Newsletter • March 2012 • Vol. 2 - Issue 2

What’s Inside...

Page 2STATE CHAMPS!College Signing TimeWatson Going to LTU

Page 3Notes from the DirectorPresident’s ReportCeltic Tshirt SALE

Page 4Sports ScienceConcussions

Page 5Recovery for Athletes

Page 6Summer Camps

Page 7Canton CupGolf Outing

Page 8Nike Elite 2.0Welcome to CelticMFC ShowcaseImportant DatesNewsletter StaffBoard Members

Canton Soccer Club College ScholarshipsThis year the Executive Board of the Canton Soccer Club had agreed to extend the $1000 college scholarships from two to three players. This year winners of the CSC College Scholarship are:

Congratulations Winners! Scholarship winners will read their winning essays at the Spring Coaches meeting on March 28th (see homepage for more information). For more information on requirements, please visit the “college” section of the website.

Ashley Melnick Stephanie SheridanBryan Ren

Jamie Scott is named LTU Women’s Head Coach. Coach Scott will be-come the Blue Devil’s first head coach as they be-gin their inaugural season this Fall 2012. See the in-terview on State Champs High School Sports Show by clicking HERE. Jamie plans on continuing her coaching with the Celtic. LTU is a NAIA school and their first home game is scheduled for Saturday, September 29th at 12:30pm vs. Davenport Univer-sity. In a related story, Jamie looks to sign her first Celtic, Katelyn “Wipe-out” Watson who has verbally committed and looks to sign next month. See WATSON GOING TO LTU next page.

Canton HS Boys - State Champs Report

Each year the MSYSA gives out five $1000 scholarships (1 per district). This year our own Bryan Ren was award-ed the Metro Southwest District Scholarship. Bryan has played Select/Premier soccer for the club since U9 and currently plays for the Celtic U17 Gold team and Canton High School where he has a 4.11 GPA. Bryan plans to attend either the University of Michigan or Michigan State Honors Col-lege where he hopes to continue playing at club or intramural level. Congratu-lations Bryan on your future endeavors! Click HERE to see all MSYSA Scholarship Winners.

MSYSA College Scholarships

Jamie Scott takes on LTU - Looks to sign first Celtic

College Signing Time - Who’s going where? See Next Page.

See STATE CHAMPS next page.

Watson Going to LTU (from page 1)

Jamie coached Kate when she first started select soccer at U9 until U12 for Canton and will bring defensive talent to LTU with her goal tending and back line abilities. She was a great athlete in her younger years as well. Katelyn will sign with LTU next month, becoming one of the very first Blue Devil female soccer players. She will be an integral piece of the Women’s Soccer program and Jamie is very excited to have the opportunity to work with Kate again. Watson will lead Plymouth High School this spring after receiving All District honors last year as a Junior. She plans to major in Civil Engineering due to her love for math and desire to improve the environment. We wish you the best of luck Wipeout!

College Signing TimeHere is a list of current and former Celtic players that have committed (verbally, Letter of Intent, or otherwise) to play college soccer:

Katelyn Krause - Grand Valley State Emily Lundh - Eastern Michigan University Mitch Pepper - Aquinas College Tyler Winningham - Saginaw Valley Vaughn Frederick - Saginaw Valley Katelyn Watson - Lawrence Tech UniversityGood Luck Players! Look for more to come soon.Please send signings to office@cantonsoccerclub.com.

“Congratulations to the Canton High School Boy’s Team who won the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) Division 1 State Championship last fall. Most of the players on the Championship Team play for or have played for Canton Celtic (and many since U9 or below)! Head Coach George Tomasso currently coaches our U9 Boys and Assistant Coach (and former Celtic Coach) Mark Zemanski won a State Cup Championship for the club with his Canton Hornets U14 team in 1997!”

