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Storm Story: JYSA ’81 ‘Storm’ was one of two select teams that formed in Jessamine County in the fall of 1990, founded by Nicholasville businessman and youth soccer coach Peter Sutherland along with Lee and Angie Martin of Wilmore. The JYSA ’79 ‘Jammers’ were founded the same fall by David West, also a Nicholasville businessman and Bud Ledford, both of whom coached youth soccer in the Jessamine Youth Soccer Association. The JYSA teams, like any fledgling club teams, struggled, but successfully laid the groundwork and ‘blazed the trail’ for the next generation of JYSA select teams. The Storm teams that followed honored their predecessors by taking the ‘Storm’ name, and for whatever reason, it has become tradition in Jessamine County; Storm Soccer Club is in its 18th year. Storm SC has fielded teams in ’80, '81, ’82, ’83, ’85, ’86, ’87, ’88, ’89, ’90, ’92, ’93, ’94, 95, 96, 97, 98 & 99 birth years and looks to continue the process. Storm teams over the years have competed in France, England, Illinois, Florida, Missouri, Georgia, Virginia, Michigan and Tennessee. Many Storm players have earned college scholarships and been honored as college players across the state and the southeast. Now some of those former players have returned to the Storm program as coaches and trainers, to pass on their own quality experiences and instruction to the young players now representing the club. We believe this cycle of Storm players returning to coach young Storm teams instills in the player a sense of tradition and sets the Storm program apart from many other clubs.
Storm Soccer Club Philosophy The spring season of 2007 is a landmark for the Storm Soccer Club. Founded in 1990, the Storm club has historically been comprised of several loosely bound, autonomous teams with no ‘club’ management and with varying degrees of competitiveness. The new board and president have made clear that they wish to found a brighter and more organized future for the young Storm teams currently playing and the Storm teams of tomorrow. They have recruited quality coaches, worked hard on fields and begun a process of organizing Storm to function as a unit, rather than as individual teams. The hard work of former President Bill Green and Tommy Cobb resulted in the acquisition of a new 40 acre soccer complex in Jessamine County. When completed, this complex will have a stadium with a turf field and practice and game fields as well. We feel this complex will be the next step in Storm's development as a club.
The Storm training philosophy focuses on four aspects of the player: physical, mental, tactical and technical. Storm training includes strength and conditioning to allow the player to perform at their highest physical potential and focuses on teaching the tactics of attacking and defense and combination play. Technical development at young ages is the highest priority and many times Storm trainers will work alongside coaches and assistants to provide more individual attention to proper technique. Most importantly, however, Storm SC strongly believes in developing the player's skills and the confidence necessary to compete. We believe this four point system of equips the player with the total development of necessary skills, confidence, physical condition and tactical knowledge for success at higher levels of play. Storm always has and always will place emphasis on individual player development over wins and losses.
Our goal is that each Storm player one day looks back on their Storm experience with a surge of pride, a feeling of accomplishment and the self-confidence, skills, knowledge and courage to achieve in life. “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
-Teddy Roosevelt
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