News for the Week of March 19, 2012

Program Notes for the Week of 3/19/2012:

Indoor Soccer Update:
Winter Session II was just recently completed and we are pleased to report that our Avon Lake II team won the JV division with an 8-0 record.  This team was made up of half freshmen and half incoming 8th graders, so it was exciting to see them blend together so quickly.  Our Avon Lake III team which was made up of entirely 8th graders finished 3rd in the JV division with a 5-1-2 record.  Again, a great job as only loss against high school level competition with a team of all eighth graders.  Our AL II & III teams are playing again in the 3rd session and challenging themselves in a Varsity level divison.  Our Varsity level team was very competitive in the top bracket and finished just under .500.  Can't wait to see these girls in the Fall!


Rules Changes for 2012:
The National Federation of State High School Associations Soccer Rules Committee passed a couple of rules changes for the 2012 season at its annual meeting in January.  These changes are normally adopted by each state HS athletic association.  The first change involves what happens when a player receives a second yellow card. The player will be disqualified and the team will no longer be able to substitute for that player - it will have to play a girl down.  The other rule change involves when a player deliberately handles a ball in her own penalty area to prevent it from going in the goal.  In the past, this would lead to the player being automatically ejected.  Now, the player will only be disqualified if she actually prevents the ball from going in the goal.  If a goal is scored, she will only be cautioned.  These two rule changes won't really affect us much as they have never come into play in one of games, but someday they might.


Soccer Site of the Week:
This week's highlighted site will be the ESPN site for female athletes known as
ESPN-W and it can be found at:

http://www.espnw.com/

This site covers all types of women's sports and female athletes.  Type in "soccer" in the search box and you can filter to soccer stories and bios only.


Shorty Sez:
We continue to feature the teamwork philosophies from Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski who is a pre-eminent expert on leadership and teambuilding. This week's idea to reflect upon is as follows:

"Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.  And that's not such a bad thing."

-- Coach K