I woke up this morning with a distant memory of coaching soccer on my mind. I was coaching a team of U8's and had just introduced a foot skill to the group. Delaney was working hard at learning it. I could see the concentration on her face and in her eyes as she set about attempting the move. She completely botched it, but picked up her ball and ran over to me extremely excited with what she had accomplished! I applauded her effort, patted her on the shoulder and gave her a big smile. Delaney went back to working on the move and it got a little better with each attempt. She eventually became pretty good at executing the skill.
Learning to coach is a lot like learning a new foot skill. The beginning effort needs to be applauded to encourage continued improvement. As an observer, sometimes no matter how poor the result, you just have to smile in the moment and be content things will improve with experience and continued practice.
In that regard, the evolution of a coach is a bit like referring to a doctor "practicing" medicine. We really don't want a doctor to practice at healing us, we want the actual real healing! LOL.
Do you want to be seen by Dr. Stone or Dr. Hogue?
In the 1991 classic Doc Hollywood newly licensed Dr. Benjamin Stone misdiagnoses a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in a young boy. The town's long-time doctor, Aurelius Hogue, order's Dr. Stone to give the boy a Coke. Shock full of confidence and self-importance, Dr. Stone dismisses Dr. Hogue's recommendation and calls for a life-flight helicopter to transport the boy to a large city hospital where he can be seen by a heart specialist for emergency surgery. Dr. Hogue arrives just in time to explain that the boy had gotten into his father's chewing tobacco again and the carbonic acid in the Coke would relieve the boy's stomach ache. "That'll be 25 cents." LOL
There is no substitute for experience. And as Dr. Stone discovered experience is often gained through making mistakes. Sometimes the innocent are caught in the learning from mistakes another makes on the road to obtaining experience. When that happens, it's nice to have a Dr. Hogue around to keep things on course and mitigate the potential consequences.
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Friday
Thursday
It is finished.
Sometimes when expectations meet reality a violent collision occurs.
That pretty much sums up the 2014 Shawnee soccer season.
I have written over 25,000 words / 50+ pages covering the season. Although I have said I would publish them at the end of October or early November, I have decided against doing so. This has been a difficult season to write about and I quite frankly do not like the general overall tone of my writings.
I believe when a negative occurs it is important to immediately move on to a positive to prevent a chain of negativity from developing. This is the reason for our club call of "Next Play!"
So, as I tell my players to do, I am picking up a few blades of grass and tossing then into the wind. Those blades of grass represent this season of Shawnee soccer. I have cast them away and am choosing to move on, to look forward.
And we have much to look forward to. So many blessings bestowed upon us to share with others. The season did not go as we had hoped, but we appreciate that it went according to God's plan and trust that the lessons learned will continue to be revealed to us as we move on from high school soccer.
One of the lessons learned is that I should have gone after the head coaching job instead of endorsing someone with no head coaching experience. I thought it would be difficult to coach my own son in a high school setting, but it could not have possibly been more difficult than it was to see this season squandered in the hands of inexperienced coaches. I have few regrets in life, but this will be one of them. I apologize to my son and his teammates. I could have made a positive difference for you. I regret that I did not attempt to do so for you.
That pretty much sums up the 2014 Shawnee soccer season.
I have written over 25,000 words / 50+ pages covering the season. Although I have said I would publish them at the end of October or early November, I have decided against doing so. This has been a difficult season to write about and I quite frankly do not like the general overall tone of my writings.
I believe when a negative occurs it is important to immediately move on to a positive to prevent a chain of negativity from developing. This is the reason for our club call of "Next Play!"
So, as I tell my players to do, I am picking up a few blades of grass and tossing then into the wind. Those blades of grass represent this season of Shawnee soccer. I have cast them away and am choosing to move on, to look forward.
And we have much to look forward to. So many blessings bestowed upon us to share with others. The season did not go as we had hoped, but we appreciate that it went according to God's plan and trust that the lessons learned will continue to be revealed to us as we move on from high school soccer.
One of the lessons learned is that I should have gone after the head coaching job instead of endorsing someone with no head coaching experience. I thought it would be difficult to coach my own son in a high school setting, but it could not have possibly been more difficult than it was to see this season squandered in the hands of inexperienced coaches. I have few regrets in life, but this will be one of them. I apologize to my son and his teammates. I could have made a positive difference for you. I regret that I did not attempt to do so for you.
Saper Vedere
Saper Vedere
Knowing How to See
This is a theme for my spring club team. So often young players here in the United States play with a primary focus of winning the soccer ball. So little consideration is given to ideas about what to do with the ball once it has been "won". This leads to turnovers or the creation of another 50 / 50 ball to be won. Curious this, why players work so hard to win the ball and then treat it as if it were the plague, eh?
So it is that we will spend the next few months reprograming the on-field thought process of our players. My hope is to transform ball watchers into game observers. That we might progress from the closed singular thinking of one decision soccer based on winning the ball to an open minded creative and free flowing style of soccer based on anticipating the run of play through seeing multiple decisions ahead is the goal.
Know what you will do with the ball before your first touch on the ball.
Failing to prepare properly is preparing to fail.
Solve pressure as opposed to self-inflicting pressure because you don't have a action plan for when you gain possession of the ball.
