Written and edited by Jim Walker
-- August, 2011
A publication of the Keeper Club
Written and edited by Jim Walker
TRAINING IN AUGUST
August calendar for keeper training at Dyess Park:
1--Summer Fitness, 9-10:30am (all keepers, including Jr. Keepers, invited)
2--Summer Fitness, 6-7:30pm (all keepers, including Jr. Keepers, invited)
4--Summer Fitness, 6-7:30pm
11--Goalkeeper Camp, 5-8pm
12--Goalkeeper Camp, 5-8pm
13--Goalkeeper Camp, 9am-noon
18--Regular Goalkeeper training begins, 5:30-6:45pm
Junior Keeper training begins, 6:45-7:45pm
22--Regular Goalkeeper training, 8-9:15pm
25--Regular Goalkeeper training, 5:30-6:45pm
Junior Keeper training, 6:45-7:45pm
29--Regular Goalkeeper training, 8-9:15pm
About Training
All Regular Goalkeeper training is open to boys and girls 10 years and older; Junior Keepers to beginning keepers 10 years and younger. Roland Sikinger will conduct training on Mondays; Jim Walker on Thursdays. Fee for regular training:$50 per ten-week package, $100 if not playing for the Cy-Fair Youth Soccer Club or the Dynamos. Junior Keepers $25 per package. The fall packages run from Aug. 18 until Oct. 13 and Oct. 17 until Dec. 8, and includes the annual Christmas party the week of Dec. 12. Boys and girls new to the program may attend a training session free to decide if they want to register. Please make check payable to "Keeper Club" and mail to Dynamos, attn: Loree, 10924 Grant Rd. #224, Houston 77070.
DON’T MISS KEEPER! CAMP
David Benner, Brandon Renken, and Heather Koudelka, all connoisseurs of the fine art of tending goal, are scheduled for appearances as instructors at the 2011 Summer Goalkeeper Camp Aug. 11-13 at Dyess Park, it has been announced by camp director Jim Walker. If you’re a goalkeeper, or aspire to be one, you won’t want to miss a chance to work with this all-star cast. “These are top-notch folks who not only are tried and true experienced keepers in their own right,” says Coach Walker, “but all three have instructed at our camp before and always they have enhanced our keepers with their expertise, friendship and inspiration. It really will be a great experience for both beginner and advanced keepers to spend time with them.” David is a University of Houston grad who has performed professionally in England and Argentina as well as the United States, playing both with the Houston Hurricanes of the 70’s and the Houston Dynamos in the 80’s. David has worked the full camp in recent years, but due to his own busy schedule will attend on Friday and Saturday this year. Brandon, a Keeper! Club alumnus (actually, a club pioneer) and former Dynamos keeper who played at Cy Creek HS and four years at Harvard University, plans to appear on Thursday and Friday. Brandon was lead instructor for several years at the Keeper! Club camp while attending law school and now is a fulltime attorney. Assisting will be Heather, who not only attended Keeper Club training from age nine throughout her high school and college years, but has been an instructor at many holiday and summer camps for the Keeper Club. She was a much-honored starting keeper for four years at St. Edward’s University after a star-studded career at Cy-Falls HS. Having David and Brandon at the helm will assure perspiration-provoking labor, but there will be plenty of fun and technique reinforcement at this three-day camp. Keepers will be able to share in the annual Select Camp rituals of popsicles, prizes and intra-camp competitions and, on the final day, concluding ceremonies include a pizza and Powerade lunch. Fee for the camp is $125, with a $10 discount for Keeper! Club members who do not attend Select Camp. If you sign up for Select Camp, you pay for that camp only and switch over to Keeper Camp for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday sessions. For more information about Keeper Camp, email jwalker332@aol.com or call 281-217-1612. Registration can be made online at www.dynamossoccer.com. Registration deadline is Aug. 5.
SOME FAVORITE QUOTES
Spending the summer with 20 of the brightest and best young players elicits utterings to be savored. A few:
Spying on Facebook:
“coach walkers soccer camp was a lot of fun today w/patty and calvin“--Sabrina Pasier
“Good ‘ol dyess!”--Patty Walrath
“I wanna go!”--Veronica Pierce (voice from New Mexico)
“I somehow feel obligated to hate the number 70 as of now.”--Kacie Paine
“Every day I see my dreams. No like literally.”--Kylie Austin
Overheard at Dyess
“Tired“--Universal reply to Coach’s greeting: Hello, how are you today?
