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Men's Soccer
Lukasz Tumicz's MLS Training Camp Journal
Hello Everyone... First, I would like to say Hi to everyone - especially to my former teammates! Sorry it's been so long since I've updated this blog - I've been a pretty busy guy over the past few months... For those of you who don't know, I have signed a three-year contract with a Division One team from Things happened so quickly that sometimes I can't imagine how I went from the MLS combine to getting drafted by Columbus Crew and then finally ending up back in my mother land - Poland. While training with From there, things happened pretty quickly... I arrived in The next day, the head coach Artur Platek had me do some finishing and technical drills as well as a fitness test. I think I did really well during that session but the real try out was about to come. I was told that I was going to play a game with the reserves (second team) so I knew that in order to stay with the team I would have to play well. I was under a lot of pressure but I tried not to show it on the field. As soon as the game started, I forgot about everything and I kind of just "did my thing". I scored two goals in that game and I also added two assists... we ended up winning 6-2. Afterwards, the head coach came up to me and told me that he wanted to keep me with the team... I can't even describe what I felt. It was the best feeling ever! The next day I met with the president of the team and agreed to sign a 3 year contract with Jagiellonia Bialystok. So, I have been with the team for almost a month now and have seen action in three games (out of four). I haven't scored yet but hopefully I'll put my name on the scoreboard soon enough! Here is a link to our schedule - it might be the only thing on our website that you'll actually be able to understand (hopefully?) - so now you can keep up to date with my team! Anyway, in addition to playing, I have been working a lot with younger teams as well as Jagiellonia's medical staff because I am still doing my internship. The other cool thing is that I'm only four hours from my hometown (Bisztynek) so for the first time in six years I actually had a chance to spend Easter at home with my family. It was really exciting! Before I sign off, I would like to wish the best of luck to all URI student-athletes (especially, the men's soccer team). Hopefully I will see you all when I come back in May! Oh, I almost forgot. My team got invited to Check back here soon too, I'm going to do my best to add updates whenever I get a chance to! - Lukasz Well, the last two days we've had double sessions which have been pretty tough. We use heart monitors when we train, so they are able to pull info on each individual player and see how hard we are pushing ourselves when we're doing all the different drills - shooting, technique, possession, etc. They monitor out heart rate through everything we do - so if you slack even just a little bit - they know! At first, it was so different for me, because I'm not used to someone being able to track that sort of info but I've come to really love it because it holds everyone accountable. There's no time or patience messing around - if you come to work, do your job and give 100% and you are ok. For some people though, the data showed that their heart rate wasn't high enough and as a consequence, they had to do extra fitness stuff afterwards. Fortunately, I wasn't one of these people - so that was a good thing because I've been playing right midfield and its quite a bit more running that what I'm used to as a striker! Yesterday we did a lot of shooting drills. I really like how structured things are... everything that we do is very organized and very intense. We're on a 4-5 day cycle with one light day (today), which is called "Regeneration Day"... its pretty much a day to just rest and relax our muscles. We met at Well, that's all I've got for now. We have our first pre-season match coming up on Friday, so wish me luck! - Lukasz I'm baaaaaaaack! :) As some of you probably know, after the MLS Combine I was drafted by the Columbus Crew. I found out that they selected me on Jan. 24 and just nine days later I was on a plane to training camp in The first day, I was up at We train at the Speaking of roommates, I am sharing a condo here with two other players - Emmanuel, who is 20 and from We have double sessions every day - first at All of the coaches are great, but one of the coolest things for me has been the opportunity to meet Robert Warzycha - who is one of the assistant coaches here. He is from Well, that's all for now - I'll check back in soon! - Lukasz
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