Be a game watcher not a ball watcher.
These are some of the coaching phrases and points of empahsis we will be attempting to establish with our players in providing them with a broadened spectrum of knowledge based in learning to see the game differently. We want to develop within them a deeper appreciation of the game by helping them learn to see more of the game being played about them.
Looking forward to the journey!
So it is that we will spend the next few months reprograming the on-field thought process of our players. My hope is to transform ball watchers into game observers. That we might progress from the closed singular thinking of one decision soccer based on winning the ball to an open minded creative and free flowing style of soccer based on anticipating the run of play through seeing multiple decisions ahead is the goal.
Know what you will do with the ball before your first touch on the ball.
Failing to prepare properly is preparing to fail.
Solve pressure as opposed to self-inflicting pressure because you don't have a action plan for when you gain possession of the ball.
Be a game watcher not a ball watcher.
These are some of the coaching phrases and points of empahsis we will be attempting to establish with our players in providing them with a broadened spectrum of knowledge based in learning to see the game differently. We want to develop within them a deeper appreciation of the game by helping them learn to see more of the game being played about them.
Looking forward to the journey!
The Process
The process of reaching our goals takes place every day.
The process is taking place when working on your own,
in every practice and during every game.
The process is taking place at every meal
and in the amount of rest we get each night.
We cannot allow ourselves
to become bored with the process.
Ultimately the quality of our performance,
our ability to achieve the goals we have set,
will be determined by the attention paid to
the details within the process.
The process is taking place when working on your own,
in every practice and during every game.
The process is taking place at every meal
and in the amount of rest we get each night.
We cannot allow ourselves
to become bored with the process.
Ultimately the quality of our performance,
our ability to achieve the goals we have set,
will be determined by the attention paid to
the details within the process.
Improvement
As a group we talk about the concept of practicing with a purpose and not confusing effort with results. We can go out and exhaust ourselves with our effort thinking we accomplished something along the way, but maybe all we really accomplished was to tire ourselves out.
We have to go out and practice with a purpose. If we are going to improve our first touch today, then we must collectively and cooperatively work together towards that end. If that is our purpose, that is what we will achieve. It is the concept of progress, of making steady improvement each time we take the field. It is the knowledge we hold at the end of the day that through purposeful effort we have gotten better individually and collectively.
This requires honesty and accountability to yourself and to one another. At the end of the day you must be able to look at yourself and know that you gave your best effort. You need to be able to look into your teammates eyes and have them know you cut no corners, that you paid attention to the smallest of details, that you gave them your best effort. Only when this honesty and accountability to yourself and to one another exists does true improvement occur.
We have to go out and practice with a purpose. If we are going to improve our first touch today, then we must collectively and cooperatively work together towards that end. If that is our purpose, that is what we will achieve. It is the concept of progress, of making steady improvement each time we take the field. It is the knowledge we hold at the end of the day that through purposeful effort we have gotten better individually and collectively.
This requires honesty and accountability to yourself and to one another. At the end of the day you must be able to look at yourself and know that you gave your best effort. You need to be able to look into your teammates eyes and have them know you cut no corners, that you paid attention to the smallest of details, that you gave them your best effort. Only when this honesty and accountability to yourself and to one another exists does true improvement occur.
Lack of confidence is born
from lack of preparation.
from lack of preparation.
Wednesday
Everyone Loves an Underdog
I have debated over titling this article with an "underdog" theme or with a "Cinderella team" theme.
A Cinderella team is one that surprises competition and fans alike by advancing further in a tournament than anyone anticipated they would or even could. The classic example of over achieving.
Underdog teams are thought of as being inferior to its opposition usually in both God-given ability and technical excellence. Perhaps the very definition of underachieving.
I suppose it is possible a team can fit in both categories, but then again, maybe not.
My son's team plays their first, and quite possibly only, tournament game tomorrow on the home pitch of a team that thumped them 1 - 4 just 16 days ago. They will enter this match as underdogs hoping to exit it as a Cinderella team.
As I searched the recesses of my mind for examples of teams who had found themselves in similar situations for my son and his teammates to draw inspiration from I kept running into coaching as being a constant in such stories. Cinderella teams tend to have great coaching that helps to propel them beyond expectations. Underdog teams often rise above inferior coaching when a perfect storm of circumstances conspire to allow them to overachieve beyond wildest expectations.
Therefore I am pretty sure my sons team should be depicted as an underdog team going into tomorrow nights match against Celina. Their rookie head coach and his rookie assistants have experienced a very steep learning curve this season. The team is lacking in basic fundamentals, especially from a tactical standpoint. Celina is a well coached technical team with a sound understanding of who they want to be tactically. Yeah, Shawnee is an underdog going into the match tomorrow night.
The question is, can they become a Cinderella team by the time the match is over?
That is going to depend on the players psychological approach to the match. If they step onto the pitch truly believing they can win, Shawnee will have a chance to do just that.
I am reminded of the 1989 NCAA basketball champion University of Michigan Wolverines. By all accounts they were underachievers throughout the season. When their coach decided to leave for Arizona at the conclusion of the season the legendary Bo Schembechler, then the schools athletic director, stepped in and famously said "A Michigan Man will coach this Michigan TEAM." He fired Bill Frieder on the spot and named assistant Steve Fisher the coach of the Wolverines for the NCAA tournament.
