Friday Night Futbol:
There is an exciting concept in the planning stages for this Fall season. Friday nights in high school is the traditional time for gathering for football games. Well, what if we added soccer to the Friday night mix also??? Plans are currently being made for a Friday Night Futbol game this year. The game will be held on Friday August 21st at home in Memorial Stadium against Oregon Clay and it will be the girls opening game of the season. This night will be designated as ALSO youth soccer night which means that all youth soccer players will have free admission to game and there will be prizes and raffles, etc. We want to get a large crowd for the game and we are working to get the ALHS Marching band to play as well. It should be a real memorable event for the girls and a lot of fun also. Watch for more details as the summer progresses.
2015 Season Schedule:
Speaking of the schedule - please find below the schedule for the 2015 season. There may still be some changes, but this will be pretty much what to expect. This year's schedule provides a variety of competition including Oregon Clay which was 15-1-2 last year; the 4 new members of the SWC in 2015 in Avon, Lakewood, Midview & North Ridgeville which makes the conference schedule consist of 9 games now; and three private schools in Padua, Elyria Catholic, & St. Joe's. It looks to be a schedule that we can be very competitive with.
Opponent Date
Scrimmages:
Nordonia 8/5/2015 Scrimmage Away 5 JV/7 V
Magnificat 8/7/2015 Scrimmage Home 5/7
Strongsville 8/10/2015 Scrimmage Away 5/7
Bay Village 8/19/2015 Scrimmage Home 5/7
Regular Season:
Oregon Clay 8/21/2015 Game Home 4 JV/6 V
Elyria 8/24/2015 Game Home 5/7
Avon 8/26/2015 SWC Game Home 5/7
Padua 8/31/2015 Game Away 5/7
Lakewood 9/2/2015 SWC Game Home 5/7
North Ridgeville 9/9/2015 SWC Game Home 5/7
Elyria Catholic 9/14/2015 Game Home 5/7
Amherst 9/16/2015 SWC Game Away 5/7
Shaker Hts. 9/19/2015 Game Away 1/3
Wadsworth 9/21/2015 Game Away 5/7
Berea-Midpark 9/23/2015 SWC Game Home 5/7
Olmsted Falls 9/28/2015 SWC Game Away 5/7
St. Joe's Academy 10/1/2015 Game Home 5/7
Westlake 10/5/2015 SWC Game Away 5/7
Midview 10/7/2015 SWC Game Away 5/7
North Olmsted 10/14/2015 SWC Game Home 5/7
Mattress Sale:
Once again this year, the girls team in conjunction with the boys team will be holding a mattress sale fundraiser. The sale will be one day on Saturday May 23rd from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm at the Avon Lake High School Commons. See the attached flyer below. This is a great way to get a mattress at a discounted cost and you will be helping out the ALHS soccer program!! Pass the word to family and friends....
In Memoriam:
We have some sad news to report this week as Rod Braye passed away unexpectedly on April 27th. Rod was the father of graduated soccer players James & Megan Braye. As you can read in the attached obituary, he was quite an accomplished man as well as a military veteran. In soccer, he helped the girls program in a number of ways, the most notable of which was that he prepared scouting reports for the coaching staff. In fact, I still use his template for scouting reports to this day. We thank him for his contributions to our program and will miss his presence at games.
Soccer Training Videos:
The offseason period is a great time to work on soccer skills and to assist with that we will be posting training videos and this week we have one entitled "3 Soccer Kicks That You Must Know". Watch the videos and then go out and practice and refine your technique. The videos are put together by an outfit called Epic Sports. They have a website that you can visit as well.
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:
Once there, here are some selected examples of tweets over the past week. Hope you find something that inspires you here:
Decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage to say no to other things.
Don't let perfect get in the way of progress. The key to moving ahead is following through.
Talent wins games, but teamwork & intelligence win championships. - Michael Jordan
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. - Pele
Never let a win go to your head, or a loss to your heart.
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