Friday, November 9, 2012

Soccer: Will's Fall Sport


Game Ready!  Those eyes, the mischievous little grin, and that cleft chin just slay me!

This was Will's third season to play Fall soccer.  He loves it and will happily play every minute of the game if needed.

The league that Will plays in is organized through our church and most of the boys on his team were also in his kindergarten class.  He loved all the socializing with his new friends!


The boys named themselves the Cheetahs.  Our head coach (the one in the green jersey) was amazing and did a fantastic job of herding cats coaching the boys.  He started out the season coaching solo, which is not for the faint of heart with eight 5 year old boys, but after the second game, another father took pity and joined him in the ranks of crowd control coaching.  What impressed me most about the coach was that he was so positive, so encouraging, so skilled at teaching, and was great at pointing out to each boy how they were improving in their play.

Will played both offense and defense, but his favorite position was defense, specifically goalie.  It was the thrill of stopping the other team from scoring!

 Setting up for a pass.

 Please don't be jealous of my awesome photography skills.  It would have been a really cool shot if I had backed off the zoom just a bit!

Will wasn't the most aggressive guy on the team, but he also wasn't afraid to get in the middle of the pack, hold his ground, and kick the ball out of there, either!

 Score!  The celebration right after Will scored a goal to help his team on their come-from-behind victory!  Besides the joy on Will's face, what I love about this picture is that the coach is hurrying over to give Will a high five...he was always so excited for each player!

My happy boy!  Love his laugh and his smile!

This picture just makes me laugh because it so captures his funny personality!  I have no idea what he is doing, but in the background I'm hearing "just bust a move!"


It was a great season!  We won some, we lost some, we scored some goals along the way, but most of all the Cheetahs had fun!