Samantha played soccer again this spring on team Spirit coached by Clay and Seton – same team she’s been on since kindergarten! This season we lost a player or two but picked up several others that were great additions – and mostly all friends of Samantha’s so that was fun! The season starts early spring and they had some cold practices…

Unfortunately at the second game of the season, Samantha hurt her foot and ended up in a boot for two weeks and missed a game.

More unfortunately, it rained and rained and rained. I think they ended up on only getting to play 4 of their regular season games because of the weather. It kept raining and they just ran out of time to make up the games! They did play in the end of the season May Madness tourney out at the Hoover Met. They gave it their all but were playing against Academy teams that were just better. I got some great pictures though!

At the end of the season, several of the girls decided to go to the Academy tryouts and decided to join the team, including Samantha.

That means the end of our awesome rec team that has been together for 5 years – bittersweet but I’m so thankful to her coaches for all the years of effort they put into the girls. They really prepared them for Academy and, most importantly, made them love soccer!

On to new soccer adventures. Long live the Spirit / Dream Team / Narwhals / Glitter Unicorns / Sparkle Unicorn Sprinkle Marshmallow Blueberries / Blueberry Cupcake Sparkly Princess Unicorns!