Tomorrow it begins!
My favourite time of the year is finally here. It's time for soccer!
I've been coaching soccer in Kuwait for the past five years. It takes over my life, but only because I love it so much. I love teaching my kids all the things that all of my soccer coaches have taught me over the 15 years that I played (unfortunately, I haven't been able to join soccer in Kuwait and had to retire when I moved here six years ago).
It's an amazing feeling. And I think I'm pretty good at it. I've been lucky with the girls I've coached since I've been here. They've all been amazing (even the ones I have to kick out of practice every once in a while). I haven't been able to forget a single one.
I've had other coaches ask me why my girls work so hard for me. Honestly, I have no idea. I really don't. I have high expectations and push them hard. I make them run, I make them do push ups, I make them pass the ball until their feet fall off. But they come back.
And I love them for it.
This is my favourite time of the year. It's also the most stressful. It's not easy being a coach and feeling the pressure. Each year it feels like there's a little bit more--part of it I put on myself, the rest comes from others.
But my girls are amazing. They are worth the stress and the early mornings and late nights and the weekends I give up. So my writing might suffer for the next few weeks, my grading might not get done as fast. But I don't care. It's worth making sacrifices for my girls.
So that's my ramble about how excited I am for tryouts tomorrow (who knows who I'll get!) Are any of you coaches?
My favourite time of the year is finally here. It's time for soccer!
I've been coaching soccer in Kuwait for the past five years. It takes over my life, but only because I love it so much. I love teaching my kids all the things that all of my soccer coaches have taught me over the 15 years that I played (unfortunately, I haven't been able to join soccer in Kuwait and had to retire when I moved here six years ago).
It's an amazing feeling. And I think I'm pretty good at it. I've been lucky with the girls I've coached since I've been here. They've all been amazing (even the ones I have to kick out of practice every once in a while). I haven't been able to forget a single one.
I've had other coaches ask me why my girls work so hard for me. Honestly, I have no idea. I really don't. I have high expectations and push them hard. I make them run, I make them do push ups, I make them pass the ball until their feet fall off. But they come back.
And I love them for it.
This is my favourite time of the year. It's also the most stressful. It's not easy being a coach and feeling the pressure. Each year it feels like there's a little bit more--part of it I put on myself, the rest comes from others.
But my girls are amazing. They are worth the stress and the early mornings and late nights and the weekends I give up. So my writing might suffer for the next few weeks, my grading might not get done as fast. But I don't care. It's worth making sacrifices for my girls.
So that's my ramble about how excited I am for tryouts tomorrow (who knows who I'll get!) Are any of you coaches?
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