Previously I had mentioned dads and their presence with rec sports who had helped me in rec football....t-ball....and rec soccer. This is obviously true more so in recreational sports because you have volunteers who graciously help each other out and usually have a tight schedule after work to make time to coach ten...fifteen...or.... twenty young, excited sons or daughters thereby keeping the rec program viable.
Starting coaching junior high/middle school soccer initially seemed like rec sports the first year when automatically I had three very considerate....kind....extremely helpful fathers who were previous rec/travel soccer coaches who knowingly stood aside as I began my stint at school coaching. I assume they were trying to be helpful (which they were)......maybe fearful that this supposed novice of a assumed coach did not know what to expect (which may have been true)....and were gracious enough to be available if the need came. High school soccer had just begun about three years previously, and the county school parents had pressured and won their effort to make (then) junior high soccer viable and real.
Naturally, those coach dads had a real and important investment in their sons and soccer, and I was aided by those three dads who stood by the sidelines ...readily willing to offer even the slightest of advice or (if need be) some help in running the soccer drills.
(next post:)...first try-outs and first game
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ReplyDeleteBecause once Terrier soccer begins, there really is no other way to vent about the experience without it!!
Looking forward to your blogs!