Tjerk's Coach Blog

February is always a busy month for USA field Hockey! The international calendar allows teams to travel and some teams enjoy visiting sunny San Diego that time a year for a training period and playing some international games vs the USA national teams. This year the women, in preparation for the World Cup Qualifier later this ...

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Last blog I was able to write a great story, stories about winning are always easier! I am sure we all have seen the sports movies, all the great ones have 1 thing in common…. at the end the good team always wins…. Did you ever ask yourself how a sports movie would be like ...

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Well, what to say… My sincere apologies for my absence of a few months…. I had to clarify some NCAA issues for blogging, but that is all done now and I am back with my weekly updates of Coaching at Maryland, field hockey stuff in general and other stories that I hope will be fun ...

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This week I thought it would be interesting to all the coaches out there to give an insight look about our weekly planning… Our game prep and what we do in training sessions to prepare for the upcoming game. This is based on a normal schedule having 2 games in consecutive weekends. Sunday       Game Monday ...

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Well, here we are, 2 weeks into the 2009 season! And 5-0 is a good start! Everybody kind of expects it from Maryland to do well and be 5-0 but you still need to do it! I guess the decisions we made as a coaching staff during pre season are working out very well… We have ...

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3-0, exactly  where we wanted to be after the first weekend of the 2009 season! Expectations at Maryland are always high, and I have to admit I love working with that pressure behind me. Even if you won a National Championship the year before, it is 9 months ago and we started with a new ...

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