Originally, it had been scheduled for the start of January. The HS scheduled a match for the same day, it got cancelled, and then the HS match was rescheduled.
We got it rescheduled eventually, but it fell on a teacher workday.
Thankfully, most of my squad turned up even without the kids being in school.
I could have directed them better and had us set up in half the time, but I let the kids self-direct after we got the first mat out.
That makes it learning experience. Plus, people feel more invested and connected when they put energy into it.
It took longer, but that was part of the plan. I didn't want to have to herd and entertain for overlong before the other team arrived. They had their own woes: No one scheduled them a bus.
I'm continually amazed by how much coaching youth sports is pretending you know what's going on even as you wing it.
Someone moved all of the chairs out of all the nearby storage rooms and we couldn't find them anywhere. I asked the AD and he directed me to a girl's locker room that was empty....which I offered to the other team when they arrived and needed a place to change.
We had a decent night performance-wise. The kids who come to practice did ok. The more they come, the better they did. The ones who don't practice got annihilated. The other team had a deeper, more trained talent pool, but two of my second year kids impressed me.
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