Spring Soccer

We've been playing soccer in Eudora for several seasons now. We've had some decent coaches and some that were just okay. I decided to try my hand at coaching this year. It was the last time Ava and Elise would be on the same team for a while so I figured why not. I've always enjoyed sports, and although I'm still quite out of shape, I thought it would be fun to try. I was even more excited when my friend Amanda agreed to be the assistant coach.
We definitely wanted to do a good job and be organized. Our goals were for the kids to have fun, learn soccer skills and get some exercise and fresh air.
I won't go into all the details of how we planned and organized each practice - but we definitely honed in on the skills of rebounding and defending the goal.
It was awesome to see the kids really learn something and progress! We started our season with 2 losses, which wasn't much fun but we learned from each game. We ended the season 3-3 which we'll call a winning season.
Our team name was the "Dragons" and our color was dark green. We had a few chants the kids helped create. Our favorite that we used was, "Dragons, Dragons, shoot your flame. Dragons, Dragons, win the game!". We'd do this chant when we brought our hands in before each game. Another funny one we didn't use was "Dragons, Dragons, fight, fight, fight! Dragons, dragons, bite, bite bite!!"
Our last game was great! The kids did an awesome job and we won 4-0. Amanda and I were quite proud. Here are some pics from today - our last game of the season.





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Here we are telling the kids how proud we were of them for playing so hard.

Ava and Elise had fun and all this year but really aren't all that excited by soccer anymore so I think we'll try something different in the fall...like dance. Oh well, it was fun to have this experience of coaching their soccer team - even if only once.