Introduction into my summer:

       An indication to my summer experiences that have helped shape my coaching. My summer coaching experiences are touched upon during my blogs, so this provides the reader with an insight.

   During the summer, I took the initiative and experienced the unique opportunity of coaching soccer for challenger sports in Sacramento, C.A., America; for the duration of ten weeks, it was an invaluable experience that developed me both as a coach and as an individual. Over the summer I coached for approximately 250 hours over the 10 weeks 5/6 days a week dependant on additional coaching or goalkeeper camps. I worked as an individual and as a member of a group and coaches children from several age groups ranging from 3-16 years. I also had the opportunity to be the camp director where I was in charge of organising several coaches and delegating roles, splitting the children relevant age and into groups, the administrative aspects such as payments and health and safety aspects and also resigning the camp for next summer. I decided to try the challenger experience as I have friends that have coached on the camps and they could not speak highly enough of the experience and the company, whilst I also wanted a fresh challenge.