Attention, Soccer Moms! Put down the novels and newspapers and letter-writing-catching up! Stop practicing phonics with your little kids while older sibling practices. Step out of those minivans! The New York Times has revealed that moms who play soccer remain healthier and stronger, longer. Bone density issues can actually be delayed or reversed, according to [...]
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What Do You Think the Dog Does When We’re Not Home?
This may fall under the “wish-I-had-done-more-of-this-when-they were-younger” category. I share it as a public service for all of you who have kids not-yet-in-middle-school. A Mom named Mir Kamin has created a list of ten conversation starters to help (re)connect with your kids in just 10 minutes at a time. Sounds ideal for the drive to [...]
Is There Any Logic to In-State Recruiting?
Someday soon I’m going to corner Doyle and make him show me how to plot a scattergraph (or is it scattergram?) on his brother’s programmable calculator. I would love to see the trends spelled out as to where soccer players go to play college soccer. If you kick out the obvious, like community colleges tend [...]
” . . . but drives to campus in a better car than the coach.”
Here’s part II of the funny – harsh – revealing look at college recruiting from the coach’s perspective. Keep in mind that these are junior college* coaches, in case some of the comments seem irrelevant. Maybe it’s a good thing that I only drove Holmes in our plain ole car (rather than the shiny red [...]
Contacting College Coaches? Read This First
Catching the interest of college coaches should be so simple. However, from the coaches’ point of view, there is a lot that can screw up a prospect’s prospects. Here is part I of a two-parter written by a couple of longtime Junior College Coaches–very successful coaches, I might add. I laughed out loud at some [...]
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