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.m.28 was one of the most dominant high school athletes we’ve ever seen. Now off playing goalie on the  squad, Natalie was the product of parents who were on the Duke track team and Boston College women’s basketball team. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree. 
-State Champion Soccer goalie
-State High Jump champion
-55m Hurdle State champ
- club player, National Runner-up in the Girls Academy League in 2022 and GA Champions League Champions
-Only two time recipient (‘23 and ‘24) of Hanover’s Legacy Award which is the highest honor given in their Athletics Department.

AND, check out all of the other accolades in the image above. Most dominant goalie in Massachusetts for a span where the girls went nearly undefeated and won a State title. Excited to see what Natalie can do at the college level!!

Want to recover from sports, but not overdo it? You can keep your strength from the summer training, loosen up, reduce joint soreness, and drop in when it works for you.

DM for more info!! The point is to get a “Tune-up” so you can play at your best from September through the playoffs.

The two weeks in between the end of our summer programs and Labor Day Weekend are quiet ones, but we will still have training on a lighter schedule. On sale on our website.

Happy 4th of July!! Enjoy throse BBQs, beaches, lakes, backyards, cold ones, and good friends.

Best of luck to  who will be representing the USA as a key member of the Women’s National Field Hockey team! Ally was a 4-time state champion hockey player (that’s right: back-to-back-to-back-to-back winner at the Garden) at Duxbury high school, and a 2-sport Captain. 

At BU, she was the school’s only 2-time 1st Team NFHCA All-American, with career totals of 56 points, 22 goals, and 83 contests. And since then, she’s been honing her skills, training, and preparing for this moment. 

Very excited to see how Ally and the US Women do against the best field hockey players in the world!! Flip through to see the group stage schedule, and tune in at the end of the month to see Ally and the squad compete for a medal. Good luck Ally! We’re proud of you. 

Although he is 61 years old, Bobby Bonilla will still make $1m+ this year, and each of the next 11 years, for being a MLB player. In the year 2000, the NY Mets agreed to buy his $5.9m contract out from 2011-2035. At the time, Mets ownership was invested in a Bernie Madoff account that promised double-digit returns, and the Mets were poised to make a significant profit if the Madoff account delivered — but that did not work out.

Bonilla last played for the Mets in 1999 and last played in the majors for the Cardinals in 2001, but he will be paid through 2035 (when he’ll be 72). Bobby is one of the few winners from Madoff’s ponzi scheme, as it turns out.

What a career!! 100+ goals, State Champ, Player of the Year, and more. What makes this even more incredible is that Sydney’s Grandfather, a long time soccer coach, sadly passed away the night of the last regular season game. If you see the 2nd slide, and her utter dominance over the competition, I would say he was with her every step of the way. All against top teams who were double teaming her the entire time. She even scored her 100th goal in the very next game after he passed. 

Sydney was a very good player a year ago. Somehow, through a lot of hard work, she managed to become an INCREDIBLE player through the summer and fall. She kept getting stronger, faster, fitter, more determined, able to score with either foot, keeping the strongest defenders on each squad off of the ball. Syd found another level in the regular season, and an even higher level in the playoffs, where all of the competition is tough. A lot of talented players fold in the playoffs under the pressure. She did the exact opposite. 

Additionally, most girls are 90% of where they are going to be talent wise by 17/18, Sydney shocked everyone by just becoming more determined, and getting better, and better, and better...

Can’t wait to see what she does at Holy Cross! Nice work Sydney. You came in a few years ago with the goal of becoming a D1 college soccer player and a state champion, and you and your family worked every week until that’s exactly what you became. Contraulations!! 

    

Only 8am and 9am class on New Years Day.

Congratulations to for a monster fall season and high school career so far. The crazy thing is that she still has another year to play. Check out her accolades so far; we had to put it on two separate pages just to fit it all in! This midfielder has DOMINATED her division and competition, winning D4 Player of the Year, a State Title in 2022, all-time scoring leader at Cohasset for both single season and career...she’ll add to it next year and make the record nearly unbeatable.

Tess started just after 8th grade, she and her sister Georgia came in for a 90-minute workout in 85 degree heat, having never lifted. I was afraid the two skinny-minnies wouldn’t come back after they were almost crawling out of the gym. BUT, they came back over and over for what amounted to over 100 workouts since then. A lot of girls who are this talented just play more soccer. Tess decided to fix her weaknesses and make them her strengths. She’s been healthy, fast, strong, and supremely talented and I cannot WAIT to see what she does in the future.

