Day 12: August 14th

Our last day with the Brighton coaches and all of the CMT staff members was today and reality set in for a lot of the kids that we would be heading home soon.

Had a mishap with my laptop yesterday - Ian tripped on the cord and it flew across the room.  It has seen better days but still functioning for now!

The players had meetings in the morning with the coaches who had worked with them over the past two weeks, receiving individual feedback on various areas of their game.  The boys went first so they could prepare for their matches in the afternoon since they were scheduled for an early lunch.

The girls would have their meetings while the boys ate, and up until they would be picked up by the bus to go watch the boys play vs. Sussex Elite.  These kids are just below Brighton & Hove Albion's academy teams.

The younger boys played first at 1pm, followed by the older boys at 2:30pm.  Our teams won again today, and it was great to have the support of all the other kids at the fields during the matches.

After the game, I grabbed everyone and was able to get a full group photo, including our staff, the Brighton coaches and CMT staff members.

View the full photo album here.

The bus shuttled us back to campus for dinner, followed immediately by the awards presentations.  Each age group named a player to receive one of three awards:  Players' Player (voted on by all the players), Brighton Coaches' Player (selected by the Brighton Coaches) and Seacoast Manager's Player (selected by the Seacoast United coaches).  Here were the winners for each age group:

Younger Boys:  Myles Culley (Player's Player), Ezra Colcord (Brighton's Player), Julio Cortez (Seacoast Manager's Player)

Older Boys:  Jake Blacken (Player's Player), Erik Quaintance (Brighton's Player), Andres Rosas (Seacoast Manager's Player)

Younger Girls:  Eliza Jansujwicz (Player's Player), Jasmine Richards (Brighton's Player), Megan Olszewski (Seacoast Manager's Player)

Older Girls:  Caitlin Trott (Player's Player),  Meghan Smith (Seacoast Manager's Player), Anika Elias (Brighton's Player)

CMT staff also chose a "Camp Hero" for the two weeks - congratulations to Anika Elias!  She was presented with a soccer jersey with the Lancing College logo on the left chest.

I put together a slideshow with just some of the pics from this week, it was presented after the awards were finished.  Watch the slideshow:

Seacoast staff exchanged gifts with the Brighton coaches, and then we presented the CMT staff with a few Seacoast United goodies as a thank you for all their hard work these past two weeks.  Sophie, Sarah, and Lizzie were super excited about the SUSC swag.

One more blog post tomorrow before we head home on Sunday!