April News Mark the Calendar:

• April 10th: Early Bird Registration for Rec Ends

• April 14th: Rescheduling Period ends for Travel Teams

• Dump the Rust Starts (Travel Players): April 13th, 14th, 15th at North Junior High 5:45 – 7:00 PM

• Rec Prep Camp: May 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th at Selke Fields U5 – U10 5:15 – 6:15 PM; U11 to U18 6:30 – 7:45 PM

• MYSA Technical Certificate: Open to all CMYSA coaches at North Junior High 11:00 AM – 4 PM

Coaching Education contact Emily Willaert @ Emily@cmysa.org Register at: http://www.cmysa.org/registrationpage

Player Skill of the Month:

3 Cone Triangle Challenge: Website Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z0-6KnP7oU

Supplies: Soccer Ball and 3 cones

Description: Set up a triangle with cones with each side about cones about 2 yards in length Perform each sequence for 60 seconds Series 1: Dribble forward to the first cone using your right foot; then do a sole drag back to the third cone (repeat alternating between feet) Series 2: Facing away from the cones, dribble with the inside of the foot furthest from the 2nd cone. Once you get to the 2nd cone, switch to the inside of your other foot and dribble with the inside of that foot (now facing the cones) to the 3rd cone. Repeat with the opposite foot Series 3: Dribble with the outside of the foot closest to the cone. When you get to the 2nd cone, do an outside of the foot cut and a quick inside of the foot cut to the other foot. Dribble to the 3rd cone. Repeat with the opposite foot.

Ages 10 and younger: complete 6 of each series Ages 11 to 13: complete 8 of each series Ages 14 and older: complete 10 of each series

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Parents Page Values of CMYSA During a Season

The game is the best teacher. The coach is really a substitute voice. We want the players to hear the silent voice…the game. The game will talk to our player if we let it. Soccer without ideas is boring and players with skill and imagination are fun to watch. The great players lead with their minds. “How can I make space and time?” “How do I win it back?” are questions we want our players to ask. But if coaches and parents are always telling players what to do, these questions never present themselves to the players and they never become true players of the game, only robots doing what they are told. Telling players what to do from the sidelines shackles players and destroys their natural instinct of being part of the game because they are too busy listening to the adults talking to them. It is important for both coaches and parents to judge players by their talents. No kid ever steps on the field and says, “Today I am going to lose, miss a goal or make a crummy pass.” They are naturally competitive. We should be concerned about the players’ performance, not the final score. There are always shortcut that you can find to win the next game, however, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be winning five or six years from now. There is such a difference between team development and player development. You can divvy up the field, make players rehearse what they’re suppose to do in their small areas, and the team will be successful. However, it is a shortcut to success and ultimately hinders our players because they never learn to be well rounded and will not understand the game when moved to a new small area. The coach and parents are responsible for helping players develop a love affair between the player and the ball and on a larger scale the game. Only players who love the game will develop great technical skill and understanding of the game because these things take work outside of training. If parents force players to be a soccer player or coaches pigeon hole a player to one spot or take the fun from the game, these players are less likely to just play in the backyard. This is where technical skill and creativity is developed. Coaches should create games small enough so positions don’t matter. If coaches are patient enough to move kids from really small numbers one step at a time, that would the most natural and the most potent education the players could possibly get. They would learn to deal with time and space, how to move around and have some shape. The problem is we often go to bigger numbers too early. When does CMYSA think results matter and team success should be the emphasis instead of individual development? Typically, around U15 or U16. Players are not playing full sided until U13 so development and technical proficiency is key at younger ages. At U13, most players are still growing into their adult form so designating them a single position is premature as their physical attributes are likely to change. At U15 and U16, our players are looking to make their high school teams and proficiency at a spot or two is needed. However, we seek to develop players, not positions.

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Need a summer job with flexible hours?

Do you want to make some extra cash and help the game of soccer in Central Minnesota? Minnesota was short at least 1,200 referees this past summer. Sign up to be a soccer referee for both TRAVEL AND REC programs. There is a clinic offered in St. Cloud and for a nominal fee you can be a certified referee. Another option is to referee the Rec Program with training information found at: http://www.cmysa.org/recrefs You can specify which ages you feel confortable officiating and if you’d rather be a sideline or center official as well as the nights you are available. Contact Mike From at 320-252-8820 (micafr2003@yahoo.com) for more information.

Coaches’ Corner: Free Education Offerings

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CMYSA is offering all its current rec and travel coaches, along with any trainers or future coaches (basically anyone who thinks they’d want to coach and are 15 or older), the opportunity to attend 2 FREE EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS. Please notify Emily Willaert (Emily@cmysa.org) if you want to attend.

1. Glazier Soccer Clinic: May 5 to May 7th at the Minneapolis Airport Marriot attend 1, 2 or all 3 days.

This clinic is like the MYSA Winter Symposium on steroids. Attend sessions focused on 11 v 11 play presented by college coaches throughout the country and Minnesota’s highest licensed coaches. The itinerary can be seen at: http://www.glaziersoccerclinics.com/coaching-clinics

2. MYSA Technical Certificate: May 7th from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM at North Junior High.

This 5 course is designed to improve U9 to U18 coaches’ ability to teach the application of technique in the game: how to pass, receive, dribble, shoot, head, and defend including goalkeeping. Technical aspects of these skills will be broken down for coaches to full practice sessions. Different sessions will be presented than last year’s session.

Player Recognition:

Want an easy way to advertise and

support CMYSA???

Sponsor a recreation team. For $250 your

business, family, or organization name will be a

Spring/Summer rec team name and have a logo

on the team t-shirt. The players will send you a

team picture along with a letter about their

season and we will recognize you as a sponsor in

our newsletter. For more information contact:

Chris Schueller at 320-253-5936 or

chriscmysa@outlook.com

Soccer Central Sponsorship Games to watch:

Thursday, April 6th: US Women’s Nat’l Team

v. Russia at 7:30 PM on FS1

Saturday, April 8th: Stoke City v Liverpool @

9:00 AM

Sunday, April 9th: US Women’s Nat’l Team v.

Russia at 1:00 PM on ESPN

Sunday, April 16th: Man United v Chelsea @

10:00 AM

Thursday, April 27th: Man. City v Man. United

@ 2:00 PM

Sunday, April 30: Everton v Chelsea @ 8:05

PM and Tottenham v Arsenal @ 10:30 AM

In Club Grand

1. Annabelle T (2006)

2. Teagan G. (2005)

3. Lauren G. (2008)

4. Molly Simmons (2006)

5. Josephine W. (2001)

6. Annabel W. (2004)

7. Joe P. (2002)

8. Will P. (2006)

9. Kate P. (2004)

10.Claire Q. (2004)

11. Madden Q. (2006)

12. Riley Q. (2008)

13. Jadyen P. (2004)

14. Eli P. (2004)

15. Hope S. (2004)

16. Leif R. (2005)

Congratulations to: • Allison Seehusen for being

named as a finalist for All-Area Gymnast of the Year

• Tess Scholtes for being named to the gymnastics All-Area honorable mention team

• Brooke Walters for being named as a finalist for the All-Area Hockey Player of the Year

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