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Nordic News
To: Coaches, Players, and
Parents of Nordic Soccer Club.
Welcome to the January 2007 edition of Nordic News and a very belated Happy New Year to all our Nordic players and parents. In this months edition we will be wrapping up the High School soccer season with news of accolades that Nordic players have achieved, we have news on the Jarred Williams Tournament which was a very successful tournament for Nordic teams and information on upcoming events.
Second Session dates
Please take the time to check the training calendar on the
Nordic website (www.nordicsoccer.org)
for dates of practices and Pool Training sessions during the 2nd
session at The Soccer Center. Due to CVE events and shows during the next 2
months, The Soccer Center is open and closed on various dates. Hopefully, team
managers and coaches are keeping every-one informed as to practice/game dates
etc, but the dates on the Nordic calendar and The
Upcoming Events
The Soccer Center has two tournaments in the very near future for all Nordic teams to consider.
Mid-Winter Futsal Classic Saturday January 27th U8 Co-ed, High School Boys & Girls and Men’s & Women’s
Sweethearts Soccer
(7v7) Saturday February 10th
U12, U14, High School and Adult ALL
CO-ED!
The dates for the Nordic
Cup have been announced with our clubs largest fundraiser being held on the
week-end of June 16th and 17th at the Tree Farm and
various other locations through-out
We are also in the process of finalizing the date for our 2nd Annual Club Dinner Dance which last year raised over $15,000 with all proceeds going to the Nordic Scholarship Fund. Each year, the club grants over $20, 000 in scholarships to various players for financial reasons and again Angie Faraci will be heading up a list of parent volunteers to make this years event just as successful.
One other “social” event is our 3rd Annual Nordic Ski Day which this year, will be held
at Bolton Valley Ski Resort on Sunday March 4th. Now that
the snow has finally arrived, come and join us for a fun day with Nordic
players and parents receiving 50% off lift tickets.
There are two age groups where we are still able to add some players: Our U10 Girls and U14 Boys Developmental have some spots. If you know of any players that might be interested please have them contact Angie Faraci at angie@nordicsoccer.org or Jim Goudie at jimgoudie@nordicsoccer.org or call us at (802) 288 9577.
Players
in the News
The
U12 Girls 7v7 “A” League Session One final was a showdown between the Nordic
U11 and Nordic U12 Premier teams. Nordic U11 commanded the first half of
the match and went up 2-0 before giving up a late goal. Energized by their
score, the determined Nordic U12 team applied good pressure near the end of the
game, but came up short of scoring on a last second shot at the buzzer.
It was a great game by two evenly matched teams. Congratulations to the
Nordic U11 Premier Girls team and coach Todd
Wennar on their 2-1 victory!
Congratulations
to Amy Triano (Northfield HS and
Nordic 18 Premier Girls) who was selected to the NSCAA All Scholar All American
team. Triano was the only player
from
Former Nordic players are also making the
news in the College ranks.
This year is a very strong graduating class
for Nordic with many of our players advancing onto college soccer. UVM Women will be the main beneficiary of our strong program with six
players from our 18 Premier Girls team heading to the Catamounts. Gabby Bonfigli, Alison Hemphill, Emily Milbank,
Lindsey Mucia and Karli
Houston will be joining Nordic and UVM Head Coach Kerry D and freshman goal-keeper Eliza Bradley. Fellow 18 Premier Girls team mates Kristen Marek and Ashley Ledoux have both committed to play College Soccer for the
next four years at
The Jarred
Williams Tournament was a huge success for The Soccer Center with 52 teams taking part to make it the largest
tournament to date and raising a good amount of money for The Jarred Williams Foundation (www.jarredwilliams.com). Nordic teams had a very good showing with four of our
teams winning titles and 2 others claiming runners up spots.
U12
Girls Champions Nordic 12 Premier U12 Boys Champions Nordic
12 Premier
High
School Girls JV Champions Nordic 14
Premier High School Girls Varsity Champions Angie’s Girls!!!
High
School Boys JV Finalists Nordic 15
Premier High School Boys Varsity Finalists Nordic 17 Premier
Welcome to new Nordic coach Ross Duncan who is covering for Tony Anderson at both UVM and Nordic
until Tony gets his multi million dollar MLS contract!!!...Ross will be
coaching our U12 and U14 Boys teams, managing at The Soccer Center and
assistant coaching with the UVM Men’s Soccer team.
As for Mr.
Tony Anderson, he is currently trying his luck out in
Good luck to all our players who are
traveling down to
Welcome back to Nordic and UVM goalkeeper
coach Lou Stazi, who will be back
working with our goalkeepers every Sunday. Lou took some time off to settle
into a new job and take care of his new family but will be back working with
our keepers on a regular basis. Gregg
Olson will also be a busy man these next few months as he has finally
proposed to his long time girlfriend Sarah and wedding plans for a ceremony in
July near Stowe are well in advance.
Coaches don’t forget to e-mail your
team/player stories/achievements to Jim Goudie at jimgoudie@nordicsoccer.org
no later than the end of the month.