Another great soccer season

Jake had another great soccer season this spring. At the beginning of the season, Ben refused to coach Jake's team again. His theory was that he didn't want to be "one of those dads" that always coached his son. He wanted to give someone else a shot at coaching the team. So, when nobody volunteered, the Y assigned someone on staff to do it. This woman was very nice, but she admitted that she had never done this sort of thing before, and didn't know very much about soccer. Well, Ben could only handle that for about 3 minutes, and then he was out there on that field. He has a very hands on style, and these are pictures of him "not coaching".

After 2 games, this very nice woman had a schedule conflict that left our team without a real coach. So, Ben stepped up as the "official" coach and asked his friend Ty to coach with him. They did a great job with the kids and it turned out to be a great season!

Here is the team picture

And that is my little soccer STUD!

Jake was a good sport on and off the field. Way to cheer on your team!

Jake scored quite a few goals this year. He always turned to me to make sure I saw, and I loved how Dad was always there to give him a big 5!

There was always quite a cheering section of girls with Grandma, Brinley, Soso, and of course, a very proud Mama

There were many friendships forged at the fields every weekend.

We had an amazing group of parents, who all chipped in to get trophies for the kids and have a sweet little ceremony at the end of the season. Jake was so excited to finally have his first trophy. He's hoping it is the first of many, many more championship trophies...quite a chip off the old block!