Soccer

Soccer season started over a week ago. Daphne is also playing this fall and is very excited about it. The focus for her age group is definitely about learning the fundamentals (e.g. which goal they should be targeting). Daphne is not used to doing so much running and so she tires out easily during the games. Luckily the coach subs the girls out every four or five minutes.

 

Tyler is playing with his same coach and two of his old teammates. Unfortunately the national soccer league decided to restructure the age groups for the fall. The age groups used to be by school year but are now done by calendar year. That meant a bunch of the kids Tyler had been playing with the past two years moved up to the next age group. We were glad that the coach's son Gavin is in the same age group as Tyler because Coach Shawn is awesome. This season his team is Argentina and Coach Shawn gave Tyler the #10 jersey because he knew Messi is Tyler's favorite player. (For those not up on international soccer, Lional Messi is #10 for Argentina).

 

We were supposed to go camping with the cub scouts this weekend but they canceled it based on the rain forecast. Daphne was able to get her early morning game in but Tyler's game got rained out. Daphne's coach made each of the girls cute hair ties with purple and soccer ball ribbons to go with their uniforms.

Daphne is #7