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    Author: Julian Carr

    CCAA Coach OCAA

    Photo Credit Courtesy: League 1 Ontario Head Coach Patrice Geshar discusses the inevitable changes and expectations for this upcoming season. Story By Andrew Skerritt August 15, 2022 Seneca College will be tested this upcoming season as they approach unfamiliar changes to critical areas of their team. As one of Canada’s most pristine post-secondary soccer programs, Seneca College is gearing up for a challenging season ahead. Patrice Geshar, the head coach of the men’s team, expressed the possible changes fans will see in their...

    15 August 2022
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    Coach OCAA

    Courtesy of the Orillia Thunderwolves: https://www.orilliathunderwolves.ca/sports/msoc-ind/2022-23/releases/Cristante_Named_Thunderwolves_Head_Coach?fbclid=IwAR2BMgtxjM2rz4zC16uk4Ili5ebxOET_Rq8WVcsPEN0hTjVWCRmZAj0U-pg The following article is courtesy of the Lakehead University Orillia Thunderwolves Athletic website from August 11, 2022: https://www.orilliathunderwolves.ca/sports/msoc-ind/2022-23/releases/Cristante_Named_Thunderwolves_Head_Coach?fbclid=IwAR2BMgtxjM2rz4zC16uk4Ili5ebxOET_Rq8WVcsPEN0hTjVWCRmZAj0U-pg. Lakehead University Orillia Athletics is pleased to announce Mark Cristante as new head coach for the Men's Varsity Indoor Soccer program. Mark brings over 20 years of professional coaching and sports administration experience, having held several senior roles as a High Performance Coach, District & Club Technical Director, District Head Coach, & Learning Facilitator. Currently, holding the position...

    12 August 2022
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    Canada Soccer Association

    The following statement can be attributed to Earl Cochrane, Canada Soccer General Secretary courtesy of SIRC and Canada Soccer:We acknowledge that the matters we are speaking about today involve real people and have a real impact on human lives. We unequivocally apologize for the Safe Sport challenges within our sport in 2008 and for letting participants down. Harassment, improper texting, bullying, sexual misconduct or any other form of maltreatment or abuse has no place in soccer, at any...

    29 July 2022
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    Leadership Mental Health SIRC

    Image Courtesy of SIRC: https://sirc.ca/blog/athletes-high-performance-culture/ The following story is from July 25, 2022 courtesy of the SIRC website by Eric MacIntosh, Shannon Kerwin and Alison Doherty, https://sirc.ca/blog/athletes-high-performance-culture/. The entire article was reposted as with new University and College seasons around the corner, this subject that all coaches at the post secondary level and in high performance need to be aware of. For more information please go to the SIRC website: https://sirc.ca/blog/athletes-high-performance-culture/. Highlights In this article, researchers present their...

    28 July 2022
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    Leadership

    Image courtesy: Soccer Parenting Association The following post is from John Eades and Learn Loft on July 21, 2022, https://learnloft.com/2022/07/21/the-leadership-skill-that-causes-utter-failure/. The list of skills one must possess to sustain leadership success is long. But the list of skills that causes a leader to fail utterly is much shorter. It almost always boils down to one; character.  Recent examples like Jeff Skilling, the CEO who caused the collapse of Enron, or Bernie Madoff, who orchestrated one of the biggest Ponzi schemes...

    27 July 2022
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    CPL

    Courtesy: https://northerntribune.ca/fc-edmonton-owner-alan-koch/ Excerpts of the following story by John Jacques in the Northern Tribune are from July 18, 2022 https://northerntribune.ca/fc-edmonton-owner-alan-koch/. For the full story please visit the Northern Tribune. It’s been about a month since we confirmed that a prospective new owner was interested in acquiring FC Edmonton, the storied CPL side which has now operated without an investor at the helm for about a season-and-a-half. Despite a shoestring budget, a tumultuous offseason, and a squad mostly comprised of inexperienced...

    19 July 2022
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    CCAA

    Courtesy of CCAA: https://www.ccaa.ca/sports/wsoc/2021-22/releases/2022_ccaa_wsc The following story from June 3, 2022 is courtesy of the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association https://www.ccaa.ca/sports/wsoc/2021-22/releases/2022_ccaa_wsc. Champlain College Saint-Lambert will host the 2022 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Women’s Soccer National Championship. The Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) institution will host the event Nov. 9-12, 2022, in Saint-Lambert, QC. Vince Amato, Athletic Director at Champlain Saint-Lambert, will be the Tournament Chair.  “We are looking forward to hosting the best student-athletes from across the country and putting...

    11 July 2022
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    CCAA Coach Leadership OCAA

    Courtesy of St. Lawrence Athletics Looking to bolster their coaching ranks, the St. Lawrence Surge Men’s Soccer program is excited to announce the addition of former Ontario Technical Director and ex professional player Jim Cannovan, as Technical Advisor (@canadasocceren). The former @OntarioIsSoccer Technical Director who served from September 12, 1994 to November 15, 2009 joins the Surge after an extensive career on and off the field with coaching experience at the provincial and national levels,. He has...

    4 July 2022
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    Coach OUA U Sports

    Photo Credit: Courtesy of Ontario Tech Ridgebacks Athletics The following story is courtesy of Ontario Tech Ridgebacks Athletics from June 13, 2022 https://goridgebacks.com/news/2022/6/13/womens-soccer-zack-wilson-named-womens-soccer-assistant-coach.aspx. Ontario Tech women's soccer is pleased to announce Zack Wilson has been named the program's first full-time assistant coach after spending the 2021 season working as assistant coach and performance analyst for the team. With 10 years of coaching experience under his belt and spending the past year alongside head coach Audra Sherman, (See Post Coach story from June...

    25 June 2022
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    Leadership

    Courtesy of "Building The Best" June 22, 2022 The following post is courtesy of John Eades "Building the Best Newsletter on June 22, 2022 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-coaching-key-your-leadership-success-john-eades/?trk=eml-email_series_follow_newsletter_01-hero-2-image_link&midToken=AQGgWYn8AI_qww&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=2dToENP92AbWk1. Success as a leader is never achieved through your efforts alone.   Too often, managers promoted because of their previous achievements as individual contributors forget this critical lesson.  One of the ways a leader separates themselves from being a manager is by coaching their people. A coach, by definition, is one who trains and instructs. I define...

    25 June 2022
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