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  Byte Size Coaching Newsletter #3 comes as America is about to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Once Thanksgiving has come and gone and the NCAA men’s and women’s soccer finals are decided the first week in December, most of on-the-field soccer on the North American continent goes into hibernation for a while. In the meantime, behind closed doors, much planning is taking place in readiness for the spring 2007 season.
We are doing the same. There will be a re-launch of the new and up-dated version of Byte Size Coaching program. We’ll let you know how things are progressing in the next two or three monthly newsletters.
In the meantime, here we are with #3. I did say in the last edition we would fly directly east from our Pacific Northwest headquarters and land in Cohasset, Massachusetts, to join our BSC friends at the Cohasset Soccer Club. And so we have.Byte Size Coaching, so far! traces our development to where we are today and what we are looking forward to tomorrow.
Heaven Forbid! was the uttering of one of my profs many years ago at Loughborough College of Physical Education. If he is still around, he would have to eat his words.
Don’t be shy in critiquing our newsletter or making suggestions for additional item and enjoy the Newsletter.
Byte Size Coaching, so far!
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We launched our first version of Byte Size Coaching just over 3 years ago. It has been a very exciting and rewarding ride. Not that we’ve got everything right – by a long chalk – but with over 300 clubs and associations now using the program we have identified a need for the many community soccer organizations who are doing such a great job in organizing our great game for the soccer kids of the United States and Canada.
I guess the Byte Size Coaching process started for me a long time ago. As a wanna-be soccer pro and a Physical Education student, the process of studying the game, rather than just playing the game, set me on the path of becoming a soccer educator. Lucky for me that the wanna-be status became an ama-be and I was able to spend over 10 years as a pro and many years since those playing years as a coach of professional teams.
The Cohasset Soccer Club is a community-based, not for profit organization, established and operated to provide the young residents of Cohasset the ability to learn about the game of soccer, enhance their soccer skills and abilities, and to have fun playing this wonderful game.
The Club is led by a volunteer Board of Directors, with a large number of volunteer coaches, coordinators, and workers supporting the program's numerous activities. In total, there are currently 118 adult volunteers involved with organizing and running the Club's operations.
Wallace St. John is the hard-working President, but would be the first to admit that the club is only as good as the Board of Directors and the many volunteers who make the club a success.
A million years ago, or so it seems, I was a Phys Ed college in England (Loughborough) and one of my course assignments was to write a paper on the future direction of education.
At the time, 1959, television was still in its infancy and the Open University in the UK had not been formed.
I wrote in the paper that I could see the day when every student in schools and colleges around the Western World would have a TV on their desk and part of their learning would be courtesy of television programming.
