Saturday, June 4, 2011
This was our last day for soccer games for this spring season. For Luke and Blondie we were happy to see it come to an end, for M&M it was a sad day! M&M has absolutely loved her coach and team!! It was a great bunch of kids that played well together and the coach was just awesome!! He was hard in the sense that he expected a lot from his players, but he was by no means unreasonable and he was very personable and sympathetic as well. He knew the game well and ran some excellent practices. Her coach never played favorites in the games and he switched people around and had them play all different positions in the same game sometimes. At the beginning of the fall season M&M wasn't sure if she had made the right choice on what team to sign up with, but by the end she was almost in mourning that last day because it has been such a positive and enjoyable experience for her! After her game the team got together at someone's house for an end of the season party with hot dogs and fun! The coach gave an emotional farewell speech at the party and since most of the kids go to the same school, he told them all to look out for each other, and especially to look out for M&M and the other girl on the team. Most of M&M's team are 8th graders that move up to the high school level next year (as well as the coach's son) so the team was dissolving after this season. We will definitely miss this group when soccer season comes around again in the fall...
Luke's team unfortunately had a losing season and they lost their last game by one point. The highlight of the game though was the goal that Luke scored - he headed the ball in the goal after it bounced off of the goalie!! And DH even got it on the video camera so I will post it later! It was an awesome goal!!
We were really disappointed with Blondie's soccer season. The team basically dwindled to nothing by the end of the year and it was disappointing to see. Her last soccer practice had just 3 girls at it (one of them being the soccer coach's daughter) and for the last game they didn't even have enough kids to play the game - they were one short. So the other team gave us one of their extra players to play goalie for each half and our girls had to play the whole game in the heat and wore themselves out! (We finally had a hot day for the last games of the season!) Unfortunately I think her soccer experience this year was a complete waste of time and money for us... I did get some good pictures of her at the last game though.
Deciding what to do with the kids for next year has been quite a chore. We know some kids in the ward & neighborhood that are Blondie's age that play on a coed team so we decided to sign her up with that group. At first it was looking like I might end up coaching it but then one of the kids decided not to try out for comp next year so his dad will be coaching. I will probably end up being the assistant coach for her team. Then we were thinking that I might coach Luke's team because we didn't want him with the same coach he has had this year. We ended up finding another local team with some kids that he has played with before and signed him and a couple of other players from our team up with that group. Hopefully that will turn out alright. At first the coach wasn't going to coach again but his son ended up not making the comp team so he is going to coach after all.
M&M has been the toughest decision for us. We finally ended up signing her up with a neighborhood team that was a 5/6 grade team this year. They will be a younger group in the 7/8 grade level, but M&M knows several of the kids on the team and hopefully it will be a good experience for her. Then we will have to decide the following year if we want her to play at the high school level. The rec league does 5 vs 5 for the high school level and it is pretty intense.
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