FRONT ROW - sitting (L to R) – Cody Widlak, Griffin Parks, Mitch Posuniak, Scott Piwowar, Neil Zech, Tyler Winningham & Chandler Trosak MIDDLE ROW – kneeling (L to R) – Ken Krolicki, Nathan Bergeson, Bobby Budlong, Bryan Ren, Jack Zemanski, Ryan Kilgore, Robbie Morgan & Bryan Berinti BACK ROW – standing (L to R) – Assistant Coach Mark Zemanski, Ian Wingate, Mitch Pepper, Brian Galm, Conner Hicks, Conner Shennan, Connor Furgason, Cody Kahrs, Nick Tomei, Sachin Pindolia, Shean Krolicki, Steven Murphy, Head Coach George Tomasso & Danny Ovesea

The team went 24-1-2. They beat Grand Haven in the championship game 1-0.

STATE CHAMPS! (from page 1)

cantonsoccerclub.com p: 734.480.7046 f: 734.480.7056 e: office@cantonsoccerclub.com

Notes from the Directors Chair

I just want to take a moment and thank all the parents that took the time to fill out the evaluation/survey regarding their coach a few weeks ago. We had nearly 200 responses and although we did receive some “negative” feedback I was very impressed to see the number of you who took the time to express your satisfaction and happiness with your son or daughters coach and team.

I also want to let all of you know that we are using your comments as a tool to help our coaches grow and improve. In saying that I also want to assure you that unless you stated otherwise we are keeping your comments anonymous and confidential. For those of you that included a phone number we also plan to contact you over the next month or so to give you the opportunity to discuss any other feedback you may have with us personally.

Thanks again for helping us be the best we can be for your sons and daughters!

As I hope everyone is aware, this years tryouts are set for June 16th and 17th. The exact times for each age group will be announced on or before April 1st. I know everyone is anxious to find out next years coaching assignments and I want to assure everyone that Ian Jones, Bill Joker and I are diligently working to finalize that list. At the moment we are meeting with all of our coaches individually and determining what we think will be the best fit for our players and teams for 2012/13. We hope to have our coaching assignments finalized and announced by the end of March.

Well that is all for now but as always I want to encourage all of you to contact me at anytime if you have any questions, concerns, comments or just thoughts on how we can improve what we offer our Celtic players, my email address is pete@cantonsoccerclub.com.

Yours in Soccer,

Peter AlexanderCSC Club Director/DOC

From the President’s Desk…

Dear Friends in soccer,

as we begin to move to the outdoor season we wanted to let you know we have been busy making improvements to Independence Park.

By the spring season you will see we have expanded the south playing area and added a field towards the east side next to the parking lot. In addition, we have been working on improving the drainage in the south playing areas and upgrading the gravel parking area to the south side as well as construction of a storage building. The long term goal is to make an improved parking area for the Canton Cup and add another field.

The township drain construction project on the north side of the park has been completed and the fields have been restored with sod and seed.

I look forward to seeing everyone in the spring and at the coaches in March.Until then, keep kicking.

John StaubPresidentCanton Soccer Club

1 for $10 or 2 for $15Stop by the front office at HVS and ask for Elaine or Greg or call (734) 785-1525.

SALE

Comparison of Ground Reaction Forces on Different Types of Goalkeeper Dives By Bryanne Bellovary

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to determine if a goalkeeper’s landing, when using a taught diving technique, created a softer landing than a landing performed just on the side of the body. Often a goalkeeper’s specific skills, such as diving, are over looked when conducting research, so literature was limited. To create a more game-like dive landing, techniques taught by most coaches were used. This landing involved having the ball and forearm land first compared to just land-ing on the side of the body. A soccer ball was thrown away from the subject so that they would have to perform a dive, and then applied both landing techniques onto force plat-forms. The peak ground reaction forces (GRF) were 3185.1 N when landing on the side of the body first and 4364.7 N when landing on the ball and forearm first. Impulse was also calcu-lated at 334306.7 N and 263456.6 N respectively. Higher peak GRF during the ball and forearm landing could be attributed to the smaller surface area the GRF has to act on. An inter-esting finding was that during the side of the body landing, another spike in GRF occurred. It was thought that it could be possible that the subject’s body rebounded up some and hit the force platform again. It would have been best if video analysis had been used in tandem with the force platforms to see the subject’s body actions during the landing.

