I believe that tryouts are usually held after the dead period, this would be the second week of July. Most players are not playing club up until this point, the majority will be done with their club season at least a month before tryouts roll around.

 

League play ends, but training and tournaments are ongoing, at least on top level teams. It has been a few years back, but my daughter's club teams played several tournaments throughout Spring and early summer. Maybe this has changed?

And I have never heard of teams holding winter training for HS. Guess we both learned something today!

 

Evidently all the state powers do it - Sacred Heart, Assumption, SIMON KENTON, Tates Creek, West Jessamine, Owensboro Catholic (kind of feels like we should all crank up the Sesame Street tunes - "one of these things is not like the others" as we read that list). :jump:

 

Morning off season training during club season screams - overuse injury.

League play ends, but training and tournaments are ongoing, at least on top level teams. It has been a few years back, but my daughter's club teams played several tournaments throughout Spring and early summer. Maybe this has changed?

 

Your right, the Spring Leagues does end, actually over the next two weekends, but the Tournaments are few and far between, once you get past next weekend.

 

About the only teams that will still be playing in a couple weeks are those fortunate enough to make it to Regionals and/or Nationals... or those playing in a higher level league. My point is, this does not apply to most players.

Your right, the Spring Leagues does end, actually over the next two weekends, but the Tournaments are few and far between, once you get past next weekend.

 

About the only teams that will still be playing in a couple weeks are those fortunate enough to make it to Regionals and/or Nationals... or those playing in a higher level league. My point is, this does not apply to most players.

 

Agreed, it likely did not apply to most players back then either. I was sort of insulated and recalling our experience. Nearly every player on the Club team played for the high school team as well, so training and play was nearly seamless and ongoing for them.

Athletes (and especially adolescent athletes) require a break at some point during the annual meso cycle of training. It helps prevent over-use injuries and mitigates motivational burnout. More isn't always better. A little understanding on the part of high school coaches about training periodization would go a long way to inform the value (or harm) of high school workouts concurrent with the Club season... IMHO.

As for summer workouts, back in the day a group of seniors would get the team together two or three times a week starting a couple weeks before try-outs for fitness and some play at "captains practices." Under the "professionalized model" so widely embraced today they either haven't learned to motivate and organize themselves or (more likely) parents and coaches are too personally invested in the success of their kids' soccer career to risk seeing it fail by handing responsibility over to the players.

 

I think Holden Caufield had it right... "the thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them."

If you are adding in weight training, speed/agility, yoga, and individual skill work during off season training it is a great way to improve individual players. Many players do not have time to do lots of this during club season so it can be beneficial with out over using kids, especially if their clubs are not doing the play 2-3 games every weekend cycle like some do. More games is not best, more training and less games is a better model.

Evidently all the state powers do it - Sacred Heart, Assumption, SIMON KENTON, Tates Creek, West Jessamine, Owensboro Catholic (kind of feels like we should all crank up the Sesame Street tunes - "one of these things is not like the others" as we read that list). :jump:

 

Morning off season training during club season screams - overuse injury.

 

NCC and NDA finished in the top 10 according to Maher rankings. Anyone know if those local schools do winter or spring(*) work-outs during the school year?

 

(*) High school coaches may refer to winter and spring as "off-season" but to the athletes' bodies they are still in-season. Rather than a loaded weekly schedule of M-W-Sa for 3 straight months during HS season, in Club they get 5-6 tournaments with 3 games over a weekend plus league games mostly on non-tourney weekends. With training 3x per week it's still a fairly heavy load... particularly coming off a tournament weekend. And since high schools have girls playing on different teams most weekends in the spring are tournament weekends for someone on the team.

Evidently all the state powers do it - Sacred Heart, Assumption, SIMON KENTON, Tates Creek, West Jessamine, Owensboro Catholic (kind of feels like we should all crank up the Sesame Street tunes - "one of these things is not like the others" as we read that list). :jump:

 

Morning off season training during club season screams - overuse injury.

 

Oldbird don't think he's going to bite. Heck some of the girls teams in NKY didn't even have a head coach this winter (BB,St H.,Dixie,)