tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49584023504584290692011-11-27T15:52:34.500-08:00Everything about coaching soccer in the great town of Omaha, NebraskaCoach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-57450698647315749352011-05-20T11:49:00.000-07:002011-06-09T18:04:09.080-07:00

The Gross Catholic Girls Soccer team finished the season with 9 wins and 7 losses. A decent season where we just happened to score 58 goals. I think that total is a GC Girls Soccer record. My records don't go back to pre-historic times (before I was the head coach) but no team that I have coached has scored so many, until now. A job well done.Our final 2 games were opposites. The first game

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I was watching the second "Transformers" move, "Revenge of the Fallen" on HBO this weekend. It was pretty good, lots of action. The heroes of the movie face many trials and setbacks, but win in the end.Our heroes (the Cougars) started the week with victory but had a couple setbacks since.On Monday, Roncalli gave us some difficulties, not Megatron-level trouble, but trouble all the same. We

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Since we last chatted, twittered, facebooked, or blogged, the Gross Catholic Girls Soccer Team (Go Cougars) has beaten Central 1-0 and Schuyler 7-1. Right now we stand at 7-4 and are riding a 6 game winning streak.At Central on the 16th, the game was played mostly in the midfield. Our breakthrough goal came from Z at about 31 minutes. A through ball was played, Z got there before the keeper,

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Since my last post we have only scored 28 goals over 4 games. An explosion of finishing. What happened? The competition did not play well during this 4 game stretch against South Sioux, Ralston, St. Peter Claver, and Bryan. Some of the programs are struggling at this time. St. Peter Claver is closing at the end of the year. Be that as it may, I have coached teams playing against sputtering

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The Cougars came out very strong in the first minutes of the game, creating a number of good chances. Abby was able to run through and poke one in but was ruled offsides by the assistant referee. Even though we were against the wind, we had a lot of possession in the Roncalli end of the field.Roncalli's goal came toward the end of the first half. It looked like one of their players was out of

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Another game breakdown from an email from Coach Kim. Remember, I was out of town dealing with my step-moms funeral services. This is for the March 31st game vs Beatrice.Okey dokey here goes. First of all we changed the warm up a bit. We started with a brief game of handball and then did 6v6 plus 6. You know blue and black keeping it away from yellow who is in the middle. Then we did run

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Okay here is the breakdown mostly taken from an email from Coach Kim. Overall we played pretty hard at the game on March 28.Lost to Skutt 0-6. Goal One: Came from our left side dribbled across the 18 on the ground about 12 yards out and then an open Skutt girl knocked it in. Goal Two: They did a short corner on the other side...no one went out to pressure. The short corner went to Bartels and

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OK. The Central game was postponed because it snowed. Who needs snow during the spring sports season? It snow laughing matter. But after we thawed about it, we drifted toward accepting that practice instead of the game would do us some good. We had an avalanche of energy when we practiced Saturday morning at the Omaha Sports Complex. If we play the next game the way we practiced on Saturday,

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OK Cougars, not a great start to the season if you are basing greatness on our win/loss record. We lost to Duchesne, 1-3. We lost to Bellevue West, 1-3. (Is there an echo in here? Is there an echo...?) The games were similar in score only. Our performance in the BW game was far superior to our first game. In terms of effort, hard work and intensity, we played great in that second game. The

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The Cougars open the season tomorrow with Duchesne at home (Papillion Soccer Complex) at 4:30. We look forward to the challenge. The team has been training well. Can't wait!

