MUSTANGS 6, BEARS 0
Thursday at Hyrum
Bear River 0 0 — 0
Mtn. Crest 3 3 — 6
First Half
MC — Morgan Eggleston (Mindi Beckstrom), 19:95
MC — Jessica Hoskin (Juliette McCann), 24:35
MC — Hoskin (Cassidee Nelson, Makelle Eggleston), 38:47
Second Half
MC — Nelson (Randi Kendrick), 56:05
MC — Karlee Campbell, 66:20
MC — McCann (Hoskin), 69:10
BOBCATS 3, MINERS 0
Thursday at Smithfield
Park City 0 0 — 0
Sky View 0 3 — 3
Second Half
SV — Stacy Bair (Jessica Brooksby), 42:00.
SV — Bair (Meagan Payne), 77:00.
SV — Brooksby (Haley Voeller), 79:00.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Infinity players in the Herald Journal representing their respected high schools
Logan 1, Morgan 2"The Grizzlies initially scored the equalizer late in the first half on a well-driven Maddie Daines (pictured to the left in yellow) free kick from 19 yards out, which tucked inside the near post. Nicky Bennett was ruled to be fouled just outside the box — the Logan faithful was hoping for a penalty kick — setting the stage for Daines."
“We had some great, great play from Sam Emmett, Ali Noorda came in off the bench and played very solid for us the second half.
Mustangs 5, Jayhawks 2
The Mustangs (2-0) struck quickly against the host Jayhawks (3-2), scoring in the 6th on a 25-yard free kick by Mindi Beckstrom, and the 9th on a point-blank shot by Juliette McCann. Jessica Hoskin assisted on the play.
Kasandra Anderson gave MC a 3-0 halftime lead when she buried a 30-yard shot off of a pass from Cassidee Nelson.
However, goals by Morgan Eggleston — assisted by Randi Kendrick — and McCann made sure Mountain Crest was never seriously threatened.
Giles raved about McCann’s second goal. Morgan Olsen dribbled to the end line and crossed it to McCann, who used the back of her foot to beat the St. Joseph’s keeper from inside the 6.
Read entire article here: http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2009/08/26/sports/sports01-08-26-09.txt
Monday, August 24, 2009
Infinity players in the Herald Journal representing their respected high schools
Brooksby propels Bobcats
By Wade Denniston
Published:
Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:40 AM CDT
Sky View’s girls soccer team didn’t let the loss to powerhouse Alta keep it down very long.
The Bobcats bounced back less than 24 hours later.
Freshman Jessica Brooksby scored the first two goals of her career, as well as added an assist, to lead the Bobcats to a 3-1 road victory over the Orem Tigers on Wednesday afternoon.
“It was a really solid game for us, a consistent effort and it was really good for us to not have a letdown, especially after playing a real tough one with Alta at (Real Salt Lake’s) Rio Tinto (Stadium),” said Sky View head coach Doyle Geddes, whose team fell to the Hawks 2-1 on Tuesday night.
“... It was a good bounce back for us.”
Brooksby gave Sky View (2-2-0) a 1-0 lead in the 16th minute when she scored her first goal of the match. Sophomore Stacy Bair had the assist.
That duo hooked up again 10 minutes later when Bair, who was on the receiving end of a Brooksby pass, found the back of the net for a 2-0 lead.
“(Brooksby) returned the favor,” Geddes said. “... There’s a nice, kind of invisible thread between the two of those players.”
Brooksby, on an assist from Mia Felts, made it 3-0 in the 62nd when she scored her second goal of the match.
The Tigers (3-1-0) avoided the shutout courtesy of a Megan Sackett goal in the 75th.
For Orem, this was its second match in as many days. The Tigers are also in action today against Lehi in their region opener.
“I think what Orem did is they kind of looked past us because they open their region (today),” Geddes said. “I was surprised they even played us.”
By Wade Denniston
Published:
Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:40 AM CDT
Sky View’s girls soccer team didn’t let the loss to powerhouse Alta keep it down very long.
