This was the first week of camps for me as a head coach but the reality of it hadn't really sunken in yet. I was excited but also nervous. I had and still have a young and inexperienced team with me. It was the first week of camp for a couple of the coaches on my team. However, we had a small camp and had almost a 1 to 1 ratio with the volunteers. There were pros and cons to that. A big con is that there wasn't as much energy from the kids which makes it harder for them to get excited. On top of that, the skill level of the kids at our camp was quite low, it didn't create much competition between the kids. On the bright side it gave the rookie coaches on my team an opportunity to ease into their roles. It was a pretty easy camp to run with so little kids and so many volunteers.
Personally for me, it was an exhausting week. I found myself having to do most of the work or redoing or reteaching a lot of the stuff the other coaches were doing. It's all part of the learning experience for the rookies and the forming of a young team though. Hopefully they learn quickly and we start becoming more efficient. I did enjoy seeing a lot of kids from church at soccer camp though. It was cool for us to interact in another setting outside of church. I was able to challenge a few of them in what they believed in. At the end of the week I had 2 kids in my small group, (1 from our church) come up to me and ask me for the Bible because they really wanted to read more. It'll be great because I can follow up with one of them during AWANA.
Overall it was a good week. First weeks are always a little rougher because of the new team dynamics. I'm confident that things will get better in the next few weeks though.
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