This year’s cup draw is on Jan 5th. See brackets below

100th Jackson Cup
Pearkes Challenge Cup
Tony Grover O35 Cup
George Smith U21 Cup
Div 4 Cup

On the behalf of the Board, wanting to send out the best of wishes for a great Xmas and the best of New Years to all.
We all look forward to having the time off to spend with friends & family, but it is always nice to get back at it in the New Year.
We especially look forward to the Semi Annual Cup Draw meeting on Monday January 5/2015, 7 pm in the nightclub of the Strath. That always proves to be an interesting & fun night!
We are also looking forward to the 2 All-star games on the Mainland on Saturday January 10/2015.
Then we get into the final crunch part of the season with League play, the start of Cup play, Finals the end of March @ RAP, and close off with Provincial Cup in early April.
A great year to be celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Jackson Cup !

Happy 2014 !

Vince Greco
VISL President
vincentgreco@shaw.ca

ANNOUNCEMENT – Tuesday December 9, 2014

You are hereby invited to come along and enjoy a fun day of top level adult mens soccer in the Fraser Valley as we announce the following ALL STAR games –

The FVSL Executive Committee along with our major sponsors SoccerCity and UMBRO are pleased to announce the details for the 2015 Summit Series All Star game, see above.

In our effort to offer different levels of competition to our membership we are continuing the All Star Summit Series, which began in 2010, against our good friends form the Vancouver Island Soccer League.
Being the current holders of the Summit Series trophy we look forward to some exciting soccer and even more good rivalry as we enter the 2015 calendar year. This year the trophy will be monitored by a security team on site (those who went to Victoria, January 2014, will know what this is about). There will be two games as follows –

• Fraser Valley Masters All Stars vs. Vancouver Island Masters All Stars
12.30pm Kick Off at Willoughby TURF South on Sat January 10/2015

• Fraser Valley All Stars (HOLDERS) vs. Vancouver Island All Stars
2.30pm Kick Off at Willoughby TURF South on Sat January 10/2015

Change rooms will be available at 11.30am – Concession will be open onsite

Post game presentations etc will take place at the Sandman Inn 8828 201 Street, Langley at 5.30pm, all are invited.

McGavin Cup Final

Tuesday Nov 18/2014
Adam Kerr Stadium
7 pm kickoff

Prospect Lake Black Div 2 vs Saanich Fusion Div 2

Champs are Saanich Fusion Div 2.
A 1-0 win over PL Black.
Jonas GolfMyers with the goal at 74"
Simon Carr with the shutout for SF.
Matt Carr as game MVP.

Please see below for information on an initiative we are supportive of:

My name is Daniel Lithwick and I’m a Research and Project Coordinator for the Sports Cardiology BC program from Vancouver Coastal Health and operated out of UBC Hospital. Our program has a large research component, and one study we are currently focusing on is testing young competitive athletes (aged 12-35) for cardiovascular disorder that can lead to sudden cardiac death. These events are rare, yet tragic occurrences. The purpose of the research is to get an understanding of the prevalence of these disorders in our local population (BC) as a study like this has never been conducted in Canada. The lead investigators are Dr. Saul Isserow, head of the UBC division of Cardiology, head of Cardiac Rehab at VGH and Medical Lead at Sports Cardiology BC and Dr. Jack Taunton, Medical Lead at Fortius Sport and Health Institute and Associate Professor at UBC.

We will be bringing our study to Victoria and were hoping that athletes from the Vancouver Island Soccer League might want to get involved. We will be conducting testing on November 29th and 30th from 9am-5pm at the Pacific Institute of Sports Excellence – 4371 Interurban Road. We will also be hosting an educational session on Sunday, November 30th at 530pm lead by Dr. Saul Isserow. He will be discussing aetiology of cardiovascular disease in the athlete, risk factors, warning signs and prevention. Register for the educational session via

Eventbrite

The testing in non-invasive and takes 10 minutes/athlete and consists of a heart health questionnaire (can be completed beforehand), physical exam with physician and resting 12-lead ECG. If the testing yields any potentially abnormal results (rare) we promptly organize for follow-up testing with an expert Sports Cardiologist (an appointment like this usually requires a 6-12 month wait). Several athletic teams from Universities and Colleges in the lower mainland have participated and we are excited to include teams from Vancouver Island in our study.

Please let me know your thoughts. Furthermore, feel free to pass on the information in this email and the attached documents to the other athletic programs in your community.

Find more information on our

website

Daniel Lithwick
Project and Research Coordinator, Sports Cardiology BC

Office: 604-822-1751
Cell: 778-879-0971
Fax: 604-822-7625