Dallas Post / Ed Campbell
BY KATHY FLOWER
For The Dallas Post
A Youth Soccer Camp sponsored
by Penn State University, Wilkes-
Barre campus, and the Mountaintop
Youth Soccer Association was held
last week at the Crestwood High
School baseball field.
The camp scored big with area
youth as over 100 future soccer
stars ranging in age from 6 to 15
participated in a learning experi-
ence that turned out to be a lot of
fun.
“We feel that the soccer camp has
been positively received, the turnout
being quite good. We had hoped for
between 80 to 100 kids to have the
camp and I believe we have 102
participating,’’ noted Sharon Ward,
Coordinator for Workshops and Spe-
cial Programs at the Wilkes-Barre
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campus of Penn State University.
Sharon is quick to point out that
the contributions and cooperation of
the M.Y.S.A. have been instrumen-
tal in the camp’s success. She says,
“Tom Forgas and the M.Y.S.A.
have been helpful in a number of
ways. They took care of the physi-
cal facilities as we needed and
helped to coordinate the sign up for
this camp at their registration.’
The camp was run by an experi-
enced staff, headed by the camp
director, Jay Harvey of Dallas, an
amateur soccer league player and
recent Penn State graduate. Jay
was assisted by the coaching exper-
tise of Ken Farshtey, soccer coach
at Wyoming Seminary and former
Haverford College goalie, Steven
Klingman, University of Scranton
soccer coach, and Mike Luna, ama-
teur league player and former
coach at Bishop Hafey.
They were joined in their coach-
ing duties by Jerry Mihalick, Dallas
High School goalie, and im Gal-
ante, a senior who plays for Wyo-
ming Seminary. Dan Kowalski, an
EMT from Newport Twp. took care
of bumps and bruises.
Jay was also pleased with the
camp's turnout, especially the
number of girls who participated.
“There were two groups. The 6-10
year olds met in the morning and
the 11-15 year olds in the afternoon.
Out of the over 100 kids that we
had, two-thirds of them were in the
younger group and about one-fifth of
the players were girls. That's pretty
good - more than the Back Mountain
John Randolph Giants
Custom Management Pirates
D-A-G. Rentals Dodgers
Watkins & Medura Orioles
MacGeorge Auto & Trucks Yankees
Hanover Bank Cardinals
Kingston Twp. Lions Tigers
Bk. Mt. Police Assn. Reds
Mark II Astros
Fay Broody Studio Phillies
Jack's Collision Indians
Scores for the week:
Pirates 6, Dodgers 0
Tigers 17, Indians 13
Yankees 1, Astros 0
Orioles 9, Reds 9
Giants 5, Phillies 4
Pirates who are tied for first place.
9-1 Back Mountain National All-Stars were like a
9-1 precision-tuned engine as they ran down three foes
8-2 during the past week.
7-2 Against Newport Twp., on July 9 Todd Sallo threw
6-4 a no-hitter facing the minimum of 18 batters while
area had when they started out.”
Within the two groups, the players
were put on teams according to age,
but if there was a discrepancy in
weight or knowledge of play, team
adjustments were made accord-
ingly.
According to Jay, the camp was
structured around working on tech-
nique in addition to game play,
spending about one-half of the ses-
sions on each. Jay explains: ‘As far
as technique goes, we work on drills
or stations. There are five stations
the kids go through that include
passing, juggling and shooting.
These are warm-up games or what
we call ballmastics. After doing the
drills, the kids put into practice
what they learned by playing a
game with the teams we formed on
the first day.”
Jay and the coaching staff were
able to observe the areas in which
the young soccer players needed
help. What they found was a lack of
knowledge concerning the rules of
the game. In their enthusiasm to get
and score a goal, the
players had a tendency to bunch up,
failing to keep the ball wide. Jay
points out: “The kids have to pick
up the fundamentals, the rules are
not very complicated. What we have
to do is preach the rules. With the
little ones, this is their first oppor-
tunity to play with a team so they're
not really learning soccer but team
play.”
Jay feels that the camp's coach-
ing staff is an excellent one to teach
those rules. He says of them, ‘They
are experienced coaches and they
are here because they want to be
here to support soccer in our area.’
He added that inexperienced
coaches could benefit as well from a
coaching clinic so that they don’t
confuse the players by ‘teaching
the wrong things.” ;
When the participants in Moun-
taintop’s first youth soccer camp
ended their week with a camp t-
shirt, new soccer ball and possibly a
prize won in one of the team compe-
titions, they hopefully, learned those
things necessary to lay a solid
foundation for the future of the
M.Y.S.A. as well as having had a
positive week for their own growth
and development.
Like a glamorous hostess, the
“City of Angels" is busily applying
the final touches for her grandest
party ever, while keeping an anx-
ious eye on potential disasters.
Until the closing ceremonies on
Aug. 12, the nation's second-largest
city will look on to see if the
Olympics — already dimmed by the
Soviet boycott — is spoiled by ter-
rorists’ violence, choking seiges of
smog, incapacitating traffic jams or
other nightmarish events against
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ning cannot completely insure.
Mayor Tom Bradley, however, is
confident all will go well.
“Los Angeles is ready to host the
best Olympiad in the history of the
international movement,” he said.
“We will welcome 600,000 visitors
while an additional 2.5 billion will
view the Games on television.”
These Games will end with a
surplus on the books, and pump an
estimated $3.3 billion into the Sputh-
ern California economy, the mayor
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visitors should feel comfortable in
the city.
“Los Angeles’ cultural diversity
enables the majority of foreign visi-
tors to find a little bit of home right
here,” he said.
Outward signs of the impending
Games have been subtle until
recently. Existing facilities are
being used in most cases; thus,
there has been little major construc-
tion. Exceptions include the mod-
ernization of Los Angeles Interna-
tional Airport, the building of sites
for swimming and cycling, and gen-
eral sprucing up around the city —
including a number of imposing
murals that decorate walls along-
side the freeways.
But as the July 28 opening cere-
monies approach, more Olympic
banners and signs are appearing
downtown, signs with directions to
competition sites are cropping up on
the freeways, and more and more
shop windows are brimming with
Olympic souvenirs.
Although every Olympics has an a
international flavor, the Los Ange-
les Games may be more of a ‘block
party’ than some. While there will
be a large number of visitors from
other nations and from around the
United States, some 70 percent of
the tickets for the Games were
purchased by Southern Californians.
The once-anticipated tidal wave of
tourists did not materialize. Tammy
Lazer of the Los Angeles Visitors
and Convention Bureau said that
early reports that the Olympics
would attract 1% million people
“weren't realistic.” The estimate
now is 625,000 visitors during the
Games, just over three times the
normal figure for that span of the
summer.
Lazer said that initial “negative
publicity” over the vast numbers of
people expected apparently led
many to decide to avoid the area
during the Games. There are still
many openings in hotels and private
accommodations, she said.
Some hotels actually have low-
ered their rates from what they'd;
intended to charge during the
Games, and the ‘major airlines
scrapped plans to curtail discount
fares in and out of Los Angeles
during the period.
Visitors generally won't have to
pay exorbitant prices, since more
than 1,000 businesses have joined
the Olympic Hospitality Pledge pro-
gram, vowing to provide quality
service at the same prices that were
charged in the first six months of
this year.
While the city hopes to make a
good impression on visitors, there
won't be a welcome mat for some —
the prostitutes, pick-pockets and
get-rich-quick types who flock to
large gatherings. Law enforcement
agencies have made careful plans
and will have beefed-up staffs to
minimize such preying.
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