Soccer Season Ends for Dakota

This year, Dakota went out for 3 sports: football, track and soccer. I'm proud to say that he made all 3. Soccer wrapped up the year with only 5 games, but it was great to see him play again. This year was the first to have a middle school soccer team. The boys did great and only lost 1 game. Dakota is in the back 2nd from the left.

I'm so excited because Dakota remembered how much he enjoyed the game and how much he missed it due to football season. So beginning in the fall, Dakota will be going back to soccer with his old coach, Sarah, who we love! and many of his old teammates will also be returning.

He wanted to score so badly this season, but never had one, had many attempts and even more assists. He's a great soccer player!

Kru's Soccer Season Finale

Yes, the Orange Tiger's 1st season is complete!

We had a great time! and most importantly

FUN!!!!!

Of course the hi-light for this U5 team was

the trophy!!!!

Throughout the season, Kru scored several goals!

He chased the ball!

and got in the action of the game!

He excelled at his throw-ins!

But most importantly...

still enjoyed it at the end of the season!

YAY! Kru-man!!!

You are a great little soccer player!!!

Until next season!

Kru's First Soccer Game!!!

Today, Kru took the soccer field for the first time!

With great enthusiasm, he played hard!

He has a pretty good concept of the game and at least

kicked the ball in the right direction!

Half-time fruit snack! Yum!!!

No, not a headder, but a super good throw-in!

and another!

He enjoyed it and looked so cute in his little cleats,

big shorts, shin guards and socks!!!

The U5 soccer is so much fun to watch!

No stress and cheers for everyone!

Gooooo Orange Tigers!!!!!

Champions for the 2nd time!!!!!

This past Saturday was the spring soccer tournament.

We were top seeded going in and after having an

undefeated season, we hoped to have great success.

We had a 9:00 game --- we won 9-0

And then a 4:00 game --- we won 4-1

So we're in the championship game!

The last huddle up!!!

Go Thunder!!!!

We played hard, but right away the other team scored.

Going into halftime it was 0-2 --- we were losing! (1st time all season)

The boys came out after halftime and played their tails off!

We tied the score at 2-2 and had to go into a 5 minute overtime.

It was the most stressful game of Dakota's I have watched!!

And we scored with 1 1/2 minutes left!

WE WON!!!!!   3-2

Undefeated since August of 2008!!

Way to go boys!!!

Can you tell they were excited?!?!?!

Dakota with Coach Sarah!

After watching this kid play soccer for over 7 years, 

it's hard to believe that it is over!

We aren't sure if he is going to play rec soccer again!

That makes me sad, he is good and fast!!!

I hope he will change his mind, but if not, 

it has been fun watching him grow in soccer!

He learned the most in these past 4 seasons 

with Sarah than ever before!!!

Thanks Sarah!

Way to go Thunder!

Love you Dakota!!!

Soccer Tournament

Yesterday, was Dakota's soccer tournament. 

We had 2 games and possibly a 3rd if we went to the championship game.

Yesterday, was also the coldest of the year so far!  

Yes, I am from Nebraska and no, it wasn't Nebraska cold, BUT it was Texas cold!

Yes, I have turned into a cold wimp and my blood has thinned in the 3 years living here, but it was a nippy 30 something degrees with the chilly wind blowing!

We headed out to the fields around 8:30 and after warming up, they boys won their first game!

Dakota scored twice! 5-0

Dakota had a fan section at the 1st game!

Thanks Jordan, Mary, Crystal, Nichole and Becky for coming out

to support Dakota!  and helping me with Kye and Kru!

Crystal
Mary, Kye and Becky

And then we came back at 1:00 for our second game and it was a good one!  

Making one of your goals!

Nice lookin' corner kick!

It was still cold, but the boys played well and and won that game too 6-1.  Dakota scored 3 times!  2 shots were so pretty, but I was busy cheering that I didn't get a picture, but the boys were working so well as a team, passing and setting each other up!  It was great!  

We were going to the championship game!  :) at 6:30, a night game!  

I was worried that it would be really cold, but the wind stopped and it was chilly, but actually warmer than the earlier games!  The boys played well again and we won!!!  For the past 3 seasons, our team, Thunder, has been runner-up!  But this year, we are finally the champions!!!!

The boys were way excited!!!  Dakota made 2 assists and the score was 3-1.

We just won the championship game!!!

Dakota and best friend, Roberto!

We got our medals!!!!

The Score Board!!!

Way to go Blue Thunder!!!!

Soccer Season Begins!!!

Yesterday, we began the fall season of soccer for Dakota.

Blue Thunder took the field!!!

With the age bracket changing at this stage of the game, only 4 original Thunder boys are back.

Sarah and Mark are still coaching!! YAY!!!

And we've gained 9 more boys to complete the team!

Only having 3 practices before the first game, they did great!

Dakota passed several times to other forwards which led to scoring!

It was hot yesterday!  And we were just watching!

The boys were drenched in sweat!

It's hard to get back into playing hard when you haven't played hard all summer!

I wanted to post a few pictures of the game!

If you're in town, he plays every Saturday on Air Force 2!

We'd love to see you out on the field!!!

Way to go Thunder!!!!

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