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:
- 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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