Crusaders Soccer staff continues to provide pertinent information to help our soccer players stay healthy, considering trying out for their high school team and/or playing soccer at the college level.
On Oct. 1, Kate Maietta, the college director and a competitive coach with the Crusaders Soccer Club, teamed up with Kamryn Correll, a Crusaders Soccer competitive level coach and held a classroom session attended by 40 girls playing on Crusaders Soccer competitive teams born in 2012 through 2008 emphasizing physical fitness.
Correll is a collegiate Division III athlete who received CCCAA (junior college association league honors. She is also a 3X Junior Olympics participant in Track and Field. Kamyrn has experience in college scouting, coaching at Francis Parker and has four years of coaching private training sessions. Correll is a CPT (certified personal trainer) and currently playing in the WPSL for the San Diego Strikers.
Correll’s program is free for the players and consists of two parts. She stated, “The first was a one-hour classroom session to provide middle and high school aged girls important information on injury prevention exercises, pre, and post-game/practice recovery exercises and basic nutrition information.”
The second portion of this program will be six one-hour sessions held on the turf field at Pershing Middle School.
At the end of the first session, each girl received a packet with three workouts a week. Following each of the three workouts, the girls will meet with Correll at Pershing Middle School for a one-hour conditioning workout session with a complete warm-up and cooldown session with an emphasis on injury prevention. Upon completion of the six-week workshop, players will be able to utilize their packet independently.
On Tuesday, Oct. 8, Seth Tunick, an assistant director of Coaching for the Crusaders Soccer Club and the varsity soccer coach for Patrick Henry High School, conducted a program for all 9th grade boys and girls, and their parents, interested in trying out for their high school soccer team.
The presentation focused on everything involving high school soccer including requirements to participate, the different levels, the tryout process, club vs high school differences, and Seth answered questions from players and parents.
Victor Melendez, the director of coaching for Crusaders Soccer, announced the dates and time of the annual three Thanksgiving soccer camps. The Competitive and Recreational camps will be held Nov. 25-27, and the Goalkeepers camp will be Nov. 29-30. For more information and to register, go to crusaderssoccer.org.
As part of his commitment to the Crusaders recreational program, all goalkeepers on teams playing 7 V 7, were invited to a special one-hour goalkeeper clinic as part of the on-going Friday Clinics.
Melendez, who is also the goalkeeper coach for the San Diego Sockers, conducted the goalkeeper clinic giving basic instructions to the goalkeepers to help them defend their goal in a safe manner.
For more information on the Crusaders Soccer Club and its program, visit crusaderssoccer.org.
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