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Oh, my blog has been asleep for awhile, but now we are waking up. (Yawn, yawn, wakey, wakey.) Since my last post, I decided to leave the College of Saint Mary and move on to other things. Move on to what? Bigger and better things? Hope so. The first bigger and better thing is the Gross Catholic Girls Soccer Team. We begin our season today and I am ready and excited about the season. We have

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Bellevue 2, CSM 1 is the scoreline for Wednesday's conference opener. 2 players were seriously hurt in the first half and we gave up 2 goals too many.Within the first 5 minutes, one of our players was involved in a collision with a Bellevue player and at first, didn't think much of it. Then blood started soaking through her sock and we took her off the field. When our trainer examined her, we

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Five o'clock on a beautiful cool fall afternoon, the sun shining bright after a morning of rain. CSM and Kansas Wesleyan walk on the field at Tranquility park. Little did they know that an epic battle between 2 storied programs was about to commence. (I sound like NFL Films.)Honestly, in the first half, we struggled. We seemed to be content with just sagging back and playing defense with

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I told the team at halftime of the game today that they were kinda like Rocky. They took some hits but kept moving forward. I told them they just needed to do more of the same and do the simple things and they will have success.We did take a "knock-down" and conceded a goal about halfway through the second period. But, we picked ourselves back up and kept on. The defense was a wall after that

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My intention is to post something at least after every soccer game. Well, the intention did not get translated to action this past week. Quick recap, we are doing a number of things well, but not quite enough. Also, we have been coming in second instead of first lately. Our first game in California was played in over 100 degree heat on a turf field (which always raises the temp even further.)

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We are now in sunny California. Got in last night without many problems at all (except I am traveling with a bunch of crazy, goofy soccer players.)The flight was long but we did get a movie (The Karate Kid.) Jackie Chan (playing the "Mr. Miyagi" part) said, "Everything is Kung-FU" and I belive him. So, if that is true, soccer is Kung-Fu. Today we need to gather our Chi and fight our way

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I know, I know. I have been asleep at the wheel and haven't posted here for quite awhile. What have I been doing you ask? Traveling the world in search of soccer players? A little of that. Spending time with my 2 wonderful daughters and great wife. Oh yeah. Watching re-runs of the World Cup? Definitely. Anyway, I am awake now and so is the team.Today we opened the season with a solid

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Whitney Brown put pen to paper and signed her life away to CSM on Monday, May 10. The local news was there to videotape the moment. As you'll be able to see in the video, Whitney had all her "fans" there for the event.Whitney plays a central midfield role for NP. She has the ability to see the whole field and knows where her teammates are at all times. (OK, she knows where they are when she is

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Jessica Jerkovich signed with the Flames today at her high school, Abraham Lincoln in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Jessica's signing was attended by a principal, her parents and her high school soccer coach (Andy Ruff.) Abraham Lincoln High is under construction right now. The whole school is torn up. When the construction is done, the school will look awesome. It looks like Jessica will be entering

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Dogs of War Unleashed For the past couple weeks, the Flames players have been dragging themselves out of bed and attending our 6 AM Xplosive Edge sessions. Coaches Neil, Kim and I have been training with them. Now, I do not like to get up that early (that is pretty normal, I think.) But once I am up and about, I like getting the workout over early in the day. It leaves the rest of the day free

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CSM Fall to Mobile 1-4We began with a goal but made too many mistakes. At times we played well but had too many lulls and Mobile capitalized.

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Carroll College had to win for us to go to Dallas and they did 5-0. We play Mobile @ 2:30 Tuesday! Woooooooooooooooooo ! We leave Monday for our Tuesday game.

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Sir Walter Scott (who?) said, “To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.” Today, a couple moments of hesitation and CSM was behind 0-2 in the first half. First a cross from BU's Jenna Pendley made its way to a sliding Erika Roberts in the 13th minute. Second, Lynnsey Danker played a ball across the box and Amarripa poked it in at the far post in the 40th minute.

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It was windy but otherwise a fantastic November day. The CSM Flames started slow but finished strong to put down the Tigers of Central Christian 3-0. During the first half, CSM was against the wind, had good possession and had 7 shots to the Tiger's 3. We finished the first half with a flourish, putting a lot of pressure on the CCC back line but were unable to finish. Mollie Jones began the

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When you are climbing a mountain, sometimes you slip and fall a bit. This season, we are climbing toward the National Qualifying Tournament and we slipped against a solid Doane team. Doane opened the scoring in the first half with a free kick that beat Flames keeper Jackie Swanger's outstretched hand. The Flames were able to bounce back in final minutes of the first half with a goal by King.

