Category: journaling
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Jr. High: BG Camp shooting stars
Dear Diary: Tonight we learned about shooting. We learned that the boys tend to finish with their hips going one way! While some girls tend to twist their hips like Shakira before they strike the ball. The main part of the night was reviewing our approach, our plant foot positioning, our striking surface of the…
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Referee Recruitment for real…
The year is 2022. We are in year three of Covid-19 soccer here in the United States. We had the entire spring season of 2020 wiped out as the world learned how to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and began to study how to treat people who tested positive of Covid-19. Our fall season of…
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Plum U8: Grass Roots Football night with Crew 02Jun2022
Thursday Night Football presented by the Plum Youth Soccer Club,. This is Grass Roots Football in Plum Boro, PA. Normally the lights are saved for the big kids but with all the 😜 crazy rain this spring season we were able to reschedule one of our make up games to a Thursday Night. Nature treated…
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Plum U8: parental pregame: Pass and Dribble
Pass, dribble Pass, dribble Those are today’s words of the day as we still have some players that are mastering how they play with the ball in a game. Coach Dave
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Jr. High: Next level thinking
I found this article to be very simple and concise in explaining what was once called total football. There are a few clubs that have the skilled players to pull this off this form of soccer. This is truly the coaches dream scenario. While this may not apply to the game we play, it is…
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Jr.High: a few ideas outside of soccer. . .
I saw this the other day in the news and wondered if this is something the Lady Riverhawks would be interested in owning at Armstrong? The other item: Calling All Artists, the Jr. High Lady Riverhawks are looking for a new design for their 2022 practice jerseys… Single Color Design Simple enough to be screen…
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Burnout is real and it’s still April.
Some days the topic is coaching, some days playing, some days storytelling. Today’s story is a little bit of venting and a little bit of sharing. Over the past few weekends the cycle keeps repeating. The only way to change the culture is to tell the story, get it into the light so more eyes…
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Putting the fun in fundamentals.
Meet the first group of little futsal players in East Brady. Thanks to support from the East Brady Borough Council and the Karns City Athletic Department we were able to bring soccer back to the Beabout Community Center in the old East Brady High School Gym. Subscribe to get updates when the next round of…
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MWL, GLA, USClub, ECNL, PaWest, USSF, USFF, DA, ODP, USYS, USYF?
Hello American Soccer Players, Parents, want-to-be players: Do all the letters in today’s title–MWL, GLA, USClub, ECNL, PaWest, USSF, USFF, USYS, USYF–sound like gibberish? Does is seem all too confusing? Do you just want to play soccer, learn soccer and grow up playing the game with your friends? Do you like taking seven hour car…
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