San Mateo AYSO Region 36  P.O. Box 5316, San Mateo, CA 94402 650-341-4112

2002 Season Survey Results:

All survey forms were looked at by board members.  Thank you for taking the time to let us know how the program is working for you and your children.

The following reports are the result of looking at the surveys, attempting to identify common themes and concerns.  All of this work was done by Tracy McSheery.

Parents' Surveys

I'm always amazed at how a sample can reflect the opinions of a group.

Just to see if there were any differences between the girls and the boys, I went ahead and did 165 girls (about 1/2 to 1/3 of the total I received.) from U10 and U8 to see how closely they matched the 165 boys samples.

Curiously there were only the following visible differences (more than 4 percent)

• 11 percent more girls parents want to learn more about soccer
• 4 percent more girls thought the coaches emphasized winning over trying (That can mean many things on the parents perception as well as the coaches intents.)
• 5 percent less of the girls parents noticed the Kids Zone signs. I'm not sure what to make of that. Field positions?

On the 1-5 scale there were differences but the general images are almost identical. Take a look for yourself, see if there are any conclusions to be drawn.

Results:  survey-girl-2002.xls - survey-boy-2002.xls

Coaches' Surveys

Here are the coaches survey results. There was a larger sample for the girls and they included the question on having web tools for coaches aids, which came back very positive.

The major differences:

• The girls coaches were much unhappier with practice fields, where as 75 percent of the boys were politically correct neutral. Still indicates this is one of the biggest issues to resolve.
• Good sportsmanship was more neutral on girls, take some from both the strongly agree and disagree side. Which means pretty much nothing, since it still averages out.
• PCA clinic was likewise more divisive on opinion, but largely agreed it was useful.
• The girls liked the Sportsmanship and Kid's Zone a bit more.
• Fifty percent want and 33 percent of the coaches didn't want after season coaching clinics, which if you look at the data reflects more of the upper division coaches input.. An additional chart on the bottom of page four shows that when just the U10 and under are selected the results look the same as the boys.
• Similarly 2/3 the coaches want to learn how to have training on how to effectively use parents in their practices. Surprisingly the last chart shoes this wasn't much different for U8 and under verses U10 and over.
• All in all, I'd say there were no surprises. The coaches want more training to be better coaches, and the few that complain seem to complain the most.

Results:  survey-coach-2002.xls