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With a 9-0 CSM win over York, the Flames wrapped up their 12th MCAC Conference Championship. In conference play, the Flames outscored their opponents 17-0. Melissa King scored a hat trick and also added 2 assists. On one of King's goals, she out raced the keeper to a ball, played it toward the goal line and shot at a severe angle. Kaela Croushorn scored a penalty kick on her birthday. Ashley

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The second half was looking like a Bellevue party when out of nowhere Sara Berens was able to beat her player on the right flank and get deep into the box with about 9 minutes to go into a 0-0 tie with Bellevue.  Sara crossed it with her right foot.  We had numbers in the box but the ball went over Melissa King's head.  Ramsey Miller was able to shoot it on goal.  Save by the Bellevue keeper!

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CSM loses 0-7 Graceland goals by Phillips (3), Arrieta (2), Eskridge, Misner. CSM 8 shots, Grcelnd 26. Swanger 12saves, Jones 10 saves. CSM record now 7-4-2

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The visiting Oklahoma Wesleyan Eagles found no joy on their trip to Omaha as the CSM Flames achieved their second conference victory 4-0.  Melissa King scored 2 goals in the first half in the 9th and 20th minutes.  Tiffany Reis dribbled up from her center back position and scored an unassisted goal in the 29th minute.  Jackie Swanger had zero saves first half.  Mollie Jones was in goal the second

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CSM over CCC 3-0Amanda Brabec scored her 1st goal of the season a minute into the 2nd half. King & Turco added 2 goals. CSM 19 shots ,CCC 2 (0 in 2ndhalf)

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CSM scores 2 goals in each half to beat the Central College Dutch from Pella, Iowa, 4-1.  2 goals in the first half  and 2 in the second.  The first goal, MelissaKing just basically took the ball and dribbled straight through the Dutch defense and beat the keeper.  The second goal (by King again) came off of an assist by RaeLeigh Withey who played a beautiful little through ball to beat the

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CSM TIES @ CLARKE 1-1King scored on a breakaway(Archie assisted) 2 begin per. 2. We let Clarke bk in w PK in 74th min. Had great opportunities,didnt finish.

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CSM TIES @ CLARKE 1-1Shots-CSM 20,Clrk 13. Saves- CSM's swanger 8, Clrk 17. Crnrs-CSM 4, Clarke 8. Goals- CSM's King 49th min. Clarke's Gleich 75th (PK)

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CSM in DubuqueRight now the Flames are just finishing up having dinner at Red Robin in Dubuque. Tomorrow we play @ Clarke, 1 PM on campus. Ready to rock!

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CSM v SAU STATSCSM, 1 goal (sau og) SAU 3 Goals by dexter in 32nd min, by Dresden in 64th, Perkins in 71st. Shots CSM 4, Sau 21. CSM Saves 14, sau 4.

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CSM Lose 1-3 vs St. AmbroseKing pressured SAU in2 an own goal in the 6th min but were unable to deal with SAUs long throws and gave up 3.

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CSM came out on fire, cooled a bit, tripped and finally eeked out a victory versus Concordia on a muggy Saturday afternoon.  Ramsey Miller scored off of an assist by Katie Archibald in the 3rd minute.  That would be the 5th time in 7 games that CSM has scored in the first 12 minutes of the game.  Things were looking pretty good until Katie Archibald drew a red card for a foul off the ball. 

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CSM FAIL, LOSE TO DORDT 2-4CSM goals by Sara berens & Melissa King. Down 0-2 in 2nd half, CSM cm bk w 2 goals but ran outta gas. CSM outshot Dordt 20-15.

