Coachin in KG

I somehow don't think I ever mentioned it on the blog, but one thing that kept us quite busy this spring was soccer. Jason and I were asked to assistant coach a youth soccer team through King George Parks & Rec with a guy from our church who was head coaching. I grew up playing soccer so I was definitely game, but Schub only played one season in 8th grade, on a team where the goalie was also the leading scorer (?!?). I had never coached before, though, so it was a learning experience for both of us.

[My favorite story from the season is the time when the coach asked us to stand in as defenders while he had the kids running a drill. He said "give about 50%"... in other words, challenge them, but don't make it impossible to get by.  The next thing we know, Schub has the ball and is doing crazy tricks around this 13 year old girl. Me: "where in the world did you learn do that?" Schub: "I saw it youtube this afternoon and wanted to try it out.  It works!"]

Last weekend we had an end of the season pool party at the head coach's house.

As you can see there was plenty of middle school flirting to be had.

We honestly had a great time. The team was coed (only 4 girls on our team), ages 12-15 No, our team wasn't very good. I think we only won 2 games all season (though we came close many times). But it was really fun to get to know some more families in the area, to do something outside and active 3 times a week, and to hang out with the kids. Now we (including Schub who understands a lot more about the game of soccer now) are excited about World Cup time! Go USA!!