Over the last two weeks, myself and my coaches have had the opportunity to evaluate and work with the young talent in the community along with the wonderful coaches and parents. You made things very easy and we love the enthusiasm for the sport. We hope to see all of them representing the blue and gold in the years to come! Good luck to all the boys for the coming season.

Coach Stewart, Carmona, and Calderon

The fields are still closed for maintenance. I will inspect tonight and make a plan for next week. I expect things to be back to normal next week. Miss working with the boys!

Great time to get physicals done and loaded up!

Monday – Workout with coach Alec 9:00 AM – HS Fieldhouse

Tuesday – No training! Go for a long hard run.

Wednesday – Workout with coach Alec 9:00 AM – HS Fieldhouse

Thursday – WABSC Training at 8:00 AM – WAIS

NOTE: PHYSICALS NEED TO BE COMPLETED ASAP and loaded into StudentCentral. Form available on this website to direct how to do it.

We had a blast on Thursday playing a round robin format. Some of our “most wanted” guys showed up which made my day as well as a debut for Jeff Sunderlin in goal. Levi and Jeff were on their games and I think we have to crown Pura Vida with the win although the matches were all pretty even. Some highlights:

1. Kaarsen had a spectacular header off a great cross by Danny

2. Tyam was shooting rockets

3. Dillard was distributing the ball quickly and feeding through ball after through ball to Coach and others and I got fit chasing after them all!

4. Steve, Alex, Angel, Nate, Adam all looking good! Great to see you guys! I really mean it when I say everyone matters. We still have some “most wanted posters” up for some other guys we haven’t seen in awhile.

5. Less whinging! Yay! Life brings plenty of serious problems without soccer ever being one of them!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Excited to train tomorrow. Bring a friend tomorrow – now, not just any friend, I have a few in mind. Make sure one of the names below shows up tomorrow and you get a free Gatorade for you AND for them. I’ll even put them on ice.

Angel

Adam

Mike Lopez

Ryan

Alex

Nate

Steve P.

Some guys I know are on vacay right now so I am not mentioning them here.

Themes of sport are direct to life. Themes are taken from the research article below. Players, read and reflect and email me what impacted you. A reward on Thursday for those who do.

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=118537

There are so many metrics by which to measure a winning team. We can win many ways…today I talked about importance of positivity and limiting whinging about things – whose throw in, was it thrown in to the right person, is it out or not, so and so forth. Critiquing is easy. Not doing it is harder. Good teams aren’t full of critics. Here are ways to win every day – training, game, class at school, you name it.

1. Care about each other. Start conversations with new people. Ask them how they are.

2. Be a great sport. If you think you fouled someone, call a foul on yourself.

3. Hustle and work hard. Too much walking

4. Uplift with a thousand positives.

5. Be friendly, smile. Happy teams win. If a team isn’t happy, not even winning is fun.

6. Be humble (Confidence is great – having a high opinion of yourself. Arrogance is having a low opinion of others and that is not healthy.) Hold EVERYONE on the team in high esteem.

7. Have a blast. Being on a high school team is once in a lifetime. Trust me, enjoy playing, coaching is great but it is a LOT less fun than playing.

Win at these things and you will win every game no matter the score. That said, you will win by the score too. We have some guys out there who win this way every day. We need 35 of you. Chapeau!

On August 20th, we will scrimmage East Stroudsburg North at home. This will be our second scrimmage giving us some nice work before our opener on the 23rd.

We are currently working with our athletic director to move some game dates in the regular season so as to minimize conflict with XC meets as we have many athletes doing both. News on these adjustments when they become available.

Happy Monday! Here is the schedule for the week

Monday (Today) – Lifting with Coach Alec 9:00 AM

Tuesday – WABSC Training at WAIS 8:00 AM

Wednesday – Lifting with Coach Alec 9:00 AM

Thursday – WABSC Training at WAIS 8:00 AM

See you tomorrow!!!