Today was the day we made the move from Kfar Maccabiah to our official accommodation center at Shefayim. After we checked Mark Knue and I took most of the girls into Tel Aviv to the marketplace at Shenkman Rd. Oy Vey! What was I thinking? 15-17 year old girls in a shopping frenzy. I just tried to just stay out of the way.
Thank you to Mark for treating us all to his favorite Tel Aviv pizza place while we were there.
After we got the last group of bargin hunters back to the Kfar we had a meeting with all the US delegation before everyone headed out to their respective accommodation centers. A final pep rally for Team USA and a send off from the US Ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham.
When we got to Shefayim, we settled into our rooms, had an orientation meeting and then had a team meeting where I announced the Captains. During individual meetings with each player it became clear that rather than one or two leaders, we have a group of young women who all have displayed leadership qualities at varying times over the past two weeks. In fact, one of the girls said to me that she thought about it really hard but couldnt pick one or two people who were the leaders because she felt it was a team of leaders. I decided that our goalkeepers will share duties as captain depending on who was the starter for that game as well as rotating the other Captainship amongst the team. Everyone was really pleased with this decision. It continues to amaze me what a remarkable group of young women I have here. They have bonded into a tight cohesive team that respects and celebrates the individual diversity between them.
Tomorrow we have our first training session at Wingate as we move into "competition" phase.
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