June 1, 2010
I am sorry this is l
belated, but I want to say thanks to each of you on your
vote of confidence in me as the club's Director of
Coaching. I am excited to be
able to continue to work for and with our players,
parents, coaches, teams and
you as the board in providing a high quality, high value
soccer environment and
product. The two year contract is outstanding and
I also of course appreciate
the increase in compensation. :)
We have a great program that provides a needed, valuable
alternative to players, coaches and parents who are
looking for competitive select soccer with the big club
benefits without the nameless, faceless big club
approach. I hope that we continue to be that
alternative, and as we have said so many times, we don't
want to be the biggest, dont want to be the best at all
costs, we want to be the best for many -- and, with over
700 players this spring, we are meeting that challenge.
Thanks again for your support and confidence. As
always, please let me know of
concerns and ideas you might have for programming, etc.
Bill Spraul
your Director of Coaching thru June 2012.
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January 2010
The CWSC Training
Staff
We are very proud of the
experience and expertise that we have assembled with
the CWSC Training Staff. Our players directly
benefit from a wide array of
experienced and talented trainers – current and former
college and high school
coaches, former and current college players, current and
former club coaches and
trainers. The CWSC Training Staff provides
professional, expert, high quality
technical and tactical training and development
opportunities to all CWSC
players, regardless of their playing level, as the CWSC
Training Staff is fully
committed to the entire 400 plus roster of CWSC players.
Here are the members of the CWSC Training Staff as of
this Fall 2009 season. We continually recruit,
evaluate and add experience to our staff -- adding those
(and only those folks) who have the right stuff to work
with our players and
coaches within the spirit of Cincinnati West Soccer
Club.
Current College Coaches
Keith Combs
Bryan Warman
Former College Players, many who also have club, college
and/or high school coaching experience
Mindy Cooper
Steve Schaeffer
Sarah Barber (keeper trainer)
Jill McDonald
Jen Ransick
Sarah Barber
Tony Cullum
Elizabeth Meyer
Julie Backscheider
Rebecca Gardlik
Jen Doerflein (keeper trainer)
Andy Deimling
Former College Players who
are also current CWSC coaches
Dan Smith
Jinene Enders (ODP staff)
Mark Thiemann
Sarah Leibel
Mike Cullum
Dan Gruelich
Bill Moore (ODP staff)
Denny Michelson
Melissa Frampton (McAuley H.S. coach)
Current and former CWSC, other club
and/or high school coaches or players
Tim Cable
Chris Hais
Paul Quinlan
Ski Vaught
Jerry Baum
Mark Nichols (Seton H.S. coach)
Jeff Wahl (keeper trainer)
Ron Makstaller
Karin Martini
Jan Bennett
Ken Getz (Oldenberg H.S. coach)
Scott Brown
Gary Blanton
Donny Herrmann
Lauren Combs
Erica Spraul
Dave Dillenberger
Jim Eckels
Current College Players (most
are former CWSC players as well)
Toney Combs
Kevin Spraul
Kaitlen Felton
Drew Nichols
Brittany Blanton
Max Hoffman
Suzanne Flanigan
Desarae Mount
Danielle Mount
Amber Oliver
Jackie Esterkamp
Danny Elmore
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August
2009
Director of Coaching Update
New to the DOC links are the updated CWSC 2009-2010 Training Goals
The training goals are very similar to last year's program with minor
adjustment. As well, I have also added Tactical / Match Play Goals for this
year. These goals are to provide you with focus and priorities for your tactical
training and match play to build on the technical priorities.
You will see in the new Tactical Goals section that there is a focus on using a
more intentional build-up thru possession for attacking opportunities. This is
not to say that we don't want our teams to take the quick counterattack when its
available. Yes we do. Rather, this is to focus on the fact that sometimes we
do too much "poke and hope" attacking -- poke it forward long, and hope that
one of our players can run to it and go to goal. We want sustainability and
possession in the offensive 3rd, not just a long ball, and then we are back on
defense again....
As always, your comments, input and debate are welcome. :)
Some of our coaches have
expressed interest in discussion about CWSC recommended
systems of play. I strongly encourage the age group
coaches and trainers to have regular discussions about
tactics including systems of play. Sharing positive
and negative experiences is an excellent learning
experience. And, of course I am always ready, willing
and interested in discussing tactics, systems of play,
etc . with you and working with your teams to be even more
successful.
My recommendations concerning systems of play are included
in the System of
Play
link above. There are no right and wrong answers here.
There are teams at every level of competition and age group
that use a wide array of systems of
play and are successful. I have outlined the most
common systems of play at
6 v 6, 8 v 8 and 11 v 11 and a few
general comments about each. Obviously,
there is much more about each
option. Books are written about each system of play
and others. This is intended to be a guide for our
teams and coaches, to provide a point of discussion and to
provide our coaches with the Director of Coaching’s
recommendations and direction on the subject.
