A Goalie in the Making

Madison started soccer a few weeks ago. This is Madison's 5th soccer season. Her team color is orange and they picked out the team name Orange Crush. She has practice on Monday evenings and games on Saturdays. Every other Mondays she goes to a skills camp with other teams. Duane is unofficially assistant coaching. It's just as much fun for me to watch him out there coaching a bunch of first grade girls as it is watching Madison play. I think it gives him a little taste of what my job is like. Madison loves playing goalie and she is pretty great at it. She saved about 9 goals at her first game. She was a little out of shape and got wore our running around on the field. I think she likes goalie partially because she doesn't have to run around as much. It's so great to be doing things outside again. Although it was cold, cloudy and windy at her first game. The girls were troopers. It was still better than last year's first game. We had freezing rain. When my umbrella was not turning inside out, freezing rain was dripping down the handle and into my shirt sleeve. It was not a pleasant experience. She also figured out that she can save more goals than she can score them. She likes to show that she is good at something. We are really trying to convey to her that soccer is a "team" sport and how important it is to work together. As the season is progressing, she is getting more confident and more in shape. At last week's game she scored 2 goals and saved 10 goals as goalie. The coach from the other team coached her in the fall. He joked with her that he was trying to get her thrown out of the game by the third quarter. She had a good game today. Mallory sat in her stroller yelling "Go! Go! Go! It was adorable! Molly is a good sport about going to the games. She'll get her turn to play this fall. Madison played really hard and scored another goal. Every seasons she learns more and gets a little better. We are just happy that she is having fun and still enjoys playing soccer. She plays until the first Saturday in June. Hope some of you can make it to a game this season!