Carter's team (with Brian coaching) is practicing on Wednesday afternoons. It was so cold that first practice but all except one of the kids showed up.
The second practice this past week may have been even colder. Rylan ended up sitting in the car for the second half of it.
Carter's team has 5 returning players (including Carter). They lost their really strong player and most of the new kids haven't played before so I don't foresee them winning most games like they did last season (not that anyone keeps score). But I think they will do fine and still have fun!
Rylan's team (with me coaching) is practicing on Monday afternoons. We had to cancel our first practice because we had an ice storm that day but squeezed in a make-up on Friday (the day before our first game).
We also had good weather for our second practice last week.
I have 6 returning players and 6 new players. I feel like my timid returning kids are doing better this year and that my new kids are okay. We definitely still have a young team and don't have any ringers, but I think we are in a little better shape this season.
The first game of the season was last weekend (March 8th). Rylan had a game at 10 am and Carter's was at 11 am. Rylan has much earlier games this season (no more 1 pm and 2 pm games during nap) so I think the season will be much better for that reason alone.
My group of kids definitely got beat by the other team. The other team had one super good player who scored probably 20 times (the others didn't do much). I think the 2 teams on the other field were much more evenly matched and both scored about 4. However, Rylan did score the only goal for our team on our field! Yay!!!
This often happens ... kids on the ground and the others still trying to kick the ball (and the kids on the ground). There isn't much to coaching games but I'm still having trouble getting parents to volunteer to coach our second field.
I like these two pictures of Rylan. I think he got tired of having to walk back to mid-field again after the one good player on the other team scored again :)
But Rylan stayed happy for the game and never game up. I'm so proud of him for that! Last year he would get upset when he got knocked down or the ball was taken from him and (at least for this game) he got right back up and kept playing this time.
Rylan, Rocco, Owen D., Kenner, and Owen M.:
Rylan's team had a bye this weekend and then there are no games next weekend because of Spring Break. Hopefully a couple of weeks of practice will help us be ready for our next game!
Carter did okay his first game. He didn't score but he took the ball down the field several times before having it taken away. He did take a few shots but they were wide (it always seems like a kid will stand in the goal like a goalie making it difficult to get the ball in). Carter just wasn't very aggressive and so he didn't contribute as much as he could have.
However, Carter was a completely different player in his game yesterday! He played about the same for the first quarter. But then he scored one goal. And he couldn't be stopped!
I love the look on Campbell's face behind Carter!
Goal!
Goal, again!
Carter scored 6 or 7 goals, we lost count. He just started getting in there instead of standing back and watching. He seemed to figure out that if he kicked the ball out of the crowd of kids and then went to it, he could take it down and score. We know Carter is good and that he's a fast dribbler, but he just doesn't get aggressive. Unless he scores once and gets addicted to it :) So proud of you, bud!
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