Springfield, Missouri's Glendale Falcons
Our Tailgate Party is this Thursday at 6:30pm in the Glendale Cafeteria.
Everyone is expected to attend. Uniforms will be distributed, the teams introduced, and final business completed before our season kicks into high gear.
Dinner is being catered by Pasta Pronto. The menu includes: toasted ravioli, lasagna, bread, salad, dessert, and beverages.
Please email Anna Moffe ASAP to confirm the number attending.
Players meals are free; families have a cost of $6 per person.
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The Varsity and JV will train together on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 3:00pm.
If you will be out of town for Spring Break; have fun but don’t do anything stupid.
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Soccer teams that wear red are the most successful. My favorite part:
“The results were surprising,” they said, citing significant differences in success levels between red, white, blue and yellow/orange teams. Red teams won more often, while teams wearing yellow or orange had the worst record.
Moral of the Story: Wear red, not yellow. But we already knew that.
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There are a couple of stories about Glendale Soccer in the East supplement to the News-Leader.
Stress A Positive For Glendale Girls
Seniors Celebrate Signing & Falcon Commits to SLU
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The final installment of The New York Times series on athletic scholarships was published today and it focuses on the life of a scholarship athlete. Several things jumped out at me in the article. First, getting a scholarship is the easy part:
“Kids who have worked their whole life trying to get a scholarship think the hard part is over when they get the college money,” he said. “They don’t know that it’s a whole new monster when you get here.”
His coach, Joe Godri, says he tries to warn recruits before they accept athletic aid. He tells them that being a Division I student-athlete is a full-time job. “It’s not even close to being a normal college student,” Godri said.
Second, the attrition rate is significant which is something I have personally noticed when scanning college soccer rosters:
The life of the scholarship athlete is so arduous that coaches and athletes said it was not unusual for as many as 15 percent of those receiving athletic aid to quit sports and turn down the scholarship money after a year or two.
This story has been archived in the articles section of the website.
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