Danny Thatcher – 82

Nolan Browne – 78

Andrew Bleice – 76

Jeff Sunderlin – 73

Justin Hetrick – 71

Season just getting going so plenty of time to rack up the points!

School is in session tomorrow and players have the day off due to the Saturday game. Your education is critical to your future boys. Doing well at one thing makes you better at another. Goal setting, personal responsibility, hard work, dedication. School helps with all those things. Academic success is critical to our athletic success. Stop by 103 and say hi – Coach will always be a friendly face for you at the high school.

As for Saturday, we have a lot to improve on collectively and individually to compete with the best teams and we will be hard at work on that on Tuesday for our home opener this week on Thursday which should be can’t miss entertainment. I want to encourage all members of the team to first look closely at oneself and reflect on areas we can improve. As coaches we are always doing that, as players this is critical also. Change of any positive nature always starts with ourselves.

Thank you to Mrs. Miller for sending some more pics and you can see those on the schedule and results section of the website! Have a great first day everyone!! All practice players of the day or men of the match can stop by my room anytime and grab a Gatorade from my fridge. You earned it!

Hard to believe but the boys will be out there again in less than 12 hours. I am proud of the boys. In life we can never guarantee an outcome, but we can guarantee that we will fight to the end to try to get it. And they did.

Danny’s goal was a marvel. I have seen some great goals coaching and enormous personal efforts and this ranks among them. He was also a rock in the back and is our man of the match – el capitan!

I thought the JV’s worked hard and had moments of nice link-up play and Tyam was the man of the match there. They are undefeated!

Varsity will support and cheer them on for the first half tomorrow!!!

BUS LEAVES TOMORROW AT 7:45 AM

JV game starts at 9:00, Varsity after (approximately 10:30). Wear whites please. Quick wash!

Analysis:

As always, as Head Coach I take responsibility for all outcomes on the team – big or small. Tomorrow we will emphasize that we need to string more passes together in the middle of the field and the attacking end. Too many long balls played into their hands and fatigued us and we lost our edge pressuring the ball. We need to stretch things wide and open more space. More give and gos and quick passes. We will get there! TOGETHER we are stronger.

Lots to love, lots to improve. Rest up, hydrate up, eat, and lets grab one from pleasant valley tomorrow. I know the boys can do it!

To my players,

The mission: Play our best, high energy, high octane, high communication, make them miserable harassed mercilessly around the field, first to every ball, calm and deadly with the ball when we have it kind of game. Have each other’s backs and do it all for the blue and gold. Don’t be nervous, be excited. Wherever we go, we go together. Get ready to lace up Warriors!

Freshman – wear your white jerseys to school tomorrow for orientation. Wear that jersey with pride. If you are dual roster, wear whatever fits you best or that you would like.

Bus leaves at 1:00 PM from high school. Do not be late.

Practice today at WAIS (3-5), please be on time – 2:55 pm. Plans have been updated in coaches corner.

XC athletes are excused and good luck at your meet!

Reminder – all practices/games/etc are mandatory unless excused. Remember – Tough, Humble, TOGETHER. We need ALL of you. Plus its so fun to play.

Tomorrow we have our season opener.

Bus leaves at 1:00 PM from high school. Be early

Wear white jerseys and socks. Varsity plays first at 3:00, JV at 4:30. If you want to leave with your parents instead of the bus, they may see me and sign you out after the varsity game (only if you are not double rostered). Expect a return around 7 PM to high school.

What am I expecting today and tomorrow?

A strong practice and a ferocious effort tomorrow.

Our opening day game is against Kutztown on Friday. Some notes for all games and practices as the school year starts:

1. We play our home games in blue including blue socks. Dual roster players, bring both uniforms. I have more varsity uniforms on order.
2. Away games are played in all white. Dual roster players, wear only the varsity white uniform.
3. We always leave for away games for the HIGH SCHOOL outside the gym. Departure times will be posted on the website. Please be a bit early so we may leave on time.
4. Addresses for away games can be found on the “schedule and results” section of this website.

Here is a screengrab:

5. Once school starts, there is a bus that takes students over to WAIS where we practice. It leaves from the front of the gym at the high school after school.

Practice tomorrow from 3-5 PM.

Click on “Schedule and Results” where you will see result, some stats, and a column for pics. Click on photos and you will see whatever I have collated from a particular game and later a video as soon as old coach can learn the VEO camera – my goal is start with the Kutztown game. Thank you Mrs. Benevides for providing the photo from PM East! It’s also now the front for the website as well. Anyone else is welcome and encouraged to send me files of pics and I will post up!

1. I am fully expecting to play today regardless of the small amount of rain forecasted. If for some reason that changes, I will post here.

2. Rosters for JV and Varsity are below. We will be pulling SOME double roster players for the first JV game as they will need numbers. Those players will then feature more heavily in the second varsity game.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bg56ttx8KXXIC1eqpIExRsQoSd0S0pNBo01c3qA6HZ8/edit?usp=sharing

3. Bring your A game today. Be ON TIME. NO LATER than 3:25 and that means ready to go. Goalies warm up with Coach Ale on JV field. JV warm-up on practice field and V on game field.

*Logan is potentially on injured list. Here is what we will do with goalies if Logan can’t go:

Varsity (ES North): Sunderlin JV (ES North): Walsh

Varsity (Dieruff): Walsh JV (Dieruff): Sunderlin

4. My goal for both squads is to play BETTER/FASTER/HARDER/ with MORE COMMUNICATION/MORE GOOD DECISIONS/MORE DISCIPLINE each game we play. I am looking for growth. We are just beginning. Let’s go WARRIORS!

Report by 3:25 PM. No Later. JV and V rosters will be posted later tonight/early tomorrow morning for each game.

AGE APPROPRIATE SHIN GUARDS and BLUE HOME UNIFORMS. Dual Roster players – bring varsity and JV.