Still struggling with blogger and pictures. I might have to start a new blog:
Anyway, here is Amanda during their team's award ceremony. She was awarded the 'Pretty Player' because she always had bows in her hair! They gave her pretty barrettes!
The team...
Here is Amanda during her scoring drive!
Yes, she scored in the last game of the season.
Can you see why the decision to quit soccer was so difficult?
This man is the club trainer, Danny Rennie. He's so funny! He's from Belfast, Ireland and says the funniest things. He coached our last game for us and had parents on the side lines laughing uncontrollably.
So, you know the decision was to stay with this team. The club replaced our coach with Kelsee Baird. She plays for the REAL soccer women's team. She was fun, but flakey. She is only 20 years old and when she found out the coach doesn't get paid, she changed her mind.
I got a call from our now current coach one Saturday night late. He's from El Salvador and his name is Melvin Marius. Amanda won't let me say Melvin when I am talking about him....she doesn't like his name and I have to say coach instead.
He's hardcore. We had 2 practices the first week he was our new coach. He makes the girls do pushups when they miss something. He also makes me do all the communication for the team. It's a lot more work than I was expecting. I have numerous phone calls and emails everyday about this team.
But, the girls are super great and coach is excited about the talent on the team. We play a tourney in a couple of weeks. Amanda has to miss almost 2 weeks of soccer for her dance team's summer intensive classes that start Monday. I just hope coach doesn't make her do too many pushups for missing practice! Carry on!
