News for the Week of Feb. 11, 2013

Program Notes for the Week of 2/11/2013:

College Soccer Section:
We have been presenting some information related to playing soccer in college and we will continue that over the next few weeks. This week we are going to present some information on the Horizon League.

The Horizon League is a smaller D-1 conference whose schools are geographically close to Avon Lake, offer reasonably priced educations, and are a realistic place to play for the Avon Lake player.  The Horizon League is made up of the following 9 schools:

Cleveland State University
Univ. of Detroit-Mercy
Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
Univ. of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Loyola Univ. of Chicago
Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Valparaiso
Wright State Univ.
Youngstown State Univ.

Horizon League rosters are dotted with players from the Southwestern Conference. Positive aspects are that the schools are relatively close; the education is moderately priced; Cleveland State, Youngstown State, and Wright State will be very inexpensive for Ohio residents as they will be charged the in-state rate; they are all D-1, so there is an opportunity for athletic scholarships. There are also numerous academic scholarships available.  Soccer wise – the competition is at a level that our girls with the right amount of dedication and hard work can earn a regular amount of playing time.

We currently have two Shoregal alumni playing in the Horizon League - Trisha Wladecki just completed a four year career on the Valparaiso varsity and Taylor Miller will be a senior next fall at Cleveland State.

So keep these schools in mind for your college visits and for furthering your soccer career.


Kiko Lopez Footskills Sessions:
For those who may be interested -  former ALHS girls coach Kiko Lopez is holding footskills as listed below.  Kiko is very well known and well thought of for his footskills instruction and has been doing it for decades now.  I have provided some basic details below and for more information, visit his website at:   http://www.kikosoccer.com/    

Indoor Footskills Session III will begin March 4th through March 29th 2013

Weekly 1 hour sessions will be held Monday - Saturday at – 1200 Chester Industrial Parkway Avon, OH 44011

Cost:

$52 for 4 classes for ages 9-12 ($13 per class)

$64 for 4 classes for ages 13 & up ($16 per class)

** Make checks payable to Kiko’s Dribbling. Checks are to be paid in full no later than the second class.

Please indicate your preferred days by checking off your first and second choice etc. Also please indicate your time preference of each day on the right.

( ) 4:00 - 5:00 ( ) 5:00 - 6:00 ( ) 6:00 – 7:00

( ) 7:00 – 8:00 ( ) 8:00 – 9:00pm

( ) Monday: Mar. 4,11,18,25 Time: ______________

( ) Tuesday: Mar. 5,12,19,26 Time: ______________

( ) Wednesday: Mar. 6,13,20,27 Time: ______________

( ) Thursday: Mar. 7,14,21,28 Time: ______________

( ) Friday: Mar. 8,15,22,29 Time:______________


Shorty Sez:
We are going to continue presenting motivtional sayings coming from the Twitter site called Women Sports which may be found at:

https://twitter.com/Women_Sports

Once there, here are some selected examples of tweets over the past week. Hope that you find something that inspires you here:

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one. - Mia Hamm (soccer)

If you don't suffer the pain of hard work now, you will suffer the pain of regret later.

The difference between excellence and mediocrity is commitment.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals & commit yourself to excellence. - Chris Evert

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

The difference between try and triumph is a little UMPH.


Shoregal Website:
Don't forget to visit our Shoregal website at:

www.alshoregalsoccer.org

There you will find more in depth stats and stories than we can fit on our blog.