Week Two

Two weeks of Tiger soccer in the books and we are moving along as expected. We struggled this week to have a full squad make it to any practices, our numbers were between 8 and 11 all week. The roster stands at 15 currently and hopefully we will keep all of them as we go forward.

Dribbling and passing are core skills that are absolutely necessary to be able to function as a soccer team and both of these are areas that we need to work on. My biggest concern, however, is our conditioning. Once a week we walk the extra 6+ blocks to the closest full soccer field and this past Wednesday I kept looking at the other half of the field (that we never used) and then back at our team wearing themselves out on half-field exercises and realized that I am going to need to recruit a few more kids just to be able to give our kids a break once our games start.

Our parent meeting is Tuesday night and our biggest issue will be transportation. We do not have a van or a bus, so we need parents to drive their kids to the games. Last year during both basketball seasons this was our biggest struggle. Hopefully enough parents are getting excited about having a soccer team that they plan on attending all of our games.

Overall I think we are where I expected us to be. The older kids expect us to get "murdered" in our games and the younger kids expect us to be "raw". It would be nice to be somewhere in between, we'll know more in another week or so.