JV Record:
This past 2014 season, the Shoregal JV team compiled an undefeated season with a 13-0-3 record. So the natural question that would arise is if this was the best JV record ever. JV records are notoriously difficult to track down because they tend to get lost in the shuffle rather quickly. However, we have made a reasonable attempt to search back through the 22 year history of the Avon Lake program to uncover JV records from past seasons. So, with reasonable confidence we can say that last year's team did have the best JV record in program history. Congrats to the girls and Coach Caleb Reutter on such an impressive season!! There was another undefeated team in 2008 which finished with a 11-0-5 record - very good, but not quite as good as this year. Here are JV records from the past few seasons:
Year W L T Pct.
2007 11 2 2 0.800
2008 11 0 5 0.844
2010 9 5 2 0.625
2011 11 4 1 0.719
2012 9 5 2 0.625
2013 10 1 5 0.781
2014 13 0 3 0.906
I think this shows that the future of our program should be very bright indeed......
Women's World Cup:
We will remind everyone again this week that the Women's World Cup will be held this summer running June 6th through July 5th - less than 50 days from now. The host country will be Canada and the matches will be at various locations throughout the country. You can follow all the action at the FIFA website which can be found at:
http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/
The schedule for the United States Women's team group play is as follows:
June 8th vs. Australia at 7:30 pm
June 12th vs. Sweden at 8:00 pm
June 16th vs Nigeria at 8:00 pm
The rest of the schedule will be dependent on how group play turns out for the U.S. I am sure that these games will all be televised on one of the ESPN channels.
You can also follow the Women's National team at:
http://www.ussoccer.com/womens-national-team
I would highly encourage the girls to watch as many matches as possible to continue to observe and learn the flow of the game.
Parent Corner:
This week we will post an article on an interesting topic - could turf fields pose health hazards to players? This particular article comes from USA Today by author Thomas Frank. While there is no definitive answer at this point, it certainly gives you something to think about. I would think a prudent strategy would be for proper bathing and washing of soccer kits after practices and games to mitigate some of the inherent issues with turf fields.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/03/15/artificial-turf-health-safety-studies/24727111/
Freestyle Soccer Video:
Soccer is not just about training and games and tournaments - it is meant to be fun and it should be fun to play. Along those lines, we have been posting freestyle videos and this week we have a compilation of several girls. Challenge yourself to see if you can do some of these skills - you might even be able to use them in a game some time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsToOd9PVuk&feature=player_detailpage
Shorty Sez:
We continue with our collection of motivational sayings coming from the Twitter sites called Women Love Sports and Coach K which may be found at:
https://twitter.com/Women_Sports
https://twitter.com/CoachKWisdom
Once there, here are some selected examples of tweets over the past week. Hope you find something that inspires you here:
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
A determined person doesn't find it hard to succeed; they find it hard to stop trying.
What comes easy won't last, what lasts won't come easy.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
How you make others feel about themselves, says a lot about you.
Play like a champion. Train like an underdog.
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