The Quiggle Family: Soccer Practice

Tyler started this year's soccer season back in the last couple of weeks of August. He was very excited for soccer to start this year. He was full of confidence and ready to go. The fact that a couple of his friends from Kindergarten were going to be on his team only made things better. We are trying a new soccer league this year. We've left the YMCA and are now with the Snohomish Soccer League. Play is a little bit different. There are 6 kids on the team. Games are 3 on 3 and there is no goalie. I am very happy with his coaches this year. They have clearly done this before and are good about keeping practice moving from one thing to the next and before the kids know it practice is over. More on the games in another post. Here is how practice has shaped up.

Tyler's team has 6 players, 3 boys and 3 girls. The other boys Nathan and Jackson ended being in Tyler's 1st grade class well. So, they get to see a lot of each other :). I was a little worried at Tyler's over confidence before practices started. However, his confidence is well founded and I think it has given him some assertiveness he would not have otherwise had. He's been quite the soccer player this season so far. He has no problem going one on one or one on 5 and stealing the ball and breaking away for the goal. At some point he's going to have to realize he has teammates :) but I'm going to let the coach handle that and just give him encouraging comments to help his friends score too. His assertiveness and willingness to get the ball as well as his agility with the ball has been impressive. Tyler has been going through a bit of a clumsy streak (growing again I guess) and will fall down walking down the hall at home. But he's seems to have found his coordination on the field.

He is having a blast playing soccer and we are sure enjoying watching him! I can't wait for the years to come to see how this boy grows and to see which sports he chooses as his favorites.