Introduction/Pilot

Hello LPC Visitors,

Thank you for taking the time to view my site and read this blog. Welcome to entry 1, Introduction/Pilot. In this blog, I hope to share a little bit about me, my vision for LPC Soccer, and what to expect out of this blog going forward.

First, a little about me. My name is Jeremy Longchamp, I’m 26 years old, and I live in beautiful coastal Maine, in a soon-to-be not so little town called Biddeford. I graduated from the University of New England in 2018 (which is also located in Biddeford), where I was a member of the varsity soccer program, and studied Applied Exercise Science with a minor in Coaching. While at UNE, I was lucky enough to obtain a couple of very high level internships, one at a local performance center, and one at an atypical small-group training gym. These internships sparked my passion for maximizing athletic development, and showed me the impact a coach can make on his/her clients or athletes. This discovery was eye-opening for me, and steered me away from a career in medicine, and towards a career in athletics. Since then, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with a plethora of athletes across a multitude of settings. I’ve worked full-time in the collegiate setting, at both a high and low level, coaching athletes on the field and in the weight-room. I’ve coached soccer at the club and Olympic Development level, with the ages of my athletes spanning from 10-18 years old. And all the while, I’ve even been able to obtain my master’s degree in Sport Coaching, allowing me to focus less on WHAT I’m coaching, and analyze HOW I’m coaching and WHY I’m choosing to do so. All of this information is shared to paint a picture of who I am and the experiences I’ve had. I am by no means an expert in my field, but I hope to be so one day, and am learning a little more each day.

I started LPC Soccer with the intention of providing high-level soccer camps to the Southern Maine youth. There are about 15 towns within easy driving distance from Biddeford, and not a ton of options for the local community. I hope to be the go-to person for soccer and soccer-specific strength and conditioning in this little bubble. In the future, I’d also like to provide this same area with high-level club soccer opportunities. Each town offers some sort of travel team, but my hope is to unite these areas to bring them all under one club with a systemized approach and holistic philosophy. For this club, my goal is to get every single player recruited to play at the college level. I’d like to be the club in the Maine area that college coaches go out of their way to see, and send my players all over the country to play competitively.

Lastly, I’d like to share my thoughts and expectations for this blog itself. I hope to use this blog as a way to express my thoughts and ideas in a formal and permanent manner. I have ideas constantly running through my head, and felt like this would be a good medium to get them out and develop some clarity about them. I hope that in doing so, I’ll be able to look back in 5, 10, 15, 20 years, and reflect on how far I’ve come. I also hope that by throwing my thoughts out to the world, that others may learn a thing or two, or it may spark their creative gene and provide the inspiration they need to take action or cultivate their own ideas. I have no idea when or how often I’ll be posting, but I hope to do so on a fairly consistent basis.

Thank you again for taking the time to read this blog entry.

All the best,

-Jer