Footie Begins
Black Belt season isn't yet over (we've got two weeks of rehearsals left before the Black Belt Spectacular performance) but footie season is now underway. Because I'm not busy enough.
We had our first game last night. The girls seem nice. The parents are mostly okay. (Well, there was the one grandmother who walked across the field IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME!) So far, there's only one girl who's really super aggressive on the field, so I think we're going to have to work on that.
The girls kept it competitive, they had the ball in the other team's end a lot, but they couldn't quite seem to get it in the goal. In the interest of fairness, we're trying something new this year and making every girl do at least one rotation in goal, so our keepers were a bit on the inexperienced side. The final score was 1 - 3 for the other side, but I felt like it was a good start for the team.
The club has gotten hardcore about not allowing requests to play with their friends (it was an administrative nightmare for them, so I totally get it) so none of Ros' friends are on the team. But we do have three girls back from previous teams of ours, which is nice. I mostly have them sorted out, except for Jamie and Julia, who are both thin-framed girls with curly blonde hair, and Christina and Vanessa, who are both stocky blondes. Fortunately, Mia and Tia look nothing alike. (Last year we had Kira, Kari and Katherine with similar builds and hair colour. That was fun for a few weeks.)
We had our first game last night. The girls seem nice. The parents are mostly okay. (Well, there was the one grandmother who walked across the field IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME!) So far, there's only one girl who's really super aggressive on the field, so I think we're going to have to work on that.
The girls kept it competitive, they had the ball in the other team's end a lot, but they couldn't quite seem to get it in the goal. In the interest of fairness, we're trying something new this year and making every girl do at least one rotation in goal, so our keepers were a bit on the inexperienced side. The final score was 1 - 3 for the other side, but I felt like it was a good start for the team.
The club has gotten hardcore about not allowing requests to play with their friends (it was an administrative nightmare for them, so I totally get it) so none of Ros' friends are on the team. But we do have three girls back from previous teams of ours, which is nice. I mostly have them sorted out, except for Jamie and Julia, who are both thin-framed girls with curly blonde hair, and Christina and Vanessa, who are both stocky blondes. Fortunately, Mia and Tia look nothing alike. (Last year we had Kira, Kari and Katherine with similar builds and hair colour. That was fun for a few weeks.)