Well the time has come to hang up my boots. No more soccer for me, well at least at the NCAA DII level. who knows where i will end up but as of right now it looks like I will be passing on my talents through coaching.
Currently I am at Gamble Rogers Middle School as the girls coach this year. The season is in full gear and we just played our first game this past Tuesday. We won 4-3! So I can officially say as a coach I have a 1-0 record!
Getting to that victory was a little harder then I have ever anticipated. The team has a great core of girls who play club soccer competitively, but with every middle school team we have those girls that have never played soccer before in their life time until now. Well these girls are the biggest challenge for me, seeing this is the first team I have ever coached. The challenge: getting the girls who have never played before interested and keeping the club players from getting bored.
The other day at practice I had four girls who were playing patty cake during a drill... as frustrated as I was I had to keep my composure and explain to them that they were not helping the team in any way by playing patty cake. OH MAN it was so hard not to sit there and be like seriously go home.... because of my competitive nature, i had to remember where i was.
But needless to say I believe my team can do a number in the Middle School district this year and you know what I think we can win a national championship.... in patty cake :) But I do love my group of girls and my goal is to expand their knowledge in the game
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