Soccer

Hey Everyone! I bet you've been wondering if we'd fallen off the edge of the earth yet. Nope! It's more like we've fallen into soccer season and have hit the ground running. Needless to say, things have been quite busy. We are surviving, but after 3 weeks now, we are getting pretty tired. This last week alone we had practice Monday & Tuesday night. Drove up to a game in Suwon on Wednesday. Had an away game on Friday night. And had a home game on Saturday morning. Whew! These next 2 weeks look pretty brutal too with lots of games but I think if we can make it through them, then we can make it through the next month after that as well. Needless to say, both Eric and I are REALLY looking forward to Spring Break in April.

So an update on our teams... After 3 years of coaching soccer, Eric has become quite knowledgeable and, in my opinion, is a great coach! And, I have to say, that if I didn't have his help as much as I do, things would NOT be going well for me. He is such a blessing and support to me as I endevor to take my turn at head coaching as well. I do have an assistant coach, but neither one of us are very knowledgeable about the sport. For those of you who don't know, the reason I am coaching this year is pretty simple. When you are at a small Christian school, short-staffed by 7 people, no one else knows soccer, and most of the other teachers have taken a turn already coaching all the other sports, you do what you need to do so the school can keep going and so the kids can keep enjoying the sport while at the same time learning about God. Plus, I enjoy the fact that this is something Eric and I can do together instead of me sitting at home every night waiting for him to get home from practice.

Currently both of our teams have 1 win and 2 losses. Eric has 14 players on his team and I have 11! Actually, one of my players can only practice and play 1/2 of the time so sometimes we have to play with 10. Not fun! Although... our game that we won was actually with 10 players. I also have several injured girls as well. So please pray that I don't lose any more girls and if possible, 1 or 2 more would join us so I can have a full team AND subs!

So here are a few pictures from our Saturday game yesterday. Enjoy!

Grace is my assistant coach.