Jefferson U19B

Thank you!!

It has been a blast to watch all of you grow as players!   

I hope you enjoyed this season as much as the coaches enjoyed working with you.  

•  -Everyone on this team has skill and a deep desire to learn    
   -Everyone has strong character and strong decision-making abilities    
   -Every one of you excite us as you improve week to week

As we enter our final event of the season we begin with an exciting rematch.   A chance to test ourselves versus a team we lost to in a mid-season tournament final.    A game where we did not play the way we could or should have.    One where we got distracted.   Where we started making excuses, questioning calls and sometimes even retaliating after a foul or something an opponent said to us.   We ran into obstacles and rather than adapt to find success we kept trying the same things over and over, getting frustrated, blaming each other and even getting a yellow and then a red card.   

Now we have a second chance at this.    An opportunity to test what we can do.   To demonstrate our skills, our character, our team’s ability and unity.    I ask that everyone playing in the first game to please show up rested.  Show up with the proper attitude.  Show up ready to have fun.    Don’t worry about the age of some of their players.  That will only distract us.   Don’t listen to anything an opponent might say to try and upset you. Ignore them completely.    If you are fouled, show restraint knowing that you are benefiting your team by remaining calm.    If we show up and play the way we can play, we will have success.    If we get frustrated.  If we are predictable.   If we get distracted.  If we retaliate on fouls and words.   Then we let down our team and fail to play the best we can play.   None of us want that.     

Thank you for your hard work !!! 

Let’s all enjoy this final event of our season and show everyone our best.   
Leave each match knowing you gave your all and showed the highest levels of sportsmanship doing it.   

Thank you, 
Coach O’Neal