Jennifer's favorite sport ended this week-soccer!! She played on a different team this year as she wasn't old enough to move up yet with her old coach and team. But she(and I) made many new friends this season and we had a great season under the coaching of Coach Hector. The win-loss ratio wasn't too great, but they learned a lot and worked together so much better toward the end of the season. A couple of times the girls played the parents and siblings and that was always a lot of fun.
Then last night, Jennifer got the honor of being the ball girl at the women's soccer tournament at Kennesaw State University. It was the final game between Belmont College and Mercer. Jennifer met one of the KSU coaches who gave her instructions -she was to give the ball in her hand to the girl when it was kicked out and then go retrieve the other ball. It was a lot of fun for her and an interesting game to watch. One of the Mercer girls actually did a flip with the ball to throw it in each time. I have never seen that before!!Below is a youtube video of what I am talking about if you are interested. It was really cool to watch "The big girls" play. They play very hard. The game was SOO close. At the end of an hour and a half game, it was tied 0-0. They played 10 minutes overtime, still 0-0. Then 10 more minutes, still 0-0. Then they went to a shoot out where each time got to try to kick the ball in the other goal as many times as they could in 6 shots. It came down to the last ball kicked, and Belmont won 2-1. Mercer actually dominated the game, but in the end it was Belmont's win. We all enjoyed it!
During the breaks, we would throw the ball to Jennifer to see if she could block it. It was a nice way to finish up the soccer season.
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