Opportunity

for any players who are in the Watertown area on August 11th. The Watertown Soccer Club is holding a 4v4 soccer tournament and they need referees. Here is some of the information from Jim Schmidt:

Hello ref’s and other interested parties,
Hopefully you’ve about the 4v4 soccer tourney on Aug 11 , 2007. This tourney is sponsored by the HAWC , WSC and Park-n-Rec. It will be held Brandt/Quirk park. I’m looking for ref’s for this day. You don’t need to be a certified ref. However , you should know soccer and it’s basic rules. This tourney will be an all day event. If your only available for part of the day, please let me know. If you can go all day , we’ll get you plenty of work. This is our first year running this tourney, so I’m hopeful we’ll have plenty of teams sign up.

If you are interested in this opportunity, contact me. I am not certain if this is a paid or volunteer situation, but I can find out for you. -C

Busy Summer

I just finished up the Watertown Technical Skills camp yesterday and will be heading for the UW Madison soccer camp next week. In the meantime, I will be participating in my sister Jill's wedding in Madison. We might see a couple of players from the Technical camp attend our own Maranatha Soccer Camp in July. We have been steadily growing our contingent of local players from Watertown High, Johnson Creek, Maranatha Academy and other schools. At the same time we have players from all over the midwest, Arizona and Virginia who will be travelling to Watertown. If we get five more registrations, we will have our highest camp attendance ever. If you are interested in Maranatha soccer camp, click here. - C

Soccer Camp for 3, 4, and 5 year olds...

Check out my wife's post. . .

I tried to teach the fundamentals - that is a ball under my shirt - not my stomach.My favorite player from PeeWee Soccer Camp. - C

Players Who are Involved

One of the goals of the Maranatha Soccer program is to prepare our players to become excellent soccer coaches. We believe that the NCAA III experience is a key influence in their soccer development, however there are many other ways to learn to work with young people and sports with credibility. Many of our players volunteer to work at the YMCA in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Some of our players volunteer to work with teams at Watertown High School. Several are involved with the rec league here in Watertown. A large number of our players work as high school and club referees around the area.

Junior midfielder, Melissa Nichols, did both this last semester. She volunteered as the head coach of the Watertown U-11 girls soccer team and spent much of her time on weekends as a referee in the soccer club. A month or so ago, we were driving through Brandt-Quirk Park and saw Melissa as an assistant referee for a boy's U-14 match. I snuck up behind her and took a few pictures without her even knowing. I have posted a couple here. There are several more that are not quite as good. . .you can purchase the entire set in exchage for a small donation to the women's team fund to buy new warm-ups. . . :) - C