Opening day of fall sports, which is always both exciting and stress inducing. I have to admit, it is nice only having to worry about two kickball schedules this season. And somehow we lucked out and have no nights with two games. We do have three different stretches with three games in three nights, so we\u2019ll still be busy. Only having two kickballers does not mean we\u2019re not busy, though.<\/p>\n
M\u2019s team begins defense of their spring city title tonight. We\u2019ve heard two of the teams on our schedule have been practicing four nights a week to get prepped for us. Our girls first and only practice will be the 30 minute warm-up before tonight\u2019s game. Cocky? No, just too many schedules to manage. Plus the head coach said, \u201cWe won our title, I\u2019m going to give them a break.\u201d Oh, and they only practiced once last season, and that was before their playoff game. In fact, I think they\u2019ve had a combined four practices over the past three seasons. This is standard for these girls.<\/p>\n
C\u2019s team has games Tuesday and Wednesday. This is a big year for them, playing in the top division of the 5th\/6th grade group. It\u2019s also the first time this class has played together as a true A team. This team drives me a little crazy as they have the potential to be really, really good but there\u2019s something about C\u2019s class that doesn\u2019t quite work. There are good players who cry if something small goes wrong. Another good player who, once her meds wear off, will literally stand in the field and stare at people on the sidelines until you yell at her to pay attention. C doesn\u2019t have either of these problems; she\u2019s tough as nails and always locked in. She will cry after she\u2019s been hit by a rocket in the face for the third time, but also refuse to come out of the game. However, she\u2019s not the alpha like the girl who has lead M\u2019s team since fourth grade. She\u2019ll lead by example but not crack the whip and get everyone in line. I think this team needs that alpha to maximize their potential.<\/p>\n
C is still running, too. Officially she has three cross country practices per week, but with kickball she\u2019s generally running just once. Her first meet is this weekend, the annual relay that kicks off the CYO season. That will be a good start as between weather and kickball, she hasn\u2019t run in almost two weeks.<\/p>\n
L\u2019s soccer team begins practice tomorrow. Some weeks they will practice twice, but for the next few weeks I think it will just be one night. With the crazy CYO sports calendar – short seasons, girls basketball in the fall – she actually had her tryouts for basketball yesterday.<\/p>\n
We do have another addition to the family activity schedule: M has decided to cheer. Well, I should say the alpha in M\u2019s class decided to cheer and drug along about half of the class. M told us this last spring and we kind of laughed, rolled our eyes, and thought, \u201cYeah, we\u2019ll see.\u201d Then when sign ups rolled around, sure as shit, that group still wanted to cheer.<\/p>\n
There was much eye rolling amongst the parents of the group about this. None of these girls have cheered before, and we believe most of them have no interest in doing it in high school. It\u2019s just another activity to do together in their final year at St. P\u2019s. Several parents expressed disgust at the idea of hanging out at cold football games in October to watch their girls cheer. Another, who coaches other sports, said it was a complete waste of time. And these were moms complaining, which cracked me up.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve come around to the idea. M was excited about it, she\u2019s with her best friends, and it gives her something that is hers. We know it\u2019s tough for her to be the older sister to two siblings that are known through the school for their athletic achievements. I\u2019m glad she is having fun and just hope she doesn\u2019t get dropped on her head or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Opening day of fall sports, which is always both exciting and stress inducing. I have to admit, it is nice only having to worry about two kickball schedules this season. And somehow we lucked out and have no nights with two games. We do have three different stretches with three games in three nights, so we\u2019ll still be busy. Only having two kickballers does not mean we\u2019re not busy, though. M\u2019s team begins defense of their spring city title tonight. We\u2019ve heard two of the teams on our schedule have been practicing four nights a week to get prepped for us. Our girls first and only practice will be the 30 minute warm-up before tonight\u2019s game. Cocky? No, just too many schedules to manage. Plus the head coach said, \u201cWe won our title, I\u2019m going to give them a break.\u201d Oh, and they only practiced once last season, and that was before their playoff game. In fact, I think they\u2019ve had a combined four practices over the past three seasons. This is standard for these girls. C\u2019s team has games Tuesday and Wednesday. This is a big year for them, playing in the top division of the 5th\/6th grade group. It\u2019s also the first time this class has played together as a true A team. This team drives me a little crazy as they have the potential to be really, really good but there\u2019s something about C\u2019s class that doesn\u2019t quite work. There are good players who cry if something small goes wrong. Another good player who, once her meds wear off, will literally stand in the field and stare at people on the sidelines until you yell at her to pay attention. C doesn\u2019t have either of these problems; she\u2019s tough as nails and always locked in. She will cry after she\u2019s been hit by a rocket in the face for the third time, but also refuse to come out of the game. However, she\u2019s not the alpha like the girl who has lead M\u2019s team since fourth grade. She\u2019ll lead by example but not crack the whip and get everyone in line. I think this team needs that alpha to maximize their potential. C is still running, too. Officially she has three cross country practices per week, but with kickball she\u2019s generally running just once. Her first meet is this weekend, the annual relay that kicks off the CYO season. That will be a good start as between weather and kickball, she hasn\u2019t run in almost two weeks. L\u2019s soccer team begins practice tomorrow. Some weeks they will practice twice, but for the next few weeks I think it will just be one night. With the crazy CYO sports calendar – short seasons, girls basketball in the fall – she actually had her tryouts for basketball yesterday. We do have another addition to the family activity schedule: M has decided to cheer. Well, I should say the alpha in M\u2019s class decided to cheer and drug along about half of the class. M told us this last spring and we kind of laughed, rolled our eyes, and thought, \u201cYeah, we\u2019ll see.\u201d Then when sign ups rolled around, sure as shit, that group still wanted to cheer. There was much eye rolling amongst the parents of the group about this. None of these girls have cheered before, and we believe most of them have no interest in doing it in high school. It\u2019s just another activity to do together in their final year at St. P\u2019s. Several parents expressed disgust at the idea of hanging out at cold football games in October to watch their girls cheer. Another, who coaches other sports, said it was a complete waste of time. And these were moms complaining, which cracked me up. I\u2019ve come around to the idea. M was excited about it, she\u2019s with her best friends, and it gives her something that is hers. We know it\u2019s tough for her to be the older sister to two siblings that are known through the school for their athletic achievements. I\u2019m glad she is having fun and just hope she doesn\u2019t get dropped on her head or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[147,137,98,37,30],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cheer","tag-cross-country","tag-kickball","tag-soccer","tag-youth-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13365,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/13365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}