February 19,2008

CWSC Spring 2008.training guidelines

CWSC recommended Team Training Session Plan

Above are two links to documents for you to use this spring as references. I hope that these are helpful to you as you begin to prepare for the spring season.  These plans follow established practices and guidelines from out trainers, other soccer experts, and the USSF licensing program and most importantly, they work.  They work in providing a consistent, positive, productive, effective and successful training, development and learning environment for players and teams --  what we all should want for our players. 
 
Some of you may see this information as very basic and many of you already are
following these principles and plans already, but having all of our teams
trained in a more consistent way will improve the overall training experience
and effectiveness for your players and teams, and bring better consistency to
our club. 
 
Our guest trainers follow these guidelines, and the guest trainers and I are
available to help you establish and build training sessions that are built
around these guidelines.   During the season, we will share training ideas and
tips for you to consider.
 
As always, your questions, comments and input are always welcome and
encouraged.
 
Finally, for now, get your guest training requests in.  Its not too early, as
the more notice we have the better we can accommodate your request and the guest trainers' schedules.
 
Bill Spraul
Director of Coaching
CWSC

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February 2, 2008

Click below to fill out a request for a Guest trainer. 

Email request to Bill Spraul

Team Guest Trainer Training Session Request

This spring, CWSC is implementing our CWSC Guest Trainer Program.  This program will allow a team to request a guest trainer who will then come on a specific individual practice night and conduct the team’s training session that night.  The purpose and goal of the program is not to reinvent your team, completely overhaul your team’s skill and ability or, on its own, take your team to the “next level”.   Obviously, an individual training session will not do that.  This program is to provide your teams with an additional resource to help you take your team to the next level. 

The purpose of the Guest Trainer Program is twofold:

1. To expose your team and players to another soccer perspective and provide them with a training session with another expert.   There is great benefit to occasionally exposing your team to another perspective, another soccer voice and seeing and experiencing a possibly different training method.  Using a guest trainer can re-focus your players and typically reinforce with your players the very things that you are focusing on with them.

 

2. To provide our teams with an option should you need “coverage” for a training session due to an absence by the coach or trainer.  

We have assembled a team of over 20 experienced trainers who are available to provide guest training sessions this spring.  Some of these folks are current coaches and trainers with our club, and we also have some additional resources specifically available to our club for this program.   

The Guest Trainer Request form is available on the club website to request a session.  

Note the following guidelines for the program:

 

-          Requests can now be made.  Use the request form on the club website.

-          Sessions are available to be conducted when spring team training

           begins in March thru May.

-          You will be notified via email when your session is scheduled.

-          The club will pay the guest trainer not the team having the session.

-          The guest trainer will conduct the entire training session.  He/she is in

            charge of the training session.

-          Coaches are asked not to participate in the session unless as requested

           by the guest trainer.

-          If available the team’s coach and trainer should attend the session.  A

           responsible adult from the team must be in attendance.

 

 

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January 14,2008

Just a quick note to say that I am excited to be our club's Interim Director of
Coaching for this spring season and I am anxious to get started and see you all
on the soccer field in a couple of months !
 
I want to thank the Executive Board for their support and for providing this
opportunity.  Just as important, I am thankful to the Board for providing the
DOC resource to all of our over 600 players and 50 or so teams this coming
spring.
 
As most of you know, I am very proud of CWSC and our success in our short 5
years of existence and so I look forward to continuing to be able to help keep
CWSC moving forward and growing and improving the play and skill levels of our teams and players.
 
As Bill Mitchell outlined in his announcement, my major priorities as your
Director of Coaching are:
 
-  Provide a visible presence to our teams and players.  You will see me at team practices as I will be spending at least 1 night a week at team training
sessions, rotating locations and days of the week, not to run a particular
team's training session, but to be available and assist any team on that night,
and to of course, talk soccer....
 
-  Support CWSC teams and provide feedback to our coaches.  You will see me at CWSC team matches on Sundays and maybe at a local tourney and provide you with post-game feedback that can assist you in coaching and training your players and team.
 
-  Provide additional training for your team/players.  Along with our club
keeper training program, we are developing a club trainer program that will
allow all CWSC teams to access and use a guest trainer from time to time to help improve your players' skills and abilities.
 
- Provide on going technical and tactical assistance to our teams and players.
 
So, stay tuned for more information as we all start to get ready for a great
spring season.  Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or want
to talk soccer.
 
Finally, if your team is in need of a team trainer for the season, please let me
know asap so I can assist in finding someone for your team.
 
See you all soon !
 
Bill Spraul  
Director of Coaching
CWSC
 

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