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2008 SSFS MEN'S VARSITY SOCCER
Preseason Isolation Camp
August 10th - August 15th
Accident, MD USA
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Let The Journey Begin
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The Accommodations & Facilities
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Welcome to the Main Lodge, the accommodations for our coaching staff
as well as the Team Meeting Room. |
The Rear Elevation of the Main Lodge with deck. |
The Dining Hall. |
The adjacent Bunk Houses. |
View from the covered porch connecting the two Bunk Houses. |
The Training Pavilion. |
The Picnic Pavilion. |
The Bath House. |
Rear Elevation of the Bunk Houses. |
The Landscape
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In the misty morning. |
View from the soccer pitch... |
...of the rich farmlands of Garrett County, Maryland. |
Overlooking the valley from the deck of the Main Lodge... |
...towards the ski slopes of the Wisp Resort. |
Team Transportation
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Our reliable Rocinante (Don Quixote)... |
...and faithful Babieca (El Cid) |
Early Morning Wake-Up Run, Stretch & Speed Ladder
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Along the road less travelled emerges a team born of collective mettle and desire. |
A good morning stretch... |
...to help wake up those weary bodies and foggy minds. |
Speed ladders are a great tool for young athletes because it is good at teaching body control and rhythm. |
Athletes that develop these skills early on will have a major advantage over their competitors. |
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Morning Physical Training (PT)
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because...
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...it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt |
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't everyone could do it. It's the hard that makes it great." - from A League of Their Own |
"Ambition is the path to success;... |
...Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." - William Eardley IV |
 Champions are not born...
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...they are made.
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"The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat,...
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...at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking." - Mia Hamm
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"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa |
This is what hard work looks like.
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Little surprise that these are dubbed Heaven & Hell's.
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The collective making and taking of Heartbreak Hill.
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The Summit & Descent of Wisp Mountain
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This 2.3 mile run...
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...ascends 700 feet...
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..along switchback roads...
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...to the summit of Wisp Mountain. |
"The secret is this: strength lies solely in tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
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"I will prepare,...
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...and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
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The physical and psychological rewards of an honest day's work. |
Some well-deserved relaxation, visualization and breathing drills. |
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Come... |
...and get it!
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In the Dining Room... |
...a commemorative SSFS team practice jersey hangs proudly. |
On behalf of SSFS and the Men's Varsity Soccer Program,
special thanks from the Coaches to Don (middle) and his entire hospitable Catering Staff! |
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Afternoon Soccer Training
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"I'm a great believer in luck,.. |
...and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson |
"Build up your weaknesses ... |
...until they become your strongpoints." - Knute Rockne |
"Great things are not done by impulse,... |
...but a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh
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Evening Scrimmages
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"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it,...
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...because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion." - Mia Hamm
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"Our goal is not to win; It's to play together and to play hard;... |
...Then, winning takes care of itself." - Mike Krzyzewski |
Games at dusk... |
...the evening highlight. |
"Good, better, best, never let it rest,...
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...until your good is better, and your better is your best." - St. Jerome (340?-420)
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"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato |
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Fun, Rest & Relaxation
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Hmm, maybe the 2008 Media Guide cover? Not! |
"We don't stop playing because we grow old;... |
...we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw |
Boys! I thought I said FIFA only!
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And how many times do I have to tell you not to juggle inside the house?! |
"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world,
a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person,
and cut across the accidents of place and time."
- Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Ape in Me (1959) |
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The Coaching Staff
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BACK ROW (left to right):
Assistant Coach Robert Mallonee ('00), Head Coach Eduardo Polón & Assistant Volunteer Andrew Eden ('04)
MIDDLE ROW
(left to right):
Assistant Volunteer Chad Henry ('06) & SSFS Middle School Boys Soccer Coach Kip Kelley ('02)
FRONT ROW:
Assistant Volunteer David Jones ('03) |
"I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon |
This is abuse of power, Eduardo! This is not in our contracts!
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The Team
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"Coming together is a beginning,... |
Keeping together is progress,... |
Working together is success." - Henry Ford |
"None of us is as smart as all of us." - Japanese Proverb |
Braving the frigid waters of Swallow Falls... |
...and bathing at the base of gorgeous Muddy Creek Falls |
In the immortal words of William Shakespeare, "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." |
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