End of Soccer Season

Today marked the end of the girls' soccer seasons! Sofia has really enjoyed playing once again for the Pink Pirates, and loves having about half of her team being from the original team six years ago. This season we had a big team with seven new players to the team. So, every game had about 5-7 girls on the bench. It was nice to have so many extras for each weekend game. Coach Jeff continues to be an awesome coach and he has really fallen into becoming a very competent and calm coach and the girls are so lucky to have him. Sofia still prefers to play defense and spends a lot of her time hanging out in the back field, talking to herself, singing, and making up stories. She is good at going toward her opponent if the ball comes toward her, although if the player is very aggressive, she becomes a little timid. She is becoming more comfortable dribbling the ball and passing it to her teammates if/when she gets possession of the ball.

Olivia loves being on the Rockets and we have another great coach in Coach Matt and Coach Doug. The girls are such a fun group and have become a solid team together. The season was a little tough in the beginning for Olivia since Matt would consistently stick her in defense since she is so fast and can run down the ball and kick it away from the goal. However, she was bored standing around waiting for the ball to come her way. I emailed Coach Matt about halfway through the season and asked if he could allow Olivia to play offense at times too. The next game, he put Olivia in as offense and she scored four goals! She loves to run around and is a solid soccer player and I want her to get better and also enjoy it.

It's been a great season for both teams, but we are also all ready to have our weekends back to ourselves! Both girls want to sign up for soccer again next season, but we'll see how it goes over the summer. I do love both team's soccer families and I enjoy the Saturdays hanging out with such fun people and watching the girls play soccer and have fun.

Sofia playing defense with Abbie

Olivia at the end of her game

Olivia and her friend, Poppy

Olivia's "professional" photos (taken by me)

Olivia dribbling the ball down the field (with her tongue out)

Olivia's team!

And the Rockets' great coaches!

Love this picture of Coach Doug and the team!

The "unofficial" Pink Pirates team photo