Philip S. Wheelock, Jr.

166 Henry St.
Uxbridge, MA 01569
philip.wheelock@gmail.com
508.341.3654 m.
508.278.2534 t.

Coaching Experience
• USSF C License (Provisional) - Lancaster, MA, August 2022
• USSF D License - Rochester, NY, July 2019
• Mendon-Upton Regional School District Boys’ Junior Varsity Coach and Varsity Assistant, Fall 2014 – Fall 2017
  Boys’ Varsity titles: MA Division 3 State Championship, 2017; MA Central Division 3 Championship, 2016
• Uxbridge Youth Soccer League U-12 Boys' travel team - Fall 2021
• Uxbridge Youth Soccer League U-10 Boys' travel team - Spring 2019
• Pre-college individual skills and strength/conditioning training
• Injury prevention, recovery and rehabilitation

Playing Experience
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
• Soccer: Varsity, 1968-1970 – Middlebury was ranked 3rd in New England, University Division,
  & competed as one of 16 men's teams nationally in the 1970 NCAA Soccer Tournament.
  Preseason matches in Germany, Denmark, Finland, & Poland under National Hall of Fame Coach (2002) Joe Morrone – Summer 1968
• Lacrosse: Varsity 1968-1971 – Midfield position
  The team was ranked 2nd in New England, University Division in 1969 under Coach Morrone.

Bristol, England
• Two 3-week tours in 1970 and 1972, coached by George Ford, former professional from Bristol, England and coach @ Harvard University (1974-81)

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
• Trained with the Men’s Varsity Soccer Team and was assistant to University of Rhode Island Hall of Fame Coach and
  former US Men's Olympic and World Cup Team Coach Geza Henni, 1971-1972.

Key initiatives:
• Emphasis on process & measurable performance goals as keys to optimal player development.
• Inclusive, supportive, team-building environment
• Unconditional attention to individual players: soccer & social skills; player health & safety
• Age-appropriate implementation of U.S. Soccer Player Development Framework
• Mindful, deliberate training is directly related to match performance. Practicing good skills and habits will enable players to perform
   to their highest potential; practice bad habits will result in the opposite on match day.
• Be brave. Mistakes are a necessary byproduct of taking risks and pushing one's limits. Mistakes indicate what is not working;
  the ability to constructively analyze and correct strategic, tactical & technical errors in a competitive environment is
  a prerequisite for elite performance.
• Optimal match performance is achieved in the days, weeks, and months before the match.
• Train with appropriate focus & intensity as indicated in tactical periodization plans in order to perform at one's best on match day.
• Patience and persistence are essential to achieving optimum match performance. Good skills and habits take time to develop and there will be plateaus
  and down periods in the process. By persisting, improvement will come and optimal match performance will be the rule rather than the exception.
• Consistent training leads to consistent match performance. Consistency relates to all aspects of training and lifestyle. In addition
  to the obvious areas such as conditioning, technique, and tactics, it also pertains to attitude, effort, focus, intensity, emotional well-being, sleep, and diet.

Technical Development:
Wall Shooting Drills (.mp4 file)
First Touch (.mp4 file)
Speed Dribbling (.mp4 file)
Ball Mastery Skills (.mp4 file)
Improve Footwork (.mp4 file)
Messi's Signature Move (.mp4 file)
Wayne Rooney Training (.mp4 file)

Scanning Skills
Andrea Pirlo (.mp4 file)
Lionel Messi (.mp4 file)
Martin Ødegaard (.mp4 file)

Steven Gerrard - Ball Striking
Wall Ball (.mp4 file)
Goals @ Liverpool FC 1998-2014 (.mp4 file)

Johan Cruyff - Words of Wisdom
1. What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
2. Play football with your head, because the ball is faster than your legs.
3. In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
4. There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.
5. When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ...
    So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball?
6. If you have the ball you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don’t have the ball you must make it as small as possible.
7. Total Football is, aside from the quality of the players, mostly a question of distance and positioning.
8. Our foundation was technique and everything else was positioning and support. Good positional play meant that you didn't have to run so far,
    so technique was able to come more easily to the fore.

Strength, Conditioning, & Injury Prevention:
Full Dynamic Stretching Warmup (.mp4 file)
Eastern Connecticut State University Summer Conditioning
ACL Injury Prevention
Closed Kinetic Chain Exercises for Legs & Knees
PEP Program
PEP Program Video
Plyometrics Training for Soccer
Strength/Training Chart
Nipmuc Soccer Strength/Conditioning
Posterior Tibial Tendon Protocol (.pdf file)