Soccer Season Kicks Off

The boys enjoyed soccer so much in the spring that they begged to do it again this fall.  The fall soccer season is sponsored by the Air Force (versus the Marines for spring) so I dutifully went over and signed them up during the registration this summer.  Well we waited and waited to hear from a coach, and then the week before the practices were to start I started receiving emails from Youth Sports.  Emails like, we're still missing some coaches for the 9/10 year olds and the 7/8 years olds (Cannon and London's age groups).  So finally, Friday afternoon before the practices started on the following Tuesday, Stevie and I relented and volunteered to be coaches for London's team.  They were the last team left to need a coach!

So Stevie, with his 14 years of soccer experience, is well suited for coaching soccer.  However me, with my 2 seasons worth of spectating, am not so well suited.  But I'm up for a challenge and so am taking careful notes of how he runs practices and games for when I have to step in when he's on call.  Wish us luck!  Go Dragons!

Yesterday the season kicked off to a mud bath - it's been so rainy here this summer.  I wish I had taken a before and after picture of the kids, but for once I didn't have my camera on me.  I can tell you that the uniforms took 3 times through the washer to get clean and cleats look like this...

The net results:  Cannon's Scorpions lost 1-0 and London's Dragons tied 5-5.  It was pretty brutal in the heat so the kids did a really good job.