have an email address, or have any problems, please contact the club registrar to reset your username and password.
No. You begin a new application by selecting registration our club’s OYSA registration page, then entering your username and password. All of your account information will be brought into the new application. You only need to confirm the accuracy of that information or update it in order to apply. You will still be required to review and accept the electronic legal agreements for each application that you submit.
If you are registering for the first time, you will be required to provide:
- Your legal name (please do not use your nickname as the name you enter will be used for your background check).
- Your date of birth.
- Your mailing address.
- At least one phone number.
- A valid email address.
- Your drivers license number and expiration date.
- The level of play to which your application applies (which you select is only important if you are applying for a coaching position).
- The position for which you wish to be considered (the selection is only important if you are applying for a coaching position).
- Answers to criminal history disclosure questions.
- A user name and password.
You will also be required to review and accept electronic legal agreements regarding background checks that include specific permission to OYSA to run a background check using your registration information.
Registration is done online through OYSA’s online registration software. Please follow these steps to register your background check with OYSA.
OYSA Policy 801-1, Section 1.C. states that, “No adult may actively participate in the activities of the Association or any of its member clubs until that person has registered with the Association as an Administrator and has a risk status of Approved.”
Any person age of 18 or over who fills any of the following roles for OYSA or for an OYSA member club is covered by this policy:
- Board members
- Employees
- Coaches
- Assistant coaches
- Team Managers
- Trainers
- Other adult Volunteers
- Referees who officiate an OYSA sponsored match (effective 7/1/2010) or an OYSA sanctioned match (effective 7/1/2011)