Day #19

Today was another long day of online classes. I finally completed my online course for 9v9's for US Soccer. It was pretty interesting. At the end of this course, similar to the end of the 7v7 course, I had to take another safety course. It discussed emergency protocols surrounding cardiac arrests and concussions. Today I also spent some time planning my teams starting lineups and strategies for our games this weekend. The u10's and u13's have back to back home games tomorrow morning. I also played soccer at Proctor for 2 hours and tried some new potential drills. I totaled 7 hours today.


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