Miles Maynard is the Assistant Women’s Soccer coach with Clemson University. Clemson University is a NCAA DI institution located in Clemson, South Carolina. The Women’s Soccer program is a member of the ACC or Atlantic Coast Conference along with other schools such as Duke, Wake Forest, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and University of Virginia. The women’s soccer program advanced to the Second Round of the NCAA tournament with a win over Vanderbilt on the 2019 season. 

Outside of working with the Clemson Women’s program, Miles has experience playing at a high level and getting to play while coaching. He shares those stories along with tips for athletes on different topics such as physical activities, mental skills training and recruiting. We jump right into topics such as his coaching style, what’s he’s learned while coaching and what makes the DI level unique to other divisions. These are can’t miss tips, so please enjoy!

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Miles Maynard: Women’s Head Soccer Coach at Clemson University.

Topic 1: What Makes DI Soccer Unique?

During this clip, Coach Maynard talks to us about what he finds unique about the DI level as well as some differences between schools in the same division. He also brings up some different perks outside of just playing. 

Topic 2: How Miles Got Into College Coaching

Miles shares his story about both playing collegiate soccer while getting to coach younger middle school soccer players at the same time. Miles was able to learn from those experiences and coaches which allowed him to move into his graduate studies and coaching with Clemson.

Topic 3: What is Miles’ Coaching Style and Who Did He Learn From?

Miles and I talk about his passions for the sport and how that shapes his coaching style. He shares his thoughts on building relationships and team culture within his teams and how he learns from those ideals.  Miles tells us about coaches and authors that he has continued to learn from as well.

Topic 4: What is Miles’ Most Rewarding Aspect of Coaching?

Coach Maynard shares his favorite parts of coaching and how it involves working with the athletes. He also shares how the ebbs and flow of the season can be very rewarding at any level. 

Topic 5: Tips for Athletes Staying Physically Active

Here I chat with Coach Maynard about creative ways to use the space you have and the items around your house to stay physically active and even keep up with your soccer skill set. Coach Maynard shares some cool tips that you can take with you anywhere.

Topic 6: Tips for Staying Mentally Active

Miles talks to us about some tips for athletes to stay mentally active during this time. His tips include visualizing your game and keeping up with the game, without having to be on the field. 

Topic 7: Tips for Athletes on the Recruiting Trail

Coach Maynard talks about the current recruiting dead period and what kind of time coaches have to communicate with players. He encourage players to stay active in the process and offer up some tips to do so.

Topic 8: What Makes a Team Successful: Talent VS Mental Toughness

Miles shares some inspiring stories about successful teams both on the field and as a coach on the sidelines. His insight offers up some good tips for athletes on what it takes to be successful at a high level.

As we can see from coach Maynard, he uses his past coaching experiences to pave the way for the best possible outcomes for his players. 

Transcript of Conversation

Jess Gregory  

Hello, everybody. Thank you for joining us. I have coach Maynard here with us. And we're going to get started. So coach, tell us how you got into coaching.

Miles Maynard  

Yeah. So for me, I was, while I was playing in college, I kind of got an opportunity to coach a middle school team up in Concord, North Carolina. If anybody went to cc Griffin middle school, I coached there in 2014, in the spring there, and that was kind of my first real taste of coaching. And for me, it was the first time I'd ever coached at all and I got the pleasure of coaching a middle school girls team. And for me, it was just the whole understanding of different genders and kind of seeing the different personalities and roles that each of them play as they're going through the developmental phase. But for me, it was really fun experience to also kind of develop some players and we had for me I played goalkeeper, and we had a good goalkeeper and so I was able to train her and develop the entire team actually into kind of a little bit more of a situation. Playing because that's a little bit of the style that I like to play, versus more of just your study drills, like make it more situational and kind of putting people in uncomfortable situations, because that'll happen in a game. And that's kind of the best way to kind of explore it. But from there, I continued to play soccer. And then once I finished up with my undergrad, I got right back into my master's program and started here at Clemson with their women's soccer team. And from there, it's been a huge step up. But it's been an awesome opportunity to learn from so many talented players and a talented staff here at Clemson to grow not only as a person, but as a player and see the world from the sidelines from a much higher level than from the middle school that I was at experience. And so it's just been a blessing and it's it's such a great opportunity to be able to have

Jess Gregory  

nice now Are you still able to coach middle school kids, or is this taking up all your time? 

