Williamsburg Cup

While Zoo and I were chilling in C'ville at the (indoors and raining) Sunburn Tournament, Amity and Wes braved the rain in Williamsburg, VA for her first ever tournament. This one was mostly travel teams, however after a season of near total domination of our local challenge league (advanced rec?), she and her fellow teammates on Royal Courage were ready for some real competition. They went 1-1-1, which is not too shabby all things considered.....

Sunburn 2021

No sunburns at this year's tournament because it was in the 50s and raining all weekend, and on top of that we played at the Field House which is more or less indoors.

Z's team (who I sub-coached) took silver, posting a 2-1 record in the preliminary round and then losing a somewhat crushing game 3-0 in the final. It was still scoreless at the half, and they were down one of their better players, so we can all dream it would have turned out differently. In the end, however, the players seemed to have a fair bit of fun, and they played some pretty good soccer. Out of 11 players, 6 are "seniors" (several actually gradated the year before but as it's a U19 team they had one more year to play) so this was their last hurrah in the youth league. It was a pretty good note to go out on, and all things considered the fact they were able to play a normal-ish (7v7 instead of 11v11) season was a real silver lining to the thunderstorms of the previous 14 months.

Not throwing away my shot!

Zara's brought our household covid vaccination up to 5/8ths! Again with the million thanks to SCIENCE and SCIENTISTS and the FDA/CDC etc for the EUA on 12-15 year olds. Now can we please just include 11 year olds?

Kline's Dairy Bar

What's sweeter than a 3-2 victory over archrivals Sky Blue? A full team trip to Kline's Dairy Bar, of course, which is pretty much one of the only reasons to be in Waynesboro.

(photos courtesy of Lindsay Friesen who will always be known as Coach Mrs. Dr. Jane's mom in our house)