"The Blossom Valley Athletic League is jointly hosting a BVAL Preseason Soccer Meeting and Sportsmanship Event at PayPal Park in partnership with the San Jose Earthquakes, an occasion the league's commissioner, Bill Murray, hopes leads to productive dialogue and a decrease in unsportsmanlike incidents during the boys and girls soccer seasons this winter. The event is scheduled from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 in San Jose."
"A lot of it has to do with player-to-official and coach-to-official confrontations. So we were trying to find a way how we can start to steer the other way. Bellarmine's Aidan Dempsey (6) consoles Westmont's Spencer Hoang (3) after Bellarmine won 2-0 after their CCS Division I boys soccer semifinal game at Bellarmine in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025."
"Murray hopes the night brings an opportunity for dialogue between coaches and officials, which he has noticed lacking in recent years. A lot of it is the coaches and referees, they just don't really mingle, Murray said. They don't know each other. I was the girls basketball coach at Del Mar for 26 years, so our officials, I know most of them. We'd talk ahead of time, just get to know the officials."
The Blossom Valley Athletic League is jointly hosting a BVAL Preseason Soccer Meeting and Sportsmanship Event at PayPal Park in partnership with the San Jose Earthquakes on Oct. 29 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The event aims to prompt productive dialogue and decrease unsportsmanlike incidents during the boys and girls soccer seasons. League commissioner Bill Murray cited an uptick in poor sportsmanship, including ejections and player-to-official and coach-to-official confrontations. Murray said coaches and referees have grown apart, noting prior familiarity in other sports helped reduce conflicts. The meeting intends to humanize participants and improve coach-official relations.
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