Hayes did awesome his second soccer season. His first season (in the spring) his skills consisted of distracting teammates during games by pointing up at flying airplanes, hunting for ladybugs, and telling his coach he was hot and needed a drink. He was good to kick the ball during practice, but games was a different story. We were considering it a successful game if he just ran in the back of the pack of kids. He loved it though and said he wanted to do it again.
So we signed him up again. He had the same coaches, Chris Orme & Rich Doxey and this time instead of signing up with a league they just offered to have a practice once a week and then one game a week on Saturdays. I think there was about fourteen 4 & 5-year-olds and they would split them up into different teams every Saturday. I don't think Hayes found a single ladybug this season but he did end up kicking the ball a lot during the game, even making a goal or two most games. He also picked up on some of the rules and was a stickler on 'Out of Bounds' and would yell 'out of bounds, out of bounds!!' to his coaches if the ball went out. Even if they wanted them to keep on playing since the ball goes out a little too often with kids this little. Hayes would stop the ball and make them kick it back in. Now to get him to be a stickler on keeping the rules at home! We're proud of him for keeping at it and improving so much. He is really excited to start playing again next season!
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