Tag: soccer

• 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 […]

  zanderham13

  26th Sep 2022

  mentoring, my soccer team stories, relationships

  soccer, youth coaching

• 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 […]

  zanderham13

  17th Sep 2022

  Life, Mental Health, mentoring, my soccer team stories

  mean people suck, soccer, trauma

• 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 […]

  zanderham13

  10th Sep 2022

  Mental Health, mentoring, my soccer team stories

  creativity, soccer, writing

• The Nothingness of Today

  I gave myself a day with no expectations, nothing specific to do other than one scheduled appointment, help the kids cook dinner, and get out trash and recycling. I suppose that sounds like a lot, but it was spread out over the entire day. I also did some weeding around the flowers out front and […]

  zanderham13

  30th Aug 2022

  Life, Mental Health, The Real Me

  anxiety, Mental Health, soccer

• Self Care Monday

  Today is the first weekday in 3 weeks that we don’t have our contractor and his team working on our bathroom. The lack of construction noise is so pleasant. I love our contractor and his team; they are GREAT people who I trust to do work when I had to leave for appointments and grocery […]

  zanderham13

  29th Aug 2022

  Life, Mental Health, The Real Me

  Mental Health, ptsd, soccer

• 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. […]

  zanderham13

  27th Aug 2022

  Life, mentoring, my soccer team stories

  Mental Health, parenting, soccer

• 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 […]

  zanderham13

  18th Aug 2022

  mentoring, my soccer team stories, relationships

  soccer

• 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 […]

  zanderham13

  17th Aug 2022

  Life, Mental Health, my soccer team stories

  adhd, anxiety, mistakes, soccer

• 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 […]

  zanderham13

  8th Aug 2022

  Life, my soccer team stories

  soccer, youth coach

• 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 […]

  zanderham13

  6th Aug 2022

  my soccer team stories

  soccer, youth coach