Watson

Due to the strong weather expected tonight, the Ravenwood @ Page game has been moved up to 4:00. The JV game has been canceled and we will try our best to get in a full Varisty match before the perfect storm gets us!

TSSAA has said we cannot play this game tonight. Beech was scheduled to play in a tournament this past weekend that was canceled, but prior to the full tournament being canceled they played in one game. Since they played in the one game they are being charged with two games (same as if they had played out the entire tournament) therefore cannot play tonight or they would go over their alloted amount of games on the schedule for the season. So the game tonight at Ravenwood has been canceled. Disappointing for both teams involved, but our hands are tied on this one.

Franklin will come to Ravenwood this Thursday at 7:00.

Does anybody know the score of the Cleveland/Cookeville game?

Keifer has a good point here (assuming that who is RHS 10 is) and i might have misled my full policy. I certainly take into account the player and whether or not they are doing the work needed to be a part of the game. Certainly everything must be kept in perspective here but the main idea of any coaches policy must be to have the players not take advantage of getting out of practice and still be a part of the game. He is correct, the number 1 priority of any student athlete, especially seniors needs to be academics, and many things come up during the senior year that need to be addressed and will interfere with practice time, the goal of both coach and athlete needs to just be to minimize the intereference of both parties interest. Good point Kief.

This is a very interesting issue you bring up, becuase you are exactly right, many players are involved in many different things in the school, however the way I have presented it to my players in the past is that they have to weigh out what is most imortant to them and follow accordingly. For instance if a player misses practice to go to an event with a club or something, that player then knows they will not be starting in the next game and may only see limited time, that is fine with me, but they then cannot comlain because something has taken priority over soccer and the players who have put soccer as their top priority then see time first. This may be the wrong approach but it has worked for me and seems to elminate many issues in this regard. Hope this helps.

I just read Sheltons post on this subject and I must say I whole heartedly agree. The last two years at our post season banquet my girls talk about their best memory from the years coming from camp. Not who we beat, how many games, we won, or anything else......but rather the great experiences they had at camp. Any time you go to a residential camp you afford your players the opportunity to create these types of memories, but for us as coaches, we also have to make sure they are getting something positive out of it as soccer players. Our coach is from the University of West Georgia and she does a great job with challenging our girls and helping us get ready for the season. Marissa and I talk often times during the regular season, whether she is just checking to see how the girls are doing, or offering advise from things she observed during the camp week, we have built a solid relationship and i always look forward to our girls having the opportunity to work with her. Coach Kyzer does a great job giving us coaches a chance to interact with one another and talk about soccer and pick each others brains. He also gives us access to his trainers and staff at UTC and allows us to pick their brains on various issues, it is a great situation. Again, everyone is entitled to their opinion but I know for a fact that we have taken our program to a new level and the team camp at UTC has been an integral part of our preparation the last two years. The bottom line is that we as coaches should always be looking for new ways to make our programs better and make the experience better for our players. We have found great success with this, some have found it with others. Wherever you find that success you need to simply find it and assure that your players get the most out of their high school soccer experience.

Ravenwood.

I have taken my team to this camp the last two years and have gotten great results. This camp gives the players an excellent opportunity to get their touch back on the ball, spend quality time with good instructors (ours is always from the same college and she does a great job with the girls) but most importantly it gives the girls a chance to spend time together out of their comfort zone. Any out of town camp will do this, I simply enjoy Chattanooga becuase of the great facilities, great staff they have, and the organization of the camp. I know Coach Shelton at Siegel takes his team as well each year and of course it has paid dividends for them as well. I agree that this is not a forum for anyone to advertise, but there is certainly no reason to think that this camp is inferior to any others........everyone is entitled to their opinion. As with anything, you get out however much you put in to any situation.

Hendersonville will come to Ravenwood on Thursday - 8:00 pm.

I have several players going in and out of illness, makes for an interesting preseason!