Miles Maynard  

With the interplay rules you can coach a club team But you cannot coach a high school team. I'm not sure about middle school that maybe you may be allowed to do that. But I just know what you're not allowed to do a high school and college at the same time, but you can do club in college at the same time. So I have been working with some of the local clubs here and easily in Greenville.

Jess Gregory  

Nice All right. Um, with that being said, since you're kind of a new coach, do you emulate any other coaches? Are there any specific coaches you've kind of learned your coaching style from that you are taking and running with?

Miles Maynard  

Um, for me personally, I'm still kind of getting I guess I'm still new to it. So I'm still kind of exploring seeing different coaching styles from so many different people and kind of more so leaning on what are you doing behind the scenes? How are you growing your team and developing a team off the field because everybody's gonna have players in the field? Everybody's gonna be able to play soccer, but how are you able to grow a team off the field and I think that's a big, a big piece of it. And for me, that's just something I've always been really passionate about. Is that family environment? And can you build that? And can you create that culture within a group of kids? Are you just all worried about soccer and that's the only thing you care about. But for myself, that's the pathway that I've been following. And somebody who we look up to and utilize a lot is john Gordon, he's an author. And if you've ever read any of his books, I mean, they're all about positivity, and how can you create that culture of positivity? So for me, he's somebody I've really kind of latched on to and been able to learn from his stories that he tells and his real world experiences that have changed athletes and just people around the world and you can take his lessons and apply them in so many different ways. Whether it's myself in coaching and myself as a human being How can I be a better person everyday but then translating that on the soccer How can we be better coach every day? How can I relate to the players even more? So for me, I'm latching on to him a lot kind of taking a lot of tools that he's used, also forming our head coach, Eddie read watsky he's he preaches about him a lot. As well, and he uses some of his examples like the energy bus. And that's one of his books. And so, I mean, you, there's just so many different stories from him to tell. So he's one of the big ones that I've kind of jumped on to. It's also, from my kind of playing experience, I had a high school coach who was very adamant on learn it this way, and this is how it's gonna be, it was my way or the highway kind of. And so for me, that's not how I like to be. But it was one of those things where, hey, if I'm getting my point across, that's kind of sometimes you have to get to that point where you can't just be lackadaisical all the time, but you kind of have to be stern at times. So I think as far as a player hearing this, I think you have to understand, not every coach is going to be the same. There's gonna be multiple different styles. So you have to open yourself up to different personalities of coaches and kind of finding what fits you what type of coach Do you want to have? Why are they coaching? What's their Why? Why are they doing what they're doing? And how are they going to help you succeed whether it's on the field or off the field, because especially when you get to the college game. Some people may be aspiring to be that professional player. Going on to play at that next level. But at the same time as you're going through, you have to do the academics and you're building yourself a career. And to get that degree that will give you the career to continue on through the rest of your life. Go soccer will only be here for so long. But after that, it's what can you do with it? So I believe making sure that that focus is still in the classroom and helping you for career development is definitely huge, important.

Jess Gregory  

Awesome. All right. Now, do you have any sort of challenging moments that is the most challenging part of coaching that you can share? And then we'll flip that and go to the positive?

Miles Maynard  

Yes, I think some big challenges, especially that probably for us as coaches at division one level, especially in ACC, which which we have such a high level of competition, and so many great teams, there's such a draw to try and get those best kids. And there's so many different pieces that everybody has in their own programs, where, at the end of day, we have all these great facilities programs and coaching staffs at all of these schools in the ACC, but it's what's that one little thing that can separate us from somebody else that we can get this recruit to come in and play for us what we make that connection and presence maybe it's a family member who might have gone to Clemson on it's maybe a connection from a clubs that they played location, or just really getting to know that person. That's where I come back to that family environment. And that's something we really want to get to know the person because we don't want to kind of you want to be you have to be a good person, not a perfect person, but you have to be a good person to come here and play. Because we can we can identify the talent level you have on the field. But it's not it doesn't just end there because you're a part of a team and you don't want to have a bad seed come in and then shell out and kind of dilute the water. Yeah, the culture that you've created. So so I think that's a really tough thing to find, because you could find out a world class player that just might not fit your program and I mean, some some places will take the risk and hope hope that they can change them. But that doesn't happen all the time. And sometimes it can really cause a bad effect on on your team. But I think that's a big challenge, I think also kind of keeping the focus for everybody and saying, Hey, we're here to not only develop you and win championships, whether it's at the conference level or at the National international championship, but it's how much farther can we progress you as a player on the field and not making sure you came in as a freshman or walking away as a senior, knowing that you succeeded in your own personal development, whatever that may have been, maybe I wanted to be faster, maybe I wanted to be stronger. Maybe I wanted to be that ultimate goal score, be in the record books, anything like that. We want to know your goals, we want to help you get to that point. So I think I think that's one of the challenge. And it's also comes back to the player saying, How much do you want to give? And are you willing to give everything that you have to do that? Because it's not easy to break the record books, at any at any institution, but it comes down to the player How much are you willing to give because there's a lot of distractions in college that can really hinder you from doing that and you could get here and fight and fight at any school and find out Wow, it's a lot higher level of competition. And so you may have to readjust your goals. But I think it's recommitting re opening that conversation with the player after they've been here and saying, Hey, can I do that? Can I continue on with those goals that I that they have set for themselves?