We can only take on a handful of new members each season. But if you’re looking for customized individual training, dedicated coaching, and a plan to get you where you want to be by the springtime instead of just getting sweaty when you work out, we’d love to talk. Small group training with awesome people just like you. DM or email to find out how we can help you!

Congratulations to Lauren Bonavita who will be taking her soccer talents to Australia to play for pro team in Everton Park, Australia, just outside of Brisbane. Lauren is an alum and former star of Whitman Hanson and where she scored 31 goals and 10 assists. Excited to see her go up against Aussie and international competition, and get the heck out of this cold New England weather. Good luck, Lauren, we're proud of you!

Congratulations to who has committed to ! Sydney will be taking her talents out to Worcester and playing at the Division 1 level. At the time of this post, she has scored 25 goals this season and 96 in her high school career . That’s with a shortened Covid season, and this year not even being over. Those are crazy offensive numbers. Currently the NDA girls soccer squad is ranked #3 in Massachusetts for D2. We wish them luck in the rest of the season, and we look forward to helping Syd get ready for college ball. That was the mission a couple of summers ago when we first met, and the Comeaus have worked non-stop on working hard to get there, get a college commitment from a dream school, compete for league and state titles, and become a complete scoring threat. Nice work!!

It’s the last week of the regular season, and rival neighbors #3 Hanover and #4 Norwell girls’ soccer programs are neck and neck. Norwell’s only loss? 1-0 to Hanover in the beginning of the season. We’re very excited to see how these two recent state champion programs finish up and head into their playoff runs. Good luck ladies!

No clear difference that researchers can find between the two types of surfaces, but there are many other factors they are tracking as well. This is just a super boiled-down note using some data that wrote about, thanks for keeping us informed. You can copy and paste this link to one of his articles from a few years ago (easier to do on a computer obv) and learn a lot about the recent history of the efforts of researchers and strength coaches to quantify and improve the knee injuries in the league.

There is a lot to be learned, and injuries will always (sadly) be part of sports. But one thing that we do know is that proper physical preparation in training, diet, recovery are definite indicators of lowering your propensity for a knee injury. In high school and collegiate athletes, roughly 80-90% of knee injuries are non-contact, and of those, roughly the same percentage could likely be prevented with proper training and building up your muscles, connective tissues, and nervous system from head to toe to be resilient.

Congrats to .zaslaw who scored her 1st and 2nd goals for in their win over Chicago State, including the game winner on a steal + score play. Nice work Sammy! Never known for her bruising strength, Sam knew she needed to get a lot stronger and faster to compete with D1 soccer women and that is exactly what she did. After the end of her Senior soccer season Sammy was in our gym non-stop from late November 2022 through the end of July 2023.
So many players double down on what they are already good at (example: basketball players shoot more and more hoops rather than stretching, hydrating, lifting, and the things they aren’t great at). Sam bore down on what she lacked...even though our workouts and conditioning were really tough...and become a much more complete athlete for her effort and is able to contribute to her college team as a true freshman. Hard work pays off!!

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100 days left in the year. Just enough time to make a big change for the better. Pick one thing, not everything, and work it in to your daily or weekly schedule. One thing done consistently and with intention. Then see how it adds up!

Congratulations to for a killer last year of training. Grace started last Labor Day to prep for her Senior basketball season. From there she had a solid individual performance on the court, committed to , came back and trained from March through last week, then showed up on campus VERY ready for the physical challenges they threw at her. I’m always stoked to hear that, since there is no 2nd chance to make a 1st impression. College Jock Life is easier when you can run, lift, train, ball, and hang with the older girls. Looking forward to helping you crush your college career. Nice work Grace, good luck with Freshman year!!

Through all of the posts about over the years, I realized we never did a college commit post to give her props! She is already training with who have their first game tomorrow against . So I technically made it by one day.

Sophie has been training with us from the very first week we opened our Hanover location before Covid. A very special athlete who, as you scroll through you can see, has accomplished everything a soccer player can possibly hope to by the time they graduate from high school. Seriously, read through her list of accomplishments. I had to omit like 8 more for space reasons. You’ve never seen anything like it in your life.

Sophie is reunited with her sister, on the Bruins squad as the two ladies fight to defend the National D1 Women’s Title. Have fun in LA, proud of you as always!!