{"id":2136,"date":"2019-03-28T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2019-03-28T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:47:21","slug":"bradley-soccer-offseason-com360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/2019\/03\/28\/bradley-soccer-offseason-com360\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Soccer Offseason #Com360"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Terrence Carter & Brooks Blackburn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in college, students always wonder\nwhat student athletes do during their offseason. Do they train all offseason?\nDo they just worry about classes and forget about their sport? While students\nthink many things about athletes and their offseason, the athletes are actually\ntraining hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Bradley University\u2019s men\u2019s soccer\nteam, there are a lot of things that each member does in their offseason. Some\nof them get regular jobs to earn some money and some get internships to better\ntheir chances of getting a job after school. A few of them also play on semi\npro soccer teams. This helps them stay in shape and help them perfect their\ncraft for the next season. Although they do all these things, they also have a\nto really crack down on school work. Trying to balance all of things during the\noffseason can be hard, but they also have a stipulation they must follow from\ntheir coach. According to Jha\u2019lon Johnson, a senior forward on the soccer team,\n\u201cOur coach gives us offseason workouts to do over the summer\u201d. These workouts\nrequire them to workout at least four to five times a week. With these assigned\nworkouts, some also do personal workout sessions to focus on certain things\nthey want to improve on. While the workouts can be intense sometimes, they\u2019re\nusually light work and not as hard as practices during the season. While the\noffseason is light, the hard part is the possible shift in team culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team culture for college teams is\nsomething that is always changing. New guys coming such as freshman or\ntransfers from different colleges are a struggle sometimes. According to Walid\nKherat, a senior defender, \u201cThe team does its best to just smoothly integrate\nthe newcomer into our team as quickly as possible\u201d. The team will use practices\nto help, but they also do stuff off the field to get closer. They have team\nbonding times for just the players like going to different events or just\nsimply hanging out with each other on campus. With offseason being so long, the\nteam also uses this time to focus on certain things to get better for next\nseason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bradley\u2019s soccer team record wasn\u2019t the\nbest last season. Their record was 8-5-4. They lacked in certain areas of the\ngame like their physicality and organization on the field. Jha\u2019lon Johnson say,\n\u201cwe have been more focused in the weight room to try and improve our strength\nand have been more focused on video to be more organized and see where problems\nmay have arisen\u201d. Teams were much more physical than them and the team got worn\nout toward the end of the season. With them hitting the weight room, they are\nhoping that they can all become more physically stronger and transition it to\nthe field. Their video film sessions have helped them identify some key\ncomponents they lacked with their organization and team chemistry on the field.\nWhile their offseason is long and busy, they are hoping that these workouts and\nteam video sessions will help them get better for next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By: Terrence Carter & Brooks Blackburn While in college, students always wonder what student athletes do during their offseason. Do they train all offseason? Do they just worry about classes and forget about their sport? While students think many things about athletes and their offseason, the athletes are actually training hard. For Bradley University\u2019s men\u2019s soccer team, there are a lot of things that each member does in their offseason. Some of them get regular jobs to earn some money and some get internships to better their chances of getting a job after school. A few of them also play on semi pro soccer teams. This helps them stay in shape and help them perfect their craft for the next season. Although they do all these things, they also have a to really crack down on school work. Trying to balance all of things during the offseason can be hard, but they also have a stipulation they must follow from their coach. According to Jha\u2019lon Johnson, a senior forward on the soccer team, \u201cOur coach gives us offseason workouts to do over the summer\u201d. These workouts require them to workout at least four to five times a week. With these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":2146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}