Hope everyone had a happy and peaceful Thanksgiving - we had Head Coach Adrian Heath and his family at our house for lunch. It's a holiday we wholeheartedly embrace - we all have something to give thanks for and it's great to spend time with family and friends.

We also wanted to wish two of our Aztex players from this season, Andy Taylor and Chris Spendlove the very best of luck tomorrow in the NAIA Championships in Fresno, California. Go OCU!! One of the interns at the Aztex office, Jordan Hills, has been updating the website each week with news of this season's players - we love hearing how well they are doing.

We have also been active in the community, making appearances at soccer and golf tournaments, and going out to schools and youth clubs. I'm very proud of the way the players have responded to requests to be available, although the free lunch at County Line for one event didn't hurt!

We are currently seeking entries for our mascot design competition so if you have any youngsters that are interested in participating, let me know.

Look for lots more entries, the whole back office team will be blogging soon!

Kay

USL League Meeting

The Aztex Front Office team have just returned from a long weekend trip to Tampa for the USL annual meeting. The meeting was very successful and gave us all a chance to connect with fellow USL colleagues and to forge new relationships. I am always pleasantly surprised by the amount of genuine cooperation that goes on between "competing teams" off the field, where people are only too happy to offer advice and tips.

The climax of the weekend is always the compilation of the new season's schedule. It took several hours to complete but I am delighted to say that we have a schedule that I am sure all our fans will be pleased with. We cannot publish the schedule just yet but should have permission from the League to release all the details in the next couple of weeks. What I can tell you is that we kick-off the new season at home and will feature on Fox Soccer Channel a minimum of 4 times during the summer! Full details as soon as we have permission to publish them will be found on our website.

Talking of websites, expect to see a new "all-singing, all-dancing" Aztex website unveiled in the coming weeks. We have taken the time to incorporate our new logo/badge and update a few things. We hope you like it.

Finally, we hope to announce our new home for 2009 after the Thanksgiving holidays and to have Season Tickets on sale before Christmas.....they will make a great Christmas present for someone you love : )

Phil