A NOTE FOR THE PARENTS
Why we're doing this
This isn't really about having a fun team song. It's a memory trick.
Three things we coach over and over — be fearless, don't quit chasing the ball, go around the wall instead of kicking through it — are exactly the things that vanish from a 10-year-old's brain the second a real game starts. Yelling the same instructions every Saturday gets most of it lost in the noise.
But a chorus does. Every one of these songs has the same three coaching lines baked into the hook:
- "Wall in the way? Go around it!"
- "Don't kick through — find the lane!"
- "Go get it!"
A song the girls want to sing on the bus, in the warm-up, at the cafeteria — that's the same coaching message getting in 50 reps a week without anyone "coaching." Same trick the alphabet song uses on toddlers. By the time the message comes out of their mouths automatically, it comes out of their feet automatically too.
Vote, don't pick.
Rather than the coaching staff picking one and announcing it, we'd love for the players and parents to vote and let the most popular cut become the team anthem. The girls are way more likely to actually use a song they chose, and parents' taste is a really good filter — if a track makes a parent flinch, it's probably not the one we should be playing at the field.
Full disclosure on coach bias: there's a harder, more aggressive cut in the list ("Go Get It DCFC", the phonk/Jersey-club one). It's not for everyone — but the attitude in it is the one we think they need on the field: confident, relentless, not waiting for permission. The polite-girl reflex is something we're actively trying to coach out, and that song models the opposite. That's just one vote, though. If you and the girls land on one of the brighter pop cuts, that's the one we'll roll with.
Take five minutes. Hit play. Tap ♥ on the ones that hit hardest. Loudest cut wins.