The varsity 12 months has arrived, and which means the inaugural flag soccer season is shut by for Eastside Excessive College and head coach Lin Kerr.
Kerr, a longtime Eastside coach, will coach the varsity’s first ever flag soccer workforce when the season begins in early October.
The chance grew to become a actuality when Eastside was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Arthur Clean Basis to start this system.
Kerr coached aggressive cheer for Eastside for 17 years and not too long ago took a break from the position. However the alternative to educate flag soccer introduced her again into the fold for the Eagles.
“I’ve coached for 25 years and I used to be taking a break from teaching, however I’ve all the time been curious about flag soccer,” Kerr stated. “Once I noticed that it grew to become a rising sport in Georgia, I went to educate [Champ] Younger and pursue alternatives at Eastside whether or not I used to be teaching or not — simply as an important alternative for our feminine athletes.
“When the chance arose, I advised him I might be glad to assist in any capability to get this system began.”
One other side that led Kerr to take the place was the chance to provide extra avenues for the varsity’s feminine athletes.
“Any alternative we can provide our females to get entangled in one thing with their curiosity and passions in any sports activities and the extra we will open alternatives for them, the better the possibility of them to search out one thing they love,” Kerr stated. “I positively assume including a brand new sport is a good alternative for our feminine athletes or anybody who simply needs to strive one thing new.”
The workforce remains to be awaiting its official preliminary conferences earlier than they will see the complete turnout, however Kerr is hoping to subject two groups if sufficient college students present curiosity.
“We need to have a varsity and a JV [team] relying on the curiosity,” Kerr stated. “We are going to begin our curiosity assembly and collect that info inside the first few weeks of faculty. If the numbers allow, we might like to have a varsity and a JV workforce.”
With over 20 years of expertise at Eastside, Kerr has already used her connections with different coaches to achieve curiosity from most of the college’s present feminine athletes.
“A number of of the coaches have stated that their athletes have requested them about it — what they learn about it,when it will begin and the way they might get info,” Kerr stated. “They’ve inspired them to test it out and see what it is about. We positively have quite a lot of nice feminine athletes right here so hopefully we could have some overlap and hopefully discover some new faces that possibly have discovered their [sport] but.”
One coach that may help the workforce on Kerr’s employees is present boys basketball coach Dorrian Randolph, who’s a former semi-professional flag soccer participant himself.
Kerr famous how Randolph’s presence will assist the workforce implement a few of their technique on the gridiron.
“He[Randolph] goes to assist us set up a few of our schemes and we’re all actually enthusiastic about that as a result of he has that information he can herald and it’ll be an important addition for us,” Kerr stated.
The season remains to be just a few months away, however Kerr spoke concerning the added pleasure of taking part in in an area-region that may function groups in each Newton and Rockdale County.
“A number of of us are new this 12 months so we’re all beginning at that very same degree and there are just a few which were taking part in for some time,” Kerr stated. “They’ll provide some completely different elements of the sport to us and that is good. However to see that we are literally taking part in for our space group that’s proper right here and all of our rivalries right here and we’ve got added some extra video games which are shut by. We’ve added Loganville, Walnut Grove, Monroe, so we’ve got positively picked another shut colleges.”
Kerr and her employees will start to get the ball rolling now that the varsity 12 months has began because the workforce appears to organize for week one in October.