That Michigan team went on to win 6 straight games and the 1989 NCAA National Championship. In a sense they made the transition from Underdog to Cinderella.
Now, that 1989 Michigan team was loaded with future NBA talent. Why they underachieved throughout the regular season is open to debate. What is not open to debate is the stunning turnaround they made in the week leading up to their first game in the tournament.
Part of the answer can be found in quotes from the various players on that Michigan team. To paraphrase the collective, "We just went out and balled. No sets. No plays. It was just us playing ball."
If Shawnee is to be successful in transitioning from Underdog to Cinderella tomorrow night I think this is the attitude they must take - they just need to go out and play soccer. Will they find the type of bond the coaching change at Michigan forged for the Wolverines in 1989? I don't know if such a catalyst exists for the Indians. That's going to be their challenge. Can they unite and find the elusive team chemistry that can carry the day tomorrow?
They have nothing to lose and so nothing to fear.
My encouragement to these young men is to step onto the pitch and stand shoulder to shoulder in battling Celina tomorrow night. Have one anothers backs as players. Block all else out. When you walk off the field at the end of the match, do so with heads held high with the knowledge you gave the best performance possible under the circumstances.
Good Luck Indians!
Update: The slipper did not fit.
A Cinderella team is one that surprises competition and fans alike by advancing further in a tournament than anyone anticipated they would or even could. The classic example of over achieving.
Underdog teams are thought of as being inferior to its opposition usually in both God-given ability and technical excellence. Perhaps the very definition of underachieving.
I suppose it is possible a team can fit in both categories, but then again, maybe not.
My son's team plays their first, and quite possibly only, tournament game tomorrow on the home pitch of a team that thumped them 1 - 4 just 16 days ago. They will enter this match as underdogs hoping to exit it as a Cinderella team.
As I searched the recesses of my mind for examples of teams who had found themselves in similar situations for my son and his teammates to draw inspiration from I kept running into coaching as being a constant in such stories. Cinderella teams tend to have great coaching that helps to propel them beyond expectations. Underdog teams often rise above inferior coaching when a perfect storm of circumstances conspire to allow them to overachieve beyond wildest expectations.
Therefore I am pretty sure my sons team should be depicted as an underdog team going into tomorrow nights match against Celina. Their rookie head coach and his rookie assistants have experienced a very steep learning curve this season. The team is lacking in basic fundamentals, especially from a tactical standpoint. Celina is a well coached technical team with a sound understanding of who they want to be tactically. Yeah, Shawnee is an underdog going into the match tomorrow night.
The question is, can they become a Cinderella team by the time the match is over?
That is going to depend on the players psychological approach to the match. If they step onto the pitch truly believing they can win, Shawnee will have a chance to do just that.
I am reminded of the 1989 NCAA basketball champion University of Michigan Wolverines. By all accounts they were underachievers throughout the season. When their coach decided to leave for Arizona at the conclusion of the season the legendary Bo Schembechler, then the schools athletic director, stepped in and famously said "A Michigan Man will coach this Michigan TEAM." He fired Bill Frieder on the spot and named assistant Steve Fisher the coach of the Wolverines for the NCAA tournament.
That Michigan team went on to win 6 straight games and the 1989 NCAA National Championship. In a sense they made the transition from Underdog to Cinderella.
Now, that 1989 Michigan team was loaded with future NBA talent. Why they underachieved throughout the regular season is open to debate. What is not open to debate is the stunning turnaround they made in the week leading up to their first game in the tournament.
Part of the answer can be found in quotes from the various players on that Michigan team. To paraphrase the collective, "We just went out and balled. No sets. No plays. It was just us playing ball."
If Shawnee is to be successful in transitioning from Underdog to Cinderella tomorrow night I think this is the attitude they must take - they just need to go out and play soccer. Will they find the type of bond the coaching change at Michigan forged for the Wolverines in 1989? I don't know if such a catalyst exists for the Indians. That's going to be their challenge. Can they unite and find the elusive team chemistry that can carry the day tomorrow?
They have nothing to lose and so nothing to fear.
My encouragement to these young men is to step onto the pitch and stand shoulder to shoulder in battling Celina tomorrow night. Have one anothers backs as players. Block all else out. When you walk off the field at the end of the match, do so with heads held high with the knowledge you gave the best performance possible under the circumstances.
Good Luck Indians!
Update: The slipper did not fit.
The lessons of backyard football.
I can remember gathering all the neighborhood kids together and going over to someones house to play baseball in the summer, football in the fall and basketball pretty much whenever we could. One of the lasting lessons from those experiences came from a game of tackle football.
There were maybe 8-10 of us playing that day. We were all between 10-12 years old. We picked teams and set about playing just as we always did. And then a group of high school aged guys showed up. One of the older boys had a younger sibling playing backyard football that day. They were football players on the local high school team and ostensibly there to "coach us up" a bit.
I captained one team and the younger sibling of the high school football player the other. As the team I captained that day began to pull away the older boys became more actively involved in their coaching. They helped us "call plays" and set our defenses. It became obvious the older boys were attempting to help our opponents get the better of it, but were not being very successful.
