Saturday's first soccer game was action-packed. Hence, the giddiness-err, I mean-appropriate sideline encouragement. Soccer Chick had some great plays including bulldozing two girls who came straight for her and thought they would easily stick a foot in and interrupt her dribble. I was fortunate enough to be filming this particular play-action and when we got home and watched the playback it was decidely ESPN worthy. Girlfriend was dribbling and literally did plow into girl one, two seconds later girl two met the same fate and she dribbled on.
After sitting idle since the fall season ended in November, she and her team have some rusty spots to work through. They are making a little noise about their coach this season, since he's returned from last season and left the quiet, nice guy behind. Most of our parental-sideline chatter involved remarks about how this guy was no longer playing around with these girls. We love it. The kids are being whipped right into shape. First game of the season they took home a stellar 6-0 win. And it was very entertaining to be in the cheer section with so many of our regular soccer-friends, parents of girls that have played together for countless seasons.
Sunday afternoon found us enjoying a lovely church worship service and off to lunch with some friends. We then quickly shuttled ourselves from that to the track at the high school. In all my giddiness (I reluctantly own the title) I had us there early. I could have promised the email said 3pm start time. With the sun blaring and not a drop of shade around, we sat high in the bleachers awaiting an actual 3:30 start to the first track meet of the season. Each track session starts with a warm-up lap around the track. Youngest never fails to leave his group behind and can be seen passing kids way older than him as he tirelessly completes the lap. His track meet included the 50m and 100m. Bball Girl, being slightly older, did the 100m and 200m. Bball Girl received her first ever ribbon for track for smokin' those poor girls in the 100m. I captured a photo of her extremely tired self holding her ribbon with pride. And she doesn't even know what she's doing yet. She's got speed for sure. Watching them both run it seems she might be an excellent sprinter and Youngest seems to be better at long distance.
I was fortunate enough to capture some footage, although a little jumpy. The sun was directly in my eyes and it was a little hard to zoom in and out as they moved quickly. But, don't count this old girl out. Next week I'm ready with a cap to block the sun, proper positioning for excellent filming, and hoping for lots to cheer about. Let's go Chantilly Youth Association sports! I promise you I have a lot of other things going on in my life. This stuff is just fun to write about.