Read the full article which can be found on the website under “recourse center > players > sports science” or by clicking HERE.

About the Author:Former Celtic Bryanne “Bry” Bellovary majors in Sports Science at Northern Michigan and will graduate this May. Bry played six years for the Celtic and four years at Canton HS before going on and playing for Northern Michigan Club team. She plans on going to Graduate School for a Masters emphasizing in Exercise Physiology and has been accepted to the 59th ACSM Annual Meeting and 3rd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine in San Francisco. Look for more soc-cer related research coming in the future!

GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME

In the world of sports and fitness, “RECOVERY” has lost its function and is not a focal point in way too many people’s training. As an athlete, recovery is the most important factor in training. Without proper recovery, several complications can arise and overtraining can occur. Also, the positive ad-aptations that are trying to be reached cannot be realized. Training to become stronger is an adaptation that will not be achieved if constant stimulus and stress is placed on the body. Obviously, the training itself must be rigorous, consis-tent, sound, and technical to necessitate recovery. “Recov-ery,” for this subject matter, is a broad term which will cover everything from sleep, nutrition, hydration, training breaks, and so on.

Years ago, recovery might have been only for those few elite professional athletes that trained year round. Today, millions of youth athletes are playing sports throughout the year and many are playing on different teams at once. Daily practic-es, weightlifting, skill training, speed training, schooling, etc. can wreak havoc on the body, mentally and physically. If not equipped with adequate recovery mechanisms, compli-cations can be extremely high for these young age groups. As coaches and parents, we must have a firm understanding of the role and importance of recovery.

POTENTIAL ISSUES WITH INAPPROPRIATE RECOVERY

• Weightloss/gain • DecreasedPerformance • Higherriskforcatastrophicinjuries • Stressfractures • Impropergrowthandmaturationofskeletomuscular system • Loweredimmunity • Fatigue • Irritability • Decreasedmentalalertness • Digestiveproblems •Insomnia • Decreasedoverallhealth • Hormonalandotherphysiologicalchanges

VALID WAYS FOR RECOVERY:

•Nutrition

•EATAWELL-BALANCEDDIET! •HYDRATIONISCRUCIAL • Drinkwaterthroughoutthedayand replenish the water that was lost from training •Eatfruitsandveggiesastheyhavehighnutrient density as well as antioxidants essential for tissue recovery and health. •Eathoursbeforeanddirectlyaftertraining/ competition •Consumeprotein:eggs,milk,chicken,fish, steak, beans, legumes, peanut butter, nuts • Helpswithrecoveryofdamagedmuscles •Avoidsodaasthecaffeineandphosphoru can affect the nervous system and bone density, respectively. •Avoidwhitestarchesandhighsugarfoods

•Training Rest Breaks •Giveamplebreaksbetweenpractice/training/ competition • Sleepanadequateamountoftime(8 hours as a rule of thumb) • Give24-48hoursbeforenexttraining • Avoidtrainingthesameelementsand muscles back-to-back days •Duringtraining,giveadequaterestbreaksto allow for better energy recovery • Helpsavoidfatigue,whichcouldpre vent risk of injury •Stretching •DoneEVERYDAY •DynamicStretchingbeforeexercise •Staticstretchingfollowingexercise,inthe morning, and in the evening. • ActiveRecovery •Verylowintenseexercise • Lightjogging,bodyweightexercises •Canbedonedirectlyaftertraining •Useespeciallyonnon-trainingdays • IntensityVariation •Varytheintensityandskilltrainingduring practice •Shortentrainingtimes • HolisticApproaches •Massagetherapy • Iceandheat • Iceinjuriesandtraumasites • Heattightmuscles •Meditation •NutritionalSupplements • Ifathletelackscertainnutrientsindiet •AvoidNSAIDse.g.ibuprofen,aspirin,unless pain is unbearable • Caninterferewithnormalinflammatory processes • NSAIDscanalsocauseseveregastroin testinal issues.

