Green Mountain Soccer – Page 3 – Defend the Mountain

Team Week Details

Team Week: July 31st – August 4th, 2023

In this week before tryouts for the 2023 fall season, we will have team-building activities each day, Monday through Friday. For each event, we will meet at the school at the designated time, and carpool from there. Parents are responsible for providing or approving transportation for your students (coaches are not responsible for transportation). Players must be enrolled at GMHS for the 2023/2024 school year, and have completed all athletics registration steps, in order to participate in Team Week. The Green Mountain Athletics Registration page will be linked here when registration for the fall of 2023 opens.

Good Start!

Thanks to all of the players who got the preseason started today! Everyone was early, and everyone had something shin-guard-like in your socks. Please wear CHSAA approved shin guards going forward. You can look it up on the CHSAA website, or just wear shin guards you can buy in a store (you can wear child sizes if you want them small). Remember, late or no shin guards means you can’t train that day. Oh, and always bring water.

Tuesday we go 6pm – 8pm on the turf (arrive about 5:45pm). Coach Rigo and Coach John will run the field-player training while I am coaching our goal keeper camp on the other side of the fields. There is still time to register for keeper camp if you are interested. Here is the registration link.

Preseason Training Time

We hope you’ve all enjoyed your first month of summer break, and that you are as ready as we are to get our preseason training started. Let’s see where we are, as individuals and as a team, and what we can become together.

Here are some important reminders about all preseason training.

Celebrating the Stars

Do you know what those two starts mean in high school soccer? Do you realize that both the Green Mountain boys and girls soccer teams have each won two CHSAA state championships? If you didn’t know, why not?

I have been coaching soccer in Colorado for sixteen years, and until this spring, I never considered Green Mountain when I thought about the contenders.

That ends now.

John Daley Rounds Out the Staff

We are thrilled to announce the fourth member of our 2023 boy’s soccer coaching staff – Coach John Daley!

June Soccer – Who’s Ready?

The two-time and defending 4A state champions, the Northfield Nighthawks, are hosting a fantastic 4v4+GKs small sided tournament on Friday, June 9th, in downtown Denver. This is a great opportunity for groups from within our Rams soccer program to come together and compete before our summer training starts at the end of June.

Scrimmage and Parent Meeting

We will host our first internal team scrimmage of the preseason before school ends for the summer. We chose this date because it is deep into the spring playoffs. If our Green Mountain girl’s soccer or lacrosse teams are still alive (and we hope they are!), we will play on the grass. If all three of those seasons are over, we will play on the turf. After the preseason session with the players, we will host our first parents/players meeting.

Tuesday, May 16th: Scrimmage 3:30pm, Parents/Players Meeting 5:30pm

Manny Luna Joins the Rams

We are thrilled to announce the hiring of Emmanuelle Luna-Roriguez as the Green Mountain Soccer goal keepers coach. This will be the fourth consecutive season that Coach Matt has worked with Coach Manny.

Welcome Coach Rodrigo Gonzalez

Please welcome Rodrigo Gonzalez to the 2023 Green Mountain Boy’s Soccer coaching staff! Coach Rodrigo has years of club coaching experience with boys and girls teams at many age and competition levels. Like Coach Matt, Coach Rodrigo is geared up to emphasize defending and clean sheets. Coach Rodrigo was the boy’s JV coach last year, so he is a familiar face, and one that many of the players endorsed.