Things came to a head when one high school kid huddled my team and called for a hand off "up the middle". I wasn't paying much attention because I was listening to the other high school players telling the opponents that my team was going to hand off for a run up the middle?! Well, I took the snap, faked the hand off and ran the ball wide. Touchdown!
The high school kids scolded me for not "running the play." I had had enough of their meddling. I called out "audible!", took my football and laughed all the way home.
Adults meddling in youth sports ... I sometimes honestly think youth sports, even high school sports, might be better off sans all adults. No coaches. No referees. No spectators. Just allow the kids to get together and play. Adults are all too often unnecessary complications and needless drama producers in the world of "youth" sports.
There were maybe 8-10 of us playing that day. We were all between 10-12 years old. We picked teams and set about playing just as we always did. And then a group of high school aged guys showed up. One of the older boys had a younger sibling playing backyard football that day. They were football players on the local high school team and ostensibly there to "coach us up" a bit.
I captained one team and the younger sibling of the high school football player the other. As the team I captained that day began to pull away the older boys became more actively involved in their coaching. They helped us "call plays" and set our defenses. It became obvious the older boys were attempting to help our opponents get the better of it, but were not being very successful.
Things came to a head when one high school kid huddled my team and called for a hand off "up the middle". I wasn't paying much attention because I was listening to the other high school players telling the opponents that my team was going to hand off for a run up the middle?! Well, I took the snap, faked the hand off and ran the ball wide. Touchdown!
The high school kids scolded me for not "running the play." I had had enough of their meddling. I called out "audible!", took my football and laughed all the way home.
Adults meddling in youth sports ... I sometimes honestly think youth sports, even high school sports, might be better off sans all adults. No coaches. No referees. No spectators. Just allow the kids to get together and play. Adults are all too often unnecessary complications and needless drama producers in the world of "youth" sports.
REACT & RID The push pass
REACT moment: Your Push pass is played lacking pace and accuracy.
Real Time:
Was my plant foot pointed where I wanted the ball to go?
Were my toes raised and ankle locked?
Did I strike at the midpoint of the ball and on the ankle bone?
Did I follow through?
Real Time:
Was my plant foot pointed where I wanted the ball to go?
Were my toes raised and ankle locked?
Did I strike at the midpoint of the ball and on the ankle bone?
Did I follow through?
Immediate:
At the next
dead ball opportunity take a practice kick (or two) on an imaginary ball using
the proper techniques to reinforce correct muscle memory required to execute an
effective push pass.
Delayed:
Practice
against a kickback board or with a partner emphasizing proper execution of
proper technique and reinforcing proper muscle memory.
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Monday
You have choices. Choose wisely or there will be consequences.
I find it difficult to write tonight. I have spent a good portion of my day on the phone with two coaching colleagues. Both are facing disciplinary issues with players between the end of their regular seasons and their first tournament game. Both issues involve substance abuse.
We know it is out there.
It is present on every high school team.
You are only kidding yourself if you believe it is not.
The quality of an individuals play is determined by the quality of their decision making in the game.
The team that will win is the team who makes the most good decisions
More importantly, the quality of your life is dependent on the quality of the decisions you make. Two of these young people had college scouts in pursuit of them. Big time college coaches. They have likely thrown away the opportunity to play on the big stage AND a chance to obtain a free or steeply discounted college education.
Their coaches and teammates are left to deal with the consequences of the poor decisions these players made.
My prayers are with the offending players and their families. I am hopeful these situations will be dealt with in as positive of a manner as possible, that lasting lessons are learned. These are not bad kids. They made mistakes. They need to deal with the consequences of their poor decisions then regroup and move on. Best of luck to each of you.
Coach Brown
We know it is out there.
It is present on every high school team.
You are only kidding yourself if you believe it is not.
The quality of an individuals play is determined by the quality of their decision making in the game.
The team that will win is the team who makes the most good decisions
More importantly, the quality of your life is dependent on the quality of the decisions you make. Two of these young people had college scouts in pursuit of them. Big time college coaches. They have likely thrown away the opportunity to play on the big stage AND a chance to obtain a free or steeply discounted college education.
Their coaches and teammates are left to deal with the consequences of the poor decisions these players made.
My prayers are with the offending players and their families. I am hopeful these situations will be dealt with in as positive of a manner as possible, that lasting lessons are learned. These are not bad kids. They made mistakes. They need to deal with the consequences of their poor decisions then regroup and move on. Best of luck to each of you.
Coach Brown
Final 2014 Western Buckeye League Standings
My selections for key awards.
WBL Player of the Year: Ryan Hoying, Celina
WBL Coach of the Year: Mike Wiehrauch , Ottawa-Glandorf
WBL Goalkeeper of the Year: Cam Clark, Bath
Based on an informal poll of knowledgeable WBL observers this is the CBA all-WBL team for 2014. Positions played were a factor. There are 12 players listed here because of a tie vote.
