May 19, 2012

Staff Thoughts: Playing Under Pressure

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This weeks staff post is from Missy Geha, SoccerFIT Academy trainer. Her post today reflects her thoughts on a recent article from goal.com.
Most young soccer players react in the same way as the professionals do in tight games. One would think after playing for so many years that keeping composure and staying focused would come [...]

Congratulations on a National Championship Season…

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Congratulations to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Women’s Soccer Team, who’s victory over Ohio State and Stanford won them a college national championship this past weekend. And a very special congratulations to the 5 former SoccerFIT Academy / CAP players who play for Notre Dame! It seems like just last year that Mandy came to [...]

Soccer F.I.T. Alumni Lauren Fowlkes, Finalist for Top Honor

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From www.und.com
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Notre Dame women’s soccer senior defender/co-captain Lauren Fowlkes (Lee’s Summit, Mo./St. Teresa’s Academy) has been chosen as one of the 10 finalists for the 2010 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, it was announced Wednesday. The Senior CLASS Award is presented annually to the nation’s top senior player based [...]

Inspirational Words: Committment

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I do not boast of my abilities or believe in my own strength… but I hold true that God has placed me in the right situation at the right time. It is up to me to work as hard as I can to be prepared to live up to the expectations placed on me, for [...]

Fall Weekly Recap: Week 2

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This week has made me realize how truly blessed we are to have this environment from which to train! Over the last 10 years the first few weeks of a new season are usually about teaching some of the basics, orienting new athletes to our system and really just starting over. This year is different….
Of [...]

Losing the WILL to WIN…

I commented on a post in a soccer forum last night and I thought I would also share the post here. The question was centered on the topic of…”Is it okay to push kids to WANT to WIN?” This is a very sensitive subject in this country and the more people I talk to the [...]

Thursday night’s ‘Coaching Conversation Call’ on Mental Toughness

In case you missed it click over to our blog to hear Jeremy Boone’s Thursday Night Coaching Conversation Call. This weeks topic was Mental Toughness and Jeremy, as usual brought up some interesting ideas and views on this sometimes misunderstood topic. Here is the link…
http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WQh6HH0X
For more on Jeremy Boone or his company, Inner Tactics check [...]

Thursday night's 'Coaching Conversation Call' on Mental Toughness

In case you missed it click over to our blog to hear Jeremy Boone’s Thursday Night Coaching Conversation Call. This weeks topic was Mental Toughness and Jeremy, as usual brought up some interesting ideas and views on this sometimes misunderstood topic. Here is the link…
http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WQh6HH0X
For more on Jeremy Boone or his company, Inner Tactics check [...]

Mental Toughness vs. Mental Discipline…

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I read a blog post on another site this week, where someone commented about the difference between Mental Toughness and Mental Discipline. Apparently people are quite confused as to what the two have in common and what makes them different. So today I thought I would take a stab at defining each.
Mental Toughness is the [...]

Weekly Recap: Spring Season Week 2

It seems as though every weekly recap we write here starts off mentioning the weather, but that’s the beauty of Kansas in the spring! We dealt with cold temperatures, blustery wind and occasional downpours of rain, but that didn’t keep us from finally getting outside! The kids have no concern for the weather; they show [...]