News for the Week of April 18,2011

Program Notes for the Week of 4/18/2011:

Coaching News:
We are pleased to announce that Jessica Roberts has been officially approved and hired as part of the Avon Lake coaching staff for next season.  It looks as if she will be the head coach for the Freshman team.  Jessica comes to us with an impressive list of credentials.  She played her high school soccer at Strongsville High where she played on a State Championship team in 2002 and reached the finals again in 2003 where Strongsville ended up as State Runners-up.  Along the way she collected numerous awards for her play in the midfield including being named the first High School All American in Strongsville girls soccer history.  During her senior year of 2003, she was also named All-Region, All-State - 1st team, All-Greater Cleveland Player of the Year and also was a 1st team selection, and was the MVP of the old Pioneer Conference. WOW!!!

After graduation, she attended The Ohio State University where she played on the Varsity for two seasons and was named Academic All-Big 10 and received the OSU Scholar Athlete award.

Jessica currently serves as the Intervention Specialist at Troy Intermediate school.  We are very excited about the knowledge that Jessica can bring to our program and also the positive role model she will be for the girls.

In other coaching news, Cait Bodzioney will not be returning to the sidelines this Fall as she is moving on to some bigger things in her life.  She is recently engaged and will be planning her upcoming wedding.  I know the girls enjoyed her presence during the last season and she was part of the first conference championship in program history.  Best Wishes to "Bodz"!!!


Recruiting Night:
One last reminder that ALHS is putting on a program entitled "The Student-Athlete and College Recruiting" on Monday April 18th at 7:00 p.m. in the ALHS Performing Arts Center. This is another resource for people to get more information about scholarships and playing sports in college.


Strongsville Showcase:
As a reminder to Junior & Senior to be parents - if your daughter is interested in playing college soccer then you will want to sign them up for the Junior/Senior showcase games during the Strongsville Showcase weekend. An e-mail has been sent out with details on this.


Soccer Site of the Week:
We continue one final week with our soccer recruitment theme.  This week's featured site is:

http://collegesocceradvantage.net/

This site features a free newsletter with soccer recruitment tips along with other services.