Monday, September 24, 2007

Sydney's Soccer


Sydney and her coach
Originally uploaded by jason_m_thomas
We enrolled Sydney in Westminster Soccer this fall for her first time participating in a team sport. She is on the Dolphins team and her coach is the guy wearing the black shirt in the background. I was nominated as the assistant coach which basically means I sit with the subs on the sideline and don't let them run out on the field when its not their turn. They play 3 on 3 girls with no goalie on a 30 yard field. Sydney is not really into it that much and just sort of runs around with the pack around the ball. This last game the ball actually went through her legs as she was running and not paying attention. Two weeks ago one girl on the other team got "hurt" and by that I mean she fell while running and started crying. It was pretty cute because Sydney was the only one of the girls to sit down with her and try to comfort her. I guess she's a lover not a fighter. It seems like each team has about one girl that's really into it and will score all the goals. Our team doesn't really have that girl and we've been beaten pretty handily even though no one keeps score. We've got until the end of October before the end of the season so hopefully we'll teach them to be a little more agressive and make some goals. Go Dolphins! (Never thought I'd be saying that being a Packer fan. Speaking of which: Go PACKERS! 3-0 BABY!)

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