Jere Longman writes of how the use of heart rate monitors can enhance a player and team's training
to make their fitness as game-like as possible.
As soccer practice began one recent afternoon, each University of Connecticut player grabbed a
puck before he kicked a ball. The puck was a small rectangular transmitter that attached to a chest
strap and was worn beneath the players' jerseys.
Sonoran Living, a daily morning show on ABC 15 here in Arizona, featured U.S. captain Christie
Rampone on a short piece this week. You can watch it here and see why Reece Rampone sometimes
doesn't like the start of soccer practice.
Orange Slices! USA vs. Ecuador
Orange Slices is our game day, catch-all post that we update during the day before the
match
This ain't your adolescent Honduras.
The USA welcomes Ecuador to the cement confines of Red Bull Arena in Harrison, NJ. Game five of
the Jurgen Klinsmann era.
Graham Hays of ESPN writes of the great rivalry in women's soccer between Duke University and the
University of North Carolina, which is led by two of the finest coaches in the United States in
Anson Dorrance of UNC and Robbie Church at Duke.
If you don't know what you're looking for, the soccer practice field is easy to miss as you
drive along the far edge of Duke's campus.
A few weeks ago we traveled back to the land of beer and cheese, Wisconsin, for a family reunion.
Wisconsin is the place where the idea for the Free Beer Movement was birthed (induced... with beer,
of course) and the where we cut our teeth playing soccer from the youth level on up to college
(intramurals.
From the Evansville Courier Press, March 27, 2011
After a great week of hosting a Spring Break Camp at the University of Evansville, there were a lot
of positive lessons on and off the field to draw from.
For many of these elementary school students who were on holiday vacation, it served as an initial
experience in soccer; for others, it was an opportunity to hone their technique through
skill-related games and instruction.
