When the teams arrived at the set location for the practice game, they discovered that the field was in use. Here, it would be inconsistent with public policy to impose upon an organization that administers soccer games the unreasonable burden of a duty to spectators to inspect for and warn of dangers on public property. All rights reserved. Plaintiff next argues that defendants owed her a duty of care because they operated and controlled the field and surrounding area at Spring Trail Elementary. Plaintiff suggests that defendants could have ensured that the field was properly lit, that they could have placed signs near the ditch, or that they could have warned both participants and spectators of the existence of the ditch and its potential danger. Dunbar v. Latting, 250 Ill.App.3d 786, 790, 190 Ill.Dec. Learn more about FindLaws newsletters, including our terms of use and privacy policy. Therefore, any duty they owed was to the participants.
Plaintiff's third amended complaint contained the following allegations. The trial court granted summary judgment for defendants. Clubs can set up individual 1 on 1 training webinars with GotSoccer. The court held that the league and its president had a duty to supervise and safeguard game participants because the nature of the sport was such that injury was likely and because the burden on defendants of guarding against the injury was not great. Neither the IYSA nor the NISL owned the field at Spring Trail Elementary. GotSport's powerful tools & unbeatable customer service mean our fees represent the best value on the market: Learn more about what GotSport has to offer and how it can help you and your club. In Castro, a foul ball hit a minor baseball player while he was seated on the players' bench during a game played on a public field. In Collins, the court held that the organizer of a softball game owed no duty under a theory of premises liability to a player who was injured while participating in a game because the organizer did not control the land, where the organizer was a permissive user of the park for his own purposes and, therefore, was a licensee whose only interest in the land was permission to use the land. Collins, 179 Ill.App.3d at 794, 128 Ill.Dec. Dunbar, 250 Ill.App.3d at 790, 190 Ill.Dec. 632, 533 N.E.2d 504. Plaintiff attended her son's practice game at that field, and, as a result of defendants' negligence, she was injured when she tripped and fell in a drainage ditch on the premises as she walked to the parking lot after the game. We affirm. Esser v. McIntyre, 267 Ill.App.3d 611, 617, 204 Ill.Dec.
The relationship between a spectator and defendants is too remote for us to find that defendants had a duty to inspect the premises and warn plaintiff of any dangers off the field. The court stated that such a requirement would impose an unreasonable burden upon those who operate and sponsor the baseball program. Want to learn more information about Woodstock United Soccer Association news and updates? Support | Chat Hours: Monday through Friday 9 AM to 5 PM EST.
Stay up-to-date with FindLaw's newsletter for legal professionals, GODEE v. ILLINOIS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION. Rather, Illinois School District U-46 owned the field and surrounding area. The existence of a duty under a general negligence theory is determined by considering the following factors: the relationship of the parties, the likelihood of injury, whether there is a reasonable foreseeability of injury, the magnitude of the burden of guarding against the injury, and the consequences of placing that burden on the defendant. 363, 621 N.E.2d 232. For a duty to arise under the law of premises liability, the defendant must possess and control the real property on which the tort occurred. Clubs begin uploading or populating their accounts. Please try again. The judgment of the circuit court of Du Page County is affirmed. The scope of the duty to guard against negligence in a voluntary undertaking is limited by the extent of the undertaking. Castro, 178 Ill.App.3d at 354, 127 Ill.Dec. The court stated that, while the league president was not an insurer of the player's safety, he must exercise reasonable care to the extent of his undertaking, here the organization and administration of the League. Castro, 178 Ill.App.3d at 354, 127 Ill.Dec. 632, 533 N.E.2d 504 (1988). The trial court entered summary judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appealed. Defendants moved for summary judgment (735 ILCS 5/2-1005 (West 2000)). Verify previous coaches/managers, and the SafeSport and CDC tests can now be completed for 2021/2022. We review de novo a grant of summary judgment. Collins v. Mid-America Bag Co., 179 Ill.App.3d 792, 794, 128 Ill.Dec. We agree with defendants that they owed plaintiff no duty under either a general negligence theory or a premises liability theory, and, therefore, we do not address plaintiff's third argument. The NISL schedules league games at approved fields. Whether a duty of care exists is a question of law to be determined by the court, and it thus may be determined on a motion for summary judgment. 80, 695 N.E.2d 853 (1998); see 735 ILCS 5/2-1005(c) (West 2000).
