News for the Week of April 1, 2013

Program Notes for the Week of 4/1/2013:

Southwestern Conference News:
Last week the Southwestern Conference (SWC) voted to allow Lakewood and Midview to join the league beginning with the 2015-2016 school year. These two schools will join with Avon, who is coming aboard that year also, to make the SWC into a 10 team league.  Soccer wise, we already know that Avon has a very fine girls program.   Midview had a strong, respected program about 10 years ago and are working to get back to that level.  Lakewood's program is constantly improving also.  The addition of these 3 schools is going to make girls soccer more competitive than ever in the SWC which means that we need to work harder than ever to keep pace.  There has also been talk that Rocky River and North Ridgeville will eventually join the league and that remains to be seen.  Rocky River would bring another top flight program into the league and we have North Ridgeville on the schedule this year, so we will get to see what their talent level is.  New changes bring new challenges and we need to continue to stay at the top.


Video of the Week:
We are going to continue to add new videos each week and this week we are featuring last year's regular season game against North Olmsted which ended in a 0-0 draw.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz6j-jW5q1L2aYrKpc5qlEq2bvGMijBXf&feature=view_all

Look forward to us adding more games in the coming weeks.


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:

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. - Mia Hamm (soccer)

Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves. Quitters take bad breaks & use them as reasons to give up. - Nancy Lopez (golf)

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. - Shania Twain

True motivation comes from within. No one can hand it to you, but no one can take it away, either.

Play every game as if it's your last.

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made. - Gabby Douglas (gymnast)

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.


Happy Easter to all our soccer families and have a safe and relaxing Spring Break!