Today was just plain fun coaching. It was our first official soccer practice with all our girls back (basketball season finally ended). We have a few brand new soccer players and we shifted positions around on a lot of our returning girls. Thus a lot of practice today was spent explaining positions to people and shadow playing. With so many new players, especially in the midfield, I was a bit anxious to see how certain combinations would gel. However, during the second half of practice, while the girls practiced receiving corner kicks, punts, and goal kicks, our offense actually looked like a solid offense! Girls were making solid passes, connecting through balls, playing to space, looking up, taking good shots. Pretty offense was not our style last year, so it was mighty refreshing to see :)
Unfortunately we only have 1 more practice till break. Our girls will have a week of vacation (where all we can do is hope that they run run run). Then we have just TWO more practices until our first game. It's gonna be a bit of a jump start, but today gave me faith that there is a lot of potential in this squad.
Excellent.
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