It's Over!

Well, the AYSO regular fall season is FINALLY over! No more practices from 5:30-7pm Monday through Friday (Yes-we had practices 5 nights a week--4 kids playing on 4 different teams, 3 of those kids/teams practicing 2 nights a week! All of this interspersed with Basketball practice 3 nights a week, Basketball games 2 nights a week, scouts, and dance. Oh, and don't forget Homework!!)

But, it's over! The kids/teams tuffed out the FREEZING, WINDY, Threats of SNOW Saturday to play their last games. Poor Mom, she had to work, stuck all day in the climate controlled, 72 degrees, and NO wind, hospital with tiny little babies!

Now, there is just soccer practice for Katy (& Coach Denny) 3 nights a week, and only for an hour for the next 2 weeks. Then we get to go to Las Vegas, Baby!! Denny and Coach Kevin have gathered 18 U12 girls to take to the Las Vegas Mayor's Cup Soccer Tournament on the 25-26th of October!

Soccer, Soccer, Soccer (the season is almost Over!)

Saturday, we spent the day in Winnemucca, Nv! Of course, it was for SOCCER!!!

Katy's team played in the U12 Tournament, playing against 9 other AYSO teams from Winnemucca, Elko and Fallon. The day started out a little grey, a bit breezy, and kinda cold. The wind picked up here and there, never comeletely dying off. Thankfully, the rain held off until the very last game at 4! Then, it got CoLd and a little wet!

They played 3 games to determine who would go to 'finals'. The Hot Chilly Peppers (Katy's team) won their first 2 games and lost their 3rd. But, they played well enough to make it to the playoffs for 3/4th place! They played hard, and held their own, placing 4th!

It is still amazing to see the skills and improvements from last year (U10), through the summer tournaments and through their regular season of AYSO Soccer. We are very proud of Katy and her teammates. They played some awesome games!

Soccer Season is here!

Elko's AYSO Fall Season has begun! Because of our climate-AYSO plays 8 weeks in the fall and 8 weeks in the spring. We usually have 3 weeks each season of Extremely COLD weather, 50% of the time in the SNOW!!!

And we are going, going, going, going!

Denny, CrAzY man that he is: Coaching U6 Girls-Sophie's team 6-5 year old little girls;

It has been a few years, since we've watched the little ones. It is so funny watching them move in a tight little pack, from one end of the field to the other, all huddled around the soccer ball! And it doesn't matter whose goal net it is, if you kicked the ball and made it in! Yeah!!

Assitant Coaching U8 Boys-Ben's team at 8-6/7 year olds, over half of the team is still in the 'flying airplanes' stage! Or, occassionally, they prefer to play 'Rock-Paper-Scissors' during the game!!

Assistant Coaching U10 Boys-Asa's team, although since Asa is trying basketball this season, they have not made it to very many practices, but they DO make it to the soccer games!

And, one more! Assistant Coaching U12 Girls-Katy's team!

Now, since we did the competition team this summer, it was presumed by some, that Denny & Kevin (the Head Coach) would try to 'stack' their regular, recreational soccer team with the competition players. The players that improved their skills 100% over the summer. So, they refused our offer to help coordinate the age group-find coaches, sort the players onto the teams, etc...

Well, we got an AWESOME team, anyway!! Probably FAR better than we would have if WE had sorted the teams-we usually give ourselved the newer players! We have only 4 of our competition players, the rest of our team has stepped right up and done superb! We are undefeated 3/0 at present. Our First game was against a co-ed team that usually runs right over our players (at least they had in the past!) We Stomped them!!!

And, we are signed up to attend an AYSO tournament in Winnemucca, NV, with our reacreational team-mind you, and it looks pretty good that the team will win!

WoooooHooooO!

Basketball-are we surprised?!

Of course, Denny's whole family has played basketball, for generations! Now, Asa's carrying on. Asa has been practicing for the past 2 weeks, and this evening was his first game!

The basketball program is run by PAL (Police Athletic League), and the 3rd/4th grade league does not keep score or any type of stats. They just learn to play the game! So, I couldn't tell you what the score was, although I can say that our players need to practice the actual shots!

But it was a lot of fun watching these 8-9 year old boys running up and down the court, LOTS of travelling, some dribbling, and more than expected shots at the basket! Asa is very good at defending. And he seems to LOVE guarding the other team's players!