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FUNDRAISING
- planned ideas and execution for gathering old equipment and uniforms for new + incoming players, and those who need it.
COACHING
- created practice ideas based on skills we know are important at our level, but basic enough for these young athletes to learn and excel from

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Sounds great! I look forward to hearing about how coaching and gathering used equipment goes. -Ms. Fuchs

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we have been working with the girls at practice and games!  Fundamental skills of field hockey are being practiced and then applied during the games.

we are also in the process of reaching out to former teammates and the field hockey community to collect donations!

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Im coaching the older girls so they are waaay more independent, but its super fun coming up with drills for them to do and watching them scrimmage

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(I look mad in the photo but I was just freezing!)

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so far, it has been really amazing creating new friendships with these young athletes.  Having someone besides parent volunteers to look up to at practices and games has not only been so fun for the players, but has also been so fun for us to get to have these relationships and experiences!

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girls warming up before their game in shuttles, focusing on their different dribbling which we taught them!

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Just some more content from our games!! While we are there to provide support for the girls they are doing great with strategizing and planning😊

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we have been working on creating a positive and fun environment for all players.  As older leaders and mentors, we are teaching them new foundations and understandings of the sport while also encouraging learning from their own teammates as well!

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Love the updates and addition to your padlets. It looks like the players are having a lot of fun. Nice work! -Ms. F

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after a challenging game this past weekend, in practice we really focused on the things our team struggled with in the game. At such a young age it can be hard for the girls to lose 8-0 and they can easily get down on themselves, so it was a really important lesson for them to learn to keep working as hard as they can, even if they don't win!

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some drill ideas to implement over the next few weeks of practice! (at a high school level these could all be done in one day, but at this age 1 or 2 of these per practice would be enough in order for them to really comprehend fully.)

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more fun with friends! at practice the biggest focus point was learning how to hit the ball rather just push passing. The girls have been improving so much and continue to show great athleticism and team camaraderie!

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We spent a lot of this week coaching individually since some of the parent coaches were gone, it was super stressful but also really rewarding to run practice without any help

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We met this guy after practice! He created a super great bonding opportunity for the kids as we talked about dogs, I think we stayed a solid 30 minutes talking to all of them