COVID Health and Safety Plan

As the COVID pandemic evolves, the focus of our Club will always be the health and safety of our players, coaches, and families. Our decision to run “in-person” camps (can proceed in Yellow Phase per the State and EPYSA), and eventually resume training (can only proceed in Green Phase per the State and EPYSA) will always be based on recommendations and guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control, the State of PA, and EPYSA.

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Registration is Open!

Thank you in advance to all new and returning players! Through this time we continue to press forward in our pursuit to be the best youth soccer club in the country. The acceptance and announcement of our Girls program into the new Girls Development Academy is just the latest accomplishment in that pursuit.

Our club has made the commitment that all currently rostered players will have a spot in our program for '20/'21 Soccer Year. We ask returning players that you commit to the club that you will be accepting the roster spot. Please register below.

All new players will be able to attend training sessions, tryouts, or ID clinics once we get back to playing. We welcome all new players and you can register below.

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Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals Adds

Megan Ryan Nemzer

Youth Technical Advisor

Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Leadership Announced

IMPORTANT CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT - CORONAVIRUS

Effective 3/12/2020

Parents, Players, Coaches, and Managers:

We are suspending all team activity indefinitely. This includes all games and training sessions on our campus. We will hold virtual meetings and training sessions instead.

Coaches/Managers, please make sure you notify your tournaments, leagues, and opposing team that you will not be playing. This is not optional and it is a clubwide.

The world is changing every hour and the spread of the virus has now shut down multiple schools in the area in addition to all the colleges going online. It has shut down professional leagues with billions of dollars at stake. We have kids and families that come from multiple school districts and private schools in the area. Some of these schools have already announced closures and confirmed cases of the CoronaVirus. The leadership at the club is having several conversations with league reps, state organizations, other clubs and medical professionals in an effort to have the most information possible when making these decisions. We do not take this action lightly but risking further spread of the disease throughout our Ukie family is just simply not worth the risk.

We will continue to monitor and modify the policy as the situation changes. I hope everyone understands that this is an abundance of caution, but the health and welfare of all of our members is our first priority.

Tribute to a Great Man... Yaroslaw “Jerry” Kozak

Last week we celebrated the life and passing of Yaroslaw “Jerry” Kozak. His solemn funeral mass at Annunciation BVM Ukrainian Catholic Church brought together so many people from Tryzub’s gloried past and present. It is the bittersweet thing about funerals. For those who attended from the Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals, it was such a privilege to be there. The Tryzub family came to honor an Extraordinary Man—a man who earned your respect and admiration every day of his life in the example he set.

The pictures below tell part of the story: Jerry Kozak as a player here; Jerry Kozak as a coach here; Jerry Kozak building, planting, moving earth, operating equipment, etc.; Jerry Kozak leading us and representing us at all times with dignity. The fuller story is how one dedicated, hard-working volunteer with a heart of gold and unexcelled passion for this Club could shape it for seven (7) decades. For perspective, most people who come through our soccer organization will be involved here for five, maybe ten years. We know Jerry Kozak was not alone in making this place. But for those of us in the soccer leadership for the past couple decades, he was the most visible example of Tryzub’s core values: integrity, loyalty, dedication and service. Jerry Kozak possessed an iron-will to get things done.

As soon as you joined the soccer organization, you discovered Jerry Kozak’s stature here. It was never in anything Mr. Kozak said. He possessed that rare gift of great leaders—humility. But you knew he carried weight when you heard a teenage girl named Larissa or her brothers greet him as “Pon Kozak.” While the term was unfamiliar to us, you could hear the respect in it. Jerry Kozak earned respect, and not because he was Tryzub’s President at the time. The pictures testify. He was a man of action along with his friend, Ted Kulp. Pon Kozak recognized a problem, analyzed it, and solved it. Tryzub was always improving on his watch.

We joined this Club after the turn of this century. By then, Pon Kozak had been here for fifty (50) years. Through his life of service, he had a keen sense of who he could depend upon. But he never asked of anyone what he was not prepared to do himself. Today, we talk about the unfortunate sense of entitlement people have. This was never Pon Kozak. You would never see him take as much as a free draft. It was frankly the opposite. After a long day of spring clean-up, trenching, or getting ready for a Club event, Pon Kozak would buy his crew a round of “Old Kiev.” You fondly remember the day you were in that special community of volunteers and toasted “Na zdrovya.”

The details of Pon Kozak’s extraordinary life and wonderful family are in his obituary posted on our Facebook page. Pon Kozak was a WWII survivor. He was intelligent, educated and successful. Winston Churchill said: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Pon Kozak gave us everything. Some might think it cliché to say Pon Kozak was Tryzub. He was.

2020 Summer Camp Dates Announced!

We are proud to announce our 2020 Camp Dates. The Ukrainian Nationals will be hosting Youth and High School camp all summer. Please see dates below. The camps are open to existing players and outside players.

• For existing players it is no cost and part of our ancillary program.
• For outside players the cost will be (1) Week $325.00, (2) Weeks $600.00 and (3) Weeks $800.00

2020 Spring Intramural Program

Start Date- April 4th 2020

End Date- June 6th 2020

• Training Sessions for 2015 and 2014 birth year will be held on Tuesdays 5-6PM
• Training Sessions for 2013 and 2012 birth year will be held on Thursdays 5-6PM
• Training Sessions will be run by Girls Director Tristan Preece and Ukrainian Nationals Staff
• Games will be held on Saturday Mornings between 9AM and 12PM
• All Games will be monitored by Ukrainian Nationals Staff

If you have any questions please reach out to Tristin Preece.

Tristan@UkrainianNationals.com

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2020 College Combine

We are proud to announce our 2020 College Combine for High School aged players. We have secured top local Division 1,2, and 3 coaches to provide on field coaching, as well as a guided information session for parents and players.

We will be announcing the schools who will be in attendance in the coming weeks.

Cost of Program:

• For existing players it is no cost and part of our ancillary program
• For outside players it is $150.00

Please follow our social media accounts for the exciting additions to this event

GIRLS COLLEGE COMBINE

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29^TH

ON FIELD SESSION: 9am - 2pm

INFORMATION SESSION: 2:30pm - 4pm

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BOYS COLLEGE COMBINE

SUNDAY, MARCH 1^ST

ON FIELD SESSION: 10am - 3pm

INFORMATION SESSION: 3:30pm - 5pm

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Announcing 2 Additions to our Coaching Staff

Kenie Wright comes to the Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Club as a current member of Sky Blue FC of the National Women's Soccer League. Kenie was the 29th overall pick in the 2019 NWSL Draft following a decorated career at Rutgers University. The Two Year captain helped lead the Scarlet Knights to two Big Ten Championship games, four consecutive NCAA Tournaments appearances, and the NCAA College Cup in 2015. Kenie also was named Second Team All Big-Ten and Third Team All-Region for her performance in her senior campaign. The second year pro will begin her coaching career with the Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Club this spring.

Jordan Nash comes to the Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Club as a current Assistant Women's Soccer Coach at Delaware Valley University and a former goalkeeper for Temple University. As a coach, Jordan helped lead DelVal to a resurgence defensively as the team had it's lowest goals against average in five years. Jordan also coached goalkeeper Haley Young who ended the reason ranked in the top 30 in the NCAA in saves per game. As a player, Jordan was a four year starting goalkeeper at Temple University. She finished her career with 226 saves and impressive 1.36 goals against average. During her freshman season she received American Athletic Conference Player of the Week and Goalkeeper of the Week honors, and was named to the American Athletic Conference All-Rookie

Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals Memorial Day Tournament Dates: May 22 - 24

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