Tryouts

Hi, everyone. Reiterating the announcement that Coach Malefyt just made, our first day of tryouts on Monday, March 14 will be OUTSIDE. We'll meet in my room (#111) initially at 3:15 PM (be dressed already) and then head outside for training until about 530 PM.

See you all then! Dress warmly! Looking forward....

Skill Session Sign-up

Starting on Thursday, Jan. 27 (and on each successive Thursday in the middle school balcony area), the following groups of 4 will meet with either Coach Malefyt or myself:

3:00-3:30 PM (Robinson)...Morgan Stillson, Tyler Immink, Aaron Polet, Deban Scholtehn
3:00-3:30 PM (Malefyt)...Shannon Blourne, Emily Grady, Libby Stafford, Sidney Grady
3:30-4:00 PM (Robinson)...Nicole Brigert, Jessica Holst, Cody Weber, Travis Williams
3:30-4:00 PM (Malefyt)...Ambre Couturier, Megan Dangremond, Amelia Ruiz, Hannah Krause

Mark it down on your calendars, show up early to your session to warm up and stretch on your own, wear indoor soccer/tennis shoes, and bring water!

See Coach Malefyt or myself for questions or concerns. Lookin' forward to working with you all!

OFFICIAL off-season training...

A note from Coach Malefyt...

Hello everyone!
Here is the information for this years winter training schedule. Availability in the middle school balcony is not ideal so we are making the best of what we have. There are really four different things that we have planned for you:
1. One Structured day per week for circuit training in the middle school balcony. This will happen 3-4 on Mondays. The first date for this will be January 24.
2. One structured day per week for a running program that Coach Wandel has put together. This will happen at the High School Indoor Track. This structured day will be on Tuesdays. However, the first available day will be on a Wednesday...January 19.
3. Along with the Tuesday structured day...you should do the running program one more day. However, this day is up to you. Each Tuesday you will get the workout for that week and you would do the same workout on your own time. This could even be done at home.
4. Coach Robinson and myself are offering ball workout sessions on Thursday's after school. Signup with Coach Robinson!

Click here to see all of this in scheduled form! (This will tell of day's off as well)

Hopefully when you look at the schedule and read the email it will make sense to you. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Coach Malefyt

Off-Season Training

Stay tuned, everyone, for an upcoming announcement regarding off-season skill work/conditioning sessions that we plan on offering around the second week of January.

Hope you're all having a great break!

Stay Tuned...

...for off-season training opportunities.

I'm looking forward to working with all of you girls in the near future!

PS. If you're interested (males and females), the winter holiday indoor soccer tourney is on again. See me for a sign-up sheet if/when you're ready!

Training during the week AFTER camp...

...July 26-30.

As many of you know, I will be in E. Lansing working the MSU soccer camp this coming week. Coach Stieper will be covering the Monday and Thursday evening training sessions for you guys. The other AM sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday will be helmed by either Connor or R.J.

PS. Thanks again very much to all who helped out with the kids camp this past week. You guys are the faces of the soccer program in Hamilton, and we're proud to have you represent us in a positive way!

Training during CAMP week...

...is canceled. That means starting Monday, July 19, we will not have regularly scheduled summer training. Take note!

Dead Period...and other stuff

Hi, all. I hope the summer's going well!

I hear from Frannie as of late that a bunch of you might be making an appearance at training tonight (Thursday)?! Awesome...unfortunately, I, myself, won't be there! I just had my knee surgery (you remember when Kaitlyn injured me before practice, right?) yesterday and will be hobbling a bit in the near future. Anyway, all went well, and Coach Stieper will be covering today. I WILL, however, be at training tomorrow morning from 9-11...be there?

Regarding next week (week of July 4), we DO NOT HAVE TRAINING since that week is designated by us and the MHSAA as a "dead period" in which we are not allowed to officially meet. Please take note. Feel free, of course, to do whatever training on your own!

After today and tomorrow, the next time us coaches will officially see you would be Monday, July 12 from 5-7 PM...come on out...and keep getting better!

Take care, girls. Let me know if you need anything.

No training...

...today, Wednesday (June 23) due to severe weather.

Happy...

...summer, everyone! THANKS for the card and gifts from the banquet...much appreciated. I certainly had fun with you girls this season.

And remember, FEEL FREE to come out this summer to train. Scroll down for the weekly schedule.

Take care, girls! It's been real.

End-of-season JV get-together

If you can make it, we'll be getting together this sat., June 5 at the DeNeef's for 6 P.M. dinner, drinks, and fun.

Check your email accounts for the DeNeef's address, or perhaps you can ask Niki yourself.

As for what to bring, I'm thinking you girls can handle organizing who's bringing what, but here's what we need:

hot dogs (for roasting)/buns
salad/veggies
fruit
chips
graham crackers/marshmallows/chocolate (for smores)

Pop and other sweets will be provided....let's figure everything else out though!

