Soccer

Chicky-Babe played spring soccer this year after taking a 2 year break from it. There is a very small window of opportunity to make it onto a really good team around here as we quickly learned. It seemed like we weren't even going to be able to play at first, but another girl's mom offered to coach if we could gather enough girls to complete a team. It was sketchy and we ended up borrowing a couple 6th graders, but we finally made a team. The girls had practices twice a week and games both Saturday and Sunday of every week for a month solid! They worked their tails off on that field. The Strikers' season ended sadly today with a record of 7 losses and 1 tie. They were only skunked really badly twice. The other times it was by a point or two and it wasn't for a lack of trying!

As frustrating as the season was, Chicky-babe isn't giving up though. She and Big Daddy went to a U of O women's soccer game last weekend and had lots of fun. Afterward, there was a free clinic for anyone who was interested. The U of O players showed them some basic drills they use in practice and gave everyone a chance to try to score a goal against an Oregon Duck.

She also has an opportunity to get some free coaching from one of the other girls' dad who has lots of experience in soccer. He offered to coach any of the girls from her team who wanted to learn over the summer for no charge and there were at least a couple other girls who seemed interested. I think we will be back at it again for fall soccer and THIS time we will be one of the first to register for a team! Soccer babes ROCK!