Ryan Hoying, Celina
Adam Ordel, Elida
Lance Brown, Shawnee
Brad Croy, Ottawa-Glandorf
Sam Hinegardner, Wapakoneta
Zac Nelson, St. Marys
Daniel LaSarte, Defiance
Nate Stewart, Elida
Jerod Houston, Elida
Eric Moeder, Celina
Tanner Mayer, Shawnee
Cam Clark, Bath
FULL SEASON RESULTS
Bath 5-10-0 WBL 3-6-0
Bath 2 Lima Senior 0
Bath 1 Continental 0
Bath 1 Indian Lake 4
Bath 0 Celina 6
Bath 0 Upper Sandusky 2
Bath 3 Defiance 2
Bath 0 Bluffton 1
Bath 1 Wapakoneta 4
Bath 2 St. Marys 4
Bath 5 Van Wert 1
Bath 0 Shawnee 1
Bath 5 Lima Temple Christian 1
Bath 3 Kenton 0
Bath 0 Elida 2
Bath 1 Miller City 2
Bath 0 Ottawa-Glandorf 1
Celina 10-3-2 WBL 6-1-1
Celina 1 Findlay 2
Celina 7 Miller City 1
Celina 6 Bath 0
Celina 0 Ottawa-Glandorf 1
Celina 11 Greenville 0
Celina 6 Defiance 0
Celina 4 Bluffton 1
Celina 1 St. Marys 1
Celina 4 New Knoxville 0
Celina 7 Van Wert 0
Celina 1 Kalida 1
Celina 4 Shawnee 1
Celina 7 Kenton 0
Celina 0 Liberty Benton 4
Celina 4 Elida 1
Celina 2 Wapakoneta 2
Defiance 4-11-1 WBL 3-6-0
Defiance 0 Napoleon 10
Defiance 0 Kalida 7
Defiance 1 Continental 3
Defiance 2 Elida 6
Defiance 1 Bluffton 5
Defiance 2 Bath 3
Defiance 0 Celina 6
Defiance 0 Delta 3
Defiance 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 5
Defiance 1 Wapakoneta 7
Defiance 5 Bryan 5
Defiance 2 St. Marys 5
Defiance 3 Liberty Center 0
Defiance 6 Van Wert 0
Defiance 4 Shawnee 1
Defiance 7 Kenton 1
Elida 7-5-4 WBL 4-4-1
Elida 5 Ft. Jennings 1
Elida 1 Ottoville 1
Elida 6 Defiance 2
Elida 2 Wapakoneta 4
Elida 1 St. Marys 3
Elida 1 Bryan 0
Elida 3 Van Wert 0
Elida 0 Shawnee 0
Elida 6 Kenton 2
Elida 3 Lima Senior 1
Elida 2 Ottawa-Glandorf 4
Elida 2 Kalida 2
Elida 2 Bath 0
Elida 0 Napoleon 1
Elida 1 Lima Central Catholic 1
Elida 1 Celina 4
Kenton 2-12-1 WBL 0-9-0
Kenton 3 Fairlawn 3
Kenton 4 Ada 2
Kenton 0 Upper Sandusky 6
Kenton 0 Riverdale 5
Kenton 0 Wapakoneta 11
Kenton 0 St. Marys 7
Kenton 1 New Knoxville 0
Kenton 0Van Wert 1
Kenton 0 Shawnee 4
Kenton 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 7
Kenton 2 Elida 6
Kenton 0 Bath 3
Kenton 0 Celina 7
Kenton 0 Bellefontaine 3
Kenton 1 Defiance 7
Ottawa-Glandorf 13-2-1 WBL 6-2-1
Ottawa-Glandorf 4 Ft. Jennings 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 8 Van Wert 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 4 Bryan 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 7 Wauseon 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 1 Celina 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 4 Napoleon 2
Ottawa-Glandorf 1 Shawnee 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 2 Liberty-Benton 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 5 Defiance 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 7 Kenton 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 0 Wapakoneta 2
Ottawa-Glandorf 2 Bluffton 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 4 Elida 2
Ottawa-Glandorf 0 St. Marys 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 1 Bath 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 1 Kalida 0
Shawnee 4-7-4 WBL 3-3-3
Shawnee 1 Toledo Central Catholic 0
Shawnee 0 Kalida 2
Shawnee 1 St. Marys 1
Shawnee 1 Napoleon 2
Shawnee 2 Van Wert 0
Shawnee 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 1
Shawnee 0 Upper Sandusky 2
Shawnee 4 Kenton 0
Shawnee 0 Elida 0
Shawnee 1 Bath 0
Shawnee 0 Findlay 6
Shawnee 1 Celina 4
Shawnee 1 Defiance 4
Shawnee 1 Bluffton 1
Shawnee 1 Wapakoneta 2
St. Marys 10-2-4 WBL 7-0-2
St. Marys 1 Bluffton 1
St. Marys 6 New Knoxville 0
St. Marys 1 Marysville 6
St. Marys 1 Shawnee 1
St. Marys 1 Kalida 3
St. Marys 7 Kenton 0
St. Marys 4 Botkins 1
St. Marys 3 Elida 1
St. Marys 4 Bath 2
St. Marys 1 Celina 1
St. Marys 5 Defiance 2
St. Marys 4 Ft. Jennings 0
