Monday, March 3, 2008

Indy Makes the Cut !!!!!

Indy will be playing next season for the Laguna Niguel Soccer Club BU14 Bronze team!! We are sooooo excited! And Indy will even get to be his favorite #4! I am so proud of him. Indy has worked quite hard the past several weeks to get onto a Club team.

We discovered the hard way the importance of being prepped for a sport before your child gets into High School. Sadly for Esprit we didn't know this bit of information. Students basically don't even get looked at by High School coaches if they aren't some kind of "star" player in club sports. Of course there are exceptions, I'm sure...

Anyway, after last years unfortunate negative attempt at Club soccer Indy went on to have a great Fall soccer season on the AYSO Plus team. But, we knew it would be necessary to get Indy onto a Club team this year if he is to have any type of shot at High School soccer. And he LOVES soccer, so...we have been spending much of the past several weeks at A LOT of different Clubs trying out. All of this in addition to his practices for the AYSO Spring season we signed on for.

Did I say that my child loves this sport? I haven't had one complaint about all the extra practices. Some minor grumbles on a couple of the tryouts as they weren't teams Indy really wanted to play on. But the thing is, you can't guarantee making the cut for any one Club, so you have to try them all, hope you get multiple offers and get the luxury of making the choice.