18th Annual Coaches Clinic

Don't miss this year's 18th Annual Coaches Clinic to be held on August 8, 2008 at Hopkins High School. Registration fee before August 1: $50. Registation fee after August 1: $60. Registration fee includes lunch for all participants and a t-shirt for the first 250 registered coaches.

The soccer coaching clinic is open to all interested soccer coaches.  You do not need to be a high school soccer coach to register and to attend this clinic. Come with other coaches so you can get collect all the information from each session.  The choice of sessions provide options that youth coaches will find beneficial despite the fact that the clinic is targeted towards high school coaches at all levels.

Charlie Cooke, Coerver Coaching

Coming to the 18th Annual Soccer Coaches Clinic will be Charlie Cooke.  He is the Director of Coever Coaching USA.  Charlie played for Aberdeen & Dundee in the Scottish First Division before joining Chelsea in the English First Division in 1966.  He shares the Chelsea club record of three Player of the Year Awards with Gianfranco Zola.  Charlie has been the Director of Coever Coaching in America since its creation in 1983.  Coach Cooke will be doing one indoor & one outdoor session at our coaching clinic. 

 

 

Clinic Schedule

7:30-8:15 a.m.	Check-In / Registration
8:30-9:25 a.m.	Session I
9:40-10:35 a.m.	Session II
10:50-Noon	Session III	Session III will include the Head Coaches Meeting
Lunch		Coaches will receive association information packets at this meeting. All association business for the upcoming season will be discussed.
1:00-1:55 p.m.	Session IV
2:10-3:05 p.m.	Session V

There will not be a Rules Interpretation Meeting at the clinic this year. Rule Interpretation Meetings/Tests to be completed online for the 2008-2009 season. Watch for more information as we get closer to the beginning of the season.

Click here for more clinic information including registration form. Last year more than 300 coaches participated. We appreciate your continued support and look forward to seeing you again this year.

 

			16th Annual Coaches Clinic Photos compliments of Bill Vance

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2007 Clinicians

Clinician	Affliation	Topic
Mikki Denney Wright	University of Minnesota	- Tactical Training to Develop an Organized Zonal Back Four Defense - Attacking & Defensive Set Pieces
Cam Stoltz	Dakota County Technical College	- Quick Transition Attack to Recovery
Kate McNeil	College of St. Benedict	- Possession with Direction
Kate Cortis	University of Minnesota	- Endline Academy: Crossing, Finishing & Box Organization
Jerrod Roh	University of Minnesota	- Handling Crosses: Positioning, Footwork and Mentality - Shot Stopping: Positioning, Footwork and Mentality
Dave Heib	Northwestern College	- Learning How to Tape Ankles, Wrists, etc. of Your Soccer Athletes
Mike Stehlik	Gustavus Adolphus College	- Fitness Training: Get the Most Out of Your HS Players - Transition Into Defense, Attitude And Effort
Simon Whitehead	Edina High School	- Y Drills: Creating Passing Patterns
Sheryl Raithel	Bloomington Kennedy High School	- Coerver Coaching: Make Your Move, Change of Direction
Gavin Pugh	Mounds View High School	- England’s 4-5-1 System of Play from the 2006 World Cup
John Litecky	MSHSSCA	- Everything a New High School Coach Should Know
Tom Johnson	MSHSL	- Rules Interpretation

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2007 Vendors

Acceleration East Bill Moore Oakdale, MN 651-702-2550	Acceleration North Curt Carbaugh Arden Hills, MN 651-486-0020	Acceleration Northwest Blaine Walstrom Plymouth, MN 763-577-9990
Acceleration South John Sullivan Apple Valley, MN 952-997-7456	Acceleration West Greg Sipe Eden Prairie, MN 952-948-0887	AIM Electronics Gerry Gordon Eden Pairie, MN 952-941-9830
All Goals Chris Lamers St. Paul Park, MN 651-306-1500	Brine Jon Brunell Milford, MA 508-478-3250	Championship Products Mark Stein Plymouth, MN 763-509-0935
Dakota County Technical Nicole Meulemans Rosemount, MN 651-423-8403	Ed's Trophies Donna Goenne Cottage Grove, MN 651-459-6237	ESP Coerver Coaching Simon Whitehead Edina, MN 952-915-9009
Gopher Women's Soccer Mikki Denney-Wright Minneapolis, MN 612-626-1381	GLSports Bart Larson Brainerd, MN 800-950-3320	Graphic Edge Nate Alsbury Prairie Farm, WI 888-440-7778
Lindstrom Embroidery Linda Weldy Bloomington, MN 952-814-9810	Mark I Randy Exsted Woodybury, MN 651-436-3655	Minnesota Lightening Djorn Buchhold St. Paul, MN 651-917-8326
Minnesota Thunder Djorn Buchhold St. Paul, MN 651-917-8326	Minnesota Wearables Roger Maleska St. Cloud, MN 320-894-4129	NSCAA Sandy Williamson Mission, KS 800-458-0678
Puma Brian Boyd Chicago, IL 773-857-1633	QSP/WFC John Henry Eden Prairie, MN 952-937-9282	Soccer Express Andrew Hillesheim St. Paul, MN 651-698-8092
Soccer Express John Borgeson Minnetonka, MN 952-544-6662	Taho Sportswear Cory Podany Fridley, MN 763-572-3997	T.J. T-Shirts Connie McCarty Willernie, MN 651-426-2248
Varsity Photos Ken Reis Burnsville, MN 952-895-9078

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