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1 Hamilton Academical FC Youth Academy As the Director of Youth Development at Hamilton Academical F.C I would like to introduce you all to my Team: Head of Youth Development George Cairns PA to George Cairns Catriona McRoberts Head of Elite Children s Academy Matt Boyle 1st Team & Academy Secretary Scott Struthers Head of Sports Medicine & Science Victoria McIntyre Academy Sports Scientist Kevin Symon Performance Analyst- Dominic Stewart U17 coaches Guillaume Beuzelin/Dougie Imrie U15 coaches Stephen Clarke &Stuart Smith U14 coaches Ross Reddiex & Colin Jack U13 coaches David McKay & Shaun Fagan U12 coaches Marc Conroy & Rudi McKenna U11 coaches Kevin Taggart & Stephen McGhie Jnr. Academy Coaches - Matthew Craig/ Aidan Hughes/ Ross Reddiex GK Coaches - Brian Potter Wishing all our players and their families all the best for the season. Yours, Allan Maitland. N e

2 More Than A Football Club Welcome to the Youth Academy newsletter. In this edition we will update you on the following topics: Coaching and Training Sports Medicine and Science Fundraising 1st Team Games Parents & Players Meetings Sponsorship Pitch Rules & Regulations Club Academy Scotland Regulations Development Re-imbursments 10. Community Trust Red Bus Please visit our club website and follow our social media networks for additional news and information Remember you can visit our online shop to purchase club merchandise as well as buy goods at the stadium

3 1. Coaching and Training The Youth training schedule for season can be found on our Club website under the Youth Academy section. It is very important that your son arrives 15 minutes before his session is due to commence. He needs to make sure he is suitably dressed for the weather and that he brings his shin pads with him for every training session. When Academy players enter and leave the stadium; they will arrive via the main stairs at Reception and exit to training via the main stand entrance. The tunnel is prohibited to ALL unless they are visiting the physiotherapist. Training kit or any other items MUST no longer be left in the dugouts and instead should be left in the changing rooms around the corner of the stadium. For those accessing Sports Science, please note Kevin Symon will now collect players from the changing rooms and escort them to the Gym area. Can we ask that when you bring your son to

4 2. Sports Medicine and Science We have a team of Medical and Sports Science staff working within the Youth Academy. The Medical and Sports Science Department is headed up by Victoria McIntyre who is responsible for all Medical and Sports Science matters from Junior Academy to under 17 level. F From a Physiotherapy perspective, the Youth Academy has numerous fully qualified staff and final year students covering evening clinics and match-days It is important that parents are kept informed of their son s progress when injured, so we encourage parents to speak to the Physiotherapy staff about any aspects of medical care. In terms of Sports Science, the Youth Academy has Club Sports Scientist Kevin Symon implementing up to date Sports Science methods which should enhance your son s Academy football career. Kevin s role will be to run regular tests on the players strength, power, speed, agility and endurance. From the tests results, your son s physical development will be able to be monitored more closely and, importantly, more individual based training can be administered to improve on potential weaknesses. As with the medical care, it is important that parents are kept informed of their son s developmental progress so we encourage parents to speak to the Sports Science staff about any aspects of Sports Science care. Throughout the season, the Medical and Sports Science Department will provide parents and players with educational information (through talks, newsletters, etc) regarding basic injury treatment and prevention, nutrition and exercise. As part of our players development, nutrition is vital and to this end we are delighted to share with you that we now have in-house additional resource of a club Food Nutritionist and a workshop will be held for parents and players on Monday and Wednesday 12th & 14th September from 6pm 7.30pm your attendance is appreciated.

5 3. Fundraising We would like to remind you that we rely on donations/support to keep our elite Academy running and funds raised from scratch cards etc are necessary to support our financial remit, so please regularly share these with family and friends to give us your support. Thanks to Academy Mum, Lorraine Wilson for setting up Easy Fundraising; since December we raised over 120 for those using the code when shopping online. An regarding this will be sent to all parents but is a convenient way to help you join in our fundraising efforts. This year our Youth Academy along with the children s charity Blameless have been chosen beneficiaries to receive profits from the spectacular Scot Ball, Crowne Plaza, Glasgow on Saturday 29th October and we hope to have a attendance from as 4. 1st Team Games We encourage Academy Players attendance at all home games and have secured tickets to allow our players and their families to support the Team. Please make sure that when the young Players attend for the 1st Team games they wear their travel suit and polo shirt. In addition our U 11 s have the opportunity on a rotational basis to be chosen as our ball boys, which is a great experience. Remember to purchase some 50/50 tickets at our games, profit is split between our Academy and the winner!! More Than A Football Club

6 8. Club Academy Scotland Regulations Every parent of a player within our system will be supplied with a copy of the Club Academy Scotland Regulations, which covers everything relating to this season s youth football. Can all parents please provide Catriona McRoberts with an address so that your details can be stored for this and all relevant correspondence. 9. Development Re-imbursments Every parent of a player within our system will be supplied with a copy of the SFA guidelines on Re-imbursement of training costs. This covers everything relating to Compensation for youth footballers. Can all parents please provide Catriona McRoberts with an address so that your details can be stored for this and all relevant correspondence. 10. HAFC Community Trust Red Bus Our iconic Red Bus situated within our stadium serves as our community cafe and we urge you to support this at all times by purchasing items from the Bus. Cheap and affordable prices, and a great variety of hot and cold food/drinks, with ALL PROFITS channelled directly into our Youth Academy, so please consider this when visiting the grounds.

7 5. Parents & Players Meetings Our first parent and players meetings will take place on Monday 29th August further details will be ed to you directly. Each player will be allotted 15 minutes and George Cairns will discuss the content of their progress report explaining their development within our Club. 6. Sponsorship We are delighted to confirm that Sponsorship for this year for all our Academy teams has been given from the ZL Group, Strathclyde Business Park, Bellshill ML4 3NH, We are fortunate to have been awarded this and appreciate the financial support this deal brings to our Academy overall. IXercise4Less, New Cross Shopping Centre Hamilton has nominated our Club s Community Trust as their Charity Partner of the Year and this will bring many benefits to the Academy including fundraising among others which we will update you with regularly Importance of keeping our pitch safe for daily use Can I ask all coaches, parents and players to treat our pitch with the greatest respect. Our new state of the art 4G pitch is used daily and we all need to make sure that all empty bottles and bottle tops are put into the bins after training. Everyone should also note that CHEWING GUM is NOT ALLOWED to be taken onto the pitch at ANYTIME. Please help us keep our pitch SAFE from HAZARDS. More Than A Football Club

8 As the Head of Youth Development, I am delighted to welcome both your son and yourselves into our Youth Academy set-up at the Superseal Stadium and wish your son he very best of luck for the season ahead. Our Director of Youth Football, Allan Maitland will strive to attend every youth game. When possible will be joined by our First Team Manager, Martin Canning, Assistant Guillame Beuzelin and our Chairman and Vice-Chair, Les Gray and Ronnie MacDonald. We are fully committed to the Youth Development programme at the Superseal Stadium and being acknowledged as the number 1 Premiership Club who plays the most home grown stars endorses this. George Cairns Head of Youth Development Hamilton Academical F.C. Youth Academy Contact Details George Cairns: Head of Youth Development Tel: george@acciesfc.co.uk Catriona McRoberts : PA George Cairns Tel: catriona@acciesfc.co.uk