St. Marys 1 Wapakoneta 0
St. Marys 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 0
St. Marys 0 Sidney 0
Sr. Marys 4 Van Wert 0
Van Wert 1-13-2 WBL 1-8-0
Van Wert 0 Ottoville 4
Van Wert 0 Temple Christian 0
Van Wert 0 Lima Central Catholic 3
Van Wert 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 8
Van Wert 0 Shawnee 2
Van Wert 0 Ft. Jennings 6
Van Wert 1 Kenton 0
Van Wert 1 Lima Senior 8
Van Wert 0 Elida 3
Van Wert 1 Bath 5
Van Wert 0 Celina 7
Van Wert 0 Defiance 6
Van Wert 3 Lincolnview 0
Van Wert 0 Wapakoneta 4
Van Wert 0 Spencerville 0
Van Wert 0 St. Marys 4
Wapakoneta 14-1-0 WBL 7-1-0
Wapakoenta 7 Bellefontaine 1
Wapakoneta 11 Kenton 0
Wapakoenta 8 Indian Lake 3
Wapakoneta 6 Bluffton 0
Wapakoneta 4 Elida 2
Wapakoneta 4 Bath 1
Wapakoenta 4 Kalida 0
Wapakoneta 9 Lima Central Catholic 1
Wapakoneta 7 Defiance 1
Wapakoneta 2 Ottawa-Glandorf 0
Wapakoneta 1 Sidney 0
Wapakoneta 0 St. Marys 1
Wapakoneta 4 Van Wert 0
Wapakoneta 8 Lima Senior
Wapakoneta 2 Shawnee 1
Wapakoneta 2 Celina 2
The coaches selections for all-league. There is no consideration given for filling the teams based on positions. That is, there is not a mandatory 1 goalkeeper, 4 backs, 4 midfielders, 2 forwards, as an example.
Each coach ranks and nominates his own players, but may not vote for them. If you want to know where a particular coach ranked his players look at their position on the all-league team. Shawnee for example ranked and nominated the following players in this order: 1) Chase Wilder, 2) Lance Brown, 3) Matthew Dailey, 4) Tanner Mayer and 5) Jonathon Andrews. This is representative of the order they fell in for all-league voting. Twelve players on the first team indicates a tie vote for the eleventh position. Placement on the teams is decided by total number of votes received. Zac Nelson receive the most votes from the coaches. Nathan Wilker the second most and so on through Brant Henry taking the last spot on the third team all-league. Honorable mention is listed alphabetically by school and not by votes received.
WBL Player of the Year: Zac Nelson – St. Marys
First Team
Zac Nelson – St. Marys
Nathan Wilker – St. Marys
Brent Ellerbrock – Ottawa-Glandorf
Brad Croy – Ottawa-Glandorf
Nate Stewart – Elida
Chase Wilder – Shawnee
Ryan Hoyng – Celina
Eric Moeder – Celina
Tyler Stahr – Bath
Sam Hinegardner – Wapakoneta
Will Hinegardner – Wapakoneta
Adam Ordell – Elida
Second Team
Kyle Brown – St. Marys
Jordan Verhoff – Ottawa-Glandorf
Lance Brown – Shawnee
Gaerid Littler – Elida
Daniel Lasarte – Defiance
Alex Louse – Wapakoneta
Austin Quellhorst – St. Marys
Kyle Spragg – Bath
Braden Conn – Celina
Joe Lisa – Van Wert
Nick Schroeder – Ottawa-Glandorf
Luke Williams – Wapakoneta
Third Team
Matt Dine – St. Marys
Logan Ambrister – Bath
Matt Dailey – Shawnee
Brandon Hottman – Kenton
Payton Smalley – Celina
Mitch Niese – Ottawa-Glandorf
Jerod Houston – Elida
Collin Lenhart – Wapakoneta
Justin Nedderman – St. Marys
Tanner Mayer – Shawnee
Brant Henry – Van Wert
Honorable Mention
Austin Ricker – Bath
Ross Flaute – Celina
Devin Leitner – Defiance
Kyle Finnerty – Elida
Nic Audette – Kenton
Trevor Ellerbrock – Ottawa-Glandorf
Stuart Yahl – St. Marys
Jon Andrews – Shawnee
Jake Williamson – Van Wert
Nathan Kremer – Wapakoneta
| Team | WBL | Points | Overall | |
| 1) | St Marys | 7-0-2 |
23
| 10-2-4 |
| 2) | Wapakoneta | 7-1-1 |
22
| 14-1-1 |
| 3) | Celina | 6-1-2 |
20
| 10-3-3 |
| 4) | Ottawa-Glandorf | 6-2-1 |
19
| 13-2-1 |
| 5) | Elida | 4-4-1 |
13
| 7-5-4 |
| 6) | Shawnee | 3-3-3 |
12
| 4-7-4 |
| 7) | Bath | 3-6-0 |
9
| 6-10-0 |
| 8) | Defiance |
3-6-0
|
9
| 4-11-1 |
| 9) | Van Wert | 1-8-0 |
3
| 1-13-2 |
| 10) | Kenton | 0-8-0 |
0
| 2-12-1 |
My selections for key awards.
