Saturday, October 28 game day notes
- Venue: We play at United Quest Park field 7.
- Uniforms: Players should wear their gold uniforms. We’ll split the girls into teams during warm-up, and use practice vests to distinguish teams. This allows us to easily move players around if needed to keep competitive balance.
- Label warm-ups: We may have cooler weather, with girls wanting to wear warm-up pants and tops during warm-up. Parents, please make sure your daughter’s warm-up pants and jacket are labeled with her initials and uniform number. This will help minimize or eliminate lost and found issues.
- Weekly quiz: We post a quiz each week below the team assignments. Scroll past the roster table for quiz details.
- Warm-up captains: We will assign team captains at the fields.
Saturday weather updates:
We are due for rain. Assume all games will be played as scheduled unless you hear otherwise from our Junior Academy Twitter account or phone hot-line. We will update these channels by 7:30 AM Saturday. Conditions could change after the first update, so if your daughter is due to play at 10:30 or 12:00, check before you leave your house.
- Junior Academy Girls Twitter account: https://twitter.com/nasajracadg
- Junior Academy Girls phone hot-line: 1-866-206-9066, ext. 8870
- NTH field status: 770-220-4089 (in case we point you to the NTH channel)
Sunday, October 29 7v7 bonus game: canceled
The game has been canceled due to unplayable fields. We have a single Sunday afternoon bonus game. It’s a 4 PM away game at the GSA soccer complex in Lilburn (Gwinnett County), and it’s our first 7v7 game. Only a portion of our player pool will play in this game. (Everyone will get to play the 7v7 format the following weekend.)
Field assignment:
Our game is on Bender field A. This is 5-10 minute hike from the parking lot, so plan accordingly. Link: GSA Lilburn complex field layout
Sunday weather updates:
We are away against GSA in Lilburn (Gwinnett County). GSA posts field status updates on their web page (see right side of page) and/or via text messages (details here). They don’t have a phone hot-line.
Saturday and Sunday team assignments and schedules
Game Days: 2017-10-28 and 2017-10-29
| Date: | Sat, Oct. 28 | Sat, Oct. 28 | Sat, Oct. 28 | Sun, Oct. 29 *canceled* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location: | Quest Park 7 | Quest Park 7 | Quest Park 7 | canceled |
| Uniform: |  | | | |
| Warmup: | 8:30 AM | 10:00 AM | 11:30 AM | canceled |
| Kickoff: | 9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | 12:00 Noon | canceled |
| vs: | intra-Academy | intra-Academy | intra-Academy | canceled |
| Game format: | 4v4 | 4v4 | 4v4 | canceled |
| Players: | Cain Chanon Chopeitia Clark, E Clark, L Diianni Flammia Hammond Kobierowski Levin Slaton Tate Thomas Weinstein | Baker Cosby Galbraith Havette Hunter Krahnke McMasters Nieckarz Otto Porter Seaborn Solet Stalcup | Bernard (+Sun) Gispert Grant (+Sun) Hilker (+Sun) Pochmara (+Sun) Rieger Silver (+Sun) Stephenson (+Sun) Trebon Wilson (+Sun) Wisehart (+Sun) Woody (+Sun) Yang (+Sun) | Bernard Grant Hilker Pochmara Silver Stephenson Wilson Wisehart Woody Yang |
Weekly quiz – first touch
Girls can win a treat after our Wednesday or Thursday practice if they can answer true or false questions about good first touches (receiving the ball), and also demonstrate good first touches.
- A good first touch usually stops the ball dead.
- A good first touch usually pushes the ball into open space.
- A good first touch usually kicks the ball toward goal.
- When receiving ground ball passes, you usually get the best first touch using the sole of your foot.
- When receiving ground ball passes, you usually get the best first touch using the outside of your foot.
- When receiving ground ball passes, you usually get the best first touch using the inside of your foot.
- When receiving ground ball passes, you usually get the best first touch using the laces area of your foot.
- When you are under pressure, receive with the foot closest to the defender.
- When you are under pressure, receive with the foot farthest from the defender.
- When you have open space, receive with the foot closest to the goal where we are trying to score.
- When you have open space, receive with the foot closest to the goal we are defending.