“Well, let’s go to work then!”--Coach Walker’s ubiquitous reply
“Wait, you mean we have to run this FIVE times?”--Ricky Cary
“Piece a cake.” --Trevor Gibson
“I‘m working on my goal kicks“--Goalkeeper Jonathan Kauffman, spraying shots sky high over the goal
“I hit the crossbar, Powerade, Powerade!!”--Trevor Gibson
“You have to call it,” Coach Walker
“Oh,”--Trevor Gibson
“You still owe me two from four years ago!”--Kylie Austin
“Well, I’m pretty competitive,” Jonathan Kauffman, explaining his frustration at conditions (set by coach) keeping him from victory
BRADY SCORES KWIZ
July’s Keeper Kwiz question was to name the date of the Keeper! Club’s Summer Goalkeeper Camp. Winning the drawing and the prize of a $25 gift certificate for Soccer-4-All was Brady Stonebraker, who correctly answered August 11-13. To enter this month’s drawing for a $25 gift certificate to Subway, send in the first name of any one of the three guest instructors for this year’s Summer Goalkeeper Camp. Email your answer to Jwalker332@aol.com. All readers of this newsletter, including Summer Fitness attendees, are eligible to enter the drawing.
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KEEPERTALK
Keepers regularly attending July sessions of Summer Fitness Training: Calvin Anderson, Kaylee Barrett, Trevor Gibson, Jonathan Kauffman, Chaz O’Roake, Kacie Paine, and Sabrina Pasier. After a busy summer, Braden (Striker) Mann joined Summer Fitness for the final weeks. . .A surprise visitor to fitness training July 26, all the way from her new home in New Mexico, was Veronica Pierce, who reviewed the troops and saw them execute “The Veronica,“ the warmup stretch bearing her name and memory of many years at Dyess Park keeper and team training. . .Noah Schroer traveled with his family back home to Indiana and Illinois for two weeks at the end of July, and is looking forward to Keeper Camp Aug. 13. . .Sophomore Kacie Paine is ready to compete for a keeper's spot on the Langham Creek HS varsity after a solid season on the jayvee last season. . .There were highs and lows for Trevor Gibson on his July 25 birthday--most positive that he turned 14 and will be a freshman at Tomball‘s new Memorial HS; downer was a surprise tooth infection, for which he underwent a root canal. Trev survived it all with a painful smile. . .Troi Jorgensen traveled with Mom Vicki for 10 days to Copenhagen, Denmark, and Stockholm, Sweden. When Mom, for many years instrumental with the Dynamos and Cy-Fair Youth Soccer Club, returned home, Troi settled near Stockholm to prepare for a three-month stint with semi-pro women’s team Stuvsta. You can check on Troi at her blog: http://troiswedensoccer2011.blogspot.com/. . ..If you have items of interest for Keeper! or KeeperTalk, please email jwalker332@aol.com.
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Calvin Anderson, a regular at the Keeper Club's Summer Fitness and
Technical Program sessions, will be a junior keeper at Cy-Ranch HS this year.