WBL Player of the Year: Ryan Hoying, Celina
WBL Coach of the Year: Mike Wiehrauch , Ottawa-Glandorf
WBL Goalkeeper of the Year: Cam Clark, Bath
Based on an informal poll of knowledgeable WBL observers this is the CBA all-WBL team for 2014. Positions played were a factor. There are 12 players listed here because of a tie vote.
Ryan Hoying, Celina
Adam Ordel, Elida
Lance Brown, Shawnee
Brad Croy, Ottawa-Glandorf
Sam Hinegardner, Wapakoneta
Zac Nelson, St. Marys
Daniel LaSarte, Defiance
Nate Stewart, Elida
Jerod Houston, Elida
Eric Moeder, Celina
Tanner Mayer, Shawnee
Cam Clark, Bath
FULL SEASON RESULTS
Bath 5-10-0 WBL 3-6-0
Bath 2 Lima Senior 0
Bath 1 Continental 0
Bath 1 Indian Lake 4
Bath 0 Celina 6
Bath 0 Upper Sandusky 2
Bath 3 Defiance 2
Bath 0 Bluffton 1
Bath 1 Wapakoneta 4
Bath 2 St. Marys 4
Bath 5 Van Wert 1
Bath 0 Shawnee 1
Bath 5 Lima Temple Christian 1
Bath 3 Kenton 0
Bath 0 Elida 2
Bath 1 Miller City 2
Bath 0 Ottawa-Glandorf 1
Celina 10-3-2 WBL 6-1-1
Celina 1 Findlay 2
Celina 7 Miller City 1
Celina 6 Bath 0
Celina 0 Ottawa-Glandorf 1
Celina 11 Greenville 0
Celina 6 Defiance 0
Celina 4 Bluffton 1
Celina 1 St. Marys 1
Celina 4 New Knoxville 0
Celina 7 Van Wert 0
Celina 1 Kalida 1
Celina 4 Shawnee 1
Celina 7 Kenton 0
Celina 0 Liberty Benton 4
Celina 4 Elida 1
Celina 2 Wapakoneta 2
Defiance 4-11-1 WBL 3-6-0
Defiance 0 Napoleon 10
Defiance 0 Kalida 7
Defiance 1 Continental 3
Defiance 2 Elida 6
Defiance 1 Bluffton 5
Defiance 2 Bath 3
Defiance 0 Celina 6
Defiance 0 Delta 3
Defiance 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 5
Defiance 1 Wapakoneta 7
Defiance 5 Bryan 5
Defiance 2 St. Marys 5
Defiance 3 Liberty Center 0
Defiance 6 Van Wert 0
Defiance 4 Shawnee 1
Defiance 7 Kenton 1
Elida 7-5-4 WBL 4-4-1
Elida 5 Ft. Jennings 1
Elida 1 Ottoville 1
Elida 6 Defiance 2
Elida 2 Wapakoneta 4
Elida 1 St. Marys 3
Elida 1 Bryan 0
Elida 3 Van Wert 0
Elida 0 Shawnee 0
Elida 6 Kenton 2
Elida 3 Lima Senior 1
Elida 2 Ottawa-Glandorf 4
Elida 2 Kalida 2
Elida 2 Bath 0
Elida 0 Napoleon 1
Elida 1 Lima Central Catholic 1
Elida 1 Celina 4
Kenton 2-12-1 WBL 0-9-0
Kenton 3 Fairlawn 3
Kenton 4 Ada 2
Kenton 0 Upper Sandusky 6
Kenton 0 Riverdale 5
Kenton 0 Wapakoneta 11
Kenton 0 St. Marys 7
Kenton 1 New Knoxville 0
Kenton 0Van Wert 1
Kenton 0 Shawnee 4
Kenton 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 7
Kenton 2 Elida 6
Kenton 0 Bath 3
Kenton 0 Celina 7
Kenton 0 Bellefontaine 3
Kenton 1 Defiance 7
Ottawa-Glandorf 13-2-1 WBL 6-2-1
Ottawa-Glandorf 4 Ft. Jennings 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 8 Van Wert 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 4 Bryan 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 7 Wauseon 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 1 Celina 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 4 Napoleon 2
Ottawa-Glandorf 1 Shawnee 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 2 Liberty-Benton 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 5 Defiance 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 7 Kenton 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 0 Wapakoneta 2
Ottawa-Glandorf 2 Bluffton 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 4 Elida 2
Ottawa-Glandorf 0 St. Marys 1
Ottawa-Glandorf 1 Bath 0
Ottawa-Glandorf 1 Kalida 0
Shawnee 4-7-4 WBL 3-3-3
Shawnee 1 Toledo Central Catholic 0
Shawnee 0 Kalida 2
Shawnee 1 St. Marys 1
Shawnee 1 Napoleon 2
Shawnee 2 Van Wert 0
Shawnee 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 1
Shawnee 0 Upper Sandusky 2
Shawnee 4 Kenton 0
Shawnee 0 Elida 0
Shawnee 1 Bath 0
Shawnee 0 Findlay 6
Shawnee 1 Celina 4
Shawnee 1 Defiance 4
Shawnee 1 Bluffton 1
Shawnee 1 Wapakoneta 2
St. Marys 10-2-4 WBL 7-0-2
St. Marys 1 Bluffton 1
St. Marys 6 New Knoxville 0
St. Marys 1 Marysville 6
St. Marys 1 Shawnee 1
St. Marys 1 Kalida 3
St. Marys 7 Kenton 0
St. Marys 4 Botkins 1
St. Marys 3 Elida 1
St. Marys 4 Bath 2
St. Marys 1 Celina 1
St. Marys 5 Defiance 2
St. Marys 4 Ft. Jennings 0
St. Marys 1 Wapakoneta 0
St. Marys 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 0
