Travel Director Kate Samsot's notes om the Elite Club Developmental Conference
Want your child to play soccer with passion, creativity and joy? Turn off the stopwatch on your kid’s playing time. Quit keeping score. Count, instead, how many passes the team strings together before getting stripped of the ball, or whether the player with the ball has at least two options for a pass, forming the infamous soccer “triangle.” These are among the lessons League Administrator Tom Gross, Girls’ Technical Director Karen Kelser and I learned at the third annual Elite Club Development Conference in Raleigh, N.C., this month.
DC Stoddert continuously offers coaching license courses and other coaching workshops for its coaches in both recreational and travel/developmental soccer. For the most up-to-date listing of courses, please click here. For more information, please E-mail Len Oliver, Director of Coaching.
Mini-UN With 35 Coaches in USSF 'E' Course
Len Oliver and Kate Samsot just completed their most recent USSF ’E’ Coaching Course over the blustery and cold weekend of November 30-December 2.The 35 coaches in the 18-hour course came from 16 different countries.
Dynamic Duo: Women’s World Cup champion and WUSA pioneer Mia Hamm (#9) gets a hug from fellow National Soccer Hall of Fame member (Class of ’96) Len Oliver, DC Stoddert’s Director of Coaching. The induction ceremony took place August 26, 2007.
USSF National Staff Coach Gary Allen on playing to space
Ten DC Stoddert travel coaches and the GU13 Edge got a sprited lesson in "possession soccer" from USSF National Staff Coach Gary Allen on Tuesday, September 11. The clinic is one in a series conducted by state and national coaches for the benefit of our travel coaches.
A record 41 coaches attended DC Stoddert Coaching Director Len Oliver’s USSF U6-U8 and U8-U10 coaching modules on Friday, Sept 7 and Saturday, Sept. 8, to earn their ’F’ License basic coaching certification. “The word is getting out," Oliver noted, “that we are serious about licensing coaches.”
Think competition for field space is tight here? Try having to shoo several aggravated vultures off the pitch to start training, as we did at Ethiopia’s national soccer stadium last month.
Left: DCST coaches Mohan Telfer and Hannah Wenzel in Addis Ababa. Contact Kate Samsot to help with outreach to young Ethiopian players.
DC Stoddert Soccer requires all coaches to have a USSF license before stepping on the field. The ’E’ Course is Director of Coaching Len Oliver’s favorite. Read why.
Len Oliver, center, trains his 3,500th coach in the Fall 2006 ’E’ License Course
Left to right: Philip Pernet, Emmanuel Tamen, John Symington, Len Oliver, Tracy Pyles, John Hymes, Marcel Sindjui, Andrew Days)
Want your child to play soccer with passion, creativity and joy? Turn off the stopwatch on your kid’s playing time. Quit keeping score. Count, instead, how many passes the team strings together before getting stripped of the ball, or whether the player with the ball has at least two options for a pass, forming the infamous soccer “triangle.”
DC Stoddert Soccer requires all coaches to have a USSF license before stepping on the field. The ’E’ Course is Director of Coaching Len Oliver’s favorite. Read why.