Pictures went great! Those of you who could not be there, we will see when a make-up can be taken with the whole team again later in the season along with individual shots. Christmas City was prompt and efficient. Great job!

Our walk-through was unfortunately slightly tempered by a lack of listening/respect. Our second word of our core theme this year is HUMBLE. Good players hang on every word their coaches say in order to listen to how to be better or most importantly – how to be a better player for the TEAM. Would a college coach want to see players sitting plucking at the grass during a walk through? Would a community coach? Make your best impression every day. We have so many players who listen intently and want to be coached. If you were one of those parked on the grass, shoot me an email and apologize. We all make mistakes. Boys to men. I love you all and I want to see us win these victories over ourselves. These are life lessons and I’d be a lousy coach if we lowered our standards here. Our coaches love the team too much, have accomplished so much as players and coaches, and know way too much soccer to have anyone tune them out.

On Monday we will do the walk through again (We will report at 4:00 PM for this, earlier than the 4:30 PM time I had originally planned). Hopefully this time with EVERY soul all in – with ears, heart, and humility.

Looking Ahead:

Monday 8/18 Friendly – Pocono Mountain East (WAIS) – Wear BLUE home uniforms

4:00 PM Report and Walk Through

4:30 PM Support the girls soccer team

5:00 PM Warm-up

5:30 PM Varsity Scrimmage – We will either work in JV players as the game continues or run a separate JV scrimmage. I will need to see what the PM East coach says when I see him.

Tuesday 8/19 Practice

3:00-4:45 PM

Wednesday 8/20 Friendly – East Stroudsburg North (WAIS) and Dieruff (Tri scrimmage)

3:20 Report

3:30 Warm-up

4:00 Varsity Scrimmage and same thoughts as Monday on JV

Thursday 8/21 Light Practice

3:00-4:45 PM

Friday 8/22 @Kutztown 3:00 PM

Departure time from high school 1:30 PM

TOUGH – HUMBLE – TOGETHER