Joel's soccer team is The Fightin' Irish and though they have no concept of the origin of their great name they still think its funny. And all of their uniforms are way too big so it is as if they are little leprecan's in human uniforms. We were interested to see how Joel would do in his first organized sporting game ever! Being a parent is full of interesting anxieties.
So here is most of our team. Coach Tim, who is touching Lucas Schippers shoulders in the pic., Maggie with the dark hair, Breanna with the light hair, Joel in the foreground and Alia is playing goalie so she's not in this picture. We have two other players but Joseph is on vacation and Zack has a broken arm he'll start in a few weeks I think.
Now, the Jaguars had a good run on us in the first half but the fightin' irish weren't going to go down easy. I like this pic because it looks like Joel is getting pummelled by #8's ponytail. Alia and Maggie are the only two kids on our team that have played before but Lucas has the advantage of an older brother and he was great and scored 2 goals!
Now "soccer" is what we call it but you could call it "bunch ball" if you want. Really they all just chase the ball around the field. There was a classic moment in the first half, The ball was kicked out of bounds and the Irish were to throw it in. So coach Tim said "Breanna go ahead and throw it in" so she proceeded to pick up the ball run all the way to the goal and "threw it in" the goal (Ignoring all the adults yelling "stop breanna"). It was awesome!
In this league of angelic 4-6 year olds there is no official score but lets not kid ourselves all the parents are really keeping score.....so.....after a tough first half the Fightin' Irish came back and tied the score 3-3 (Maggie scored once and Lucas scored twice)! And we were a man down all game, and two down at one point because someone had to go "potty." Joel played goalie for awhile and had 3 saves! Nice work Joel. Coach Jeremy picked Lucas as "player of the game" and everyone got capri sun's and fruit snacks afterward........what a great day! Look (because I know you are all intersted) for the recap of next week's game against the Killer Bees.
Joel's soccer team is The Fightin' Irish and though they have no concept of the origin of their great name they still think its funny. And all of their uniforms are way too big so it is as if they are little leprecan's in human uniforms. We were interested to see how Joel would do in his first organized sporting game ever! Being a parent is full of interesting anxieties. 
So here is most of our team. Coach Tim, who is touching Lucas Schippers shoulders in the pic., Maggie with the dark hair, Breanna with the light hair, Joel in the foreground and Alia is playing goalie so she's not in this picture. We have two other players but Joseph is on vacation and Zack has a broken arm he'll start in a few weeks I think.
Now, the Jaguars had a good run on us in the first half but the fightin' irish weren't going to go down easy. I like this pic because it looks like Joel is getting pummelled by #8's ponytail. Alia and Maggie are the only two kids on our team that have played before but Lucas has the advantage of an older brother and he was great and scored 2 goals!
Now "soccer" is what we call it but you could call it "bunch ball" if you want. Really they all just chase the ball around the field. There was a classic moment in the first half, The ball was kicked out of bounds and the Irish were to throw it in. So coach Tim said "Breanna go ahead and throw it in" so she proceeded to pick up the ball run all the way to the goal and "threw it in" the goal (Ignoring all the adults yelling "stop breanna"). It was awesome!
In this league of angelic 4-6 year olds there is no official score but lets not kid ourselves all the parents are really keeping score.....so.....after a tough first half the Fightin' Irish came back and tied the score 3-3 (Maggie scored once and Lucas scored twice)! And we were a man down all game, and two down at one point because someone had to go "potty." Joel played goalie for awhile and had 3 saves! Nice work Joel. Coach Jeremy picked Lucas as "player of the game" and everyone got capri sun's and fruit snacks afterward........what a great day! Look (because I know you are all intersted) for the recap of next week's game against the Killer Bees.
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The Killer Bees stink. The Fightin' Irish would have to put up much of a fight to win...hahaha!
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