CHS Girl’s Soccer Returns from Camp

Submitted by Thomas Eskola

    On June 30th,  ten players on Central High Girl's Soccer  team returned from the Paul Harbin Team Soccer Camp, held this summer at Millsap's College in Jackson, Mississippi.  The camp proved to be an excellent opportunity for players to learn new soccer skills and drills as well as to improve upon established skills.  Central was one of eight teams that participated in the 4 day 3 night residential camp.  Central's camp coach, Josue Sabillion, who was born in Honduras, is the head women's soccer coach at Belhaven College in Jackson, MS.  His assistant for this camp was Julia Osmond, a Southhampton, England native who currently plays college soccer at the University of North Alabama.  Both coaches were extremely knowledgable and did a fantastic job passing that knowledge on to our players.   There were numerous additional quality coaches at the camp, for example "Sugar" and "Chubs", who also shared their expertise with our girls. Central's players also participated in scrimmages against the other camp teams and they were able to attend a mens semi-professional  soccer match played on campus.  In addition, the team cleaned the camp cafeteria out of Tony Dashere's and fruit loops, drank more water than a herd of thirsty camels, greatly increased the market share for Coppertone, kept the medical trainers busy and protected a nesting bird.  The shared experiences and sacrifices of "Snooks", "Bootsie", "Territorial Barbie", "Ginger" and the rest of the team will be remembered by our girls for the rest of their lives and will hopefully lay the foundation for a successful 2012-2013 season. 

    Girl's soccer is currently participating in the 7v7 summer soccer league through the BR Soccer Association.  This summer Central had enough girls interested in playing that we were able to field a lower and upper division team.  The girls play their matches at the Burbank Soccer Complex and will conclude their summer season with a tournament on July 28 and 29th. 

    This is a reminder to all returning players and those interested in playing to pick up a physical packet from the front office at the high school and have your doctor complete the forms before school starts on August 13th.  Only players with current physicals on file at the school will be allowed to participate in soccer conditioning, practices and matches.  If you haven't already started running, you need to begin conditioning/running on your own as soon as you are medically cleared to do so.