J.V. finishes strong in opening tournament (and other news)

Congrats to the j.v for the great showing in the Northwest Tournament.  The team wrapped up play today with an impressive 7-0  over Northwest tonight.  I was really impressed with the quality of possession and overall movement of the ball.   To date, the j.v has scored 10 goals and allowed only 1.

A reminder on the rest of the week:  Varsity and freshman teams have practice Friday morning from 8-9:30.  Sunday night practice is from 6-7:30pm.  I would also encourage any j.v. players to come out Sunday night.

All coupon book sales need to be wrapped up by the end of spring break and returned to Coach Giesing.

Throughout the year, do not be surprised at the movement of players between levels.  We expect to be competitve on every level and will regularly move players to meet the needs not only of the program, but individual player needs as well.  For example, a varsity player receiving little playing time might be assigned a game or two at the j.v. to maintain game fitness and touch.  Similarly, a freshman level player might be challenged to play on the j.v. level if her play warrants a move.  The teams are not static and we must continue to support the philosophy that we are a unified program, not 3 disjointed teams.  Usually we will try to give a player a week's notice of movement to another team. 

Program updates 3/20

Hope everyone is enjoying the spring break week.  I just wanted to keep everyone up to date on a couple of things for the week.  First, the j.v. opened up action yesterday with a tough loss to Eureka 0-1.  Play was fairly balanced.  We looked the better team in terms of possession, but Eureka had several quality looks at the goal as well.  the j.v. continues in action today with a game at 4, and wraps up the week with a game on 5:30 on Wednesday.  All games are at Northwest High School.

Freshman and varsity teams have practice on Wednesday and Friday mornings from 8-9:30, and another practice from 6-7:30 Sunday evening.  Freshman players will get uniforms on the Sunday evening practice.

Some of you still have coupon book sales out.  If this is the case please get them to Coach Giesing as soon as possible. 

Looking at the week of 3/12

This is our last official week of "pre-season" before our junior varsity team opens up competition with the Northwest Tournament over spring break.  This week we will be incorportating a lot of full field scrimmage into our practices.  Weather permitting we will have a varsity/j.v. scrimmage on Tuesday.  On Thursday the varsity will have an intra-squad scrimmage and the freshman will go against the j.v.  Parents if you can't wait for that first game, you are welcome to come up Thursday for the preview.  Expected game start up times would be around 3:30.

We hope you are having success with our fundraiser and appreciate all your efforts.  We want to conclude sales by this Friday, before spring break.  There will be practice this Friday for all 3 levels at our normal time.

Uniforms should be in by Wednesday, its getting close and I'm getting a little nervous!!

We will have a few sheduled practices over break for the freshman and varsity teams.  The practices will be on Wednesday and Friday from 8-9:30 am and Sunday from 6-7:30 p.m.  The freshman and varsity both open up with tournaments the week of 3/26.

Cograts on a great first week

Congrats to all the girls for a fantastic first week.  The coaching staff is very excited to see the effort and energy on all levels.  We regretfully had to make some cuts and this is always the most difficult day for all of us. I know several of you are still anxious about knowing more about where you exactly fit in the program.  Each player in the program will have a personal conversation with the coaching staff on Monday to discuss placement for the start of the year.  The quality of talent, along with some difficult weather, have forced us to delay these decisions until Monday.

Today we handed out our coupon books for our fundraiser.  None of us like selling this type of stuff.  With 5 kids of my own, trust me, I feel your pain.  But the reality is that we need to raise money to continue to maintain our program. Both the varsity and junior varsity will be getting new home and away uniforms from this money.  It also goes to buying pre-game shirts,and home and away socks for all three levels.  It also goes to the end of the year banquet and end of the year celebrations.  So while its never fun, we ask everyone to try and do their fair share and sell their coupon books. 

We will be getting game schedules out to everyone on Monday.  There have been a few revisions, particularly to the varsity schedule, since our pre-season meeting. 
Coach Giesing

Soccer update 2/28

It looks like we will get practice in before the rain, so please plan on outdoor practice today.  We will meet down on the fields and practice will end by 5:30.  I thought we had a great opening day.  A lot of enthusiasm and certainly I saw a lot of potential.  Today we will get into some small game stuff as well as continue some skill evaluations.  Keep working hard!!
Coach G.

Let the Fun Begin!!

What a great day for our first day of tryouts.  This week we have some bad weather expected tomorrow so please make sure you have indoor shoes with you.  If we are not able to get out to the fields tomorrow, we will have the juniors and seniors come in from 4-6, and the underclassmen from 3-5.  Otherwise, practices for all players this week will run until 5:30.  We hope to conclude our tryout sessions by Wednesday of this week, but with the possibility of rain we may have to move that back to Thursday.  I can't wait to get on the fields.
Coach G.

Are you ready for Feb. 27?

Our start date is just around the corner and I hope everyone is continuing to work on their fitness and preparing themselves for the start of our season.  Make sure that at this point you should be in daily training to get your body ready for the demands of high school soccer.  Also, if you have not done so already, stop by the athletic office and get your slip of paper confiming that your physical is on file and you and your parents have completed the waiver form.  Don't wait till the 27th to do this.  Without athletic department clearance, you cannot tryout for the team.