All the boys had great soccer seasons again. Mark still plays in the rec league with Coach Clark, and though members of his team come and go, he still has the same core. Mark still led the team, but he became more of a passer with his friend, Troy, being the receiver of most of Mark's assists. Mark scored tons of goals, as always, but to everyone's surprise, he volunteered to be the goalie once. During the half that he played goalie, he didn't allow a single goal. He even had one save where he slapped the ball wide with his hand just as it headed toward the net. Best of all, each of his dropkicks left the fans around us gasping. Some of the parents on the other team were saying, "Who is that kid? He can really kick!"
Mark also had the opportunity to referee soccer games. He worked mostly with the 8 year-olds, and he liked the girls' games best. He'd always laugh because they were so kind, stopping to help and opponent up rather than bothering to score a goal. It was a great first job for Mark, even though Mom or Dad had to attend every game with him. Since he usually did two games per week, we ended up with 5 hours of soccer each Saturday!
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| Mark always throws in. He has the best form! |
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| Mark has so much fun playing soccer. |
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| Mark and Troy (in red) are a great duo! |
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| Mark is a great leader on his team. |
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| Mark also had the chance to ref this season! |
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| Mark had a lot of fun being a ref! |
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| Mark has a great coach! We are so lucky that he's been our coach for so long! |
Dax is an old hand at goalie. He played for a rather poor team, and they didn't put together very many wins, but Dax was the star. He generally played one half at goalie and one half at forward. During his time at goalie he had to make tons of saves, and twice after games, strangers told us what a special player he was. Several times his big dropkicks led directly to goals as his team beat the other team down the field. Dax was a great forward, too. He scored more goals by double (probably triple) than anyone else on his team. One trick he learned is to wait for a goalie to let loose a poor kick and send it back into the goal. In this way, he scored a hat trick of hat tricks (9 goals) in a single game! Best of all, Dax never complained about his teammates no matter how out of position they were or how poorly they played. He focused on his own play and really excelled.
Seth played with a lot of players from our neighborhood this year, which was fun. He knew 6 of the 8 players on his team before the season started. Dad coached his team again, so he got to go to each practice with Seth. Seth played super well and scored at least one goal in every game. There were a lot of butterfly chasers on his team, which meant that they didn't dominate, so Seth had to work hard to keep his team in competition in many games. They ended up with a pretty solid season splitting most of their games and tying several. In Seth's best game he scored 3 goals including two during the final substitution that drew the game into a tie. We were so proud of all our boys for the way the played, but we were really glad they were having fun and spending time doing what they love.
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| Seth can control the ball really well. |
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| We had so much fun watching Seth lead his team. |
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| Seth scored lots of goals because he was so fast. |
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| Seth was all smiles at the soccer games. |
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Dad was Seth's coach and had fun with these crazy kids!
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