Looking back
Summer season is setting and we completed our runs in two leagues with our 7v7 a few weeks ago and our indoor today. Both brought new challenges due to injury of our players from last season and a need to look at our pillars as a team.
For Indoor we maintained a 50/50 season and found some key moments that we capitalized on to win. Those other moments though we folded, in part due to inconsistent availability from loss of key women and defensive players and others where we were simply outplayed.
Looking ahead
I'm excited for our new seasons with our team. There will be some players leaving because of life and some returning from injury. We will have to assess a new style of play to accommodate and that will be exciting to find.
The 7v7 season saw us battling with a unique circumstance within the league where we had plenty of women players but not enough men. This started early since many were taking Summer off so they could come back in the fall. Towards the end we had either schedule conflicts, a happy one due to a wedding, or injury such as myself from indoor. We had a few wins but 7v7 is a difficult league due to the mixing of divisions so I'm proud that we were able to find some success.
Looking forward to our upcoming seasons, which include Indoor and our full 11v11, I am looking to re-establish our team's pillars. I came into this with the goal of creating a community that uplifts each other and helps each other grow. We do actively try to win, I believe that's a basic tenant of respect for sports, but we don't tear each other down to do it. If you come in either as a beginner or a seasoned vet we're all here to have fun and grow together. I've failed to enforce that in the past few season and want to reset my vision for it.
Goals
Some goals for this upcoming season that I want to share are.
- Work on building a team voice together
- Create more team events to build community
- Find ways to build up play and finish
- Bring back practices so the team can work on skills and teamplay outside of games
Here's to an exciting fall season!