Roster Policy

• Returning players are guaranteed their spaces back onto their teams provided they register and pay before the registration deadline given for that season.
• A returning player is defined as a player having registered and played for the team during the last season that the team played.  Summer is a stand alone season and rosters will not be used in consideration for returning players.  
• Only players returning to teams shall be placed onto rosters up and until the registration deadline.
• After the registration deadline designated for returning players has passed, openings on teams will be filled in the order in which players have registered.
• Rosters will be filled to the roster maximum unless there are not enough unassigned players registered as of the registration deadline.
• If a team has openings after all returning and unassigned players have been placed and rosters are set, coaches may add players to their rosters by contacting the club's manager.
• In the spirit of recreation soccer, a coach may not "save" or "promise" a space on their team to any player.
• If a player wishes to join a team, coaches should ask that player to register on the first day of registration and request their team for the best chance at filling an open roster spot. This is not a guarantee.
• Players are allowed to play "up" in age division by one year with approval from the coach. Players are not allowed to play "down".  Exceptions to this are only with an approved medical waiver from Washington Youth Soccer. 
• Girls are permitted to play on boys’ teams.  Boys are not permitted to play on girls’ teams with the following exception - all players should have the opportunity to participate on an Olympia United team in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity, irrespective of the gender on the player’s records.
• TCYSA rules allow for U8 - U12 rosters to be overloaded by one player. If a team wishes to add additional players, this may be done only with approval of the TCYSA Director of Competition.
  U8 = 10 + 1,      U9 & U10 = 12 + 1,      U11 & U12 = 14 + 1,    U13 up = 18
• The club reserves the right to overload a roster when necessary to in order to get players onto teams.  Rosters may be overloaded in spring and fall with permission from the TCYSA Director of Competition.
• All teams may be overloaded in summer, and all players may participate in all games during summer season. 
• OUSC reserves the right to remove any player from a team.