I hope everyone is enjoying your winter. It sounds like we may get a little taste of spring at the end of this week. We are plugging away getting organized for the coming spring soccer season. One of the important things at the top of the agenda right now is organizing the uniforms. Wendy is currently handling this and passes along this important message:
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Hello spring soccer parents!
A quick reminder to PLEASE send me your child's jersey size and number requests (if they have one) as soon as possible. Jerseys are from the same company as this past fall, so if your child played fall soccer, base your size on that. If they did not, let me know what size they wear in regular clothes and I will do my best to get the right jersey size. IF YOU DO NOT tell me what size jersey your child needs I will order them one that is the average size for their team. If it is too big or too small and you want them to have a different size, you will have to cover the cost of the second jersey (and they will have to wear the first one while they wait for the new one to come in). Our budget only allows for one per child. So please, let me know what size you want, even if I know your child and you think I can figure it our for myself. The sizes available are Youth Small - Large and Adult Small - Extra Large.
Also, IF you have a requested number, please send me alternates. I have heard from 76 out of 110 parents already, so many numbers are taken. You do not have to request a number, I will assign one if you don't. But I do need those jersey sizes by Feb. 20.
Thanks for your quick response to this!
Wendy Ayotte
Her email to respond is wendyanh@yahoo.com We have managed to reserve enough gym space so that beginning the week of March 21 all teams will start practicing. I'm putting together a schedule and will be running it by the coaches at our meeting tomorrow night. Tentatively the U12 and U14 teams will practice twice during the week nights and the U10 teams will practice once a week on Saturdays.
A couple of schedule things to keep in mind for the season. There could be games scheduled during the April vacation weekends, and I believe right now most coaches are planning on participating in the huge Amherst Soccer Club Memorial Day weekend tournament.
As far as getting our players ready for the season you can help play a part. As soon as the weather allows get them running. If you can have them work on a nice jog then a sprint to simulate the type of running while playing soccer. Another important thing to have them work on is ball touches. Simple things like just moving the ball back forth with both feet or some juggling. Also take sometime to look at some videos on you tube or watch an EPL game on ESPN2 on Saturday mornings they are usually on at 7am or 10am. Speaking of the EPL if you did not catch Wayne Rooney's bycycle winning goal this past weekend I have included it below it was amazing.
That's all for now!
Hey Dan, the link for that cool bicycle move is dead. :(
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