News for the Week of June 29, 2015

Program Notes for the Week of 6/29/2015:

Schedule for the Week of 6/29:
Monday, June 29 ~ 4:30PM - 6:30PM @ Troy - Dutch Soccer Camp
Tuesday, June 30 ~ 4:30PM - 6:30PM @ Troy - Dutch Soccer Camp
Wednesday, July 1 ~ 4:30PM - 6:30PM @ Troy - Dutch Soccer Camp
Thursday, July 2 ~ 4:30PM - 6:30PM @ Troy - Dutch Soccer Camp

Remember, spend every moment together preparing to win!  Are we working harder than our opponents?!?!


Alumni Game:
The date for the Alumni Game & Picnic has been set for Sunday July 12th at Avon Lake HS stadium. Once again this year we will be combining with the Boys for a joint Alumni Day.  The Girls will be playing at 3:00 p.m. with the Boys Alumni game at 4:30 pm.  Afterwards, we will have a picnic dinner. Everyone is invited and will be playing - both undergrads and Freshman.  Watch your e-mail and pass the word to other Alumni and mark your calendars now for an afternoon of soccer, food, & fellowship!!


Women's World Cup:
The Women's World Cup is now under way. The host country is 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 results for the United States Women's team so far is as follows:

June 8th vs. Australia W 3-1

June 12th vs. Sweden T 0-0

June 16th vs Nigeria  W 1-0

June 22nd vs. Columbia  W 2-0

June 26th vs. China  W 1-0

June 30th vs. Germany a 7:00 pm  Semifinal

If the US beats Germany then the Final is on Sunday July 5th.  The games will be televised this time on the Fox network which is channel 8 in Avon Lake. You can follow the schedule at the Fox website at:

http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/fifa-womens-world-cup

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.


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 "Top 5 Soccer Training Drills to Improve". 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8C1P1AlKvkE


Cudos Corner:
We would like to thank all those parents who volunteered to work at the Duck Tape Festival and especially Jackie Butler who served as our coordinator.  It was another successful year for us and we have a nice stipend to put in our account for the girls.


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:

Tomorrow's victory is today's practice.

Every single day you should wake up and commit yourself to becoming a better person.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. – Goethe

In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done.