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RO&H, Just my 2 cents worth but the last two years I implemented a competitive cauldron. At practice, every single thing we do is competitve. Lots of 1v1's, 2v2's and short sided games, etc. Point is, they're scored on everything. What this does is keeps your lazy players from going through the motions during drills. And at the end of the week, the top 11 players with the most points, are my starters. Its fun to practice now just be careful not to get caught up with scoring to the point where youre too busy to coach them. I actually have someone do it for me. the girls love it cause its so "all out" on everything we do. Just an idea....(we do have alot of fun things as well. trust me, we have a great time but...this system has really worked for me)




I just read this and am going to implement now and in the future. That's a great idea!

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RR,
I am the head coach at Swansea. I also coach with Franki @ LLSC. I am on staff at Swansea First (been on staff for 11 years) I am a mathematics-intensive major, I teach math, I engineered for Bose, I worked at T and T Sports, I have a wife, three girls (all three play soccer), two dogs, I coached a state championship wrestling team in 2002, and you need another striker for England. Anything I missed?

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Were you coaching them this weekend at the jv tourney? Are yall moving up to challenge this season?

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Meredith? RR? OK, I will be Edith Bogdonavich, Goalie from now on. I'll see if I can find an avatar!

Serious, thanks for the imput.

Anson Dorrance, UNC, put in the Competitive Cauldron years ago and explains it in detail over about 90 pages in Training Champions, a very expensive but incredibly useful book. We did that this year also and it made an unbelievable difference in finding out who is fastest, who can score, who is tough, etc. Every one of our kids is better for it.


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No, that was our JV coach Meg-We just filled in for her at your place because she was at a USC-Aiken alumni game. She is awesome! She was the sweeper for USC-Aiken (captain) a few years ago. As far as Challenge, we would like to say yes, but we may stay down one more year and play some challenge tournaments. Looks like you all should make the move up-going to England-Wow major $.

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The solution to being good on any level not just JV-getting the team to stay together and play together year round. RR, your girls have been together for how long (At least 5 years)? Only three of our U-15's are on varsity and one on JV. Other than that, no JV's play together year around. Tough to be really good on JV without playing together year around. However, I have seen an improvement (in RR team) over the years from when you all use to play The Force. Nice job RR!

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I have a ? to all coaches reading this board. This is only my 3rd year coaching. How do yall deal with parents??!!

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Very carefully...

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RR, i'm not a coach, but at this age level, you should rarely have to deal with a parent. I bet you get lots of PM's on this one! Good luck!

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Hey guys, one last thing, this is my last day at State Farm in North Augusta(I know, it's a long drive). I'll be an Independent Agent in Barnwell and can write ins. anywhere in the state so if I can give any of you a qoute on your cars and/or homes just let me know!!lol (hey I gotta try!!)

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