The 97 X-treme girls voted on Saturday morning on the fourth and final captain. The Coaching staff had nominated Lena and Emily C as the two that the team could vote on. The Honorary Captain is voted each season by the players themselves, with the nominees being chosen by the coaching staff. The Nominee’s have to have been a captain in a season in the past. In an extremely close vote (8-7), Lena became the Fall 2011 Season Honorary Captain. Great Job to both Ladies, and congrats to Lena. Emily will be eligible for the Spring Season honorary captain’s role, and will fill in this season if any captain is not at a game or practice. Lena joins Ashley, Morgan K, and Briana as the Fall 2011 Season Team Captains. LETS GO X-TREME!!!

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The X-Treme 97 welcomes our newest addition to the Coaching Staff, Brandon Walker. Brandon will be filling in the role as the Goal Keeper Coach/Asst Coach.
Coach Steve has known Coach Walker since he was 4 years old, and he played soccer together since the age of 8 until they graduated High School. Coach Walker was our Goal Keeper on one of the High School teams that won the State. He is very dedicated like Coach Steve and this is a HUGE asset to our team.

Below is a short Bio from Coach Walker, and Welcome Aboard. We are excited to have you.

_Brandon Walker has been playing soccer since the age of 4. He has played many positions both in recreational leagues, travel leagues and ODP. He was named to both State and National All Tournament Teams while a player in High School. Brandon played goalkeeper through his high school and college career. Since his graduation from college Brandon has coached several teams at many levels. He started his coaching career, coaching a boys and girls private high school team in Prince William County. He later started coaching in Spotsylvania County where he coached both the boys and girls Middle School teams as well as a U10 girls travel team and two U10 girls recreation league teams. Brandon has since left his coaching duties in Spotsylvania County and taken more of a one on one coaching approach with several of his previous players. He has spent the last year evaluating players both in practices and games (both goalkeepers and field players), providing them one on one insight and development and working closely with these players on achieving a better understanding of the game and skill development. Brandon has his National “C” coaching license and is looking forward to advancing his licensing and obtaining his National Goalkeeper certification as well. _

Just to recap Coach Walkers role, He will be running a training session during one of the two practices weekly for our Goal Keeper only. He will also be attending all games and coaching our Goal Keeper during the game and providing valuable insight to her after the game. He will also be responsible to warm her up and make sure she is ready for the game. If One of the other coaches are out on vacation or out sick, he will Assist the other Coach while they run the practice. If he wants, he can come to any other team practice session and assit Coach Kim and Coach Steve, or run a second practice session with the goal keeper or any other girls who would like to learn some goal keeper techniques.

Again, Welcome Aboard Coach Walker

The NVSC Jr Majestics 97 Blue have moved to VISTA and have changed thier team name to VISTA X-Treme 97!!! Thier new team colors are Sky Blue and White and have picked a new uniform from Nike called the Pasadena II. This is an exciting time for the ladies as there are so many new changes and two new ladies have joined the team. Briana Huber and Emily Seigel have joined the new Vista X-Treme 97 team. Everyone is excited about the new team name and logo and cant wait to get started. The girls are off for a few weeks to rest and enjoy some time off for the summer and will start thier training as a team in July.
Check back to follow all the exciting changes.

The Majestics 97 Blue prepared for the last two weeks for thier first game in State Cup Play by watching thier first league game and going over with the Coaches key situations of things that didnt go well and breakdown of things that went right also. They enjoyed Pizza and Soda and then had the oppertunity to discuss thier Va Beach State Cup Trip.
The ladies and coaches will be driving down in a team van together on Friday after practice and a quick stop at Chick Fil-a for dinner and will get a good nights rest before taking on a Beach FC team in State Cup Play. Afterwards the team will have an oppertunity to tour the boardwalk and go shopping in Va Beach. The girls are excited and ready to play hard and give it all they have.
LETS GO MAJESTICS 97 BLUE!!!!