SPM 330 Sport Experience Audit Project.

In this class we have to pick an event and attend this event and make a questionnaire for this event. My group has chosen to attend a UC basketball game. We are going to go tomorrow’s game vs. West Virginia. Some of the main factors we are trying to get out of this questionnaire is about game attendance. We only made the questionnaire a page so its fast and not time consuming. The main questionnaire is about a rating scale about a mix of questions such as crime rate, ticket price, coaching style, parking, fan status, and outcome of the team. We have four members in our group and each member needs to get 25 questionnaires filled out, if you do the math that is 100 questionnaires. I am just worried that we aren’t going to be able to get this task done. Myself when at a sporting event and asked to fill out a questionnaire, I am quick to say “no thank you”. I just hope we are able to get this task done and get what we need to complete this project.

Women’s league @ Rivers Edge

So tonight again, I had our second women’s league game at Rivers Edge. The league hasn’t really started yet. Last week we had just played one full game and one other team. This week Jen had set up kind of a round robin for three different teams. We started out playing the same team we played last week. I didn’t mind playing them because they are a good team and I love getting a good workout and playing tuff teams. We lost again 2-0 but it wasn’t a bad game. Then we had to sit out for the next game. Allie and I kind of talked about the little things that we need to work on for our next game to come. After that game was over we played Jen’s team. I was taken back when I saw Jen in goal I always thought she was a field player. Ones again this was another good team, we hadn’t played them yet so we didn’t know what to expect. I think my team played a lot better in the second game due to everyone just getting use to playing together as a team. We won this game I think the score was 4-1. Yeah there are a lot of the girls played together on the mounts soccer team but we still had a few players that hadn’t. I am really happy that Jen has taken the time to get an all women’s league together. I can’t wait for more games to come next week!

Brother Chris

I have one brother and his name is Chris, growing up I don’t think he liked me much due to the fact that I was the bratty little sister who would follow him every where he would go. At times he would have to take me by the hand walk me back home and ask our mom to keep me away from him and his friends. As the years went by my brother and I become more like best friends. When I was playing sports in high school he was always pushing me to do harder off season training to become that much better in the season to come. My brother was always the one who came to my mount soccer games in college; I could always here his voice pushing me on. On June 10, 2004 my brother had to take on a much bigger role of not just a brother but now a “father figure” to my sister and I. My brother takes a lot of things pretty hard, so when the death of my father happened he wasn’t much of a talker but knew what he now had to do as a role of a father to us. My brother is always trying to become a great role mole for me and making sure I do what our father intend me to become and achieve. Chris is now a father of his own little girl (Lauren) and I can see how he wants to stay around as long as he can to see her grow up and become successful in life. I hear him everyday telling her how much he loves her and would do anything for her. My brother also had to take the role of walking my sister down to give her away at her wedding this past January. My brother is now trying to become a firefighter for Colerain Township, I am very happy for him because he is doing something he loves and helping others. But at the same time I don’t know what I would do without him if something where to happen when he was trying to put out a fire. He is everything to me and does everything for me.

8-under girls

Swim Team Coach

I know a lot of people think that I would be a soccer coach before I would be a swim team coach. But think again I’ve been coach Delhi Swim Team, for the past three years. I’ve been swimming since I was six years old. If I had to pick a second favorite sport it would be swimming. I coach Delhi swim team with two other coaches Kelly and Sean. It is a lot of fun to help teach and watch little ones grow and look up to you. There is about eight five kids on the team. I mostly coach a lot of the 8-under kids, they might be the funniest group of kids because they always have something funny to tell or show you. But at times they are the hardest kids to keep in order. I get a lot of joy coaching and seeing the kids I’ve coach do well from what I have taught them. I hope to onces again coach this summer to come.

Flags, Rags and Drags

They say that when you play any sport you are never going to forget your teammates. I am sure not going to forget these two girls. There names are Allie Pirman (Flags) and Beth Schuermann (Rags) my nickname was Drags. I know the names sound a bit funny but they all have stories behind them. We called Beth, rags due to the fact that every time she would go up for a 50/50 ball she would just get taken out like a rag doll. So she got the nickname rags. I got my nickname due to the fact that I would drag my feet at times when I was playing soccer and it was only on the one foot, if you where to look at my right foot you would be able to tell. Allie got her nick name more for the fact that we wanted them to all rime and she was the tallest in the group. When ever us three would take a picture Allie was always the one who was the tallest or always over to the right or left … so that’s how she got that nickname. When ever you play a sport in high school or college you spent a lot of time with your teammates. You make friendships and you bond with all the road time traveling to different schools or even states to play other teams. I will never forget Allie and Beth I hope that after college our friendship keeps on growing and we learn from each other as we did for the past four years.

Four soccer games in the past five days.

