Category: my soccer team stories
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Take that…
Today my younger soccer team won their last game. Our final record is 7-1. Haha Gramps…I don’t need no stinking book to coach a very successful recreational league soccer team, full of 3rd and 4th graders. I wasn’t there, but I emailed my stand-in coach to get the information. Some of the kids made a…
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Sweet Moments
This past Saturday was week 6 of 8 of the soccer season. It was a good weekend. Both of my teams played amazing games. My younger team of third and fourth graders (8-9 year olds) won their fifth game of the season, 6-0. We had to actually pull players off to give them an advantage…
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Why is it so hard to be nice?
It is again soccer Saturday. Both teams played well. My younger team won after being down three goals. Their final score was 8-6. It was probably one of the best all around games they’ve played. I have three goalies, with one playing goalie more than the other two. Last season he got really anxious and…
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Creativity
I have always wanted to be an artist who can draw. I can’t draw. For a long time I wanted to be able to sing. I can’t sing. I can read music and play instruments, but I can’t sing. I can write. I enjoy painting that is more abstract. I wasn’t good with clay. I…
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Youth Soccer on yet another Saturday
This is my second season coaching the kids. It’s a short 8 week season with a game each Saturday. This is our second week of games. I was looking forward to this weekend because both games were later, which is nice. I needed to sleep in just a bit because I am so unrested lately.…
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Favorite Things
Something I have really learned about myself since I retired from the Air Force was that I love to mentor people. I did do a lot of mentoring in the Air Force, but not the same way I do now, especially with my soccer team. I was relieved to get so many of my players…
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I messed up
It was just a simple error. Just two typos. I was rushing to get an email out to my older soccer team I’m coaching. I was also trying to figure out the scheduling conflicts between the other coach and I for this team. I was trying to build a snack sign-up on a Google document…
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The Ninja Monkeys
Tonight is the coaches meeting for soccer. I just found out that I got all 10 players still in our league and division! These kids were so much fun and I really did miss them! Our first practice will be next week and I will get to see them all again. My son’s team is…
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That time I said yes…again
As I eagerly await my soccer roster, I find myself in a strange yet familiar place. My son’s team has me as an assistant coach and someone else listed as an I don’t even know what. I told the coordinator I was willing to be the head coach for his team, but I would need…
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That Time I Said Yes (and never looked back)
Picture this…a sunny, perfectly awesome 65 degree day in April of this year. I am sitting at the kitchen table, helping my wife make edits to her manuscript on her 9th book. As an English major and former military officer, I can handle this kind of thing. It was easy. And the “The Email” appeared…
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