Hope to see you there...maybe get a hold of Niki for questions.

Banquet update...

**Monday, June 7 in the middle school cafeteria...6 P.M....wear something nice...bring beverages for you and your family...dessert will be provided.

End of Season Updates/Reminders...

Ladies, please see below and let me know if you have any questions/concerns/comments:

1.) Summer (boys...AND GIRLS!) training schedule....

Mondays: 5-7 PM (practice soccer field)
Tuesdays: 9-11 AM (practice soccer field)
Wednesdays: 9-11 AM (practice soccer field)
Thursdays: 5-7 PM (practice soccer field)
Fridays: 9-11 AM (track/practice soccer field)

Note: Monday-Thursday, meet directly at the practice soccer field site. Friday, meet initially at the track and then proceed to the soccer field site.

2.) You still owe me uniforms ASAP.

3.) We have a team get-together this week at the DeNeef's in the planning stages...stay tuned!

4.) Program Banquet: Monday, June 7 (MIDDLE SCHOOL CAFETERIA) at 6 P.M. (more details still to come)

1-0 win vs. Zeeland East

Ladies, once again, job well done in the game yesterday...and a BIGGER job well done for your overall efforts this season. I was very sincere with my "thank you" to you after the game yesterday. A reminder: thank you so much for making coaching CONSISTENTLY fun for me again. You guys were a great, mature, fun group to work with, and I think, obviously, that's reflected in our body of work this season.

FINAL RECORD: 12-5-1 (5-4 CONFERENCE)...BEST RECORD EVER FOR A HAMILTON JV GIRLS SOCCER TEAM.

We met two of three team goals for the season...not bad at all. Keep shootin' for more though, girls! In whatever you do...

Please see the "soccer banquet" info below...

Uniforms are due to me ASAP...captain bands too.

On a random note, if you guys would like to get together sometime next week for our OWN thing as kind of a last hurrah, i'm all for it. Thoughts? You're more than welcome to come back to my house...but that might bore you by now. Let me know ASAP! Captains?

Take care, girls...i'm still here if you need me for anything!

End-of-season JV/Varsity BANQUET

Mark your calendars:

**Monday, June 7 at 6 P.M.

More details to come...

2-0 loss vs. Unity...and other stuff

Well, girls, I hope you left yesterday's game with the absolute confidence that you did all that you could out there...no regrets. If not, you've got one more game this season to prove yourselves!

I meant what I said after the game: I hate "moral victories" and a team should NEVER get used to losing and/or be satisfied with it; HOWEVER, our overall effort vs. Unity was probably the best effort a Hamilton soccer squad (boys and girls) has put forth against that team since i've been coaching. Soooooooo, I guess we can allow a little satisfaction.

Here's what's next on our slate:

**game tomorrow (wed.) at 5 P.M. at Zeeland East (a rematch of our 1-0 win against them earlier this season)

**we'll meet in my classroom at 3 P.M. for our last team meeting of the season.

**bus leaves at 4 P.M. from school

**bring BOTH color jerseys to the game since that's still a bit up in the air

**we'll decide on clothing for IN school later a practice today

Let's end this season on a positive note, girls!

Reminders...

...for tomorrow and the rest of the week, our last week:

Monday: we "dress up" in school...bus leaves at 3:45 for Unity...we'll meet in my room at 3 P.M. for snacks, beverages, a talk, and some video.

Tuesday: practice (our last one of the season)

Wednesday: away game at either Zeeland East or Holland Christian...time to be determined.

Miscellaneous: stay tuned for the end-of-the-season soccer banquet info... if you couldn't already tell, the weather us supposed to be hot and humid for most of the week. Can we deal with the elements?!

I'm excited (to say the least) for our game vs. Unity...no regrets tomorrow, girls!

Another win...and now REALITY

Girls, once again, good job yesterday in taking care of Freedom Baptist, fighting the elements, and coming up with the 5-0 win.

Now, it's time to prove that we are a GOOD team; that is, can we OVERACHIEVE and perhaps take out a couple of teams that are "better" than us? I'm excited, as a coach, to find out.

UNITY is next...a TEAM GOAL is next...VISUALIZE SUCCESS!

8-0 win vs. Park

First, please see below regarding a scheduling update.

Second, it was an "excellent" job by all of you yesterday vs. Park in the first round conference tourney game. A lot of contributions were made and by a variety of players. I'm really, for the most part, loving your guys' collective maturity as of late.

That said, it's about to get a lot tougher for us! I think it's great that we've had a lot of success lately, and now, at the end of the season when a team is supposed to be peaking anyway, we can meet some challenges/team goals head on.

Keep it up, girls!

Schedule Update

We now play Unity Christian in our second round conference tourney match AT Unity on Monday, May 24.

The bus leaves at 3:45 PM from school that day with the JV game starting at 5 PM.

We'll meet in my room at 3 PM that day for a short team meeting. Feel free to bring HEALTHY pre-game snacks and beverages!