1. St. Anthony Village High School Boy’s Soccer
Coach Hanz Lehrke

2. Values Integrity Honor Loyalty Personal Courage
Personal Responsibility
You know what is right and what is wrong

3. Vision Of The Program Maintain high academic standards
Positive role models in school and community
Practice and play
Hard
Fast
Physical
Aggressive
Attack oriented but solid defensively
Make runs
Win balls
Make mistakes and learn from them
Never cheap or retaliate

4. The Program 2 Teams 1 Coach for each team 16 Matches Important Items
Varsity (About 16 Players)
Junior Varsity (About 18 Players)
1 Coach for each team
16 Matches
Important Items
Be on time (Dressed, Warming Up, All Equipment)
No Swearing
Team 1st and always
Practice at game speed
Respect and watch out for each other at all times

5. Equipment Each player responsible for their uniform and equipment
Each player will get (hopefully)
Ball
Soccer bag
Uniform (Goalies must buy own gloves)
Items to be purchased (and kept)
Socks
Practice package (2 T-shirts, 1 short)
Warm-up (Will use for multiple years)

6. Summer Schedule With Girls’ Program
Probably 1 Week in JUN and 1 in JUL TBD
Attend MN United match TBD
2 Weeks (1st 2 of AUG) Senior Practice TBD

7. 1st 2 Weeks Of Season 2 per day probably 9-11 and 12:30-2
Morning practice focused on individual skills and fitness type activities
Afternoon practice more tactical and positional
Lunches
Tryouts first 2 ½ days
100’s - 30 sec to run, 1 min to return to start, 10 max (Shooting for min of 7)
10,20,30,40,50 shuttle run (Shooting for 80 sec)
Mostly 2v2 and higher game type events
Looking for: Skill, Fitness, Attitude, Coachability, Desire, Communication, Teamwork, Effort

8. Season Practices Matches 1:30 ish for most of season
More dependent on what we need to address
Less fitness drills
Matches
1 hr prior to start time
Attempt to play everyone for real amount of time
Focus on the match on bench
Don’t referee the match, just play
Respect players, referees, coaches, fans
Don’t quit

9. End Of Season
Will fill varsity roster to 20 field players and 2 goalies
Practices less than 1:30
Post season banquet with awards and such

10. Cutting Policy Can’t cut 9th graders
16 Varsity and 18 Junior Varsity only an estimate
May have more or less on each team
Will try to find a spot for every player
Seniors must make varsity

11. Lettering Policy Must be on varsity team Not based on game time
No game time lost due to discipline issues
Based on: Performance, Attitude, Contribution, Work Ethic
Uniforms turned in and all fees/fines paid
Must have attended community project
Severely injured players will be reviewed on a case by case basis
Coaches reserve the right to letter a player based on special circumstances
Not a right just because you are a varsity player

12. Awards TBD All Conference and Honorable Mention: All State: MVP
Most Improved
Rookie of the Year
All Conference and Honorable Mention:
Number of awards is determined by final conference standings, nominated by the coach, selected by conference coaches
All State:
Top athletes by position
Nominated athletes must be all conference
Conference coaches rank the nominees
Conference representative brings list to state meeting to determine the all state selections

13. Odds And Ends Do the right thing at all times Formation TBD
Will have various themes for home matches TBD
Will have various team building activities
Will have min of 1 team dinner per week
End of 2 per day practices
Will do a community project TBD
Some things done with girls’ program
Fundraising kept to a minimum but everyone expected to participate

14. Odds And Ends
Each week will have a discussion time on various topics TBD
Possible overnight trip to Duluth playing 2-3 matches
Captains will be selected after tryouts end
Probably 3 (2 Seniors and 1 Junior) TBD
Location of practices TBD
Once season has started only school logos
Check website weekly for new and/or important information

15. Dates 25 MAR: 9am Soccer Booster Meeting 2 – 8 JUL: No coach contact
31 JUL – 4 AUG: Senior Practice Time Loc TBD
7 – 11 AUG: Senior Practice Time Loc TBD
14 AUG: 1st day of practice Time Loc TBD
16 AUG: Teams decided (after 1st practice)

16. Questions