This Week's Game (4/29)
Tomorrow's game is at Doc Harris, Field 1, at 9am. Please have the girls there by 8:45am, for warm-up. Rick Shaffer (Kylie's Dad) put a nice Game/Snack schedule together for us, which also shows the field, jersey color, etc.. I've added it to our blog and this schedule is very handy but please remember to double check the official league schedule for any possible game-time and location changes. They sneak them in on us from time-to-time.
Team Blog URL
Assistant Coach
I wanted to let everyone know, Rick Shaffer (Kylie's Dad) will be helping me coach. This is a huge stress off my shoulders because I know there might be a game or two I can't make or a practice, here and there, where I'm going to be late because of my job. Rick is a great guy and he's an experienced coach. In fact, we both got our Soccer E License, for coaching, together a few years ago. He's had a lot of the same training I have. He's a great fit and I'm happy to have him helping out.
Last Saturday's Game
Congratulations to the girls for an amazing game last Saturday! What a turnaround from the week before. We would have typically had a scrimmage or two, prior to our first game, but with the lack of available practice time, with all the bad weather, we just didn't have time to prepare before that first game and it showed. But... last week, despite the weather, the girls came out to play and they really had their heads in the game. They did amazing!
This Week's Focus
Although we only had one practice this week, we were able to spend some time on our passing and dribbling skills. We're encouraging the girls to stop kicking the ball up the field when they get it, and to doing more dribbling and passing. I don't mind the defender clearing the ball and sending it up the field but I'd like to see more ball control and team-work from the girls. We'll spend more time on that in next week's practices as well.
Team Pictures
I apologize, I haven't had time to schedule our appointment yet but the plan is to do our official team picture on Saturday, May 13th. If anyone wants to call and get that scheduled for me, that would be awesome. Otherwise, I'll try to get that taken care of in the next week.
Thanks everyone!
Coach Ben