DISCUSSION

These recovery methods can all lend to greater recovery and less chance for complications. However, you do not need to overthink recovery. Make sure athletes eat well and get enough rest as they are crucial to recovery. Be aware of how your athlete/child feels and responds physically and mentally. Health and longevity should be the most impor-tant consideration for any athlete.

“Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.”- Lee Haney (8x Mr. Olympia)

For more informationContact: Albert Case MA, CSCS, USAW Director of Operations Dynamic Athlete Performance Office:734-961-3271 www.d-a-p-t.com

The Extinction of Recovery for Athletes

Summer CampsMark your calendars and save the dates! The following camps are coming to town. More information will be posted on the website soon.

High Velocity Sports

Spring Break Campswww.hvsports.com(734) 487-7678 Fun DaysAges: 5-13Dates: April 6, 9-13Times: 7:30 am—5:30 pmCost: $5/hour

Your child will engage in a new supervised sport every 30 minutes! Drop off and pick up around your schedule and pay just $5/hour when you pick up. We can even provide a hot lunch for $5/day. Check with the front desk for your choices at check-in. Children will be part of a group with HVS coach-ing staff. During early drop-off (7:30-9:00 am), the second half of lunch break (12:30-1:00 pm) and after care (4:00-5:30 pm), no sports will be played, however we do provide supervised board games, G-rated movies, UNO cards, Legos, and other activi-ties to keep your child occupied.

NEXT LEVEL Soccer Camps with Drew CrawfordWho: Boys and Girls ages 4-16When: July 9-13 (9am-12pm) - Small Stars (9am-11am)Where: Independence Park – Canton •SMALLSTARSCAMP(9-11A.M.)Ages4-6 •BASICTRAININGCAMPAges6-10 •SELECTCAMPAges9-16 •STRIKERCAMPAges9-16 •GOALKEEPERCAMPAges8-12

BESTBritish Elite Soccer Training Proudly Presents:CANTON CELTIC PREMIER TRAINING WEEKWho: Celtic Players U8-U16When: June 25-29Where: Independence Park - Canton •MorningCamp:9-11:30am • EveningCamp:6-8:30pmVisit them at BritishEliteSoccerTraining.net

Victory Soccer CampsWho: Player 6-17Where: •June25-29(Taylor)–9am-12pm($70) •July27-29(Schoolcraft)–6-8pm(CollegeIDCamp)-$75 •July9-13(Livonia)–9am-3pm($185) •July16-20(Livonia)–9am-3pm($185) •July17-20(Livonia)–1-3pm(HSEliteCamp)-$150 •July23-27(Livonia)–9am-3pm($185)Visit them at www.victory-soccer.net

Michigan Goalkeeper AcademyWho: All goakeepers ages 7-17When: July 9-13 (9:30am-3pm)Where: Independence Park - Canton

Five Star Goalkeeping Who: All goalkeepers ages 7-18When: July 29 – Aug 2 (6-8:30pm)Where: Independence Park - CantonVisit them at FiveStarGoalkeeping.com

Dynamic Athlete Performance Presents:Celtic Speed and Conditioning CampWho: Celtic Players U8-U13When: July 30 – Aug 3 (Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri) – No Wed/Rest DayTimes: 9-11:30am or 5:30-7pmLocation: TBA (Indy, DAP or HV)Athletes will receive a T-shirt and testing will be done.

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I am Darryl Noel and I have the honor to be the Tournament Director of the 2012 Canton Cup.

