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Nordic News
To: Coaches, Players, and Parents of Nordic Soccer Club.
Welcome to the May 2007
edition of Nordic News and a special
edition full of news from this past weekends State Cup games. The club had a
very promising weekend with 9 of our teams advancing to the finals and a
further 2 more advancing to semi- finals. All the finals and remaining
semi-finals will be held at the Tree Farm on June 2nd and June 3rd.
Check out our “Players in the News” section for all the scores and game
details.
2007-08 try-out dates
released.
The try-out dates for next years older team have been announced. We will be hosting our
try-outs for our U15 and older Boys and Girls teams at the Tree Farm during the
week of July 30th to August 3rd.
This will consist of 2
try-outs with the possibility of a 3rd try-out if needed. We will be
posting exact times and dates very shortly as well as announcing the dates for
our younger teams try-outs.
Nordic Director of Coaching,
Jesse Cormier, is also finalizing our coaching staff for next year with the
prospect of a couple of substantial additions to our already highly qualified
coaching staff.
Nordic is also very pleased
to announce the start of 3 new programs to the club over the next few weeks.
Strikers Finishing School
In conjunction with our Goalkeeper practices, we will
offer an additional free practice for players of all ages wishing to improve
their shooting and finishing technique. Nordic coaches will work with players
on the technical and tactical demands of being a forward to work on improving
our forward’s goal scoring abilities.
U10-U13 Boys and Girls Mondays
U14 + older Boys and Girls Mondays
Paul
Goodman has offered his services for strength and conditioning training to the
club for three days a week starting on June 4th (M/W/TH) with the times in the
late afternoon and TBA. The program will finish on July 26th. He has stated
that he only wants to have the serious and dedicated involved. It will be
basically eight weeks of strength work with approximately three sessions per
week and the session cost will be $500.00 (the normal cost for this type of
program is $1800 and above for the entire session). Paul has committed
incredible energy and expertise to our club and has offered our young talents a
great opportunity to develop mentally and physically. Philosophy on this: We feel this strength
program will really prepare our kids mentally and physically to impact their
teams directly this summer. It will also put them in a great place going into
their critical junior or senior seasons and as they prepare their college
careers.
Captain's Practice programs:
As the Nordic staff, we will also be diligently selecting players in the club
to have the option to attend UVM/St. Mike's men's and women's summer captain's
practices/pick-up games. Again this is invite only as we have to make sure the
level is high, and there is conformity during the pick-up games. The schedule
will involve a couple of nights a week of small sided and full-sided matches.
Philosophy on this: We wanted to give the older higher-level kids in the club
an idea and taste of the next level. During the process, we are hoping to open
a learning opportunity for our club players (future college players) to
interact and train with current college players. We feel the mental and
physical demands will be high for our Nordic players to be pushed to achieve
against some of the best college players in the area.
U-20 World Cup info
When weather may be an issue
for practices at The Tree Farm, we will do our best to get the word out to team
coaches and managers as quickly as we can. The Tree Farm will post any field
closures on their site daily (www.treefarmsports.org) Nordic will also post any closures on the
Nordic website (www.nordicsoccer.org)
or you can call the Nordic Club number (802) 288 9577 and listen to a recorded
message. (No message means the Tree Farm is open.)
Players in the News
This past weekend was a very busy and successful time for most of our teams with 9 of our clubs teams advancing to State Cup finals. Ross Duncan’s 12 Premier Boys won their quarterfinal game against Capital Black on goals by Noah Lieberman (2), Colin Turner and Shane Haley and were backed up by strong defense.
They then followed up by beating Synergy 3-0 to win their semifinal game and progress to the U12 Boys final. Goals by Colin Turner and Shane Haley and some great goal keeping by Matt McBride were capped off by a Danny Samardzic goal late in the game.
Will Hayward’s 12 Spirit Boys team battled a strong Far Post Orange team but lost 8-1 against superior numbers. Tanner Connolly accounted for the lone goal but the crossbar was
dented a couple of times by Cameron O'Connell.
Hector Tamayo’s U14 Premier Girls began their campaign to defend their State Cup championship with a 1-0
win over a determined Essex United squad in the quarterfinals, followed by a
5-0 semifinal win over
TJ Meads 11
Premier Boys advanced to
the U12 semi’s before falling to Far Post 12’s. In their play-in game, they
beat Essex Utd 2-1 on goals from Jordan Lamay and Brett Nelson.
Next up was a quarterfinal date with Capital and a 4-1 win. Strong defense from
Tucker Jean and Stiles Alpeter kept Capital at bay, with goals
coming from Matt Brien,
Todd Wenner’s
U11 Premier Girls, who
were also playing up a year, advanced through to the semi-finals in the U12
Girls bracket. They beat Essex Utd 4-1 with goals from Erin Turner, Brooke
Philips, Addy Wenner and Kylie Aither and then went one
better against Mountain with a 5-1win on goals from Erin Turner, Madison
Corley and Addy Wenner.Their run was ended in the semi’s by Far Post 12’s
with a 2-0 loss despite being a very tight and well played game.
Jim Goudie’s
13 Premier Boys had a
right old “ding dong” of a battle against Synergy and came out with an
impressive 3-2 win. Nate LeClair and Jack Loud got the 13 Boys
off to a great start and went up 2-0 inside of 20 minutes. Synergy fought back
to make it 2-2 at halftime before a very cautious second half which could have
swung either way. Nate LeClair had the last say with the game winner 5
minutes from time, to book the 13 Boys their place in the final.
Jesse
Brady-Searby’s 12 Premier Girls advanced to the semis with a 4-1 win over Burlington Lakers
before bowing out to Capital 1-0 in a close, hard fought game.
Jim Goudie’s
15 Premier Boys booked
their spot in the final with an unconvincing 3-0 win over Capital. Erich
Schwer tallied late in the first half with a diving header at the back
stick before second half goals from Awil Hussein and Robert Wood
ensured a flattering 3-0 score line.
Wade Jean added a few gray hairs to his balding
hairline when his 17 Premier Boys were taken the full distance in their
semi final date with Capital. After having been up 1-0 for a large amount of
time thanks to a first half goal from Kenny Rutowski, Capital equalized
in the 89th minute to take the game to overtime.
In the second
half of overtime, Danny Bolam and Doug Yeates popped up with 2
priceless goals to ensure a 3-1 victory.
One of the
biggest wins game from Kerry D’s 15 Premier Girls, who got revenge from
last year, with a fantastic 1-0 win over Essex Utd. Michelle Finan was
the hero with a superb finish inside the box late in the second half.
Connor
O’Brien, who currently
plays for our 17 Premier Boys and is graduating from MMU, has committed
to playing soccer at
Connor has been with the club since U11’s and will co-incidentally
be playing for Franklin Pierce against his current Nordic coach, Wade Jean, who
is the Saint Michaels Men’s coach as the two teams are in the same conference.
One
more Nordic player has committed to the UVM Women’s soccer team for this
upcoming fall. 17 Premier player Heidi
Hassler will continue her soccer career at
Nordic loves to share good
and special news about both players and coaches – 15 Premier Girls Assistant
Coach Jen Norton has announced her engagement to
Scott Magnan on
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.
