Saturdays aren't suppose to be stressful. This one was....for the parents. Today was the next round of cuts for Olympic Development for Cal South. There were 6500 girls in U11 for Cal South this year, today ODP was cutting down to 40-45 girls. We had 4 girls from our team, Toni, Brittyn, Yordan, and McKenna who all played their butts off and need to be proud of what they accomplished....while the parents stressed.
I played hockey for 11 years in the nets, a very stressful position, I coach Hockey for just as long and also football for another 11 years. Nothing prepares you for the stress of being a parent in a sport, or in a situation like this. Sure we watched Toni face penalty kicks in Tournaments, League and State Cup before. But this was something different. Fortunately for me, I was able to hide behind my camera and shoot.
The pictures aren't great because the weather was so grey and crappy. But what cut through the grey was just how much fun the girls were having, sure they were having a great training experience and then would have to sit through cuts. But this should just be about fun. So as I was shooting Brittyn for one last go around. Toni was already done, sitting with new friends, friends that she battled with as competitors during the year, reminding us this is also supposed to be fun. All I kept hearing was Toni laughing out loud.
More important than the soccer, Saturdays are supposed to be fun.
Let me take one more minute to set up the pictures, yes plural, as we see the return of Jamie as a contributor to the blog. Her picture, the first one is the official blog post...Fun. The second one is the picture I took right after the laugh out loud moment...Fun. The third is the cool ironic one of Brittyn trying to score against Toni's team while she was in the net.
Oh did I mention Toni and Brittyn made the cut?!!!!
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