Blog 21: Mentorship

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Ana Mendez, Southlands Christian High School

Interpretive

 The most thing I gained from this experience is being a part of a high school team for my last year of high school and just being able to experience as a high school athlete what I takes to try and make it to CIF. The Southlands soccer team made it to the first round of CIF, which is a good start for the first year of the team. I learned some of the aspects of playing from playing high school such as training, traveling, diet, winning and losing games,  All these sub-sections are really important when it comes to playing soccer.This year's girls soccer team was the first soccer team ever at Southlands. I also gained being able to have a soccer family. My teammates have been through my ups and downs in soccer, through injury and when it comes to school projects for the I-Poly girls. I know that in every team there will always be improvement no matter what. Southlands soccer team started by barely winning a game 2-1 against a U-16 team then coming to lose  the best team in the league by 1 goal, 4-3. I saw a progress in this team.It was very hard but wasn't impossible to do.

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 I had the chance to actually experience it with in my mentorship with coach Ana Mendez. I was seeing what drills or topics were very important for our soccer. The most important topic that coach Ana focused on was training to reduce the risk of injury. I got all my answers from seeing my team throughout the whole season and and other teams we played. For example how every soccer team may or may not have the same soccer formation but the field players might have a different role from the other team that would make a difference in winning or losing a game. 

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours

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1. Where are you doing your mentorship?
I'm doing my mentorship at Southlands Christian High School with the girls varsity soccer team.

2. Who is your contact?
My contacts are Ana Mendez and Marissa Tipton, coaches of the girls varsity soccer team at Southlands.

3.How many total hours have you do?
The total hours I have done are 56 hours.

4. Summarize your 10 hours of service you did.
What I do in mentorship is practice and play games against other schools with the Southlands girls soccer team also known as Southpoly, since I am a part of the soccer team. Im learning what it's like to actually be in a high school sport and different drills that could help us win CIF.

Blog 2: Summer Mentorship Component

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2. What is the contact name & number of where you volunteered?       
        Jaime Fuentes (909) 821-0632
3. (Need to know) What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience?  List them.     

•  What were the main things that would help us win games?
•  How do you prevent yourself from getting injured on the field?
•  How do you improve your soccer skills?
• What drills are more effective to prevent injury?

Interpretive

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
     The most important thing I gained from this experience is that communication skills are very important on the pitch because you have to be able to talk to your teammates in order for you to receive the ball. If you don't speak up you will never get the ball in good opportunities. Also practicing with your team gains more trust among each other. You know get to know each others strengths and weaknesses. Like our first few games we had no trust because we didn't know each other, some of us were strangers, so we wouldn't do good in our passing or communicating overall. Now we are communicating more and winning games.

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5. How did what you did help you choose a topic?  Please explain.
       It helped me because I really like soccer. I've been playing soccer for a while now and I just really want to improve my soccer skills.  I also want to learn more of preventing and recovering from a soccer injury