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Monday, September 9 was Labor Day but the Flames didn't get the work done that it needed to and fell to Morningside 2-3.  The Flames started fast with Katie Archibald scoring in the 2nd minute from an assist by Jessie McLaughlin.  Katie beat the keeper with an awesome shot that sneaked in at the far post. Unfortunately, we failed to maintain our discipline defensively and Morningside's

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GAME RAINED OUTThe game between CSM & MLC today has been cancelled due to rain.(From Coach Jim Homan, CSM)

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The Flames beat Northwestern on Monday, October 31 by a score of 2-0. Goals by Melissa King and Sara Berens, both in the first half. Ramsey Miller assisted King's goal and King assisted Berens goal. CSM outshot Northwestern 34-3 in a game dominated by the Flames possession. Swanger, the CSM keeper for the match made 2 saves in the first half and was untroubled in the second half. I was

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On Sunday, Auguest 31, CSM and Dakota Wesleyan battled to a 1-1 tie. Katie Archibald scored about halfway into the first half from a nice through ball from Melissa King (or "Kingy" as Neil has been calling her lately.) Katie placed the ball nicely past the keeper with the blue mohawk after King sprung her free into the box. In the second half we gave up a free kick about 30 yards out. We

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Mobile BloggingI set my phone to be able to instantly post 2 this blog. I will try to update it from my phone especially if we are on the road.

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GREAT FINISHI loved the way practice ended today! We're doing a drill & I told them that if they step it up to the next level, we end early. They steppd up!

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Flames defeated the Crimson Wave of the Calumet College of Saint Joseph (CCSJ) 9-0. 8 goals were scored by CSM in the first half alone. The goals went like this:1. 3:16 into the game Ramsey Miller with the goal, assisted by Katie Archibald2. 17:30 Molly McNea goal, Jessie McLaughlin assist3. 20:07 Melissa King scored, Archibald with another assist4. 21:38 Katie Archibald scored unassisted5. 37:

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Victory! The Flames put on a big show today in their opening game defeating the Viterbo V-Hawks 4-1. Melissa King led all scorers with 2 goals and one assist. As a matter of fact, King broke the game wide open in the 3rd minute with an unassisted goal smashed to the far post with her left foot. King didn't stop there. Nine minutes later she added her second goal with off an assist by Tiffany

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The season is about to begin and I am ready to rock and roll. Players come in this weekend and move into the dorms on Sunday from 1:30-3. At 3:15, its a meeting with our new AD, Jim Krueger. After that, the soccer team meets and at 4:30 it is time to eat.This year ought to be incredible. We have added some exciting new players and everyone else has another year of experience under their belts

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I would like to welcome 4 new players to the Flames! Sara Berens, Cindy Fibich, Courtney Pearcy and Jessica Caron.Sara is a transfer student from Hastings College where she played mostly outside midfield. Sara will be joining our nursing program. She played her high school ball at Pius X in Lincoln.Cindy is a transfer student from Briar Cliff and is also going to be a nurse. Cindy played at

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Molly McNea, a current freshman soccer player at UNO signed a letter of intent with the Flames, yesterday, March 12. Molly will be transferring to join the CSM nursing program in the fall. We are very excited for Molly to be a part of the Flames Family. She played indoor with us last Sunday and even scored a goal!Molly is a 2007 grad of North Platte High School. Yep, that is the same school

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Ladies and gentleman, did you know that Ramsey Miller, a defender/midfielder signed her letter of intent with the College of Saint Mary Soccer team today? Ramsey plays soccer for Papillion Lavista South High School here in Omaha. She plays her club soccer with the Gretna Remix team. Ramsey's Remix team helped the Flames train in the fall season by coming and practicing with us in August.Ramsey

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What is going on? Well, the CSM soccer players are training and playing. The training goes on every weekday except Wednesday at 6 AM at the Xplosive Edge training center on 147th & Giles. The playing occurs on most Sunday evenings at the same place as the Flames participate in the women's open soccer league.The training is going well. Most of the players are gaining muscle and explosiveness.

