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Parents Blog

Tripping Out

Posted Monday, May 13, 2013 by Susan Boyd

So when is it overkill? How do you fit vacations and downtime into your summer? We teach our kids about commitment and want to take all of our commitments seriously. Teams depend on our children’s involvement to insure a strong team performance. When we start filling out those team forms, usually as early as January, we rarely have game and practice schedules to help guide our decisions. Suddenly we get swallowed up into the maelstrom that is summer sports. We also get the guilt from coaches...… Read More

Coaches Blog

My Experience as a Clinician at the Ontario Soccer Association Coaching Conference

Posted Tuesday, April 02, 2013 by Sam Snow

A week ago I had the pleasure to be a clinician at the Ontario Soccer Association Coaching Conference as a part of the Canada Soccer Association implementation of Long Term Player Development (LTPD) for their Olympic sports. For our sport LTPD takes into account that it takes more than 20 years to deeply develop a top notch soccer player.… Read More