Soccer

Conner started playing city soccer this year. 

He has played for a few years on a super casual church team, but we wanted him in something a bit more structured so we put him in the city league. And he loved every single second of it!

He got put on the Warriors team with some awesome coaches and he learned so much and progressed a ton over the season. The Warriors had an almost undefeated season with 7 wins and only 1 loss... and even that was a very close game that they almost won.

In this particular game, he was playing defender, and his team was doing so good, the ball was never making it down to him on the other end of the field.  While he was bummed he didn't get to play as much in that game, he was pretty excited that they won.... again!

Conner with Coach Natasha and Coach Robin

His coaches were amazing. At first I was worried they were too strict and that they didn't remember they were coaching a bunch of 7-9 year olds, but I soon saw their structure and strict way of doing things paid off and it didn't bother Conner a bit. He learned a ton from them! They practiced twice a week and he learned to play forward, defender, and midfielder. When I asked him which was his favorite position to play, he told me all of them.  His coach did a great job of rotating him through different positions so he could learn how to play each one.  At the end of the season his coach even asked if Conner was going to play again in the spring and if he was, he wanted him on his team and told us how good Conner was (especially for being almost the youngest on the team) and how he had progressed so much over the season and had so much potential. Conner can't wait to play soccer again in the spring.

Conner is also going to try Basketball this winter. He's never played it before, but wants to give it a try. This kid just loves running a playing and is willing to try pretty much anything. He's awesome!