Action Shots

We are about midway through our first soccer season. It has been fun and interesting. Her poor team, The Mason Comets, hasn't won a game since the first week. They have lost the last four 1 to 0. Turns out playing 9 on 9 soccer makes it really hard to score! Her team is still a little disorganized, for instance today, at the start of our game, we only had 7 of our 10 players. 2 more trickled in late and one wasn't there. We have a handful of really good girls, but also a few that just do not want to play soccer. Their parents have them sticking out the season....but they just don't like it. I feel bad for them. Addison likes playing goalie best. She usually plays one quarter as goalie, 2 quarters of offense and one quarter as a defender back near the goal. She takes it all very seriously! The team today scored on her, and that is the first time she has let a ball in. She did a great job and blocked their first shot, but she wasn't able to get her hands on it and throw it out and they turned it right back and took a second shot on her, that one went in. She was not too happy with herself. The verdict is still out if she will play next year. Today she told me, while putting on the layers of socks and pads that she was doing gymnastics next time, because you didn't have to put on so much "stuff".


She is serious about defending her goal. And she coaches from there too. She is always encouraging/instructing her teammates when they are down the field.


She is ready to block the shot.


She got this one.


She stays attentive and ready.


Now she is headed into offense.


She was working hard to keep that ball.