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[quote=Anonymous]Don't "run" a practice, have fun, realize they are 8 and 9 not 18   moist of those girls won't be playing soccer in a few years and they will be playing something else.

I have picture of the team I coached at that age in my office.  
2 played high school soccer, 1 played field hockey, 1 played volleyball, 2 played lacrosse, 2 cheer/poms and a few nothing.  Those who played for high school teams also played cllub year round but always joined our rec team every year.

Now they are all successful young ladies in college, some playing in college but the most important thing I learned was my job was not to coach them to be better soccer players but to be confident, believe in themselves, be happy and have fun.  We won some, we lost a lot but we always had fun and they kept coming back year after year and by the end of high school they "coached" themselves and played rec through their junior year.

It was very strange showing up for games and them driving themselves and thinking back to all the cleats I had to tie or have extra ponytail holders around my wrist.

Great memories, cherish it, don't ruin it by think they all have to be good.  [/quote]

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