Monday, June 9, 2008

comp soccer What the Heck?

As many have read both in Boo's post and in the previous one of mine Boo has made a comp team in soccer. Boo has played soccer since she was six and we discovered AYSO. She loves soccer and has consitantly played for eight years but it was not until three years ago that we heard about Comp Soccer, up until then she had only played AYSO.
The first year we found out she was too late to try out for any team so we promised her the next year that we would make sure to keep tabs on tryouts so that she could make a team. AYSO was just not challenging enough for her and she needed something harder to develop her skills. The next year we watched for tryouts and I still missed the team she wanted but she did try out for the Rampage team in Roy and became an alternate but never actually got on the team.
This year I promised her that we would do our best to make tryouts. During her indoor season we found out that one of her indoor coaches was started a comp team so we were very excited because she would have a good chance at this team. We kept tabs with him and he knew Boo was interested and when tryouts came he made sure that we knew so Boo could tryout.
Since we knew she had a great chance at this team we decided not to try out for any of the other teams.
The first day of tryouts went great and Boo looked like a shoo-in to make the team. Second day of tryouts all was not so well. In looking over everyones applications the coach made a discovery that Boo is too old to play on his team. Despite the fact that she has played on a U-13, 14 team all year with comp soccer she is actually a U-15 player because her birthday is in November. BIG BUMMER so we made a mad scramble to find out which teams were still having tryouts.
She missed the tryouts for the team she really wanted and there were only two teams locally still having tryouts once we discovered our error. La Rocca and Wasatch Soccer. Of course both second day tryouts were on the same day. She hit La Rocca first day and did very well but was told that the teams were pretty much set and she would probably not make the team, Went to the first day of Wasatch and there were fewer girls there so she decided to hit their second day figuring she had a better shot. Well she did not make Wasatch and was very upset thinking we had, again, missed the boat. Imagine her surprise when she actually made La Rocca. Good job.

She is on the La Rocca classic U-15 Team (this is the lowest of the teams but gives her the chance to move up if she does really well this year)Her dad and I just paid out a small fortune for her to play for the year (just under a thousand dollars with team fees, uniforms and training fees I know pick your chin up off the floor, I know I had to pick up mine). but I hope that this gives her the opportunity to improve and become a really good player and feel like she belongs. Coach seems really knowledgable and she made a few friends on the team already.

So good luck and we will post game times and such for her so that if people would like to come cheer her on they can.

1 comment:

Meemer said...

yeah, pick my chin up off the floor! but still, great job! i can't wait to see her in action!