This summer we signed Carter up as a free agent with WNSL and he would either be on a team of all free agents or added to a team that needed more players. We had a friend from soccer (Ian) who also signed up as a free agent and the boys were together on an all free agent team. Unfortunately the dad that got picked to coach didn't want to do it and didn't put any effort into it. He finally organized a practice a couple of days before the first game and then only had a couple more the rest of the season. Brian really hates coaching basketball but would have done it if we knew it was going to be that bad! There were some reasonably talented kids on the team but they didn't know how to work together and struggled since most other teams have been playing together for awhile.
The boys played double headers for 4 weeks in June. They only won one game (and it was against a girls team with the same aged players). Carter isn't a strong basketball player but he really enjoys it. He did good but it was a frustrating season. He finally scored a basket his last game - yay! He tried really hard though and I think he had fun.
Basketball has been a tough sport for us to find a good league that fits our boys. We even had the boys in two different leagues last year in an effort to find one we liked. We need something a little more recreational or a league with coaches that want to teach the kids the sport instead of finding their couple of good players and letting them do everything so they get the win. We are thinking Brian may coach this winter and we'll have the boys play on the same team since they are in the same age group this year. We liked the league Rylan was in last winter best so far so we'll probably do that one. We'll see. We have to get through fall soccer and baseball first!
I took a few pictures of Carter on the last night he played. They aren't great, but here they are!
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