Hi All,
I hope you all enjoyed the holidays. The season is now
beginning for some teams with winter indoor practices.
I wanted to make you all aware of some upcoming opportunities and
other information.
1. MYSA Annual Winter Symposium will be Friday 2/1 and Saturday 2/2. In
addition to administrative information, there will be field and classroom
coaching sessions both days! Information and registration can be found at
http://www.mnyouthsoccer.org
2. New Coaches manual and curriculum. In advance of the VUSC annual
meeting, I'd like you to look at the new coaches
manual and curriculum, especially since indoor training is starting for some
teams next week. You can find the manual at http://www.bjb.org/soccer/coachinfo/VUSC Coaches Manual - US Soccer.pdf
and the curriculum at
http://www.bjb.org/soccer/coachinfo/VUSC Coaches Curriculum.pdf
Other information can be found at
http://www.bjb.org/soccer/coachinfo/.
These pages will also be linked off
of the VUSC website. Please let me know if this information is useful and
what other information you'd like to see.
3. MYSA D and E courses. Watch
http://www.mnyouthsoccer.org/coaches/clinics.cfm for information on local
upcoming coach education courses. Currently there are only two more D
courses scheduled, Plymouth 1/10-2/24, and
Rochester 2/8-2/24.
One VUSC coach did attend the Eden Prairie
course in Nov and Dec and I know of at least 1 coach attending
Rochester (a concentrated course over two
consecutive weekends). There are a number of E courses though none are
local. Please watch the MYSA website for more offerings (and I will send
updates as well). These courses are very useful and worthwhile.
4. Upcoming VUSC coach education. We will have a coach education session
at the VUSC Annual Meeting in Feb including 2 special guests. More coach
education sessions are in planning!
Please let me know if you have questions or comments on anything
or any of the above items.
Thanks,
Barry Caplin