News for the Week of January 2, 2017

Program Notes for the Week of 1/2/2017:

Happy New Year:
Hope everyone had a great holiday season and now we are ready to embark on the 25th year of girls soccer at Avon Lake.  We have a strong core of returning players to combine with a record setting JV team, so we expect big things from this year's team - let's enjoy the journey!!


College Prep Guide:
We are working on this year's edition of the College Prep Guide currently and watch for it in your e-mails in a few weeks.


More Awards:
Olivia Siko was named to the 2016 National Soccer Coaches Assoc. of America (NSCAA) Fall Girls High School All-Central Region Team in December.  Congrats to Olivia on another prestigious award earned this past season!!


Sports Illustrated Articles on Top Level Soccer:
Another article in a Sports Illustrated series on world class level players and their approach to the game.  This time the article is on goalkeeping with German national team goalie Manuel Neuer.  Be sure to watch the videos attached to the article to see him in action.

http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2016/06/07/manuel-neuer-germany-bayern-munich-sweeper-keeper


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:

As you lead you must always stay open to learn. Because as you learn you become an even better leader.

We're either winning or learning. It's not winning or losing, it's winning or learning. – John Calipari - Univ. of Kentucky basketball coach

There are always those times when you're going to be down, it's how you step through it that makes you the person you are. – Mike Krzyzewski - Duke basketball coach

If you think you are one of your teams top leaders/players you have to be receptive to being pushed & coached harder than others.

Nothing will work unless you do. – John Wooden - legendary UCLA bball coach