First game tomorrow-streamed live

NOTE TO PARENTS AND FANS!!

Tomorrow night's game will be streamed live on the web-so if you can't make it to the game to support the Norse... you can cheer from the comfort of your home or office by going to this link: http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/augsburg.portal#.

GO NORSE!

All tied up: aka Ropes Course

This morning was awesome! Big thanks to Greg Lonning and his crew for taking us through the ropes course! What a blast! Team bonding, laughs, conquering fears and a bit of a workout as an added bonus.









Come out and cheer on the boys tonight-they're having a blue vs. white scrimmage tonight at 8 p.m. on the game pitch. See you there!

People helping People

What a morning! We headed out to Freeport to do a little manual labor this morning. The team pitched in to help build a home for Habitat for Humanity. We pounded nails, hammered frames, ripped apart walls, built up and put up walls, and all with no breaks (or broken fingers for that matter).

So maybe we bent a few nails... but we also made some fantastic looking walls! I think we decided we "finished" one wall but built five sections of wall. (Six if you count the one we destroyed and rebuilt.)

A couple of our girls found out that if they fail miserably at college they may have found a calling in construction! We also found out that we have a few team members who should never be allowed around tools, let alone power tools.

Some facts about Habitat for Humanity that you may not know:

• Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses alongside our homeowner (partner) families.
• Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor (sweat equity) into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.
• Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans.
• The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses.

For the full work up of Habitat info see: http://www.habitat.org/ or for information on our local (Winneshiek County) chapter of Habitat, see: http://www.habitat.org/cd/kit/homepage.aspx?page=winneshiek. I think a few of the gals have decided to become more involved in Habitat... they really seemed to love volunteering at the site. (Plus I think they liked working their biceps too! Those hammers don't swing themselves!)

Preseason Week One

One week down... one week to go! The LCWS ladies have been together for a week now-and are looking good! Here's the rundown:

Day one: Team meeting. 'nuf said.

Day two: NO EMERGENCY ROOM TRIPS! Yippee! (Compared to last year-that's an improvement!) We did have one gal run the 2-mile in 11:26-you know who you are you rockstar. And we've got a couple of gals with some mad hops-booyah vert jump! First scrimmage session of the year went well-lots of potential.

Day three-five: Two-a-days... no problem.

Day six: Scrimmage vs Upper Iowa. The Peacocks look better than last year. Our returners looked comfortable, and our newbies busted their butts... can't ask for more than that.

Day seven: Scrimmages vs. GAC, MAC and St. Olaf. All-in-all a good day... and we played better than we did vs. Upper Iowa. It was a good day.

One week (and one day) until our first match... I can't tell you how excited we are to play. It's like we just got a taste of our favorite kind of ice cream, and now can't eat the whole bowl until next week!

Back to School

Just a heads up: T minus two weeks and counting! Can't wait to get our returning players back on campus and our new recruits on campus and settled in! Preseason starts Wednesday, Aug. 18 with check-in and a team meeting.

Our new head coach Russell Schouweiler is on campus-his official start date was Monday. He and his wife Laree are in the process of getting settled in their new Decorah home. We've been busy this week with Iowa Private College Week-have had several recruits on campus.

Today is the last day of Luther Soccer Team Camp-our last day of camp for the summer. This year we held five camps: High School Elite Camp, High School Team Camp, Instructional Camp and two Mini Camps. Was a busy-but super fun summer! Check out the budding young soccer stars!

Stay tuned for more Luther College Soccer! Check back often for updates, scores, game reports and of course-lots of photos!