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Allyssa Valquier, a senior at Sidney High School in Sidney, Iowa signed with the College of Saint Mary soccer team today. Coach Jim Homan and Coach Kim Matzen made the short drive to Sidney to witness the signing at Allyssa's high school. Present were her parents, the Sidney HS athletic director, her basketball coach and friends. Allyssa plays soccer with the Glenwood soccer team because

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I am pleased to announce the signing of Megan Tuenge, a defender from North Platte High School. Megan signed her letter of intent yesterday, January 6th in the Alumni room in the North Platte high school office. Attending the signing were Coach Jim Homan from CSM (that's me,) Coach Janie McCarthy (NP coach,) Megan's parents and some of her friends as well as the school activities director.

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My wife and I watched Nebraska's volleyball team lose to a very good Penn State team last night. Penn State hadn't dropped a set all year but Nebraska took the 3rd and 4th set from them and had them down 10-8 in the fifth. Then Penn State rattled off a bunch of points in a row and just like that, Nebraska was toast. As Nebraska was winning its two sets, my wife was jumping around the room,

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In addition to being the coach of the awesomely cool CSM Flames, I also am a fan of the Green Bay Packers professional football team. I had high hopes this year for the Pack because, last year--they were within one game of the Super Bowl. I had hoped this year they would take the next step. Not happening. With 3 games left in the season, the Packers are 5-8 and probably won't make the playoffs

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Happy Thanksgiving to all and to all a good feast! I just love eating turkey on Thanksgiving. My absolute favorite meal of all time. I can't tell you how much I love it (did I say I love it?)What else do I love??? I love soccer and just can't get enough of it. I give thanks for Fox Soccer Channel which gives me the power to watch Manchester United on the Premier League review show on Sunday

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One of our mottos for this year was "start fast, finish strong." We gave a good attempt to do that this season and to do the same in every game. Sometimes we did and sometimes we did not. Playing Park at Park for the second time in a week in our conference semi-final did not finish the way we wanted and we fell 1-3. We definately started fast in the second half but we did not finish

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I am very pleased to announce the signing of our first recruit for the 2009 soccer season, Raeleigh Withey. Raeleigh is a keeper that has had great success with her club team, ODP team as well as her Rocky Mountain High School soccer team in Colorado. Raeleigh's high school team made it all the way to the 5A state semi-final in May.Raeleigh had a great visit with us in August. During her visit

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We have been taking steps forward recently but took a few steps back today. We were unable to deal effectively with Park's attack and gave up fairly easy goals to fall to the Pirates 0-3. Started strong but then failed to mark central runs sufficiently on a cross and Park's Chapman had a free shot and she made no mistake. Ironically, their goal came minutes after our best opportunity where we

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Our next game is against Park at Park's Julien field located at the corner of Highway 9 and East 6th Street in Parkville, Missouri, Saturday, November 1 at high noon. It will be a forshadowing of things to come. And maybe you could say it is a bit eerie (see how I work in the subtle Halloween reference here on Oct. 31st?)The next weekend (Nov. 7-8) is the MCAC Conference Tournament and we are

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A great weekend for the College of Saint Mary Flames. We defeated conference rival York 2-0 and the University of South Dakota 1-0. The York game was moved to Ralston High School's artificial surface after our game field endured a weeks worth of rain. Versus York, we played a complete game with both goals coming in the second half within minutes of each other. The first goal was created and

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We made some progress today but didn't do quite enough on a 0-1 loss to cross-town rival the Bellevue University Bruins. Bellevue scored about 20 minutes in after a couple mistakes by the team left the ball sitting in the box and the Bruins were able to get a good shot off and put the ball in the back of the net. We had a bit of a lull the last 10 minutes of the first half and were back on our

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Tomorrow we play Bellevue University at 1 PM at our place. It is an important game for us (although they all are important, aren't they?) We have been a team that is inconsistent and that has hurt us at times and other times it hasn't. The only way to approach inconsistency is to keep working hard and persevere. We have had a great week of practice and I am looking forward to the challenge on