Jess Gregory  

Yeah. It's really great to tell students that and let them understand because I think a lot of times they think that it's really hard in their side to get recruited, and they don't see that there are other challenges coming from the flip side, and then it really is a relationship that needs to be built. And it's not just a one phone call and you're in, you guys have to, you know, figure out again, is that a good player that fits for our program on top of, you know, the athletic side. So, great tips there. On that flip side Now, what is probably your favorite part of coaching at the college level, what is that kind of look like for you?

Miles Maynard  

I believe my favorite part is kind of seeing. My favorite piece, to be honest, is seeing the freshmen when they come in and they've played it Such a at their highest of competition that they face yet. But once they come onto that field as a freshman, and they have that moment of, wow, this is a lot faster, they're a lot stronger. These girls have been working on for four years at this level there, they have just so much technically stronger than me anything like that. And once they flip that switch, and now their focus is now on to that level. It's crazy. And you can tell that the freshmen every year and say, hey, you're gonna have that flipping of a switch, but they won't believe it until it actually happens. And it's so great to kind of have that conversating Hey, did you see what I was telling you? Are you are you up to speed now? And they're like, yeah, okay, it's it's a lot faster. So I think that's one of the great things are also going throughout the season, you're gonna have some ups and you're gonna have downs. But I think just going through getting season I think is a huge step for a lot of programs and seeing the passion that not only your staff has put into your team and that the performance that your players have put out on the field to earn that experience to go play in the postseason. Whether it's just a call retirement or even making it to the national tournament i think is huge for players. And because not everyone gets to do that it's the best 64 that make that national tournament and then varying by your comrades, it could be everyone, it could be the top eight. So it's how much and sometimes you may only have that great team for that one good year, and you don't want to have any hiccups. So I think it's seeing your it's like reap what you sow and whatever that you put in is what you're going to put out or get out of it at the end of the season. So kind of identifying that at the beginning of the season and continuing to plant that seed and say, Hey, don't slip up. Because if you do it can really affect the later half of the season, because it's a long season from from August all the way down to November.

Jess Gregory  

Yeah, absolutely. I it's funny that you say that when you see that light switch, because I think you see that at every level level. When you start the little guys and you're like, Oh, they finally get it right. And then kids don't realize that you're still learning all the way up to that highest level and you could still see that light switch turned on. So that is very rewarding. I agree with you there. So yeah, so tell me now a little bit. You are at the division one level, you've already told us some some rewarding parts of challenging parts. Can you kind of give us an idea of what makes division one soccer unique? What kind of sets you guys apart from other divisions?

Miles Maynard  

Oh, yeah. So I think with division one soccer, I mean, I believe there's just over 330 total programs, with women's soccer, specifically. So you're gonna have very big variances across that spectrum. You could have some schools that have all the facilities in the world and you have some that might not have all the facilities in the world. And I think you're going to have that variance. Even at division one level where people kind of get caught up in that stigma of division one, you have everything. Well, it's not true at every case. So I think, again, being the player, you have to have that open mindset and kind of know what you're walking to ask these questions, what facilities you have, what are the extra benefits that you might get, whether it could be tutors, academic services, sports psychologists, anything like that, strengthen training coaches, for access to the weight room. All of those questions need to be asked in this question. interface so that not only does it show the coaching staffs that you're talking to that you care more, and then you actually have a mindset of what goes on at at this level, but that you're willing and interested to utilize those as well. Because you can, again, come into these programs and be the player, but you might not go to your tutors every time. And then there's some repercussions that come with that. But, um, but I think especially at division one level, you kind of have to really push these things and tell and inform this student athletes who are interested that, hey, we do have these facilities, that someone that this opposing school that you might be interested in, is looking at. So I think facilities is a big aspect of it, I believe culture of schools that kind of touched on that a little bit earlier, I believe that again, is varying by different schools, the coaching staff, their experience, where have they been, how long have they been at the school? Are they what's their five year plan? Are they gonna are they planning on maybe hitting the road and going somewhere else for another opportunity? Are they looking for the long term because you don't want to come in and out freshman and then senior year they're hitting the road and you might not have that same coach that you have that same bond with. So I think that's a good question definitely to ask coaching staffs as well. But I mean, there's a lot of different things that are I mean, especially, I mean, the easy one is the talent level. I mean, there's great talent at every level Division One, two and three NAIA there are programs that can be division one programs, and na either division three programs that can be an AI, or division one programs, and all the way up. So I, I think you have to lose that stigma of it's D one or nothing. Because if you really want to be that college athlete, you have to accept the opportunities that you're given and make the most of them. And there's always the opportunity to say, Hey, I only got offers from D two schools. So I'm going to go there, bust my tail for two years, and then maybe I can transfer into a D one school. And it might only take you one year to do that. But I mean, it's you it's again, how much effort Are you willing to put in to get to where you want to be?

