After 3 weeks of no practice for winter storms and our player's attending the New Brunswick winter games we finally had a practice on Thursday night. Sorry to hear that one of our best players sprained his ankle playing floor hockey & will miss a few week of practice. He is a good athlete and will do what he can to stay in game shape while he is laid up.
As you would expect about 75% of the players showed up in good shape as they did their exercises at home during our break. The other 25% were another problem as they had a good vacation and didn't do much of anything. We try to get across to them that it will be ungodly hot in Athens & the better shape they are in the easier it will be on them, they just don't seem to get the message. We will keep on them, I know as we get closer to our departure date they will work harder.
Today is Sunday and we have a practice today at the indoor soccer complex in Stratford. It is going to be a busy 3 weeks ahead as we will have practice on the next 2 Thursdays plus Sunday Feb 20 we are going to Moncton, NB for a ball game at an indoor complex. On Feb 20 we will do the second round of fitness testing on the players. We did one in October and they are expected to do better in this one. There will be one more test in June just before we leave for Athens, there are a couple who I am worried about as they don't seem to get the message that they are required to improve each test or they could be dropped from the team.
Till next time, take care.
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