Last Saturday was the last day of soccer games for the season. It was absolutely beautiful soccer weather to end the season with - not too hot and a slight breeze. Luke's team won more games than they lost this spring and we saw a lot of improvement from the beginning of the season to the last game. Luke has improved a lot because I was usually able to work with him some during M&M's soccer practices. The coach for Luke's team decided that he wasn't going to coach again next year (I guess he has been coaching this team for the last 5 seasons) so DH and I decided to pick up the team and coach next year. I will probably be doing most of the coaching but I will definitely need DH's help. We ended up only having 6 of the players sign up for next year so we will see in the fall who else gets put on our team. The other half of the team were still deciding whether they were going to play next year or pick up different sports.
M&M's team was a little more frustrating to watch this year. They had another girl join the team in the spring and her dad ended up doing a lot of the coaching at the practices. The practices were hard to watch because just about the only thing they ever worked on were passing drills - and they would usually do the same drill for the whole practice. At one point M&M asked if they could work on dribbling and he responded with the question, "What do you think is the quicker way to get the ball down the field? By passing or by dribbling?" And after discussing the question we decided the response should have been, "Well, what if there is no one to pass to?" The team started out the season great with a couple of wins but then they went downhill from there. There was quite a bit of improvement during the season, but there were so many basic skills that they needed to work on but didn't get the chance to. 
M&M started to play really aggressively this season and was a lot of fun to watch. By the first game or two everyone on the sidelines knew her name and were cheering her on. She was one of the smallest girls on the team but definitely one of the better and more aggressive players. Because of this we decided to sign her up for a coed team next year so she can get some better coaching and play against some better players. One of our neighbors is going to be coaching the team that we signed up with and there is a girl from M&M's school class on the team. It will be nice having some people on the team that we know and the coach is a super nice guy - and he's in our ward bishopric.
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