St. Marys 0 Sidney 0
Sr. Marys 4 Van Wert 0
Van Wert 1-13-2 WBL 1-8-0
Van Wert 0 Ottoville 4
Van Wert 0 Temple Christian 0
Van Wert 0 Lima Central Catholic 3
Van Wert 1 Ottawa-Glandorf 8
Van Wert 0 Shawnee 2
Van Wert 0 Ft. Jennings 6
Van Wert 1 Kenton 0
Van Wert 1 Lima Senior 8
Van Wert 0 Elida 3
Van Wert 1 Bath 5
Van Wert 0 Celina 7
Van Wert 0 Defiance 6
Van Wert 3 Lincolnview 0
Van Wert 0 Wapakoneta 4
Van Wert 0 Spencerville 0
Van Wert 0 St. Marys 4
Wapakoneta 14-1-0 WBL 7-1-0
Wapakoenta 7 Bellefontaine 1
Wapakoneta 11 Kenton 0
Wapakoenta 8 Indian Lake 3
Wapakoneta 6 Bluffton 0
Wapakoneta 4 Elida 2
Wapakoneta 4 Bath 1
Wapakoenta 4 Kalida 0
Wapakoneta 9 Lima Central Catholic 1
Wapakoneta 7 Defiance 1
Wapakoneta 2 Ottawa-Glandorf 0
Wapakoneta 1 Sidney 0
Wapakoneta 0 St. Marys 1
Wapakoneta 4 Van Wert 0
Wapakoneta 8 Lima Senior
Wapakoneta 2 Shawnee 1
Wapakoneta 2 Celina 2
The coaches selections for all-league. There is no consideration given for filling the teams based on positions. That is, there is not a mandatory 1 goalkeeper, 4 backs, 4 midfielders, 2 forwards, as an example.
Each coach ranks and nominates his own players, but may not vote for them. If you want to know where a particular coach ranked his players look at their position on the all-league team. Shawnee for example ranked and nominated the following players in this order: 1) Chase Wilder, 2) Lance Brown, 3) Matthew Dailey, 4) Tanner Mayer and 5) Jonathon Andrews. This is representative of the order they fell in for all-league voting. Twelve players on the first team indicates a tie vote for the eleventh position. Placement on the teams is decided by total number of votes received. Zac Nelson receive the most votes from the coaches. Nathan Wilker the second most and so on through Brant Henry taking the last spot on the third team all-league. Honorable mention is listed alphabetically by school and not by votes received.
WBL Player of the Year: Zac Nelson – St. Marys
First Team
Zac Nelson – St. Marys
Nathan Wilker – St. Marys
Brent Ellerbrock – Ottawa-Glandorf
Brad Croy – Ottawa-Glandorf
Nate Stewart – Elida
Chase Wilder – Shawnee
Ryan Hoyng – Celina
Eric Moeder – Celina
Tyler Stahr – Bath
Sam Hinegardner – Wapakoneta
Will Hinegardner – Wapakoneta
Adam Ordell – Elida
Second Team
Kyle Brown – St. Marys
Jordan Verhoff – Ottawa-Glandorf
Lance Brown – Shawnee
Gaerid Littler – Elida
Daniel Lasarte – Defiance
Alex Louse – Wapakoneta
Austin Quellhorst – St. Marys
Kyle Spragg – Bath
Braden Conn – Celina
Joe Lisa – Van Wert
Nick Schroeder – Ottawa-Glandorf
Luke Williams – Wapakoneta
Third Team
Matt Dine – St. Marys
Logan Ambrister – Bath
Matt Dailey – Shawnee
Brandon Hottman – Kenton
Payton Smalley – Celina
Mitch Niese – Ottawa-Glandorf
Jerod Houston – Elida
Collin Lenhart – Wapakoneta
Justin Nedderman – St. Marys
Tanner Mayer – Shawnee
Brant Henry – Van Wert
Honorable Mention
Austin Ricker – Bath
Ross Flaute – Celina
Devin Leitner – Defiance
Kyle Finnerty – Elida
Nic Audette – Kenton
Trevor Ellerbrock – Ottawa-Glandorf
Stuart Yahl – St. Marys
Jon Andrews – Shawnee
Jake Williamson – Van Wert
Nathan Kremer – Wapakoneta
Shine!
Our deepest fear is not
that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask
ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small
does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people will not feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as
children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone
and as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same.
As we are
liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I’m not the strongest,
I’m not the fastest,
I’m not the most athletic,
but if I can think this game
and be one step ahead of everybody else,
it will put me in the right positions
I’m not the fastest,
I’m not the most athletic,
but if I can think this game
and be one step ahead of everybody else,
it will put me in the right positions
to make plays
and influence the game for my team.
and influence the game for my team.
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