Soccer Coaching

When you work at camp, you quickly realise that it is hard to give you an accurate job description, camp is a place where you need to be very flexible, think on your feet and be ready for a change at any time.
I have enjoyed my weeks so far, I have counseled some great kids, learnt so many great camp games and then this past week I have been involved in the soccer camp coaching soccer for 7 hours each day.
It was a great week, we had 57 kids come to soccer camp and they were all there purely to improve their skills, so it was quite intense and run very professionally.
I worked with 5 other coaches (an Irish guy, 2 English, an American girl and a New Zealand guy) so we had many varying influences and soccer backgrounds but we also had a wealth of knowledge to provide to the kids.
The hardest thing about the week, was the extreme heat and keeping all our kids motivated in the fields for each session, it was also very draining on myself but it was great to be a part of the week, and I definitely learnt a lot about coaching children.
The highlight of the camp week was the Grand Staff Hunt which was held on Thursday evening, it is an event that the kids come back for and absolutely love, all the staff are paraded around as fugitives for the week and then on Thursday are let loose and it is up to the kids to go and find them, it was real exciting to be a part of it, and a great success.

We also had a staff surprise last week that was put on for us by our camp directors, where after all our kids were put to bed, we were invited to get dressed up and come to the main meeting hall, where it was all decked out fancily and we had a chinese buffet feast, it was a little thank you from them for what we have achieved so far and it was cool to chill out with the staff, as it does become quite difficult when you are around kids 24 hours a day.

Well only a couple of weeks left, I can't believe how quick this summer is going, there is starting to be a lot of talk about post camp travel, so I think I will have to start thinking myself.