WHAT'S NEXT?
By Al Mattei
Founder, TopOfTheCircle.com
By now, you have read a lot of ideas as to how to improve your field hockey team. Depending on your area of the country, you may have an easier or harder time adopting these principles than others.
These are principles, however, which can be applied with some effort. The effort can be reasonably small, or may require years or decades in order to make the required change.
It is hard to change a culture, especially a sporting culture. The perfect program -- a good field, an understanding athletic director, motivated players exposed to the game since elementary school, and a fan base -- may never come to your town.
However, if you and your team commit to these principles, you will have a better thance than most of becoming a good program.
If your team is willing to adhere to this plan, write us at topofthecircle@aol.com and let us know how well you are doing, and which parts of the plan are helping you the most.
If your team is playing according to the plan, I want your team to show others that you are doing so by doing one simple act: wear something on your person -- a ribbon, an armband, shoelaces -- in the official colors of this website. These colors are Porsche signal green and Chrysler red; you can see these colors on the frontispiece of TopOfTheCircle.com.
I know that at least one team in America already has made the commitment to this plan, and hope that others will do the same. In this, the Year of the Youth, the field hockey community deserves nothing less.
