Tanner's Soccer Season

Tanner had another season of soccer. This kid really lights up on the field. It is wonderful to watch. We couldn't do the original league we planned on due to his broken collar bone. Thankfully, our area has lots of options. We found another league that started later in the spring that he could play. This time around, he was with 6-7 year olds. A few of them were actually from Ashton's class at school so he was with Kinder to 2nd graders. We had several neighbor kids on the team, which was fun to continue to build those friendships.

The league limits each child to three goals a game. Once Tanner made those, he could only pass or play goalie. He actually really liked that challenge. I think there was only one or two games where he didn't make 3 goals.

The league also had a tournament at the end. Tanner's team made it to the championship. The other team scored first and then Tanner made a goal to tie it up. This sent the game into a shoot-out to determine the winner after the game time ended. Tanner volunteered to be goalie for the shoot-out! Ahh... the pressure!!! He stopped the first five kicks so then the league rules say they just do single shots until someone makes it and the other team doesn't. The opposing team made one and won. Tanner was heartbroken. He's been undefeated in soccer since his fall season (13-1 if you ask him what is record is). So this loss was really hard. We were missing a few other good players, which hurt our team. Joseph was the assistant coach this year so that was fun. 

He is already counting the weeks until his next season starts. He really wanted to join a competitive league, but we decided against it. First, he is 6! And it's expensive. And he wouldn't be able to do other sports. He has a basketball camp next week so we'll see how that goes. He schedules his life out according to his sports seasons. Tanner is such an active kid.

I cropped out the rest of the team for the team picture. Picture about 7 more kids with big smiles, celebrating their second place spot. And then Tanner, inconsolable from the loss. It was rough.