I am also very proud to represent our truly outstanding cast of volunteers on the 2012 Canton Cup Committee. These dedicated volunteers on the Committee and the hundreds of volunteers that help during the Memorial Day Weekend are what make the Canton Cup the Highest Quality tournament in the country. It is because of the personal commitment of this amazing group that the 2011 Canton Cup set a national record as the largest 3 day club based tournament in the country with 780 teams. We take a great deal of pride in being the “high quality big tournament with the small tournament feel”.

This year is a very special year for the Canton Cup. This is the 30th annual Canton Cup. Preparation has been underway for many months. Our Team knows that we will be able to increase the quality experience for our guests to an even higher level this year.

Team Registration is going strong and over 350 teams have already chosen to be our guest and join us at the 2012 Can-ton Cup. The Canton Cup Committee and I are well on our way to give them the very best Canton Cup Experience this year.

If being a part of a very energetic, dedicated and fun loving team is something that interests you, we would love to have you join us as part of our team. If you can join us for just a little bit of time or more extended amount of time you are welcome.

Please contact me at TD@cantoncup.net and we can find a place for you in the Canton Cup Family.

Thank you,

Darryl T. NoelTournament Director2012 Canton Cup

SAVE the DATE!The 9th Annual Canton Soccer Club College

Scholarship Golf Scramble

When: Friday, August 10th

(last day of team camp for U8-U13)

Time: 1pm Shotgun Start (Check-in @ noon w/lunch)

Cost: $125 (Dinner Only - $60)

cantonsoccerclub.com p: 734.480.7046 f: 734.480.7056 e: office@cantonsoccerclub.com

John Staub President John O’Meara Vice President Paul Rodwell Secretary/Treasurer Deb Locke Recreational Representative Jim Harkins Select Representative Joe Stevens Premier Representative Darryl Noel Member at Large Ann-Marie Carravallah Canton Leisure Services Rep.

Excutive Board MembersNewsletter Staff: Managing Editor Dan McEvilly Creative Director Dan McEvilly Graphics Editor Dan McEvilly Design Editor Dan McEvilly Artist Dan McEvilly Executive News Editor Dan McEvilly Staff Writer Dan McEvilly

Thank you for contributions from: Pete Alexander, John Staub, Jamie Scott, Darryl Noel, Kevin Winningham, Bryanne Bellovary, Elaine Matthews and Albert Case (DAP).

Positions open (any and all) for newsletter staff. Please email the club office for more information.

MFC Showcase

will be held July 27-28, 2012 at Independence.

If you know of anyone interested in becoming a Celtic, please let them know about our 2nd annual “Welcome to Celtic” meeting scheduled for Tuesday, May 1st (8pm) at the Summit. Most of you remember all of the questions you had when you first made the jump to select/premier soccer …we cover them all! Perhaps you were one of those parents that didn’t have any questions and just brought their checkbook – we like those too! More information and registration will be posted on the homepage shortly.

Important Celtic Dates: May 1st Welcome to Celtic Meeting May 15th Tryout Registration Opens (online) June 16-17 Tryouts (Independence Park) June 20 Tryouts (tentative – for teams not complete) July 23-27 Celtic College Camp (U14-U18) Location TBA Aug 6-10 Celtic Team Camp (U7-U13) – Independence Park

Make sure to check out the

NEW Calendar on the website anytime you need dates (left-side menu).

All Celtic U15-U18 teams invited to attend.

Welcome to Celtic Meeting

Nike Elite Training 2.0 visited HV on February 15th and worked with a few of our Celtic teams. Players went through a variety of physical and soccer related tests, providing them with a unique combination of physical assessment and data collection. Using their special equipment, player’s performance was captured and evaluated to create individual reports.

Players had an opportunity to understand how they perform and also to see where they can improve. This unique opportunity was provided free of charge by Nike. Although players didn’t go through the entire training session due to space requirements, it allowed the club to test it out in hopes of doing it again outside in the near future with all teams.

Click HERE to see the youtube video of the Women’s National Team going through Nike Elite Training 2.0.

Example Player Performance Reports