• Soccer season just flew by. Can't believe the season will be over next weekend! Bring on the holidays. #

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• I'm so not ready for winter! Summer just flew by. And being NC we had like one week of fall. #

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• Trying to figure out why league admin this year seemed so much harder than usual. We grew 10%. Bout normal. But we barely kept up #
• Plan to enjoy a rare night @ home since it's cold and raining. Have had very few practices canceled this season. #

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• What a gorgeous day for some soccer! Perfect weather. #
• Good stuff. I love my kids but am happy NOT to coach them beyond age 8 RT @trelawrence: Letting go... http://bit.ly/3XTVN8 #
• So ready for a sunny weekend of soccer! Temps in the mid 70's all weekend with no rain. Take it!

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• No doubt! RT @BrianBaute: I hate being in a group and thinking, "man, these people are old" then realizing they're my age. #
• Back from our team's 'beach trip' 2 play 2 coastal teams. Had fun everywhere BUT the field. Team suffering from extreme lack of confidence. #

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• I worried that back to back practices (Tue/Wed) might be too much for the girls. I should have worried about my fat old self instead! Pain! #
• Been so long I almost forgot my PW! New biz is open, Fall soccer is just about 2 start, & I might actually have time 2 tweet & blog again! #

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• Today I got to act like a six year old soccer player in the NYL course. Hmmmm how many of you think THAT was a stretch? #
• Working to get my national youth license for soccer coaching the next two weekends. Should be fun! #

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• And now I'm going back into hiding until tryouts are over and new biz is off the ground. Will try to get through followbacks soon! #
• Deep Thought - never try to start a business during end of season tournaments and travel team tryouts! So much to type, so little time. #

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• Coolest part of this wknd's tourny? Girls came up w/their 'good luck' thing. Blue athletic tape on their left wrist. ala UNC's pinkie tape. #
• Morning tweeps! Hope everyone had a fun wknd - ours was fantastic. Sunny warm weather - lots of soccer. Girls played their best match ev ... #

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• RT @kettlebellcoach: Great practice w/gu10 soccer team. Everybody should coach youth sports. keeps u young & working w/kids is lots of fun #
• My girls soccer team has a tourny this wknd & weather forecast calls for clear skies & temps in the 80's. That's just... not... normal... #
• Pouring cats and dogs two minutes ago, now it's sunny.

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• Morning tweeps! Hope to come out of hiding after tax day. Been a crazy couple weeks! #

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• You know you're a @RealSoccerMom when you list your Twitter location as Region III USYS. Awesome. #
• Morning all! Hope you soccer parents/coaches had a fun weekend of soccer! Weather was finally beautiful here. #

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For those of you not following me on Twitter (I'm @soccerdad), here's a peek at my Tweets for the past week. Clearly I tweet too much.

• Ouch. Sign you're getting old. One of my players talking about 1 of my team emails she read: "You're too old to use LOL.

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The sun! I almost forgot what it looked like! # Up WAY too early for a Saturday, and expect at 8AM we'll be told the fields we're heading to are closed. Hopefully before we leave! # So much for this weekend. Friday and Saturday completely washed out and Sunday is probably done for as well. Sigh. # Realizing [. Click to continue reading...

Wondering where the day went. Been crazy. My #followfriday will have 2 be on Saturday. Just too tired to focus. Have a great weekend tweeps! # Ugh. Fri/Sat matches rained out AGAIN. 3rd weekend this season. 80+ matches to reschedule which is 3 wknds worth for our league. FUN! # HAHAHA So true RT @timrohrer: Working on [. Click to continue reading...

OK - four straight days of rain - we'll be lucky to get our soccer complex open before Friday. FUN! Can't wait to try and reschedule these! # Trying to thaw out. The girls played their hearts out, but we let one in with 3 minutes left and lost 0-1. Girls were frozen and soaked. # Off [...] Click to continue reading...

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After dismissing Twitter as 'yet another social network', I discovered what a powerful tool it could be for connecting with people who had similar interests to mine. Not only was this useful on a personal level, it is helping grow my blog's readership better than anything I've tried before. Click to continue reading...

As youth soccer continues to expand in popularity, online youth soccer websites and social networks are popping up for kids who are passionate about the beautiful game. Click to continue reading...

As youth soccer continues to expand in popularity, online youth soccer websites and social networks are popping up for kids who are passionate about the beautiful game. Click to continue reading...

It's so quiet. Is everyone enjoying their offseason? Mine was kind of short - optional practices are starting up in a week or so. It's going to be HOT. But what are you all up to? As the next season approaches, I wanted to reach out to you all and see what you'd like to see [...] Click to continue reading...