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Can you give me another AAARRGH! We are trying to find a way to excel for 90 minutes and we are not there yet. Close enough to touch, but not there yet. We are inches away. Case in point: Central Christian College 3, CSM 1. We had 90% possession and 38 shots yet could not finish. We let CCC off the hook early by scoring but being in an offide position. The goal got called back. Moments

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OK. Here it is. CSM lost to Rogers State University, 1-4. With the score tied 0-0 at halftime, RSU put 4 on us included 2 goals in the 70th minute within seconds of each other and the last goal with 12 seconds to go in the game. We scored off of a phenomenal free kick by Kaela Croushorn.Our second half performance prompted me to prepare and give a long speech after the team had warmed down

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CSM defeated the Oklahoma Wesleyan Eagles 2-1 on a goal by Melissa King. King scored off of a corner kick by Daniela Padilla with 17 seconds left in a windy game. We started off scoring in the first half with a goal by King but OWU equalized on a midfield shot about 2 minutes after we scored. The first half finished with the scored tied at 1-1.The second half was dominated by CSM. OWU barely

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OK, we are in OK (Oklahoma) getting ready to meet the Oklahoma Wesleyan soccer team today at 1:00. We arrived at the sprawling metropolis of Bartlesville yesterday and ended up eating at the Oriental SUPER BUFFET! They had everything--a mongolian grill, every oriental dish ever invented and they even had crawfish, shrimp and alaskan snow crab legs. We chowed down, so to speak. Oklahoman

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If only we could erase the first half of our game against Midland Lutheran. The second half, Midland scored early on a breakaway, but CSM controlled possession, had a lot of chances and scored 2 goals. Unfortunately, we gave up 3 goals in the first half to lose 2-4.In the first half, we made silly mistakes and didn't defend very well 1v1. We did a lot of ball watching and reacting instead of

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On Saturday, September 27, the Flames traveled to Pella, Iowa to take on the Dutch from Central College and came away victorius, beating the Dutch 7-1. Daniela Padilla opened the scoring in the first 5 minutes taking a pass from Kira Cross and dribbling deep in the box, beating the keeper with a rocket to the far post. Daniela added 2 more for a hattrick and Melissa King put in her 3 for

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After our game on Saturday, I gave the team 3 days off. We have been going strong for quite awhile and I felt like we needed rest. I also took 3 days off and didn't post anything here after the game--so I better tell you about it.We tied MNU (Mid-America Nazarene University) 1-1 last Saturday in the final game of the NMU Tournament. We scored on a short shot by Daniela Padilla after a nice

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On Friday in Baldwin City, Missouri, the Flames lost their 3rd game of the season at the MidAmerica Nazarene Tournament. CSM fell to an excellent Baker University team 0-3. Baker controlled most of the possession and had some good chances on goal. Perhaps our poor performace can be blamed on the rain (it has been raining all day and continues to rain.) Maybe it was the fact that we left at 6 in

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Our team lost a close one to the Broncos from Hastings on Sunday. CSM started strong witha blast from Daniella Padilla at the top of the box with an assist from King. However, we made a couple of silly mistakes and gave up a little breakaway and a penalty kick because of a handball in the box. In the second half, Amanda Brabec scored in her second game in a row from an assist by Melissa King.

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The CSM Flames experienced their first loss of the season to the Graceland Yellowjackets from Lamoni, Iowa 1-2. We came out strong the first 15 or 20 minutes of the match, getting a lot of possession and some early chances. Katie Archibald had a shot that just barely went wide in the first 10 minutes. After the first part of the game we struggled to keep our shape and keep possession and were

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CSM Soccer won its first tournament of the season by defeating Missouri Valley and Rockford College over the weekend in Schererville, Indiana at the Crimson Wave Invite. The invite was sponsored by Calumet College of Saint Joseph and this was the first time that we have participated in that tourney. Missouri Valley was our first game and we started kind of slow, to be honest. Mo Valley hustled

