End of Season

This past Saturday was Carter's last soccer game of the fall season.  I honestly wasn't that thrilled about coaching when the season started, but I'm really glad I did it.  I'm going to miss our boys!  I'm not really sure if we taught them that much, but most of them had fun (and I don't think that any of the kids on my field ever scored an own-goal)!  We had 3 of the 12 quit before the season ended because they didn't want to play and Will (Missy's son) only participated in practice.  But the rest of the kids generally got more interested as the season progressed and played harder (and got distracted less).  Carter already had descent skills in my unbiased opinion :), but by the end of the season, he finally got aggressive and had the drive and desire to score.  Instead of just being sad and giving up because he wasn't scoring, he got in there more and created opportunities to score.  It's been great to see his confidence increase on the field.

We planned a end-of-season party after our game on Saturday but the temperature dropped a lot that night and it was windy and damp.  I made cupcakes and we were ordering pizza but we cancelled the pizza and did a quick good-bye giving all the kids a cupcake and their trophy.  I wish we had been able to do more and say good-bye to each kid but at least it was something.

I made the cupcakes and put soccer ball and rocket toppers on them that I made.

The team was nice enough to give Missy and me each a Target giftcard as a thank you.

Caleb's family also gave us a separate card and charm.

Aidan's dad works for Reckitt Benckiser and gave us a bunch of their products (Lysol, Air Wick, etc).

(We really appreciate the gift, but Brian asked if he would have gotten cleaning products as a gift if he was the coach :) ).

We only got one coach's plaque and Missy was nice enough to let me have it.

I plan on coaching again in the spring.  I believe the Y tries to keep the teams the same for the spring season.  Missy though is not going to coach due to Will's lack of interest.  She may sign him up again in a couple of years.