So Long Socca!!!

Another soccer season has come and gone. It was a great one too!

We loved almost every minute of it!

Myah played for the first time, and had a great time. She caught on pretty quickly, and played quite aggressively for a 4 year old. She even scored several goals.Of course, she always made time to stop mid-game and pose for a picture!

Tannon had a great season too. He played on a team with a lot of his good buddies.

Tannon's strength is definitely his speed. He's pretty fast, when he wants to be.
Zac played on the competitive team again, and he has a real love for the game. He had soccer every day of the week (except Sunday), and would have taken more if it was an option. His season started out rough, since he almost immediately came down with a bad case of pneumonia. He had to miss a couple weeks, and was worried that he wouldn't get much play time after that. But in usual Zac style, he really brought it when he returned, and played the whole season as a starting defender who usually played the whole game.About half way through the season, Zac noticed that he was getting pushed down and knocked around way too much. His team played a lot of older and bigger kids, and Zac decided he'd had enough. He played out the rest of the season as one of the more aggressive players on the team. I think he did his share of pushing and knocking! It was a fun season to watch.
All 3 of the Swaner soccer stars made it through the season without any major injuries, other than a few bumps and bruises. And then, just one week after soccer season ended, Zac tripped over the soccer ball in our back yard and.....
He broke his arm just above his wrist. Bummer. But it did give me an opportunity to give him a little reminder....

So hats off to another soccer season come and gone.

Time to put away the jerseys (gotta save them since they cost an arm and a leg),

hide away the shin guards (or throw them away, if I can't get the stink out of them),

and say 'So Long Socca'! Till we meet again!