Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays to Everyone! A reminder that tonight (Thursday, December 17th) is the last office open hours, and then we will be closed for a few weeks over the holidays. The office will re-open on Thursday, January 7th from 6-8 pm.
December 2015
Nepean Hotspurs – BU12 Christmas Team Dinner
The boys had a wonderful time enjoying a holiday dinner together at Jack Astor's.
Happy Holidays Fury Fanatics
Hey Fury Fanatics! After a year of hard work, The Ottawa Fury FC is enjoying their off season at the moment and new Head Coach Paul Dalglish is getting his squad ready for another Championship push next year. Meanwhile, their neighbours across the hall, the Ottawa 67’s are still going strong and in the [...]
Make Time For Play: How To Balance Structured And Unstructured Play
All credit goes to SARAH PROWSE and original article may be found here: LINK. Every day, you make dozens of decisions to support your child’s health, wellbeing, growth and development. Some decisions are big and some are small. When it comes to organized recreation and leisure time activities, the choices can be overwhelming—what to choose becomes [...]
Provincially Identified Nepean Hotspurs OPDL Players
Over the last two weeks players from across Ontario traveled to Toronto for the Provincial Screening Weekend Competition, and to be scouted by both the OSA technical staff and OPDL technical staff in an 11v11 game environment over two games of sixty minutes each. Players would be competing against other identified OPDL players. Identified players [...]
Why are we talking about winning or losing when we should be talking about learning?
All credit goes to the original article found here: LINK. When vigorously promoted competition prematurely intrudes on play, it diverts the attention of the children from their still growing bodies. It robs them of the space they need to explore their strengths, their weaknesses, their endurance, their agility, their -capacity to think in movement in [...]
November 2015
FTA – Functional Training Academy Training Sessions
All Nepean Hotspurs players are being offered FTA Functional Training Academy classes at a rate of $10 a session. These classes can start as soon as this week: Mondays 6-7PM 7-8PM 8-9PM Tuesday 5-6PM 6-7PM 7-8PM 8-9PM THURSDAY 5-6PM 6-7PM 8-9PM FRIDAY 5-6PM 7-8PM 8-9PM SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS NOON CLASSES ONLY AT THIS TIME All classes have to be pre-booked for groups or teams. Dates and times are [...]
AGM: Notice and Call for Nominations to the Board of Directors
As stipulated in the Constitution of the Nepean Hotspurs Soccer Club (the Club is to hold an Annual General Meeting on the first Sunday in December. The purpose of the AGM includes a review of the Club's operations over the past year by the Club's officers, a proposed budget for the upcoming year, and the election of a [...]