Numbers were a bit low tonight as the school is celebrating its 205th anniversary and some of the players were at the rehearsal at York Minister. Both teams did the same warm up, with a short jog followed by some exercises – knees to chest, star jumps, jumping for a header, etc. We then did […]
Read More →Coach Chris needed photographs of him coaching all the teams he works with for his UEFA B documentation, so on Thursday night, we took the camera down to watch him coach Rawcliffe U14 girls. When we looked at the pictures, there were so many good ones we had to put them on the website! The […]
Read More →Rawcliffe U14 Girls were recently featured in the Local York Press newspaper. The paper did a 12 page pullout on junior football teams in and around the York area. Rawcliffe U14 Girls were lucky enough to be chosen to feature! The girls have recently been on a good run with only 2 defeats in their […]
Read More →Futsal at Manor CE Academy continued after the half term break. We started the girls’ and boys’ sessions with a bit of toilet fun warm up! It was a game of tag, but when you were tagged you had to put your hands in the air, asking to go for the toilet. Then you had […]
Read More →As some of you will know coaches Chris and Suzy Collins are running this year’s Leeds Half Marathon in May, raising money for Parkinson’s UK. This is a list of the amazing people who have so far sponsored them: Jenny McNeil Mary & Peter Graves Karen Forrester Iona Hamilton David Cragg Joe Petch Richard Miller […]
Read More →The last session of another half term, which can only mean tournament time for the girls and a full match for the boys! We use the tournament for the players to show what they have learnt about futsal over the previous weeks. A surprise appearance from Coach Chris enabled 3 coach lead teams. The teams […]
Read More →On Sunday 14 May 2017, Pro Coaching Academy coaches Suzy and Chris Collins will be running the Plusnet Leeds Half Marathon. Whereas Chris is a veteran, in more ways than one, this will be the longest race Suzy has competed in! In conversation Chris said ‘Parkinson’s has been very personal to me for many years […]
Read More →The warm up tonight was a game of tag! When the chaser tagged one of the runners, they joined hands and worked together to tag other runners. Every time a runner was tagged, they joined on. It is a great game to show how the chasers have to work together to cut off the space […]
Read More →On Sunday 5 February 2017, at the home of York City Futsal, League North Division Two was decided in a fantastic advert for futsal. York City only needed one point to clinch the championship, whereas Tranmere needed a win to keep their slim hopes alive of catching York. In what turned out to be a very tense affair, […]
Read More →We started tonight’s warm up with the players doing the usual drills, not in a straight line but in a circle. This just changed the girls movements and challenged them to try turning in a different direction. The most fun was had when players had to chase each other around the outside of the circle […]
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