December 14th

In practice before the game we worked on trying to play as pairs or teams within the team. They all just liked the sound of this, clamoring "I wanna be a team! Who's on my team!" I was happy with how the kids took to that and during the game they really showed some great progress in understanding how to work together to move the ball around. We had good success in getting most of the kids to move to positions away from the ball so as to set up for shots. We'll keep focusing on this in the last practice/game. We always want to be working on ball skills but once the kids get the basic idea of the game the next big hurdle is helping them develop a sense for how the game moves on the field and how they can use the field, that is, how they can take advantage of the open space.
Whitney had what may be the longest goal shot on record. Luke and Mason had nice goals and Owen and Kendall both had nice assists.

December 7th

Great game today! I'm starting to see some really smart play from everybody with several of the kids getting the idea of how to play "away from the ball". Our Defense was very strong thanks to Riley.
We had goals from Whitney, Mason and Luke. Kendall had an assist! Next week we'll try to work on getting everyone into position to take a shot on goal.