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Our CSM Flames beat Briar Cliff in our first game of the season, 4-1. Hoo-Rah! Goals were scored by Melissa King (2,) Daniella Padilla and Katie Archibald. All in all, it was a good outing. We got stronger as the game went on for the most part. The first half we struggled a bit against the wind and were outshot 4-12. A set of nerves plagued us a bit the first 20 minutes. For a number of our

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Coach Ammon Bennett and his Iowa Western Reivers ventured over the river and played us in an official scrimmage with refs on Monday. CSM jumped out to an early 2-0 lead with 2 goals from Melissa King. Iowa Western was able to climb back into the game late with 2 goals--one in an extra 15 minute period at the end. Jackie Swanger saved a penalty kick toward the end of the second 30 minute period

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On Saturday we played a invited a group of Alumni to help us prepare for the upcoming season in the Annual Alumni Outing (see the photo of the Alumni players to the right--special thanks to Walter Fichter.) It was great fun seeing all the ex-players. IN our "large group activity," the Alumni scored first off of a poor clearance by the current CSM defense. The current CSM players came back and

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Last night had the pleasure of meeting and practicing with the Greta Remix. They are a good team coached by Digger Hawkins that gave us a nice challenge when we played a large activity at the end of practice. We ended up scoring 3 goals on them but it was back and forth at times. They had some nice chances and our keepers happened to come up big. Gretna also did a nice job of keeping possession

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I have been very pleased with the start of pre-season. The players are working hard and gellin'. The first day of afternoon practice was a scorcher--very hot and humid but the rest of the week wasn't bad weather-wise. Basically our schedule goes like this...we meet in the mornings at the Omaha Sports Complex at 147th and Giles here in Omaha for Xplosive Edge conditioning. We get back together

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Alex Aldridge, a midfielder from the Kansas City area, signed with the team on July 16. We would like to welcome Alex to the team! She is excited to join us. Alex was one of the strong leaders of her high school team (Winnetonka.)Alex's signing brings our total active roster to 20. Coach Kim Matzen (our wonderful assistant coach--recently married to David Matzen)can't remember ever having 20

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Today my family went to Molly McGowan's wedding to Andy Cada in Schuyler. It was a very nice wedding and a fun reception. I saw a number of former CSM players at the wedding and reception. It is great to see teammates supporting each other. It has been a summer of CSM weddings. Our assistant coach Kim Ernesti ('98 CSM grad) was married in May to David Matzen. Mandy Saar (09,) who played for

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I would like to introduce the newest member of the CSM soccer team, Carissa Orborny. Carissa graduated from Schuyler Central High School this year and was the teammate of Amanda Brabec who signed with us in May. Carissa plays midfield and defense and is a very quick player. She signed today during her school orientation. Welcome Carissa!With Carissa joining the team, that makes the largest

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I was flipping through channels tonight on TV and I came across the movie "Glory Road." It is the story of the Texas Western basketball team who in 1966 thrilled portions of the nation by winning the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship with an all-black starting lineup, thus breaking an unspoken barrier and transforming the history of college basketball. The team had to face all kinds of

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Coach Kim Ernesti is getting married tomorrow! She will become Coach Kim Matzen on Saturday night (although they probably won't introduce her that way.) I get to read in her wedding! I am looking forward to it.On June 1st at 6 PM at CSM's Lied Fitness Center is our first meeting to kick off summer conditioning. Most of the team should be there. A few are out of town on vacations. It will be

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Here is the tour of the College of Saint Mary campus starring Melissa King and Tiffany Reis with a special appearance by Coach Jim Homan.

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Here is part three of the campus tour.

