Schaumburg Athletic Association

★★Crystal

My five children have been participating in the SAA Schaumburg Association’s program for over 20 years. However, I’m really disappointed with how my recent situation was handled. Due to my daughter’s last-minute diagnosis, I was hoping for a full refund, given our long-standing involvement. Instead, I was only offered a partial refund, which felt unfair and frustrating. I hope they consider more flexibility in the future!

★sabb Vee

Worst organization to deal with. The new football commissioner is Biased, he has nothing to offer, not sure why he stands that position. it’s all about favoritism, they allow the coaches to assault the children & do not hold the coaches accountable.. the coach has anger problems throws tantrums & they gossip horribly. Bring back the other commissioner because projecting how things are going now, soon enough this will be more and more full of shenanigans ..

★★★★★Meriton Kadriu (Megatron83)

Great organization ran by volunteers. I'm glad SAA exists and moving to Schaumburg with young kids has been great. The kids love their respective sports and the cost is very reasonable in today's market with some of these clubs charging some crazy amounts for their programs. Thank you SAA.

★★★★Owen Whitworth

SAA is a fine organization ran by VOLUNTEERS. When you as a parent sign your kid up for a sport, know that you will have some responsibility to make the program work. If you are a coach, you need to step up and take responsibility for the entire aspect of your team. Everything is your responsibility from the players to the team mom and all the way down to the volunteers you rely on. If things didn't go well in your season, you have no one to blame but yourself. In this world you shouldn't set an example for the kids of relying on others. Step up and take control and be a positive influence for the kids. You can't just deal with what you want and ignore things or people you don't want to deal with. I have been a part of many different organizations and leagues through the years and believe me NONE of them run smoothly. All you can do as a parent or a coach is the best you can. Don't belittle people on social media as I'm certain that every story has two sides. The only person that looks bad in the end is yourself. These programs are all about the kids, or at least they are suppose to be. SAA has some problems yes, but show me a strictly volunteer program that doesn't.

★Bruce Orton

DO NOT get yourself involved with SAA youth football! We as a family, have volunteered our time, money, sponsored this poorly run organization. I volunteered as head football coach of the Pac-10 featherweight team after they decided to split up 28 kids because the senior coach thought he was going to the superbowl and didn't want to have inexperienced or smaller kids on his team. Low and behold, after several injuries throughout the year, both teams had to forfeit due to lack of starting players. What a way to have our dollars maximized, mostly to disappoint our kids because they can't play. The SAA treasurer is completely incompetent and extremely rude and arrogant. I will post emails later once I get them in order to substantiate my claim. We as a family and I as a responsible coach, decided to front the money for an end of the year party, which I knew we were going to be short due other families either not participating or having lack of funds to contribute. After the year was over and after our party, my wife and I contacted the treasurer to get reimbursed. For over a month and several emails with no response at all, we had to send one last email, threatening police action if we don't get a response. He responded within a half hour. Mind you, we have sponsored for two years, volunteered for the concession stand, holding chains, scoreboard, the list goes on and he couldn't give us 5 minutes in over a months time to respond? Inexcusable! During the year, we paid $60 for 3 SAA caps and handed the check to the commissioner. While trying to get our reimbursement, they claimed we never paid for the hats and we wouldn't get full reimbursement due to non nonpayment of spiritwear (the spiritwear lady happens to be the treasurer's wife by the way). After going back and forth with him and calling us rude to the spiritwear person, we had to give him a copy of our bank statement to prove we paid, which we had. How is the treasurer confused about who paid? This is his job! Do they not run a tight ship? Do they not keep up their books? In any case, not good. After giving him the copy of the statements to get our $60 out of the $337 they owed us, he rudely accused US for not helping him and being confusing and rude to the spiritwear lady (his wife) which I have emails to prove otherwise. How many times can you tell someone you've paid, how you paid and when you paid. But we made it confusing....? During his emails back to us he was extremely rude calling US idiots, putting blame on US for lack of communication, called me a bad coach (I do need to improve on my first year), called my wife a bad team mom (more volunteer work), mocked myself and my families money that sponsored SAA by calling it a joke. Is this what you want to be a part of? The commissioner was CC'd on all these emails and wouldn't even step in and offer some type of resolution on the issue at hand. Not one word. Feel free to learn from your own experience but also feel free to learn from our educated and paid for experience with SAA youth football. We also to date, we've yet to receive our full reimbursement. The season ended in October... If anyone from SAA wants to disagree with this review on this site, step up. I have no issues giving saved emails to the public making it quite transparent.