Hi everyone, so even though I don't have a camp going right now, I wanted to check in and say a quick hello.

Hope you all had a good July 4th. We had a barbeque here in the backyard with a group of families - all of home we met when we went through our birthing education together. We all started out pregnant together and now all our kids are two years old so and we like to spend time together. With our schedules, just hanging out is a vacation for us. My husband and I are away a lot for work, so it's nice to just be home.

Now a few weeks since the last camp, those four or five camps over these past few weeks, I've had some time to reflect back on it, thinking about how soccer is changing. The coaches continually talked amongst ourselves about how these young kids have more training as youngsters than I did or my generation, Mia and Julie, and myself.

We had our dads and the local or somebody else's dad coaching us. But now, these kids have professionals. They have actual soccer trainers, professional players. So they're well more advanced than we were, I think, in terms of the technical aspect of their game than I ever was. So, it's great to see. It's taking it to the next level even earlier, which is fun!

For my campers reading this, I know we were really busy and productive in that short time together, but remember to keep focused and to be purposeful with all of your touches and runs! Remember the lessons learned and practice them with your teams now.

As for the downtime now, it's brief... The Olympics begin in a few weeks and I will be working the broadcasts starting in August. Lots of good stuff to look forward to, but we'll talk about that before the Games begin.