Below are the locations for the home field setup equipment designated as SYC home fields for travel soccer on Saturdays or Sundays. Ensure that the equipment is picked up and dropped off the same day from these locations. Do not lose the bags for the nets and the metal spikes for the corner poles.
Most teams have their own assigned paint machine and pick up paint from the SYC office/warehouse. Paint cans with orange H tips are for the old orange colored paint machines and paint cans with the green arrow tips are for the newer green or black colored paint machines.
West Springfield HS
Lights are in a black box on a tree located in the woods behind the football scoreboard. The key to the padlock for the lights are in the BLUE SYC shed on the left side towards the practice fields and portable potties. In the BLUE SYC shed will be 1 set of weighted yellow/orange stand corner flags and 4 green 40 lb KWIK goal sand weighted anchors. The combination is 2143 to the storage shed lock, keep it locked at all times. The field and track and bleacher areas need to be cleaned up with no debris left around by the last home team. Please tell all parents that they must sit in the stands during the games @ WSHS and NOT in their chairs on the track. The last game of the day on Sunday needs to take the 4 corner flags and put them away in the BLUE shed. DO NOT TAKE THE NETS OFF OF THE GOALS. All home teams should be cleaning up hte field area on the home and away sides. The takedown team has the final cleanup responsibility.
Hooes Road Park #4 and #2.
Two sets (4 long black bags) of portable 6 by 18 ft goals and nets are picked up and returned to the Greensprings Field (across the street) UHalul Storage Trailer each weekend, the combination lock is 2143. There are also 8 black sand bag holders there, 4 for each field, 2 on each goal. Repaint the white lines each weekend so that they do not fade out over time, paint may or may not be in the brown metal box located next to Hooes Road Park #4. The SYC office stocks white paint check during the week prior to see if paint is on-hand in the box next to Hooes Road Park #4. DO NOT DAMAGE THE FEET OF THE PORTABLE GOALS. USE THE LARGE SPIKE AND HAMMER TO MAKE THE HOLES IN THE GROUND FIRST BEFORE YOU SET THE FEET IN THE GROUND. DO NOT STOMP ON OR BANG THE GOALPOST INTO THE GROUND. REPLACEMENT FEET ARE EXPENSIVE. Corner poles are located in the brown metal box near Hooes Road Park Field #4. Do not need to take the corner flags and store at Greensprings, both sets need to stay at Hooes Road Park in the brown box near Field #4. Do not take or misplace the combination lock from the Greensprings Field Storage Trailer, it stays there with the chain.
Hooes Road Park #3. This is the field on the right as you walk from the parking lot which will be used for full sided games with full size goals. The white nets, corner poles, and painter are in the brown metal box located next to the back field Hooes Road Park #4 combination lock 2143. There should be velcro and tent pegs to secure the net. Repaint the white lines each weekend so that they do not fade out over time.
Greensprings Coach Bob Elseth Game Field
Do not takedown the nets or move the goals after Saturday games (unless there is bad weather), just secure the corner flags in the white UHAUL trailer. Two red colored nets and four corner poles are located inside the white UHAUL trailer in a gray trash barrel which you can use to transport both sets onto the field and return the gray trash barrel back in the UHAUL trailer. The combination lock is 2143. PLEASE DO NOT MISPLACE THE COMBINATION LOCKS. The metal goals are locked with a combination lock 2143 and chain by the white fence. There are 8 KWIK goal green sandbag anchors at the field to provide 2 weighted anchors for each side of the goal supports, which should be stored inside the white UHAUL trailer when not in use, the nets should be secure to the ground using pegs in the back (pegs may have to be replaced during the season if lost or broken. For Sunday takedown or bad weather on Saturday afternoons, the metal goals are to be carried off the field and placed laying down next to the white fence at the end near the parking lot and locked with the combination lock and chain. We do not want the goals left on the field during the week. There is a small footstool in the trailer for use to put on and take off the nets. DO NOT DRAG THE GOALS ACROSS THE FIELD, PICK THEM UP OFF THE GROUND. The 8 KWIK goal green sandbag anchors are stored inside the white UHAUL trailer. Please paint the lines on both Saturdays and Sundays there is one brand new painter for everyone to use in the storage unit make sure it does not come up missing. .Bring 2-3 extra game balls for the far end when it goes into the woods behind the goal or into the parking lot under the fence. TAKEDOWN CREW: Remove all trash and debris near the field, bleachers, fences, and the entire parking lot, pull the trash bag out of the gray container by the entrance, replace new bag the small metal box next to it. DO NOT PLACE THIS BAG OF TRASH IN THE CONSTRUCTION DUMPSTER AND DO NOT LEAVE IT NEAR THE LOCKED DUMPSTERS. There is no pickup service at Greensprings, a volunteer MUST take it across the street and put in the HOOES ROAD PARK DUMPSTER. Do not damage the large red mower in the white UHAUL trailer putting equipment in or taking equipment out of the white UHAUL trailer.
South Run Park Field #5
A duffel bag of white nets and special turf corner poles with yellow/orange weighted stand and black sand bags for use on South Run Field #5 is located in the light brown metal storage bin located at the light switch concrete shed between the softball fields 2 and 3 down the unpaved gravel road. To unlock the combination lock use 2143. The nets and poles stay in this storage bin at all times. Lights are on a timer and controlled by the Rec Center. Extra care needs to be taken on the nets to ensure that they reach the ground on both sides near the goal post. Use the black sand bags to make sure there is no gap or hole just inside the post, the back edge of the nets is not as important as the sides.
Franconia Park Fields 3,4, 5 (Thomas Drive between Meriwether and Bowie Drive) at Kevin Lennox’ Carport, 6107 Thomas Drive, around the corner from the park on the right side of Thomas Drive after you pass Springfield Estates Elem School. 2 sets of large nets, 1 set of small white nets in a black duffel bag with orange tag for small field 5 and 3 sets of corner poles for Large Fields #3 and 4 and Small Field #5.
Lynbrook Elementary School at 5800 Backlick Road-North Springfield.
Portable goals, nets, and poles in two 8 foot gray bags will be stored at 7117 Highland Street, Springfield, VA 22150 less than 1/2 mile from Lynbrook School. From Lynbrook go South on Backlick Road towards Springfield which converts to Amherst Ave for 2/10 of a mile, turn right at Highland St and go 3/10 of a mile, house is on the right. Under their carport, not locked up, please respect their property and privacy when picking up or dropping off each Saturday and Sunday
Newington Heights Park (off Silverbrook Road) 1 set of nets and 4 corner poles for the one field is located in the light brown storage bin located at the field. To unlock the combination lock use 2143. The nets and poles stay in this storage bin at all times. We will also try to store extra cases of paint in there as well.
Rolling Valley West Park Upper Field (near the Pohick Library, corner of Sydenstricker and Old Keene Mill Roads) Nets, poles, painter for the one upper field is located in the light brown metal storage container. The combination lock number is 3412.
