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Young Athletes And Heart Pain

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! We had a bit of a scare at an ODP tryout a few months ago.  Johnny was in the middle of a tryout, it was very warm out when suddenly in the middle of the field he just stops and grabs his chest.  From the sideline it didn’t look like much.  He didn’t go down, he was hit during…

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The Student Athlete – Truancy

I am furious! I guess the public schools don’t have any room for student athletes that have to go outside of the school property. If you a reader or this blog you know Johnny is young athlete currently in middle school. He plays soccer at a very high level. In the US school soccer basically means nothing. Excelling means club soccer, ODP, and getting into the USSF Academy program. Johnny has all of these going…

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2010 ODP – A Success & Lessons Learned

Well this years regional ODP camp in Alabama has come and gone. From my perspective it was a good experience for Johnny. It was H-O-T that’s for sure. I made the trip this year to see with my own eyes what goes on at the camp. Basically, it makes for a really boring day other than the morning training sessions and the evening Pool games. The majority of the day for me was spent in…

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