DEFINING MOMENTS - A MESSAGE TO MY FAVORITE GIRLS SOCCER TEAM
I volunteered to be a youth soccer (AYSO) coach the second year (2001) my daughter played soccer. I was an assistant coach that year and in 2002 I decided to become a head coach. Since then, I have always been a head coach to all of my daughter's or son's regular season teams (13). I coach for many reasons, but the main reason I coach youth sports is because it allows me to bond and communicate my philosophy of sports and life to my children and other children. My daughter no longer plays soccer. She gave up soccer after playing it in her freshman year of high school to try basketball. She had an outstanding year as a member of her school's JV team, and if she decides to play next year, can be a valuable interior player on the varsity. The sport that she loves is volleyball and she is currently training with a club volleyball team. Soccer was her primary sport as a youth. When parents ask me what's the first team sport their child should do, I reco...