USA vs Canada Day 2

8am breakfast
9am – noon training
12:15pm – 1:15pm lunch
1:30pm – 4:00pm training
6:00pm – 7:00pm dinner
7:30pm – 8:30pm jersey ceremony

Ever wondered what a typical training schedule for an Eagle camp is? Well there you go! This is the day before a match so we took it pretty easy contact-wise, but still a full day of eating, training and more eating. The food had definitely been interesting, but you have to eat to win…

Training this morning was focused on defense and counter attacks. Once again I played scrumhalf half the time and then second row the rest of the time. I didn’t scrum down, but did all the loose play action and rucked my ass off. My favorite was the kickoff returns where I was upfront as the “big lock” as Kathy put it. Luckily the ball was only kicked to me once and I just dished it off to Jaime B and off we went. Sorry I have to keep the blogging short because the sports center doesn’t have wireless internet, so I have to transfer the blog to my phone and then email it to someone that has internet. The things I do for my blog! Ha, just kidding…I love it.

Anyways, so the second training was good, we kept the contact to a very minimum as in we weren’t allowed to run! That was pretty funny telling us crazy ruggers no running, we were like what? Are you serious coach? In the afternoon session we did some ball handling drills and then worked on penalty plays and defending a penalty. The jersey ceremony was pretty cool. It was short and sweet; Kathy spoke quickly about each player and then gave a motivating pep talk. Canada is returning 13 players from the World Cup and the USA is only returning 6…so the two games this week are definitely going to be interesting. Talk about experience vs youth…everyone is pretty pumped up tonight. I don’t think we will be going to bed very early tonight as everyone works out the nervousness.

Wish us luck, I will be wearing #20 tomorrow at 3pm.

GO USA!!