Ashley played on her school soccer team this year. This was her first time ever playing competitive sports, she has always just played recreationally. It was a good learning experience for her and I think she enjoyed being part of a school team.
Her team took 3rd place in the conference tournament. They were a pretty good team and did have a shot at the championship. The conference league is really interesting. It basically consists of half Oswego schools and half Aurora schools. The Aurora schools are more inner city and the Oswego more suburban. Basically, the way it works out is that the you have a huge talent gap between the Aurora and Oswego schools. This means that for teams like Ashley's they spent half the season killing teams from Aurora, beating them 8-0 and the other half of the games against other Oswego schools were very, very close. No middle ground really.
We had a great time going to watch Ashley play and cheer her on. I'm pretty sure she will try out again next year. The whole next year thing is a little up in the air, with the school boundary change, half of the team will be going to a different school next year as will the coach. It will be difficult to replace some of the really good players. As for the coach, I can say that many of the parents are NOT sad to see her go---to put it nicely, she is a different person and really just plain mean but not in a "coach trying to motivate players" sort of way, more like a "sarcastic, bully" sort of way--not really the kind of person you want as a role model for your child.
Anyhow, soccer kept Ashley and our family very busy in the spring but it was fun. Ashley chose to be #10, Grandpa Tana's number and a tribute to Pele!
No comments:
Post a Comment