Cougars on Three!

It was great to get our start on the field with practices this week, culminating in today's scrimmages at Dakota Ridge (JV) and Chatfield (V).  I thought our girls played super hard, and the one characteristic I really liked was the willingness to learn, or to put a single word on it - coachability. We did a lot right, and some not so right, but players were soaking up feedback and improving as the day went on.

My highlight of the week was seeing our whole program together this Wednesday for uniform sign-out, then team bonding, and finally a program meeting.  At the end of the program meeting, we - players, coaches, parents - made some noise and did a "Cougars on Three" chant. I do that annually so that everyone in the program can feel ownership for building and nurturing the program's culture. We want our program to be steeped in selflessness, teamwork, respect, effort, purpose, encouragement, positivity, resilience. Those characteristics in our players, more than anything, make for an excellent program. 

This week we began to give out Cory the Cougar. Cory has already been given to 5 players on the JV team for being Cougars of the Day - to Anya, Devyn, Audra and to Sophie and Sydney, all for excellence in one or more of those characteristics above.  I would like for all of those players to come visit me at the office on Monday to get your picture with Cory!