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    White Mountain Lions: Season to Remember: A Memoir
    White Mountain Lions: Season to Remember: A Memoir
    White Mountain Lions: Season to Remember: A Memoir
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    White Mountain Lions: Season to Remember: A Memoir

    By Bob Kaszas

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    This book is a great read for parents, coaches and anyone who has ever witnessed magical play by youngsters and wondered how their coaches inspired such play. It is a fun an informative account of coaching youth soccer and one that potential coaches will find helpful. These six- and seven-year-old kids learned, they listened, and they grew into better soccer players. Coaching was a lot of work, it was time consuming, and there were a lot of plans and decisions to make. I came to totally appreciate the volunteer coach role and what it takes to coach a youth soccer team. I hope any wisdom gained can be passed on.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 22, 2013
    ISBN9781481707046
    White Mountain Lions: Season to Remember: A Memoir
    Author

    Bob Kaszas

    There is little of interest about me. The “cool” scale is like a clock. If you are the ultimate in cool the hands are pointing straight up to midnight or noon. At one o’clock you are a little less cool, and when the big hand is pointing to five or six or seven you are average. By about nine o’clock you are unhip, square, and nerdy. I am so uncool I am at 11:59. My wife says that I am so uncool, so close to twelve straight up, and so close to ultimate cool that I am actually the coolest person she has ever known. How’s that for a wife?

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      Book preview

      White Mountain Lions - Bob Kaszas

      White Mountain Lions:

      Season

      to

      Remember

      A Memoir

      August 21, 2012, Through

      October 20, 2012

      Bob Kaszas

      US%26UKLogoB%26Wnew.ai

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2013 by Bob Kaszas. All rights reserved.

      Still photo by Still Life Studios, Barkhamsted, CT.

      Action photos by p.welles&Co Digital Design, Barkhamsted, CT.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 01/15/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-0705-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-0704-6 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013900711

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Author’s Note

      Foreword

      Another author’s note

      Beginnings

      The Team Forms

      Cat Herding

      The Schedule

      Practice Drills

      Early Games

      Players Improve

      New England Weather

      Mid-Season Form

      Rough And Tumble

      The Last Regular-Season Game

      Endings

      Appendix

      About the Author

      Thanks to Pam, Jack, and Maddie

      Author’s Note

      I started writing this story about our soccer season the Sunday after closing day. Perhaps I should have kept a diary or perhaps the story is better as is from fuzzy memory. Six- and seven-year-olds are pliable, energetic, eager marvels. This story is dedicated to all the kids who aspire to be part of a team and all the coaches taking on the responsibility of coaching them. Coaching youth soccer is an autumn ritual that takes place across America every year. This is a story about one team, one soccer season. To protect privacy, a few of the names have been changed. Some paraphrasing may have occurred; memory isn’t perfect. Also I am a little hard of hearing . . . and have a tendency to fill in the blanks if I didn’t hear exactly well . . .

      Foreword

      Two years ago my daughter, Maddie, signed up for kindergarten soccer. Unfortunately, she had an occasional habit of not engaging in full participation during supervised activities. She was a bit willful and wanted to do what she wanted to do and didn’t do what she didn’t want to do. She took swimming lessons but would not go into the pool, for instance. She was born with this trait, probably passed down from my grandfather, who ran away from home when he was twelve years old—from Canada to the United States.

      I volunteered to be an assistant for kindergarten soccer in some part to help with Maddie but also because I like soccer. Because the kindergarten head coach was a seasoned professional, my role was easy to do. The Saturday practices were organized, and the instructions to the volunteers were clear and easily understood. The season was a success, and although Maddie had a few episodes of nonparticipation, the season ended without significant incident.

      My daughter signed up for soccer the following year, in first grade. Since I know my daughter quite well and knew that she was not cured of the mild attitude affliction, I signed up to be a head coach for her first- and second-grade team. I was paired with another volunteer for assistant coach, Tony, via happenstance, and we took charge of the B4 (#4 team in Barkhamsted) team called the Purple Tigers. I ended up getting along well with Tony; when he talked what he said mattered, he knew a lot about soccer, and he had a dry sense of humor I could really appreciate. Coaching first and second grade was much different from coaching kindergarten in that we had the team to ourselves and were on our own without much guidance.

      I really enjoyed the teaching aspect of coaching during the practices and games; it was very rewarding. However, we had discipline issues that sapped a lot of my energy. In addition, the league organization was somewhat confusing in that there was a steady stream of e-mails concerning team-member changes, rule changes, and field-availability changes. I preferred to take the team to the state park for practice instead of trying to sort through the confusion to determine whether the field at the school was available.

      Our team ended the season with a 2-3-2 record. We were shut out and beaten by a lopsided score in the three losses. The players seemed unhappy. The amount of work other than the direct teaching and coaching of soccer game and individual skills was not what I expected. I had mixed feelings about coaching soccer in the future.

      Maddie signed up again for soccer in the second grade. I volunteered to be an assistant coach (not a head coach), hoping to deal only with practice and game teaching aspects. Maddie still had the attitude issue, but it was dissipating. She had a wonderful baseball season the previous spring. As the start of the season approached I realized that I really liked coaching with Tony and contacted him. I informed him that I wanted to be an assistant, but unfortunately so did he. We reached an agreement to be co-coaches, neither head nor assistant, but it was good that we were together. I felt somewhat reluctant and somewhat hesitant about the upcoming 2012 season. However, a coach has to be all-in, as the saying goes, so even with the feelings of trepidation I committed to doing the best I could do on all the duties, including e-mail communications, schedules, personnel changes, discipline issues, parental communications, pictures, practice drills, player development, equipment

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