Coaches and Managers for 2008
 

Girls Teams
Age	Team	Coach	Manager
U12 G	Fury	Melissa Bains   (804) 815-6410	Anne Petersen    (757) 927-1304
		mabby_21@yahoo.com	apetersen@gc.k12.va.us
U14 G	Raiders	Randy Orga    (757) 897-9016	Christina Mahoney    (757) 810-4517
		countycentralvacuum@cox.net	bcrdc2005@yahoo.com
U16 G	Phoenix	Field Shepherd	Jennie Martin     (804) 301-7548
		hwlsjr17@cox.net	jennie.martin@us.army.mil
Boys Teams
U10 B	Riptides	Brandon Crawford	Amy Heaton
		sunpele@aol.com
U12 B	Bulldogs	Chris Clifford	Jodie Rutter     (804) 695-6903
		riverwks@inna.net	lawnplus@3bubbas.com
U13 B	Storm	Billy Moore	Jennifer Haggerty  (804) 693-9459
		wmoore@gloucesterva.info	jhaggerty615@aol.com
U14 B	Hurricanes	Bob Fisher    (C) 804-815-7665	Aly Wells  (804)-832-4593
		rfisher@vims.edu	alylwells@aol.com
U15 B	United	Chris Clifford	Sue Cross  (804) 815-0288
		riverwks@inna.net	crossncross@cox.net
U16 B	Lasers	Justin Corey  (804) 832-6440	Susan Curtis
		subtech86@gmail.com
U17 B	Dragons	Christian Brumm	Cynthia Cole
		christian.l.brumm@nao02.usace.army.mil
U18 B	Bandits	Chuck Beadle

Coaching Resources

 The Virginia Youth Soccer Association has a Coaches Corner that has education information for soccer coaches on technical and tactical play, nutrition and conditioning, physical and psychological topics.   

• Here is an article on player development.  Stifling The Development Of The American Soccer Player that was written by Gary R. Allen, the VYSA Director of Coaching.
   

• Coaching Etiquette is very important for many reasons.  VYSA has come up with Code of Conduct for coaches to follow.
   

As a coach, do you have trouble with vocal parents on the side lines?  This link takes you to a great article on how to deal with those parents from www.ezteam.active.com/soccer .  There are also some great tips for new and old coaches, fun soccer drills, and other information on psychological and psychical player development.  

 

http://www.footy4kids.co.uk/
This website not only has fun and exciting drills for young players.  But it also has an extensive amount of tips for how to coach youth soccer.  There are 86 ways to say "good job",  Lesson Plans and tips on how to set up and organize a practice from warm-ups to a scrimmage.  There are tips for how to deal with and communicate with young children. 



*If you have found a site or an article with soccer tips and would like to share it, please let me know and it will be added! 
mabby_21@yahoo.com