Soccer: Season Kick-off

       I’m now counting down the hours until I get to see my first Newton Girls Soccer game of 2009 and it happens to be the season opener, which is even better.  Last year was tough, it was my first year out of coaching and I had to...

Newton Soccer 2009

It doesn't seem like it was 2 years ago, but I used to spend about 6 months getting ready for tomorrow.  The first day of practice for High school soccer in Iowa.  I coached the girls high school team in Newton for 5 years.  For some reason they...

P90X – Week 3 Already

Happy St Patty's Day everyone. It's hard to believe we're on week three already and with 2 workouts out of the way for this week, it seems like the rest can't be that bad. Week 2 flew by, we didn't have quite as good as results, but I can tell...

P90X – 2 down, 88 To Go

Amy and recently got introduced to the P90X videos and decided that it would be a good time for us to get started working out consistantly.  We were thinking, we'd both like to be in a little better shape for the wedding.  And we have about 5 months now...

Smash vball

well, we are unfeated. Is that a word? If not it should be, it means we haven’t won any games. Once again, we got smoked and had a few balls spiked on us. This time, I don’t remember having any of our own. Don’t get me wrong, we had a couple kills....

Volleyball

I get a call the other day asking if I would play volleyball. I couldn’t turn that down, so I said I was in. 10 minutes later I get a call back, “I wrote your information down as the coach, thanks”. So I guess I’m coaching a volleyball team....