...the shortened version.
Monday:
I'm one of the VP's of the softball league. Monday night we held the new coaches/managers meeting. It was a good feeling to have my league (only 3 teams for 32 girls) in place. After the meeting 2 of the 6 coaches backed out!!! This Saturday are the player evaluations and so its really important to have the coaches in place by this weekend.
Tuesday:
I made a phone call to every single household of players registered to play in the major division (except obviously to those that are already coaching in the Major leagues). Guess how many coaches I got? ZERO. Very frustrating. I really don't want to have to make 2 huge teams of 16 each! The girls would only get to play 50% of the time! I was on the phone the whole night!
Wednesday:
Madison had her first indoor soccer tourney game tonight. We lost 0-3 so we are done. I have to remind myself that a lot of the girls we are playing are a year older. Our team is U11 and we are playing U12. (They didn't have a U11 league). One year really does make a difference. She is ready to get outside and back to "real" soccer. During indoor, there are no "off-sides" rules and that makes it harder for the defenders (Madison) to hold off scorers. Outdoor soccer is more like the official soccer rules and the offensive players can't do that. (Are you still with me?).
I have contacted the AD at Goshen College and also the Concord High School softball coach to see if they can think of any alumni that might be interested in coaching. Hopefully something will come out of that! I need to get creative in where these coaches are going to come from!
Well.. that's what I've been doing. Not very thrilling huh?
2 comments:
So sorry that you're having such a hard time finding a coach! Wonder if you could go back to the coaches from previous years or grandparents that would be at the games anyway?
We need an update! Who do I sound like? :)
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