Monday was an excellent day for team organization, as all four squads trained in anticipation of matches with Exeter on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Varsity and JV will play at Exeter High School on Tuesday, with simultaneous 4:30 matches. The bus will leave at 1:30.
On Wednesday, the Freshmen and Reserves will host Exeter at the Pasture at 4:30. The team busses will leave HHS at approximately 3:00. I'll be there to help make sure that our first day of bus transport goes smoothly. This would be a great day for all freshmen on both teams to try and start the practice of getting some school work done in the cafeteria (home base for the 2020s) or the Library. Get a snack after school and stretch, and then hunker down for 45 minutes and read a chapter, solve a problem, translate a few paragraphs.
Players and parents have not been reading the Blog daily, and that's a mistake. There are concrete updates every day. I don't mind answering e-mail queries from everyone, but it's all right there on the blog.
Reserve Coach Erik McEwen and I have been meeting every day to discuss the Reserve roster, and we will be ready to suit a team up for Wednesday. That may not be the final group, but it will be close. We have not heard from a number of freshmen and upperclassmen who expressed interest, even recently, but have not shown up or communicated. We can't chase after you, and we have no shortage of interested parties. If you have decided not to play, please communicate this. Common courtesy.
Tonight, I mailed the first in a regular series of Coaches' E-Mails. This is Varsity Assistant Brett Wanner's idea. He has encouraged all of the coaches to send an e-mail message to every player, discussing their take on a weekly theme. This week's theme, for instance, is "the art of the pass". Brett sent along his thoughts, and the players will be hopefully hearing from other coaches later in the week. Friday is my regular day to contribute.
Brett has also asked the Varsity and JV players to contribute soccer "pearls of wisdom", and will be processing and redistributing these later. He believes that our players can benefit from spending time reading and thinking about aspects of "the beautiful game".
The last line of Brett's Coaches' e-mail is a link to a cat video on Youtube. Tomorrow, if you hand me a slip of paper with the phrase "cat video" written on it, I will hand you a bag of Skittles. Do not share this information with players who have not read the blog. Do not tell your teammates how you got Skittles. Just hand me the slip of paper, take your Skittles, and let them wonder what happened.
Good post.
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