1) Click on your sport link from the menu at the top of this page.

2) Read the sport information.

3) When you’re ready to register, click on the Register link to the right. You can register online with a credit card, or print out a PDF of the paper registration form and mail in your registration.

4) If you want to order 2012 Star of the North shirts, click on the Order T-Shirts link. If you want to order shirts online, you need to register first to get your team number, and then order shirts second. You’ll also have the option of downloading a PDF of the t-shirt order form and ordering through the mail. We’re still working on the 2012 art work for the shirts, and we’ll post that as soon as we have the design picked.

If you’re interested, the safekids.org website has great information on what’s happening in each state across the U.S. Minnesota’s law requires coaches to complete an online course developed by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The youth sports programs of Star of the North Games, fall under the new Minnesota law. If you’d like to read the text of the law you can click on the link for Minnesota Statue 121A.37.

All youth coaches will need to complete an online training course. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention has a free, online course entitled “Concussion Training for Coaches (and referees)”. Click on the link to go to the free course. It takes about 30 minutes, and it contains some great information. Once you complete the course, the certification applies for three years.

All youth coaches in Star of the North Games will need to verify that you have completed a concussion training course before you’ll be allowed to complete your team’s registration. For online registrants, it’s easy. Just check a box and move on.

The vast majority of SOTN coaches will have already completed the training earlier in the year, by your sport or referee association, or to register for leagues and tournaments in the winter and spring. If you’ve completed the training already, you’re golden with us. Also, if you have completed a different training course that is equivalent to the C.D.C course, you can go ahead and check the box.

SOTN fully supports this new law as an important step to address a significant health issue in youth sports. Does this require a little extra effort for coaches to comply with the new law? Yes. Is the extra effort worth it? Yes again!

You’ll see the most used menu items across the top of the page, with sub-menus that will show up underneath.

We invite you to come to Rochester for the 2012 Star of the North Games, June 15-17 and 22-24. We are working hard to confirm all the details, so click on the link above to get the information you need. If we’re still working on confirming details, we’ll say so. Team sport registration will open in February, with individual sports opening in March of 2012.