As always, feel free to contact me and discuss, debate and
share ideas as there
is no universal answer to these types of tactics issues.
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May,
2009
Director of Coaching Update
First and foremost, I am
pleased to be completing another year as CWSC’s Director of
Coaching and I am equally pleased and excited to be
returning for next year as well. As you can see from our
website, we have continued to build our training and
development programs for our teams and players as CWSC
focuses on providing the best of these opportunities to ALL
of our players. I emphasize all -- at CWSC every player
and team is important to the CWSC training staff and I as
the DOC, not just the top teams that tend to get the focus
and resources at other clubs. We understand that the over
600 players in our club all deserve to benefit from our club
and our experience and expertise.
This has been and
continues to be an exciting time for the teams and players
of Cincinnati West Soccer Club. This past fall and the
current spring season, CWSC teams are again having excellent
success on the field. At CWSC, we don’t measure success
just by the team record -- we also measure it by player and
team technical and tactical development. We challenged our
teams to focus on our 3 training priorities this past year
and we have seen exciting and significant improvement in our
club play as a result. Our coaches and training staff have
done a great job, but we also know that its our players that
have done the most work, and I am very proud of every one of
our CWSC players.
CWSC players have a wide
variety of training programs available from the Club and the
CWSC training staff. Through our innovative Guest Training
Program, our teams benefit from the expertise of our CWSC
training staff, supplementing and enriching the work of our
team trainers and coaches. Our coaching and training staff
adhere to our CWSC Training Guidelines providing consistent
training techniques for all of our players. Our weekly
Goalkeeper Training Program has become a mainstay of our
training program, providing CWSC with the best group of
keepers in CUSL. Special player training opportunities such
as the Winter Player Training, the Specialized Field Player
Training Series, the CWSC/CCU Mini Camp and the CWSC Players
Summer Skills Camp in July are outstanding additional
opportunities for CWSC players to build their skills. Many
CWSC teams implemented winter indoor training programs to
supplement their player skills training. And, there is
more to come in the future as we find ways to help CWSC
players reach their potential.
As we prepare for our
club tryouts in June for next year’s teams, we will again be
challenging our players and teams to achieve even better
success next year. If you haven’t done so recently, look
around our website, see what all we have to offer and join
us at tryouts to also become a member of our exciting,
growing soccer community. CWSC provides an outstanding,
competitive program, focused on players and teams without
compromising quality, soccer training and development and
also teaching the life skills of soccer including
sportsmanship, team work, playing hard and playing fair.
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August, 2008
Letter from the Director of Coaching
I am excited to be
returning, and in a permanent capacity, as CWSC’s Director
of Coaching for this coming year, 2008-2009. Thanks to the
CWSC Executive Board for the opportunity and I am looking
forward to continuing to work with our outstanding teams
and players in continuing to improve our play, our technical
and tactical skills and learning life skills through the
game of soccer.
My primary role as DOC
is to provide technical and tactical assistance and
resources to our players, coaches and teams. Below are some
of the tools and resources that CWSC and I provide for our
players.
As many of you know, I
am passionate about Cincinnati West Soccer Club and CWSC
soccer. I believe that our unique club model is one of the
primary reasons why we are one of the best select soccer
programs in the area. Every season, not only do we return
almost every player, we gain more teams, players, coaches
and families into the bigger CWSC Family. Once you
experience CWSC soccer, you are hooked. We provide
opportunities to train and play at all levels in different
environments, while understanding the importance of our
roles as coaches, teachers and role models. CWSC’s emphasis
on teams, competition and yet being family friendly are
significant benefits as well. CWSC is the best of both
worlds – we provide the look, feel and results of a “big
club” while offering all of the added benefits of being in a
club where we know our players and teams and can focus on
each team and player.
Included on this
Director of Coaching link are several resources for our
coaches, trainers, players and parents. As well, we provide
these resources on our club website so that potential
players and teams can also easily see our focus and what we
do for player and team development.
Whether you are already
in CWSC, or just checking us out, feel free to contact
CWSC’s Director of Coaching , Bill Spraul if you have any
questions or would like to also become a member of CWSC, or
even to become a part of CWSC’s training staff.
See you all on the
pitch !
Bill
Spraul
Director
of Coaching
CWSC
billspraul@zoomtown.com
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February
19, 2008
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:
- 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.
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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:
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Requests can now be made. Use the request form on the club
website.
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Sessions are available to be conducted when spring team training
begins in March thru May.
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You will be notified via email when your session is scheduled.
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The club will pay the guest trainer not the team having the
session.
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The guest trainer will conduct the entire training session.
He/she is in
charge of the training session.
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Coaches are asked not to participate in the session unless as
requested
by the guest trainer.
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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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