This summer, with help from Virginia Youth Soccer Association Coaching Education Director Paul Shaw, I’ve been studying some of Virginia’s top soccer coaches and videotaping their sessions. This week I’ll start sharing some reflections from Kelvin Jones’ session. Kelvin is a coach with Virginia’s ODP program and is Director of Coaching at Virginia Legacy Soccer Club…
I had the pleasure of visiting Troy Prep, yesterday, Uncommon’s school in the small upstate city of Troy that’s led by principals Lauren Catlett (Middle) and Sam DeLuke (Elementary). I had a series of realizations and inspirations and thought I’d share a few of them here. On Jamila’s Classroom One of my first stops…
On Friday I blogged about a training session run by Heather Pedersen of Virginia’s ODP soccer program. Today I want to post another couple of clips from her training session that show things I thought were really useful. This first clip shows four of Heather’s stoppages during small-sided and full-sided games. Heather Pederson.Stoppages.Short from Uncommon…
I recently had the pleasure of watching training sessions led by a couple of top coaches in Virginia’s ODP soccer program. I’ve learned a ton and thought I’d share some takeaways that were useful. I’ll start with some observations from a session run by Heather Pederson, who’s a coach on the Virginia ODP staff. The clip…
A colleague of mine runs a very successful school. Most kids among the poorest in the small city where they operate but she and her teachers get the strongest results. The school doesn’t look on the inside like what the doubters might tell you it does. It s a good example of what Mary Myatt calls…