The court held that defendants had a duty to supervise the games while the players were on the field and participating in the sport and entrusted by their parents to the coaches. Mary Lynn GODEE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ILLINOIS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION et al., Defendants-Appellees (Rob Salazar, Defendant). WUSA Fall 2022 RegistrationREGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!Deadline: July 31st, 2022, WUSA & CROSSFIRE ON-LINE SPIRITWEAR STORES. 80, 695 N.E.2d 853. Begin typing to search, use arrow keys to navigate, use enter to select. The leagues administer youth soccer games between their teams. Loosier, 142 Ill.App.3d at 317-18, 96 Ill.Dec. Once your main admin has been put into the system you can contact them to have any additional full access admins gain access. Here, defendants' undertaking was limited to the administration of youth soccer games. To help facilitate the transition we will be rolling out the GotSport system in 3 phases, so we can focus our training and support based on users needs. We disagree. Plaintiff responded that the IYSA and the NISL, through their agents, specifically their coaches, owed her a duty because of her relationship to defendants. Therefore, because defendants did not possess and control the property, they had no duty to plaintiff to guard her against injury, and the trial court properly entered summary judgment. The coaches did not advise either the IYSA or the NISL of the game. Plaintiff, Mary Lynn Godee, sued defendants, Illinois Youth Soccer Association (IYSA), Northern Illinois Soccer League (NISL), and coaches Mark West and Rob Salazar, seeking damages for injuries she sustained when she slipped and fell in a drainage ditch by a school's field as she walked to the parking lot following her son's practice soccer game. 363, 621 N.E.2d 232 (1993). Justice CALLUM delivered the opinion of the court: The email address cannot be subscribed. 654, 491 N.E.2d 933. The coaches moved the game to Spring Trail Elementary School in Carol Stream, which had a field that the league had not authorized for games. On September 16, 1998, West and Salazar, each a volunteer coach, scheduled a practice soccer game to be played at a field in Carol Stream. 417, 614 N.E.2d 551 (1993)), but must come forward with evidence that establishes a genuine issue of material fact (Salinas v. Chicago Park District, 189 Ill.App.3d 55, 59, 136 Ill.Dec. Copyright 2022 Woodstock United Soccer Association. 693, 661 N.E.2d 1138 (1996). To state a claim for negligence, a plaintiff must establish that the defendant owed plaintiff a duty of care, that defendant breached that duty, and that plaintiff suffered an injury proximately caused by the breach. Zekman, 182 Ill.2d at 374, 231 Ill.Dec. Parents can now sign-up whenever, wherever! However, the sports organization had no duty to protect the member from injury at all times when he might sell tickets or be en route to sell tickets because public policy does not require that citizens, who do volunteer work in coaching baseball and softball teams, provide supervision of all team members at the time when a team member is engaged in the activity of selling a raffle ticket. Loosier, 142 Ill.App.3d at 317, 96 Ill.Dec. Zekman v. Direct American Marketers, Inc., 182 Ill.2d 359, 374, 231 Ill.Dec. Castro v. Chicago Park District, 178 Ill.App.3d 348, 352, 127 Ill.Dec. Defendants had no duty to spectators to inspect the entire premises and warn of any dangers on the property.
They argued that plaintiff proffered no evidence that they owed a duty because (1) plaintiff was neither a participant in the game nor a member of the IYSA; (2) neither the IYSA nor the NISL owned, operated, controlled, or maintained the field; (3) Spring Trail Elementary's field was not an authorized field; and (4) the game played there was not an authorized game. Illinois Youth Soccer Association will be holding Zoom webinar training sessions for registrars to assist them in learning the new GotSport system. Plaintiff appeals, arguing that (1) defendants owed her a duty of care because of the parties' relationship; (2) alternatively, defendants owed her a duty of care because they operated and controlled the premises; and (3) the open-and-obvious exception to the duty of care does not apply. A defendant does not owe a duty to a plaintiff if the defendant does not control or intend to control the land. 834, 535 N.E.2d 48 (1989). 902, 642 N.E.2d 803 (1994), aff'd, 169 Ill.2d 292, 214 Ill.Dec. Plaintiff presented no evidence that the coaches maintained the area or physically enclosed it. Illinois Youth Soccer Association has chosen GotSport as their official registration and scheduling platform, so their members now have access to the most advanced sports management platform on the market. Continued training and familiarization with how to submit team and player registrations to the state. Parents can now register & pay their fees at the convenience of their fingertips, Parents can now simultaneously register and pay fees for multiple children from a single account, Manage your club registrations, state registrations, tournament registration and billing all in GotSport. Plaintiff in the present case argues that, because the coaches supervised a game on the field, they operated and controlled the entire property, including the area that contained the drainage ditch. In Loosier v. Youth Baseball & Softball, Inc., 142 Ill.App.3d 313, 96 Ill.Dec. Plaintiff argues first that defendants owed her a duty because it was very foreseeable that a parent would attend her son's practice game and slip and fall in the drainage ditch on the school's property and that the potential for injury as a result of the fall was high. The nonmovant need not prove its case at the summary judgment stage (Bickerman v. Wosik, 245 Ill.App.3d 436, 438, 185 Ill.Dec. Summary judgment is properly granted if the pleadings, affidavits, depositions, admissions, and exhibits on file, when viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmovant, reveal that there exists no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. She further argues that the burden on defendants of guarding against such an injury was not great. Plaintiff also responded that defendants operated and controlled the field and, therefore, owed her a duty to make the premises safe or to warn of any danger on the property. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 654, 491 N.E.2d 933 (1986), a minor member of a youth baseball team sued a nonprofit sports organization after he sustained injuries when he tried to cross a highway to go to a shopping center to sell baseball raffle tickets. 1529 Third St. S., Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250, | Chat Hours: Monday through Friday 9 AM to 5 PM EST, if the state pre-loaded them into GotSport, View & Download GotSport Registrar Manual, ALL clubs attend a Mandatory Webinar Training session with GotSoccer and Illinois Youth Soccer Association Staff. See Esser, 169 Ill.2d at 302, 214 Ill.Dec. Begin verifying new players and matching up existing players to their previous verifications. 660, 545 N.E.2d 184 (1989)). Full Access users can obtain their login. 834, 535 N.E.2d 48. She asserted that there was a high likelihood and great foreseeability of injury at the site and that the burden on defendants of guarding against injury was not great. Copyright 2022, Thomson Reuters. 632, 533 N.E.2d 504. 693, 661 N.E.2d 1138 (defendant did not occupy hotel area with the intent to control; where the area was not enclosed, it was open to anyone, and defendant did not clean and maintain the area).