Jess Gregory  

Yeah, all that. That's great tips. I love that one too. Let's just talk about, especially division one coaches talk about how different levels can still compete at a high level, because kids do have that sort of thought in their head that division one is the only way to go. And if they don't get those offers, they might be a little bit bummed out. So thank you for sharing that side of it, too. That's also helpful. I kind of want to switch gears a little bit now. We're all obviously stuck at home. This is kind of an unprecedented time right now. So do you have any tips for kids on how they can stay physically active while they're at home if they you know, not everyone has a soccer field that they can just go to? Do you have any tips for them?

Miles Maynard  

Yeah, definitely. I think especially your level of fitness is something that you can still go out and do whether it's, you can go run around your neighborhood go run down the street. If you don't have access to a field, see if you can like a full soccer field, see if you can just find a patch of grass. If you can't find a patch of grass, use the driveway use your use your street just set down if you don't have cones use a pair of shoes. You Use a pair of socks, a T shirt, shorts, anything that you have could be headbands could be a piece of paper, that tutorial, anything anything you gotta be, that's where you can be creative and make yourself some cones, where you can do some dribbling patterns just to keep the ball at your feet, go out and join. Well, you can juggle in the living room. And I mean, that'll be a little bit more of a test to make sure you can control it and break anything. But I believe it's how can you be creative in that in these times, because I mean, this is this is new territory for a lot of people, probably most people in the world, that they're stuck at home, unable to go out and do their normal routines. So I think if you can find any, any little space like that, definitely to go out there with a soccer ball and practice your dribbling, whether it's all on your right foot on your left foot solo rolls outside of the foot inside of the foot. If you have a if you have an opportunity to strike balls, definitely go out and get them I mean, you may have to find a find a buddy and I mean hey, if you're shooting balls at them, that's definitely six feet apart. So you got the social distancing covered and they can help you Maybe retrieve the balls. I mean, just it also sparks conversation gets you out of the house gets you out of that stuck in that house environment, whether it's your parent friend, you can go out there and do that, I think it's something really good that you can do. Even if you wanted to practice your throw ins, you could go stand there and just throw the ball against the wall, or throw it with your, with your friend out there. And that way, you're continuing to learn the game and continuing to watch it. So those are the physical things I would do. On the flip side of that, luckily, we have technology at our disposal. So the virtual aspect of this time that we're in, if you go to YouTube and just type in soccer, there's a million things they're going to pop up. You can find practice sessions and on there you can find little easy, one, two step, little dribbling drills that you can do. But at the same time, you can go and watch games, you can go and watch many of the world World Cup games, you can watch many of the Premier League games, you watch your highlights, you can see hey, what does this team doing? or What is this specific specifically, what is this player doing in the position that I play? What are they doing well, that I need to improve on. And you can identify that and say, oh, maybe they're really good with their non dominant foot, okay, that's something I need to improve on. Or maybe they're really good at crossing the ball, maybe they're really good at playing quickly with one, one or two touches only not taking that third or fourth or fifth touch. Maybe they're good at controlling the ball. It's all those little things. And I think utilizing YouTube to visualize that and seeing, hey, what are the best doing that I myself am not doing, but I can improve on it kind of maybe giving yourself a chart and utilizing YouTube as a great tool. I mean, I believe at the same time, if you have maybe an NBC Sports package, they have some recorded videos on there. I know. on Fox, Fox Sports Network, they were doing a lot of replays from this past season for men's and women's soccer. A lot of the conference networks have been replaying footage from this last year. So I mean, definitely, especially if you're really interested in the school, see if you can find some of their old game footage and watch one of their teams, or watch one of their games and say hey, I watched you Your game against Oklahoma and you guys played this way. And I really liked that I play this position and I think I can help you guys because the way you play and you build out of the back, I can be a commonality that and really help and be a beneficiary.

