Soccer Girls

Riley is playing competitive soccer again this season with the Utah County Rage. Last week her cute friend came over to walk to practice with her. This is the second year they have been on the team and they have improved so much since last season. They have a new coach who has helped them with their passing and individual ball-handling skills. Coach Fritcher has gotten them really excited about soccer again and besides all of the other man stuff he does - job, family, Bishop, he is a really great coach. We appreciate our kids' soccer coaches so much.They went all of last season without winning a single game. They haven't won yet this season, either, but they have been winning at half-time of every one of their games and have either barely lost or tied in the end. We decided they must have "the second half curse." It's only a matter of time, though. They will win one eventually and when they do, I'll let you know!

Here they are checking in with the refs last Saturday.
Doing their team cheer...

And some action shots... Riley plays left forward and is awesome at it. She plays the whole game most of the time and Coach only subs her out when she asks him to. She has had some really sweet goals this year. Last week she had one where she dribbled it down the field past the defenders until she was right in front of the keeper. She waited for the keeper to come out of the box and when she did, Riley chipped the ball over the keeper's head. It looked like it was going to go over the goal but at the last second the ball dropped into the back of the net. It was awesome!

Go Rage!