Texas Woman’s University soccer coach Fleur Benatar and her staff will host a Coaching the Female Soccer Player Symposium on May 7-8, 2010. University of Illinois head coach Janet Rayfield will be the guest speaker and lead instructor at this event.

This coaching clinic is designed for coaches who coach girls/women’s soccer players at all levels. The symposium will offer a comprehensive education in all areas of soccer with emphasis on the female soccer player. Topics covered will include systems of play within the thirds of the field - defensively and offensively, making the practice competitive, goalkeeping and many others..

Janet Rayfield played 18 years of amateur and professional soccer and has coached 11 first team All-Big Ten players and 49 Academic All-Big Ten Honorees.  She guided her team to six consecutive NCAA College Cup appearances from 2003-08 and has 145 total career wins.  As a player she led teh North Carolina Tar Heels to the first-ever NCAA championship in 1982, first of 18 national titles in the storied history of UNC program.

COACHING THE FEMALE SOCCER PLAYER AGENDA (TENTATIVE) 

Friday, May 7th
8:00 a.m. -- Registration
8:30 a.m. -- Welcome
8:45 a.m. -- Lecture: Choosing a system to play 
9:15 a.m. -- Field: Systems of play within the thirds of the field; Defensively
10:15 a.m. -- Field: 1v1; Creating space for yourself
11:00 a.m. -- Field: Systems of play within the thirds of the field; Offensively 
12:00-1:15 p.m. -- LUNCH BREAK
1:30 p.m. -- Lecture: Making the practice competitive and other intangibles
2:00 p.m. -- Field: 3v2
3:00 p.m. -- Field: Goalkeeping
4:00 p.m. -- Field: Winning balls out of the air
5:00 p.m. -- Field: Shooting/finishing
6:00 p.m. -- Dinner (included in the cost)/Q&A

Saturday, May 8th
8:30 a.m. -- Goalkeeping
9:30 a.m. -- Service in the box 
10:30 a.m. -- Back-to-pressure
11:30 a.m. -- Wrap-up/Questions

Have questions? Need additional information? Please e-mail TWU soccer head coach Fleur Benatar.