Posts in category Girls ONLY
Thank you, Vienna Youth Soccer Strike...
Author’s note: I just finished six weeks working with the Vienna Youth Soccer (VYS) Strikers, 3 teams of U14 girls soccer players who compete in WAGS and ODSL. They are professionally trained by Gerardo Ramirez, Elise Fasick and Andon Tsarev. They invited Fit2Finish to introduce soccer-specific fitness and injury prevention.
Dear Strike [...]
GMU Women’s Soccer, Playing to ...
Do you struggle to help your female athletes play confidently because they’ve been raised to step back?
Check out today’s Soccer Wire to read my article about the ”leadership council” initiated by Head Women’s Soccer Coach Diane Drake. She has created and defined an environment where the cooperation natural to w [...]
Girls Soccer Needs Less Force, More F...
Girls stop at nothing when the game is on the line.
Boys play differently than girls do, even at the top levels of the youth game. Take a couple minutes to watch this video from US Youth Soccer National League championship play.
It begins with boys games, then at about 4 minutes it shifts to the girls’. Watch how the girls are heavier [...]
Dynamic Youth Fitness: Wall Jump
Here’s a look at girls performing the wall jump. They are asked to jump off of two feet using their arms to propel them upwards, and to land quietly on both feet. Then to spring up again. Their verbal cue is to jump “straight as an arrow” and to land “light as a feather.” This is a fitness challenge for some at t [...]
Dynamic Fitness Video: The Step-Over
Here’s a quick look at the step over drill, also known as the scissor drill. Girls are asked to perform continuous step-overs for 30 seconds over and around a flat cone at their feet. For some, this is a fitness challenge. Their weakness shows in sloppy steps, kicking the cone, or flat-footed stepping rather than bounding off the balls [...]
Youth Sports: What Happens When Money...
How much is your kid worth? Surely, there’s no answer to that question; they’re priceless. But what I am seeing in youth sports clubs lately makes me think that priceless is getting more expensive. We’re paying for them to do everything and at younger ages. The gear, the fees, the uniforms, and the professional trainers.
A f [...]
Team Tie-dye Bonds Girls into a Winni...
The first four girls tied and dyed, but have to wait 24 hours to see how it'll look.
A dozen girls from the CSC Inferno were tie-dying t-shirts in my driveway last weekend.
This weekend, they recorded their sixth win in as many games. They’re undefeated in the division of the Old Dominion Soccer League.
Now, I’m not taking cre [...]
Coaching Well: Why Do We Coach?
This article was originally published in The Fairfax Times, June 2010.
It so saddens me to read the endless stories of remarkably talented athletes like Tiger Woods and Ben Roethlisberger behaving badly– these lives, full of potential, are then misspent by their worst natures. We are left asking:
“How did we let these athlete [...]
Might Defying Gravity Really Be Wicke...
I took my 14 year old daughter to see Wicked at the Kennedy Center this week. What an incredible show. What an incredible message. Young people everywhere are walking away with the courage to take on the world. Tapping into the ‘something that’s changed within them.’ Why not throw off what holds them down? Defy gravity and [...]
Do you know what your children are do...
“Many American youngsters are not getting enough physical activity and parents are failing to make their children’s health a priority, according to a new study,” reports msnbc.msn.com. (read complete article) Nothing new here.
The article goes on to say, “research by the YMCA, which surveyed more than 1,600 American p [...]
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