It all started on this past Wednesday when I played at the new Rivers Edge soccer complex with my all women’s league. This is the first time I ever played indoor with all women because all other times I’ve played coed with friends. I was really happy to be playing with a lot of the mount soccer girls again. I didn’t think that this game was going to be as hard as it was. Then again, I should have anticipated the challenges to be tough after seeing the players arrive for the other team. It was just a practice game this week and we didn’t have all of our players so we had to pick up two other girls who where still in high school to play with us. Both high school girls where pretty good, one was a goalie. These two girls where just finished with their practice with their own select soccer team when we solicited their time to work out with us. I can’t wait for more weeks to come when I get to get a really good workout and play with my fellow mount players on the different playing field in in-door. I would have to say that playing one women’s league game would equal about three coed soccer games.
Thursday, I had another game, this time at the Western Hills Sports Mall. This team had a lot of older players and even two doctors who work with my mom at the hospital. But don’t let them fool you, the doctors are very good players. So we only had one girl and one guy sub for this team and that’s how I like it. I don’t like to sub unless I really have to because I like to play just about the whole soccer game. So the other team that we played against wasn’t the best team we won 8-3. We started to give up after the other team was getting frustrated and angry at us for playing so well. Their goalie even just walked off the field. I don’t know really why he did but he was pissed. Maybe it was because a lot of the players on our team poured several hard shots and he was getting killed with shot after shot. So we made a team decision that we had to score only by head balls which seemed to decrease the anger by the other team.
Friday’s game was again at Rivers Edge. This time it was a group pulled together with my old Westside soccer coach. She saw me up at Rivers Edge last Friday while I was watching my brothers and brother-in-laws flag football game. She said “do you mind if I call you sometime to sub for our soccer team” and I was like sure why not. I didn’t think it was going to be that very next week. When I got to the field to play I knew this was going to be a hard game because I saw Jessie who was two years older than me and played for the mount team with me for two years. But knowing how much I really have a hard time turning down any time I can play soccer, I made the best of it. We lost that game but it was a good game. I don’t remember the score of the game, but the action was very competitive.
Now on Saturday I didn’t have any soccer games, which was good since I have a few bruises that needed a day off. Sunday (today) I usually have two soccer games because I am on two different teams but one of the teams I play for re-scheduled the game earlier this week on Thursday. My game today is mostly just for fun. This team is coed and a lot of the players on the team our just playing for fun. I went to high school with a lot of team members. Sometimes I end up getting hurt the most in this league due to the players don’t go for the ball, they always try to take out the player. If you do the littliest move they fall for it and get easily frustrated.

Senior Day

For most athletes, senior day is the last time you will be playing on your home field or court. But for me it was different because I knew that this wasn’t going to be the last time I was going to be playing on my home field of “Schueler Field”. I knew going into this season that it was going to be a Great Season!! On the day of the big senior game I had a lot going on with trying to keep my focus on the conference game to come the following week vs. Manchester College. When I first got into the locker room at the sports complex I was one of the first ones there just like any other game because I liked to get my ankles taped in the training room. Arriving early also allowed me to take my time getting my so called “game face on”. When I had walked into the locker room all of the juniors had taken the time to go out of their way and placed balloons, pictures and notes in each of the eight seniors. Yes, we had eight seniors this year. The mount was going to be losing a lot of seniority leadership after this season ended.
The pre-game talk for this game wasn’t the usual pump-up speech because our coach had so many seniors for the pass four years and didn’t want to see us go. There were a few watery eyes in that locker room that day, but they soon dried up when our coach told us to go get what is ours. We knew it was going to be an emotional game.
Half time came and the score was still 0-0 we knew we had to get over the emotional aspects of senior day because even though this was a so called “easy game” for us its a lot different game when you have the emotional feelings added. Manchester knew it was our senior game so they thought they had to give all 110% to win this game knowing we wouldn’t be on our so called “A” game. We didn’t go to the locker room at half like we usually did. Our parents where waiting for us on the track to walk out with us as our names where getting read. Now for me it was extremely hard only seeing my mom on the side line and wishing that my father was still alive and able to be there with me, walking on the other side as my mother. My father passed away when I was going into my senior year of high school when he was only 49 years old, passing away from a massive heart attic. My mother was upset about a few things but mostly about the amount of playing time I was getting but I told her to not to worry that all seniors where going to start at the start of the second half. Although we did win this game, the score was only 1-0. Our coach changed players from a season of offensive positions to now playing defensive and vice versa. Many players were confused and this game seemed more like a practice session than an important game. Everyone left the game confused, upset and disappointed. Our questions were many as to why the coach made such changes, left players without playing time that earned it, and confusing everyone. Our parents were equally confused and turned the senior game into one of questions more than of celebration.

Senior Letter:

Senior:

May you wear a crown of seniority on your head on this special day! May you be beribboned with happiness and wear your pride like the Christmas tree wears her ornaments. This day is a day to take advantages of all the special joys life has to offer. This is not a time to be sad, but a time to smile and enjoy the priceless memories you have made in your years of MSJ soccer. We all will move on when the time is right. We will all grow into our lives in society. Time passes and life changes, but while we're here together for this day, let's make it one of the most memorable in our lives. Let's prove on the filed that it does not matter that we're division III college, that we can do anything and can overcome any challenges when we work together. Your are great friends to all of us, great leaders in all your pursue, and great players to the game of soccer. We all love and hope you enjoy our small but heartfelt gifts of being soccer princesses for the day! And remember, it'snot hte size of the player on the field that matters, but the size of the heart in the player. To all our lion-hearted seniors, we say thanks!

Love,

Your One and Only

2008 MSJ Soccer Team

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage" (Rainer Maria Wike). Be that dragon on the field, but don't be afraid to show that beauty to the entire world that each one of you holds inside.

Senior Letter from Coach:

Sammy,

Wow four years done already?!? You have been a joay to have on the team this year I really feel you have come into your "own". You have relaxed so much more this season and really enjoyed playing. Your sprit and support of your teammates does not go unnoticed. During games, if you are not out there playing-you are ALWAYS the one I hear rooting for the TEAM. Thanks you for that.

This weekend, shine out there play with a smile and go get you one!!

Love,
Coach