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Amanda Brabec signed her letter of intent to play soccer for us at the College of Saint Mary on Thursday, May 15th. Amanda's parents and high school soccer coach were there to support her. Amanda is going to major in Biology. She also is one the recipients of the Marie Curie Scholarship. It is a very big deal to be awarded the Marie Curie and Amanda should be very proud. Amanda had a great

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Right now our players should be signing up online for the Millard Star Adult 8 v 8 league that plays on Sundays during the summer. We usually play in this league and we won the championship last year. Also--we are going to have a players meeting on June 1st to discuss summer conditioning, etc. I just sent an email out to everyone. There are a couple players that will be out of town for the

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Please welcome Jessica Alexander to the CSM Soccer Family. She is currently going to UNK but is going to transfer to CSM and enroll in the Occupational Therapy program in the fall. You may recognize Jessica's last name (Alexander.) Jessica's older sister, Molly Alexander played soccer for us last year. Molly is also in the OT program at CSM. Molly told her sister about the program and

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Today, I gotta say, thank God for the beautiful day. I just spent a weekend in Kansas City going to soccer games where the wind chill was in the teens. Yikes. Currently, I am coaching high school soccer as well as trying to get to some of our recruit's games but it ain't working out so well. Coaching a high school team (Gross Catholic Girls) keeps me way busy. That and the horrible weather

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On last Thursday the 20th of March, Kaela Croushhorn signed her letter of intent to play soccer at CSM in the fall. She is lucky number 13--the thirteenth recruit to sign this year. Kaela went to high school at Lewis Central in Council Bluffs and attended CSM her freshman year and played soccer at that time. She decided to transfer to Hannibal-La Grange in Missouri for her sophomore year. She

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Jackie Swanger, goalkeeper for Azzurri Mistral and Millard South, signed her letter of intent on Tuesday, March 11. I met Jackie and her parents in the Millard South conference room for the event. One of the assistant principals from Millard South was also there along with Jackie's high school coach, Kim Harrill. It was a beautiful day (for a change) and the sun was shining in the windows. A

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Yesterday the team began playing in the spring indoor college women's league at the Omaha Sports Complex. We will play for about 6 weeks. It is a great opportunity to work on some soccer skills and play against good competition. Our game was against Bellevue University alumnus and we lost 1-2. We generated a lot more opportunities than our opponent, but could not hit the goal. We did not

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Ashley Turco signed her letter of intent at Millard South on Wednesday, February 27. Ashley's dad and grandmother were also there for the big event. Ashley is a senior forward at Millard South and is looking forward to a great high school soccer season (if this weather will ever treat us right.) I am happy that Ashley will be joining us next year at the College of Saint Mary. She will

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Right now, we are in the 4th week of our winter conditioning program with the Xplosive Edge. X-Edge is located inside the Omaha Sports Complex, also known as "The Center" on 147th and Giles, just off of the highway 50 exit on interstate 80. We are trained by Gibb Duvall and Jaron Cook. I really believe in the benefits of their program. One way the X-Edge training shows itself is in the latter

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Nikki Prusha signed her letter of intent to play for CSM in the fall this past Monday (February 25th.) Nikki is very excited to be able to join the team. She wants to be a nurse and was very impressed with the CSM nursing program. Nikki is a current freshman in college and is taking classes at Metro this semester after her first semester at UNO. Prusha played high school soccer at Gross

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Erin Peterson, a senior defender from Ralston High School, put pen to paper on Monday, February 11, signing her letter of intent for CSM. Erin's mom and dad and high school coach, Andy Parizek were there to see her sign. Erin was also interviewed by the Ralston Recorder.We are very happy to have Erin as part of the flames family. She is a very smart and powerful player who reads the game well.

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On Thursday, February 7th, I got into my car and drove to Columbus so I could hand-deliver a letter of intent to Abbey Arlt so she could sign with CSM. Abbey is a current senior at Columbus High School. The signing ceremony occurred in the CHS library. Abbey's parents and coaches were there to witness. Abbey is a wonderful player with a great family. I think she will make a fantastic

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Katie Archibald, Iowa Western Community College midfielder, signed her letter of intent with us on Wednesday, February 6th. Katie is the teammate of Courtney Pearcy, who signed with CSM in December. As you recall, Iowa Western is the junior college National Champion runner-up in 2006 and 2007. I am very pleased to add Katie to our the recruiting class of 2008. She will add her athleticism,

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