T's first goal!

T has been playing basketball for a couple years, and has done gymnastics as well. This spring she decided to try her hand at soccer.  (W played in the fall, so this is W's second season of soccer). Its a bit harder for T to start this now though, because even though she is only in 4th grade, lots of the other girls have played before, or been playing since they were in pre-k like W. She is working on learning the rules and the fundamentals of the game. I think she is doing good, although I can tell she doesn't always know what's going on or what she's doing because I'll see her talk to her team mates and they'll direct her her what position to go to (which is good that they are working together and communicating). She can run really fast when she wants to, which could be really good in this sport. But... she doesn't seem to be very conditioned yet, so she gets really tired and then will walk instead of running down the field. She hasn't seemed to learn yet to 'bring it' no matter what. Hopefully, with some more running and practicing she'll get more conditioned and be able to push herself to give it her all. In the league she is in they have goalies (W doesn't) so even though they may bring the ball down to the goal, with a goalie playing against them, it is much harder to get a goal. In their first game last week, they led the whole game, right up till the end where in the last 2 minutes they lost by one point. This week, they played their second game and won 4-2...
T got her first ever GOAL!!!!!!!  It was very exciting and I was so happy for her and so proud of her!  Way to go T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So cute!



That's T in the white jersey with black leggings and long sleeved black shirt underneath on the right in the foreground. In this picture she's ACTUALLY running!  (She gets tired a lot and we have to yell at her to RUN  lol)



T dribbling the ball