The Bobcats bounced back less than 24 hours later.
Freshman Jessica Brooksby scored the first two goals of her career, as well as added an assist, to lead the Bobcats to a 3-1 road victory over the Orem Tigers on Wednesday afternoon.
“It was a really solid game for us, a consistent effort and it was really good for us to not have a letdown, especially after playing a real tough one with Alta at (Real Salt Lake’s) Rio Tinto (Stadium),” said Sky View head coach Doyle Geddes, whose team fell to the Hawks 2-1 on Tuesday night.
“... It was a good bounce back for us.”
Brooksby gave Sky View (2-2-0) a 1-0 lead in the 16th minute when she scored her first goal of the match. Sophomore Stacy Bair had the assist.
That duo hooked up again 10 minutes later when Bair, who was on the receiving end of a Brooksby pass, found the back of the net for a 2-0 lead.
“(Brooksby) returned the favor,” Geddes said. “... There’s a nice, kind of invisible thread between the two of those players.”
Brooksby, on an assist from Mia Felts, made it 3-0 in the 62nd when she scored her second goal of the match.
The Tigers (3-1-0) avoided the shutout courtesy of a Megan Sackett goal in the 75th.
For Orem, this was its second match in as many days. The Tigers are also in action today against Lehi in their region opener.
“I think what Orem did is they kind of looked past us because they open their region (today),” Geddes said. “I was surprised they even played us.”
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Guided Discovery
By Sam Snow, US Youth Soccer Technical Director
The traditional way sports have been taught is with the coach at the center of attention. The coach told the players what to do {command style} and expected them to produce. With the command style, the coach explains a skill, demonstrates the skill and allows the players to practice the skill. In contrast to 'reproduction' of knowledge in the coach-centered approach, the guided discovery approach emphasizes the "production" of new talents. The approach invites the player to think, to go beyond the given information and then discover the correct skills. The essence of this style is a coach-player connection in which your sequence of information and questions causes responses by the player. The combination of information and question by you elicits a correct response, which is discovered by the player. The effect of this process leads the player to discover the sought tactic or technique. Guided discovery simply means that you raise questions and provide options or choices for the players, guiding the players to answer the questions for themselves because they become curious about the answers. The novice player in a command style setting thinks too much about what they are trying to do, a form of paralysis by analysis. Instead if you guide the players in a player-centered training environment then they gradually become capable of holistic thinking in their soccer performance.
Holistic thought is opposed to the analytical type of thinking. Analysis means to divide the whole into parts which can be studied more closely. Holistic thinking considers the thing as a whole. Soccer performances {training sessions and especially matches} are better suited to holistic than analytical treatment because they involve an integrated set of movements which must all happen at the same time. There simply is not enough time during a match to perform each of the movements separately and then string them together. Holistic thinking has been linked anatomically to functions carried out in the right hemisphere of the brain. The brain has both a right and left hemisphere connected by a bundle of nerves called the corpus collosum. The right hemisphere coordinates movements and sensations associated with the left side of the body and the left hemisphere does the same for the right side of the body. In addition, the left hemisphere is known to control analytical thinking, which includes verbal expression, reading, writing and mathematical computation. The functions associated with the right side of the brain are nonintellectual ones or those having to do with sensory interpretation, coordination of movement, intuitive or creative thinking and holistic perception of complex patterns. This hemisphere can grasp a number of patterns simultaneously.[i]
Sports tradition has emphasized left-side brain functions to the exclusion of the other. We acquire pieces of knowledge one at a time. In soccer, the traditional coach teaches separate points of technique, ignoring the 'flow' needed in actual performance. Some coaches use the holistic approach. In soccer we draw upon right-hand brain capabilities of holistic perception, rhythm, spatial relationships, and simultaneous processing of many inputs. Left brain functions are largely uninvolved. Novice players often go wrong in trying to control their movements with a constant, specific internal awareness. They engage the left-brain functions of analysis and sequence to interfere with holistic coordination of physical movement, which is a right-brain function. Obscuring a player's awareness with too many instructions {over-coaching} will make him or her so preoccupied that he or she can't 'chew gum and run at the same time!' It's called 'paralysis through analysis'.
