News for the Week of January 9, 2017

Program Notes for the Week of 1/9/2016:

Additional Awards:
The Shoregals received yet another award this past week from the National Soccer Coaches Assoc. of America as described below:

NSCAA Announces Team Ethics and Sportsmanship
Award Recipients for High School and College Soccer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (December 22, 2016) – The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) announced on Thursday the Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award recipients for the Fall 2016 high school season and 2016 college season. Today’s awards recognize a total of 164 teams across the country for exhibiting fair play, sporting behavior and adherence to the laws of the game. Award winners may be seen at the following link:

http://www.nscaa.com/web/Awards/Recipients/2016_NSCAA_Fall_High_School_Team_Ethics_and_Sportsmanship_Award_Winners.aspx

The Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award is given to NSCAA members at four levels. Teams honored at the platinum level went an entire season without a player or coach receiving a yellow card or red card. Teams honored at the gold (1-10%), silver (11-30%) and bronze (31-50%) levels are based on a percentage calculated by the total number of cards received by players/coaches divided by the team’s total number of games played.

Avon Lake received the Silver award this year as the team only incurred 5 yellow cards over the course of the season and no red cards.  The Shoregals were one of just 8 schools in Ohio to be recognized and honored.  Congrats to the 'Gals!!!!


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 defending with Manchester United center back Vincent Kompany.

http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2016/06/24/vincent-kompany-belgium-manchester-city-center-back



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:

Players should want coaches to be hard on them. One way to tell a great player: How they react to being pushed. – Steve Nash - former NBA player

Mistakes are necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten & not repeated.

Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible. 

Working hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great. – Thad Matta - Ohio St. bball coach

Losers let failure defeat them. Winners let failure inspire them.