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TRAINING LOG
Names of keepers and field players who attended summer fitness training in July:
5--Kaylee Barrett, Kacie Paine, Calvin Anderson, Sabrina Pasier, Jonathan Kauffman, Kevin Hobart, Trevor Gibson. Field players: Clark Kauffman, Kyra McLeod, Matt Alarcon, Savannah Mallon, Jessica Lykins, Ashley Coil, Brooke Geaslen, Kylie Austin, Stephen Sorensen, Bryant Munoz, Fernando Torres, Oscar Torres, Armando Gomez, Zac Leal, Judah Craft, Kacie Cardenas, Ricky Cary,
7--Kacie Paine, Jonathan Kauffman, Sabrina Pasier, Trevor Gibson, Calvin Anderson. Field players: Kacie Cardenas, Judah Craft, Zac Leal, Armando Gomez, Ashley Coil, Jessica Lykins, Savannah Mallon, Matt Alarcon, Kyra McLeod, Clark Kauffman, Bryant Munoz, Stephen Sorensen, Kylie Austin, Fernando Torres, Oscar Torres
11--Sabrina Pasier, Jonathan Kauffman. Field players: Stephen Sorenson, Kacie Cardenas, Fernando Torres, Clark Kauffman
12--Trevor Gibson, Kacie Paine, Jonathan Kauffman, Kaylee Barrett, Calvin Anderson, Sabrina Pasier. Field players: Fernando Torres, Stephen Sorensen, Bryant Munoz, Savannah Mallon, Ashley Coil, Zac Leal, Kacie Cardenas, Matt Alarcon, Clark Kauffman, Armando Gomez, Ricky Cary, Joey Navarrete, Anthony Navarrete, Rachel Dozier, Cesar Barron. Special guests: Noah Schroer, Briahnna Ginwright
14--Chaz O’Roake, Sabrina Pasier, Calvin Anderson, Kaylee Barrett, Kevin Hobart, Jonathan Kauffman, Trevor Gibson. Field players: Savannah Mallon, Fernando Torres, Oscar Torres, Judah Craft, Zac Leal, Kyra McLeod, Clark Kauffman, Bryant Munoz, Stephen Sorensen, C. J. Cardenas, Joey Navarrete, Anthony Navarrete, Rachel Dozier, Cesar Barron, Kacie Cardenas, Armando Gomez
18--Kaylee Barrett, Jonathan Kauffman, Sabrina Pasier, Field players: Stephen Sorensen, Brooke Geaslen, Jessica Lykins, Kylie Austin, Kacie Cardenas, Clark Kauffman.
19--Jonathan Kauffman, Calvin Anderson, Trevor Gibson, Sabrina Pasier, Field players: Clark Kauffman, Kacie Cardenas, Stephen Sorensen, Armando Gomez, Zac Leal, Elvis Guevara. Special guests: Brenden (Chubbs) Kowalski, Noah Schroer.
21--Kaylee Barrett, Sabrina Pasier, Trevor Gibson, Calvin Anderson, Chaz O’Roake, Jonathan Kauffman. Field players : Elvis Guevara, Zac Leal, Armando Gomez, Stephen Sorensen, Kacie Cardenas, Savannah Mallon, Jessica Lykins, Ashley Coil, Matt Alarcon, Joey Navarette, Anthony Navarrete, Judah Craft, Kylie Austin, Clark Kauffman
25--Chaz O’Roake, Sabrina Pasier, Jonathan Kauffman, Kaylee Barrett. Field players: Clark Kauffman, Kylie Austin, Savannah Mallon, Stephen Sorensen, Fernando Torres, Kacie Cardenas, C. J. Cardenas,
26--Kaylee Barrett, Calvin Anderson, Chaz O’Roake, Kacie Paine, Trevor Gibson, Braden Mann. Field players: Clark Kauffman, Rachel Dozier, Kylie Austin, Judah Craft, Anthony Navarette, Stephen Sorensen, Joey Navarette, Savannah Mallon, Fernando Torres, Kacie Cardenas, Zac Leal, Armando Gomez, Oscar Torres. Guests: Veronica Pierce, Brian Mora
28--Chaz O’Roake, Kacie Paine, Trevor Gibson, Braden Mann, Jonathan Kauffman, Kevin Hobart. Field players: Fernando Torres, Zac Leal, Kacie Cardenas, Judah Craft, Kylie Austin, Ricky Cary, Rachel Dozier, Clark Kauffman, C. J. Cardenas, Bryant Munoz, Jose Molina, Kyra McLeod
QUOTABLE
"The goalkeeper is the lone eagle, the player of mystery, the last defender. Less the keeper of a goal than the keeper of a dream."--Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist.
TIP OF THE MONTH
Work on perfecting both right and left sides of your body. Young keepers tend to use the dominant side, while an advanced keeper moves easily off either leg and to either side, and punches or tips the ball with either hand. This comes through repetition at training. Hard work, but it pays off.
KEEPING SECRETS
When an attacker takes up a position in front of you on a corner kick, you need to create space for yourself. Do this by first stepping closer to the near post. The obstructing attacker, who likely intends to camp out in front of you, will adjust to remain ball side. At this point, you can direct a strong defender to post up in front of the attacker, determined to beat him to any cross. Just before the ball is served, step back into the space you have created and get set for the serve.
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