It is often argued that effective coaching is as much an art as it is a science. Guided discovery in coaching soccer is a balance of the two. In a broad sense our coaching style of the American soccer player must move away from the 'sage on the stage' to the 'guide on the side'.
""I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.""
Confucius
CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THIS
The traditional way sports have been taught is with the coach at the center of attention. The coach told the players what to do {command style} and expected them to produce. With the command style, the coach explains a skill, demonstrates the skill and allows the players to practice the skill. In contrast to 'reproduction' of knowledge in the coach-centered approach, the guided discovery approach emphasizes the "production" of new talents. The approach invites the player to think, to go beyond the given information and then discover the correct skills. The essence of this style is a coach-player connection in which your sequence of information and questions causes responses by the player. The combination of information and question by you elicits a correct response, which is discovered by the player. The effect of this process leads the player to discover the sought tactic or technique. Guided discovery simply means that you raise questions and provide options or choices for the players, guiding the players to answer the questions for themselves because they become curious about the answers. The novice player in a command style setting thinks too much about what they are trying to do, a form of paralysis by analysis. Instead if you guide the players in a player-centered training environment then they gradually become capable of holistic thinking in their soccer performance.
Holistic thought is opposed to the analytical type of thinking. Analysis means to divide the whole into parts which can be studied more closely. Holistic thinking considers the thing as a whole. Soccer performances {training sessions and especially matches} are better suited to holistic than analytical treatment because they involve an integrated set of movements which must all happen at the same time. There simply is not enough time during a match to perform each of the movements separately and then string them together. Holistic thinking has been linked anatomically to functions carried out in the right hemisphere of the brain. The brain has both a right and left hemisphere connected by a bundle of nerves called the corpus collosum. The right hemisphere coordinates movements and sensations associated with the left side of the body and the left hemisphere does the same for the right side of the body. In addition, the left hemisphere is known to control analytical thinking, which includes verbal expression, reading, writing and mathematical computation. The functions associated with the right side of the brain are nonintellectual ones or those having to do with sensory interpretation, coordination of movement, intuitive or creative thinking and holistic perception of complex patterns. This hemisphere can grasp a number of patterns simultaneously.[i]
Sports tradition has emphasized left-side brain functions to the exclusion of the other. We acquire pieces of knowledge one at a time. In soccer, the traditional coach teaches separate points of technique, ignoring the 'flow' needed in actual performance. Some coaches use the holistic approach. In soccer we draw upon right-hand brain capabilities of holistic perception, rhythm, spatial relationships, and simultaneous processing of many inputs. Left brain functions are largely uninvolved. Novice players often go wrong in trying to control their movements with a constant, specific internal awareness. They engage the left-brain functions of analysis and sequence to interfere with holistic coordination of physical movement, which is a right-brain function. Obscuring a player's awareness with too many instructions {over-coaching} will make him or her so preoccupied that he or she can't 'chew gum and run at the same time!' It's called 'paralysis through analysis'.
It is often argued that effective coaching is as much an art as it is a science. Guided discovery in coaching soccer is a balance of the two. In a broad sense our coaching style of the American soccer player must move away from the 'sage on the stage' to the 'guide on the side'.
""I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.""
Confucius
CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THIS
Monday, August 3, 2009
July Coaches Meeting Agenda & Powerpoint Presentation
To view agenda click the following link: http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddp5t87f_116cp6kfqcb
To view the power point click the following link: http://www.infinitysc.com/page/Powerpoint--july-28th-2009.aspx
When viewing the power point please click each image as many of them have videos linked to them.
To view the power point click the following link: http://www.infinitysc.com/page/Powerpoint--july-28th-2009.aspx
When viewing the power point please click each image as many of them have videos linked to them.
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