victory!

this is my second year coaching this club soccer team. these girls are awesome! they are so much fun, and have made tremendous progress over the past year and a half. i am so proud of them. prior to this past weekend, we had never even made it to a semi-final game in any tournament. we played so hard all weekend, a couple of nail-biting games that were sooooo exciting! we found ourselves playing in the final for the tournament win! we won the final 2-1, with two beautiful goals and an AMAZING goalkeeper save in the last minute to hold on to our win! the girls were THRILLED to get their gold medals and champion t-shirts, it was so cute! there was an award ceremony and all, where i got to call each girl up and put on their medal! one of my girls had the quote of the weekend, saying "this is fun! let's do this again!!!" haha :)

we were quick to pose for pictures...this is pre-award ceremony, and making sure everyone knows that we are number ONE :)

here we our with our t-shirls and medals! (in case you are wondering who the coach is...top row, far left)


periodically, we have a team bbq/swim party for the girls after tournaments. they always want to push me in the pool, and for 2 years i have always evaded it by saying "you win a tournament and you can push me in the pool." (knowing full-well what a long-shot that was, and i was completely safe from ending up in the pool.) you better believe my butt was in the pool on sunday-gladly!!