US Youth Soccer has developed a newsletter for those who are fans of the game. They are calling it Full Circle and this month's edition focuses on:

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Mother, Father, spouse, homemaker, breadwinner and soccer coach. Thank you to all our coaches who serve in these important roles and so many more! We can, and do, learn from our children every day. What they have taught us plays such an important role in how our parent coaches approach the environment each season to share this great game with our players. Our parent coaches serve as an example of organization, commitment and balance that should be applauded. Don’t get me wrong, we couldn’t do it without the team managers and all the other parents who support the team, as well.

As parent coaches, we are so grateful for your willingness to sacrifice your time with your family to promote the game. We know it takes lots of energy to spend hours on the field then go home and get the 'honey do’s' done, dinner prepared and served, kids' homework done, running other kids to other activities, and getting them tucked into bed.

Who better than the parent coach can understand the needs of the particular age group than a parent coach with a child the same age who does this every day?  We know you can get your teenager out of bed early in the morning, the glue out of your 4 year old's hand, your third grader to put her toys away, and all of them to excel in the classroom, and we are thankful that you are equally an effective communicator and coach for our kids.

Thank you for your willingness to do the best job in the world, and also to mentor our kids as a parent coach. You are appreciated!

We are excited to bring WSA sponsored coaching sessions to the three Wyoming 307/ODP tryout dates in June, July and August. These sessions will be led by the WSA Technical staff (more on that soon) and will be a great resource for new and exciting session plans. We intend to offer these WSA sponsored coaching education sessions to share ideas or concepts of stoppages during play, what needs addressed, coaching points, their delivery and ideas for structuring your sessions. We want clearly defined session topics with stoppages and/or coaching points that are specific for the session. We need to make coaching points only on the topic vs “everything” we see that needs to be improved upon. We will provide as much content as we can in one hour. We anticipate these first thing on Saturday morning before the WSA schedule of events begins. Anyone is welcome to come out.

During the three Wyoming 307/ODP tryout dates, we will offer different coaching education; a session on attacking, defending and transition. We will encourage lots of questions and we will make changes to the session plans to address as many questions as possible. If you would like your team to get an “extra session” at one of these three weekends as the demo team for the coaching education session, please let me know.

We are looking into locations, dates and other options for USSF grass roots course options, United Soccer Coaches fundamentals courses and possibly a USSF D License Course in the next year. If your club has ten (10) or more coaches interested in any of the above, please let me know. We will get the ball in motion. Pun intended.

Working together to give the game back to the kids!

Dave Eldred