Jess Gregory  

Oh nice. So is that something kids can still do them they can still reach out to coaches and be like, Hey, watch this game. I'm still interested in this even if they don't have any like new film to show you it's still okay for them to reach out.

Miles Maynard  

Yeah, so for us as coaches we are on the you can't do any visits or you could do an A, you could come on your own time come look at Campus if you want but you could be I have no physical communication. With the coaching staff. You can have that like phone call email conversations, those are still allowed, but as it stands right now up until April 15. That's it. So if you are in that past that junior level, you can have those conversations reach out to coaches I mean, because hey, we've we've got a lot of free time we're at home we're having we don't have as many meetings as we probably would have if we were all back in our athletic departments. But especially not without having practices, we're kind of, if we're still looking for players, we're actively looking. And if if you can send us an email and say, Hey, I saw this, and I think I can really help if you guys are still looking for this, I'd love to continue the conversation on so I definitely would encourage players to do that encourage you to reach out to any of the colleges that you're interested in. And, and as you're looking at if your dreams are to go to that big school, don't set that as your own. Or like, don't not only pursue that pursue other options, per se, they're already done with their 2020s look at their look at the next class or look at the next school to a smaller school that may still be looking. And I think the easiest way to do that is just ask the ask the question, just send an email. Are you still looking for 2020? If not, Okay, thank you. I appreciate it. Next school and I think it's just going down the list and keeping your options open as you can because everybody's got a lot of free time right now. No,

Jess Gregory  

yeah. Awesome. So basically, kids can make sure that they are staying active kicking the ball around wherever they can find space without breaking mama dad's TV, obviously, and then also stay in contact with coaches, it sounds like that's something that they can do at any level is just to make sure that that conversation is still there. Now you touched base on it a little bit and kind of talking about watching video and seeing what you can do to kind of match those higher levels of play. Do you have any other sort of mental skills tips that you can give kids that are stuck at home too, because I think it would kind of caught you know, what kind of tie in together with what they can do while they're at home?

Miles Maynard  

Yeah, so I think I'm definitely something that we like to use, like visualizing yourself on the field, and kind of doing that mental, almost like dreaming as if you're sleeping and you're dreaming about something. Just kind of sit there and have that meditation might be a better word for it, but taking a minute For a time period, maybe it's 30 minutes a day. And you're just sitting there thinking about Okay, I'm a Ford. I'm, I'm in the box, I received this pass. I'm taking one touch. I'm shooting. Oh, it went in. Okay. I'm thinking about it again. Okay, I received that pass am I left with the defender came to me now, and I have to beat her. And now I'm taking that shot. Oh, the goalkeeper saved, okay, I got a track back. It's just kind of playing those scenarios out in your head and just kind of thinking about them. And it's, it's, it's something that it's, it seems silly, but it's something that can really prepare you and you can definitely take this and utilize it as your, if you're a younger player on utilize it going into your next game before if you're in the car ride going to the to a game, you can sit there and think about Okay, I'm going to receive the pass from Emily and she's gonna maybe bounce off me do a little one, two, and then I can play her back to or maybe everybody's used to that and I'm going to do it myself and score. But I think it's just playing those scenarios that you have for yourself and utilizing them So I think meta personal meditation on the game would is and especially you can utilize it from what you've done by watching this footage and saying, hey, that player was really good on that foot. Maybe I'm, sit up, sit outside in the grass and maybe I'm just sitting there not dribbling, I'm just kind of rolling the ball around my left foot, kind of just imagining like, okay, strike, okay, strike. And just any little thing like that, that you can do. Even if it is just walking around in the grass with a ball at your feet, just pretending Oh, I'm dribbling my left foot only only only and then boom shot. And I think I think it's just again, being creative in these times that are, again, very weird. But yeah, I believe it'll get your brain working to kind of simulate that experience. Because if you're thinking about the game, then you're simulating in your head. So if you can add in maybe the ball at your feet, then receptors and everything is all working throughout your body. So I think that's a good way for people to definitely take 30 minutes out of their out of their day to do that.

