5/15/08-Home 6pm against Altavista.  This is senior night or "Ethan" night as the teams calls it.  Ethan Harris and his family will be recognized at 5:45PM.

5/16/08-No practice.  All Players need to use this time to study for SOL's.

5/19/08(Monday)-Dogwood Tournament begins.  Most likely, we will play Chatham at 5pm at their field.  

Danville Blast has announced tryouts for the 2008 season.  All tryouts will be at Dan Daniels Park.  You have to attend at least one session to be considered for a Blast team but attending as many as you can shows you desire and commitment and gets you maximum time in front of the evaluators.  Don't worry about the cost of being on a travel team right now.   I encourage you all to tryout.  Playing travel soccer will make you a better player if you make the team and will in turn improve DRHS soccer.  The tryouts for ages 14 and over are as follows and there is no cost to tryout.  If you have questions see me.

Saturday, 5/17/08   2:00pm-3:30pm

Sunday, 5/18/08      5:00pm-6:00pm    

The next booster club meeting is 5/19/08 at 7pm at the high school.  

I will post information about summer soccer camps as I get it.  Please consider going to camp this summer.  Soccer camps are good training and exposure to the game.  It will improve your skills.   You can click on any of the three icons here and go directly to the camp websites. 

1.  Commomwealth Soccer Camp-6/23/-27/08-Blairs Community Center.  Costs-full day 9am-4pm-$130.00.  half day 9am-12pm-$85.00.  Goalkeeper camp-2pm-4pm-$85.00.  If a keeper registers for full day camp, keeper camp is included at no extra costs.  This is a great camp and it is local.  Steve Lovgren and Shawn Martin are top of the line coaches.  www.cspsoccer.net

2.  University of North Carolina residential camps-Senior Advanced Camp-7/12/-15/08-$440.00.  Senior Elite Camp-7/16/08-7/19/08-$560.00.  Prices include room and board.   You cannot go wrong with one of the best college soccer programs in the country.   www.carolinasoccercamp.com 

3.  Hampden Sydney College-7/13-16/08-$340.00 includes room and board.  This camp has several college coaches including Josh Laux from Hampden Sydney College, Jon Atkinson from Longwood University, Rod Baker from Ferrum College, John Faircloth from Va ODP and Roanoke Star, Travis Beauchamp from Catholic University and  Chris Yeager from Lynchburg College.  I highly recommend this camp.  I know most of these coaches and they are top notch.  This is a residential camp.   Website:  www2.hsc.edu/athletics/soccer

4.  University of North Carolina-Greensboro-Elite Camp-7/29-8/1/08-$315.00 residential camp, $225.00-commuter.  This camp is conducted by head coach Michael Parker.  www.uncgspartans.com

 179-Sudduth, Robertson
177-Driskill
171-Allison

170-Ingram
160-Saunders
147 1/2-Harris, Keller
141 1/2-Ferguson
129-Foust
128-Motley
122-Irby
121 1/2-Sellers
121-Rogers
117 1/2-O'Brien
114 1/2-Kenton
108-Marshall
107-Staton
105 1/2-Clement
104-Chesher
101 1/2-Tate
100-Coleman
78-Guill
46-Gammon
30-Romero

Goal Keepers
129-Keller
105-Saunders
86-Foust
44-Tate
      Goals Allowed       Shots Taken

Foust       12                        79

Keller      12                         98

Saunders  5                           63

Tate        9                                37  

The Dan River Challenge is modeled after Anson Dorrance's "Challenge Cauldron" that he uses for the UNC women's team.  It is solely a performance based program that will challenge each player on this team to do his best, become more competitive and become a better player. Some things cannnot be used such as juggling because the skill levels range widely and cannnot be a performance based skill, but still important none the less.    Some of it is based on awarded points for performance and some is based on rankings from play during practice.  We will keep record of all scores during practice games such as 1v1, 2v2 heading, and so on and this will compile rankings in different categories.  Each player will be able to see where he stands after the first practice and thereafter.  Keepers are also evaluated thru this system, as well as defenders, mid-fielders and forwards.  I am very excited about this and hopefully this will make us a better team.   By performing at their peaks at each practice, the starters will emerge thru this challenge model.  I think the players will be very aware of this at first and maybe stressed by it but they should eventually put it in the backs of their minds and simply work hard.  

One of our main focuses in this challenge model is winning. Every training session is going to be about winning.  I firmly believe that winning is something we need to learn and focus on.  We can still show good sportsmanship and have fun in the process.   It will create a highly competitive environment at each practice which will force each player to compete at his level best.  Because our focus is to win, whether it be 1v1 or 4v4 games or simply timed running, players who want to slack off or not try as hard will not earn the needed points and their teammates should apply positive peer pressure to make them work harder.   

Many thanks to Anson Dorrance for writing his book-Training Soccer Champions-which outlines how to run this challenge program.