Indoor Soccer

Carter is playing indoor soccer this winter and Brian is coaching his team.  He is playing with the Williamson County Parks & Rec and they play at the Crockett Indoor Arena (which is less than 10 minutes from our house).  The field there is huge so the kids play 5v5 plus a goalie.  Carter's age group is 7 and 8 year olds so this was the first year he was old enough to play.  Carter's friends from school and his outdoor team, twins Charlie & Whit, wanted to play with us so their dad is the assistant coach.  After starting the team off with three 7-year-olds, Brian drafted the rest of the team in December.  He was at a bit of a disadvantage with starting his picks in the 4th round (and having the first three kids being young) so we aren't the best team.  But we have a nice group of kids.  There are five teams total in the league - 2 are really strong with a lot of kids from a select program and 3 (including Carter's team) are a bit more average.

All the teams got to have two 40-minute practices before games started this week.  That wasn't much time for Brian to team the kids how to play indoor (some haven't even played outdoor since they were little)!  Games are two 18-minute halves with subbing on the fly (there are 10 kids total on each team).

Carter before his first game ...

Kicking off with Charlie ...

Carter's team did well.  They lost something like 20-0, but they were playing the BEST team in the league (at least half the kids on that team play on a select team together and are still practicing a few times a week - not sure how they pulled that off with the draft!).

Here's a short video (I didn't get to film much with having to chase after Grayson the entire game - he is wearing me out!!!).

Carter's a little tentative still but got much better the second half.  He's scared to death to play goalie and had 2 quick goals scored on him when he played just a few minutes at the end of the game to replace a hurt player.  He still had fun and his team is playing a much more equal team tomorrow.  Hopefully our kids score a few!