Penn Legacy player and 2010 graduate participates in the NCAA Div III playoffs!

December 2010 - Congratulations to Joe Kaiser, Penn Legacy Player and 2010 graduate.  Joe is a member of the Lynchburg College Hornets and recently went to San Antonio Texas for the NCAA Division III Mens Soccer Semifinal.    Joe was on the rostered squad and had playing time during the NCAA playoffs.  The Hornets defeated Bowdoin Friday, in Texas, and made it to the Final Two against Messiah.  Unfortunately, due to a controversial no call, the Hornets lost in overtime. 

Congratulations to the following graduating high school seniors. 
June 2010 - These Class of 2010 players have committed to play in college: 

Alina Rakiewicz: Mount St. Mary’s University

Kate Zech : Shippensburg University

Laura Myers – Penn State Altoona

Bitsy Hoerner – U.S. Naval Academy

Nicole Good – Shippensburg University

Leah Wilt – Grove City College

Anne Marie Vertucci – Misercordia University

Kaitlyn Hogue – East Stroudsburg University

Allison Korns - Lenoir Rhyne University

Jena Muller - Albright College

Congratulations Coaches!

Congratulations to all the Hempfield Soccer Club & Penn Legacy coaches for completing the NSCAA Advanced Youth Diploma course over the July 31-August 2 weekend: 

Ken Beaner, Tony Dague, Michael Deck, Victor Desantis, Seamus Donnelly, David German, Luigi Gutierrez, Amanda Harris, Jesse Hostetter, Michael Larsen, Mark Lutz, William O'Leary, Michael Petrillo, Gary Ross, Wayne Stoltzfus, Christopher Wilson

Advanced Youth Diploma

The NSCAA Advanced Youth Diploma is designed for the youth coach working with players in age groups U-9 through U-12.  The overall objective of the course is to help coaches create the optimal learning environment for players at this developmental stage.  Emphasis is placed on the basic methods of coaching youth and understanding the physiological and psychological differences between coaching children and coaching adolescents or adults.  The curriculum focuses on numerous important aspects of coaching the targeted age groups: assisting participants in the development of a coaching philosophy; introducing the progressive teaching method and the coaching in the game teaching method; reviewing the organization of a practice session; teaching essential components of the techniques of dribbling, passing, receiving, tackling, goalkeeping, heading, and shooting/finishing; reviewing important safety issues;  providing instruction in the principles of attack and defense and addressing the application of those principles in on-field tactical coaching; and providing structured discussion time to address contemporary coaching issues such as that of developing a soccer culture. 

The Advanced Youth Diploma is a 21 hour course held over two and a half days (customarily beginning early Friday evening and concluding late Sunday afternoon), featuring both classroom presentations (theory) and on-field instruction (praxis).  The course utilizes demonstrators in the targeted age groups for most field sessions.  There is no testing involved in this course.  Each participant receives an opportunity to conduct a practical field demonstration and receive feedback from a staff coach on that session.  Each person completing the course is awarded the Advanced Youth Diploma.

Congrats to Chris Wilson!

Local Penn Legacy Staff Coach and Boys Director Chris Wilson recently completed a 13 day football tour of Germany and Holland.  While in Germany he was able to train youth players at FC Cologne and Bayer Leverkusen 04.  He also toured the Hennes Weisweiler Academy at the German Sports University in Cologne. All DFB Professional UEFA License course work is completed there. 

While in Holland he earned the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) International Academy Certificate.  The 80 hour UEFA course work included training of youth and Dutch National U-21 and Men’s teams in preparation for friendly’s with England.  Match analysis and practice planning sessions with national team coaches occurred for two days.  Club internships of youth and professional training, match analysis and game preparation occurred at the following: Vitesse Arnhem, Feyenoord Rottterdam, Groningen, Heerenveen, Ajax and PSV Einhoven.