Spring Sports

Our family has been busy this spring with sports.  Lyla is still playing travel soccer, Mark is coaching a boys’ travel team, and Nina is doing outdoor track.  There are weeks when the schedule gets quite busy, but Mark and I can honestly say that we really enjoy watching the girls participate in activities they enjoy.  We’re happy that they’re staying active and finding good friends on their teams.  They both have their “on” and “off” days when it comes to meets/games, but more than success in the traditional sense of sports, we love that being a part of a team challenges them physically, teaches them discipline, teamwork, and accountability.

 

Lyla still plays with Loudoun Soccer on the ’08 Girls Black team, and their team got a new coach this year.  While she misses her old coach (who moved to CA), she’s been challenged by her new coach to play a position she wasn’t comfortable with at all, but we’ve been proud of her for keeping a good attitude, doing her best, and with some time, doing a great job in her new position.

 

 

  

The team ended the spring season at the FC Delco tournament in the Philadelphia suburbs.  Mark’s team was playing in a tournament locally, and Nina had a track meet, so just Lyla and I went up togethr for the weekend.  Even though we were both under the weather from a little virus, I really enjoyed the time hanging out with our fun and funny Lyla!

    

 

Nina has continued with track into the outdoor season.  Many of the events are the same as the indoor season, but some of the distances are different. Nina has adjusted well to the changes and has been working hard at hurdles, high jump, and running form.  The training in outdoor track is more rigorous, and the athletes have to contend with the elements, but even when practices are hard, hot, or rainy, she doesn’t complain about going, and she’s still enjoying herself, so we’re happy that she’s happy! 

  

 

Lyla doesn’t come to most track meets, but at a home meet for Nina’s track club she did come.  Needless to say, she found enough to make her happy at the concession stand.