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Click here to read the in's and out's of goalie communication. How goalies should communicate with teammates, and how coaches and parents should communicate with their goalie kids! Enjoy!
Kiley Keating is entering her junior year at Towson University majoring in exercise science. After starting in all 21 games in 2018, she was named All-CAA First Team and IWLCA Mid-Atlantic Region First Team. She led the CAA with a .474 save percentage and helped tie the school record for wins in a season.
After a successful redshirt freshman season this year, Paulina DiFatta checks in to the goalie spotlight. Learn more from her now!
Read more about Leah Franklin’s journey with Lupus and how she continues to crush it on the field despite the illness.
Before I dive into the contents of this book I wanted to give you a little background on me, why I’m writing this, what it is, and how you can get the most out of this book.
Visualization is a huge component of mindset, but it can be hard to know what to visualize. Many times we visualize ourselves succeeding, scoring the goal, making the big save, crushing the big talk we have to give. It’s not surprising that some of these would largely focus on the positive feelings of joy and accomplishment after. That’s okay to channel those good feelings before a performance or game, but what about everyday life for improvement?
Spring season has begun at the college level and many high schools are gearing up in the coming weeks. During the spring season you WILL face hurdles, especially the goalies. I still see and hear goalies experiencing similar hurdles I went through during my high school and college days. I hope these lessons can help some players out there take their game to the next level and thrive off the field along the way. As I mentioned in the title, these might not be novel ideas, but rather things I wish I actually did to maximize my potential.
I feel so strongly about this topic, and the expectations we hold ourselves to or compare ourselves against that I had to expand into a full blog post.
I know it’s been awhile since I’ve written a blog, my apologies. There isn’t a real reason outside of well, the nature of life and getting too busy, letting other things take priority. BUT, I’m back, and aiming to write about topics that will help you the most so please keep sending in questions!
This first one I get asked about a lot. How does one recover from mistakes?
Run tests are over for most, school is back in session, and all the work hits us. Things start to feel more like a grind to get through, stress starts increasing, sleep starts to go out the window, we overcaffeinate to make up for it and just keep going through the cycle of losing sleep and stress until our bodies shut down inevitably leading us to get sick. It’s no surprise that there’s a slew of high schoolers getting sick right now. What I want you to know is there’s a way to make it easier and it involves habits. Developing them isn’t easy, but it will make your life feel like it later on. The habits I’ve developed are essential to everything I do and I think some of them could help you too.
We all have them, goals and dreams. If you could dream your biggest dream what would it be?
This blog goes in depth into why the mental aspect of playing goalie is so hard and how we can use goal measurement to combat it!
How should we really look at mental toughness? What do goalies actually think it is? Read more on this one, originally posted on ILWomen.com.
I know that everyone is sitting at home wondering what CAN I do? I hope this will help no matter what equipment or personnel you have access to.
It’s the peak of training season with winter tournaments around the corner and I wanted to provide some help to coaches and players no matter your experience. These drills I continually come back to in order to focus on hand speed, hand-eye coordination, or technique corrections.
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This is the last week of mental health awareness month, but it’s still so important that we continue to create safe spaces for discussion. Too many people stay silent, feeling like they have to take it all on alone.
Spring season has begun at the college level and many high schools are gearing up in the coming weeks. During the spring season you WILL face hurdles, especially the goalies. I still see and hear goalies experiencing similar hurdles I went through during my high school and college days. I hope these lessons can help some players out there take their game to the next level and thrive off the field along the way. As I mentioned in the title, these might not be novel ideas, but rather things I wish I actually did to maximize my potential.
Here’s my thoughts on what I’ve done in the past two years and what I’ve learned along the way.
Most people when they see this will probably laugh, but hear me out because I think there is some real value here.
Today is the one year mark of my move to California. It’s been quite a journey thus far, and I’m so excited to continue moving forward in 2019. I learned SO MUCH this year, and thought I’d share some of the big ones with you.
Throughout my career there have been a number of stories I told myself that suppressed my potential. Read more to learn what they are, and what you can do to get past yours.
This month is suicide prevention awareness month, and I created a video about it. Please share if you know someone that’s struggling.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, or just not on Twitter, a video surfaced this weekend of the Virginia Tech women’s lacrosse team singing along to a song that included the n-word.
My celebratory haze of Stanford beating USC had come to an unfortunate end as I was immediately struck by sadness upon seeing this video. Yet again, here we are, in the same position we were a month or so ago when a similar situation occurred.
We talk about solutions, like helping more organizations grow the game, so that the game starts to resemble what our world looks like, but is that really the problem here though? I believe that’s a piece of the puzzle.
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A lot of athletes know they should be training but aren’t sure what they should do. I’m hoping this blog will help answer some questions and also provide a starting point for training.
With the last of summer tournament wrapped up, I wanted to provide some help to those of you that might not know what to do in the offseason.
This is not just a simple “eat more greens” blog, but rather a guide and some of my favorite tips and snacks to keep me on track when I’m coaching and advice to the players out there that are trying to perform at their best all day long!
I know that everyone is sitting at home wondering what CAN I do? I hope this will help no matter what equipment or personnel you have access to.
Here’s my thoughts on what I’ve done in the past two years and what I’ve learned along the way.
A lot of kids are creating so much anxiety around tomorrow and what it means about their future. Tomorrow is simply the beginning of the journey, and there’s no telling where it will lead. Read this for some tips!
What should be a huge factor in your decision making process? Read this blog to find out!
Deciding who will be your starter is a challenge in itself. What happens though after you’ve made your decision and there is a clear starter? How do you handle that throughout the season? What happens when things aren’t going well?
What about when you have two great goalies? Some coaches would consider it a dream to have two great goalies on their roster, as we know they are hard to come by. Others, however, that have been in the predicament know what a challenge this can be. Maybe one goalie is better at clearing and possessing, while another is good at making hard saves. Maybe one gets in her head and goes downhill quickly, but on her good days, she’s phenomenal.
How do you handle all of these decisions? Keep reading and I’ll walk you through how to best navigate managing your goalies to make sure they’re all able to play at their best.
This blog features some interesting insights about my time coaching girls aged 10-18 and what I've been noticing about their mindset along the way.
I recently started to break down clips from college games to help out more goalies understand what they should be looking for and what they can do and say specifically to their defenders.
This one covers how you can build your relationships with the girls in front of you, who always have your back. Yes, talking about the defense!