Jess Gregory  

Awesome. Yeah, sounds like something that they can continue to do to once we get past this sort of timeframe like mentioned sitting in your car thinking about it before you go to the game. visualization is probably great at any point in time. So hopefully some kids can get used to that now, while they don't have much else to do,

Miles Maynard  

or maybe even just like going on YouTube, it's searching just like a little sports psychology video and kind of maybe learning some some more ways that you can I don't know about and help themselves grow. So again, YouTube, great resource.

Jess Gregory  

Absolutely. You gotta love technology, right? It's definitely helpful these days. Already. Again, I'm gonna switch gears we're going to get on to our last question, I think. I want you to think about one of your most successful seasons whether it was as a player or as a coach, and if you can kind of give us an idea of what was more prominent, was it the skill that made you successful? Or was it the mental toughness that made you successful?

Miles Maynard  

Yeah, so I, I think I'll give I'll give you kind of like one of each other as a coach and And then as a player, so for me as a player would go back to my junior year in high school where we ended up winning the state championship and then ended up as the overall national champions. Thanks to nsca with their little ranking system, but um, so for us throughout that whole season, it was just a real, we knew we had good talent on the on the field, and we were able to harness that, but continue to let that motivate us in practice, because we were new. We knew we were going up against such good talent in our own practices that when we were out on the field, in the games, we were used to it because we weren't screwing around and practice laughing giggling. We were We were focused, we were locked in ready to go every day, day in and day out. And if you missed if I let up a goal thing, I want to make sure I get the next one because I knew the goalkeeper was right behind me. He was ready to save that shot and take my spot because we were always trying to take that person ahead of us spot. And so making sure you can retain your spot was was huge. And so for me, that was a great learning lesson for us just to stay motivated throughout the entire season knowing something special is, is being created. And then to have it lay out as a foundation for the rest of the of the year was really, really cool for us. And I think it was a really cool moment during our postseason through the state tournament, where our coach just said, you know, there's 24 other teams that are practicing right now. And God knows how many are sitting at home wishing they were in your spot. And it was that same message now it's 24. Now it's 18. Now it's 12 I just trickling down the list. So I mean, for if you're sitting there and actually mentally processing that, it's like wow, that's 20 Kids per team at home, not getting to play soccer, not getting to have a chance at this moment of winning some hardware winning a ring going through that. So for me that was a another motivation factor for us to keep grinding every practice and going as hard as we could and then once it got to game day we are we weren't going to finish our season wasn't over. Right there. So for me, that was the player side of it, that moment really stood out to me. As a coach, I think for me, it was kind of my first season back with that middle school team. We weren't that we weren't the best team that we had, or that they had had in the past. But coming together as a group, we were able to really harness what we had. And no, we were using each other's owns each other's strengths and growing, to become better day in and day out. So it's kind of the same mentality for them. So I think, for people to recognize what you have it as a team is huge, because if everybody's playing as an independent player, then you're not really playing as a team and soccer is a is a big team sport. You can't just rely on the strength of one person to go out and do everything. And you have to really make sure everyone's doing that. And I mean, that's translated all the way over to the years at Clemson that I've been here and I mean, it's the same thing. We do have very good talent here, but it's one player messes up then it can ultimately result in the goal and it could be Something that starts on the, for us in an attacking scenario, missing a shot and rebounds in there and a counter attack right up against right against us. And in a matter of seven seconds there, they've already scored in the back of our net. So I mean, and that's just how quickly the college game is. So, I mean, you think about it, seven seconds is like nothing but and that's 120 yards that ball traveled and was shot in, that that can happen. So I mean, it's you have to be focused locked in for the whole whole time of every game. Because I mean, you can get that exhaustion that you might have towards the end of the 90 minutes, but you can't let up. You can't let off the brakes, or let off the gas and give up a goal because that could be something that really hurts your your conference standings, your chance at a conference being granted entry into the conference tournament or ultimately even the NCAA Tournament. So I think that would be the two big things.

Jess Gregory  

Yeah. So it does sound like you have to have the skill, but without the mental side of it kind of makes it tough to be successful.

Miles Maynard  

Yes, definitely. I, I think the mental side is is huge and it can't go unnoticed.

Jess Gregory  

Right. Absolutely. Alrighty. Well, thank you so much miles. I really appreciate you sitting down and chatting with us today. I think you gave a lot of great tips to our players. And I'm sure they're excited to check out our interview once we get you posted. Thank you again, and hopefully we can chat with you again next time.

Miles Maynard  

Yeah, definitely. Best of luck to everybody out there. Thank you so much.

Jess Gregory  

All right. Thanks.

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