As I noted recently, I’ll be coaching a travel team this fall – U11 Girls, in the TCL Challenge League. We put together a really good group of players who are super excited to play. How excited they’ll be after the conditioning workouts this week remains to be seen. But once you have a new team – priority #1 is picking a new name.
How’s this for excitement? One of the girls trying out, who played with the U10 Boys last year, had already put together a page full of possible names and gave them to me saying if she made the team, she wanted to help with choosing a team name. She noted her personal favorite was The Lunachicks, since about 40% of the parents seemed to react badly to Dixie Chicks . I told my assistant coach about it and he just shook his head. “No, ANYthing but that!”
Well tryouts came and went and when I sent out all the suggested names I had received, The Lunachicks was the unanimous favorite. I love it, but it gives my assistant coach a tic. I told him the girls would pitch in to buy him a bright pink coaches jersey with ‘Lunachick Coach‘ printed on it. To which he responds “Hey I like pink – I’ll wear mine if you wear one yourself”
I think it’s going to be an entertaining year!
July 18th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Very funny – I know this band that was formed in 1988. I loved their early stuff! This is from the All Media Guide website – which is the definitive resource for finding band information. Enjoy. Bill
Part feminist-inspired riot grrrl band, part gross-out performance art, part hard rock band, New York City’s Lunachicks are tastelessly in-your-face and proud of it (the back cover of their LP Binge and Purge showed them covered in fake vomit). Fronted by Theo Kogan, whose on-stage gear consisted of platform shoes, short dresses, surreal makeup, and huge wigs, the L-Chicks grind out a reasonable, messy amalgam of Ramones/Dictators high-energy guitar rock. Song subjects include trashy ’70s TV icons (“Jan Brady”), suffering after consuming too much junk food (“Binge and Purge”), and tabloid-style hysteria (“Babysitters on Acid”). Not particularly artful, the Lunachicks are wild and funny, and the music can be pretty hot, but the humor and the rock don’t hold up after repeated spins. No matter what your tolerance for this kind of rock is, you’d be better off listening to L7, Bratmobile, Bikini Kill, Joan Jett, or Huggy Bear first, and then finding time for the mixed blessings of the Lunachicks.
July 18th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Yup – when I searched Google for it – I got very few hits. A couple girls teams had used it before, but most of the hits were for the band and that wasn’t many either. I’ll admit to not having read them 🙂 Thanks for the info.
Tastelessly in-your-face. Hmmm, I sense motivational speech coming on 🙂 Bad coach!
July 18th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
I like the “proud of it” part!
October 29th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Too bad my granddaughter’s not playing this year. We might have had a matchup with the Lunachicks since we’re in the TCL. I love the name!