Sunday, June 7, 2009

Our Soccer Princess

Kella started playing soccer this summer. She's never played before, but since her brother was playing basketball she wanted to do something and thought soccer looked fun. We let her know that there would be a lot of running ... but this didn't dissuade her. So ... we took her to buy soccer cleats, pads, shorts and her own pink soccer ball.

She has never played before ... so it has been a lot of fun learning how to dribble, pass, shoot and all the other soccer rules. She has great ball control and has picked up on the game really fast.


All the running hasn't been too big of a deal for her. She's tired after the practices, but can really move and keep it moving the entire time (it probably helps that her father is on the sidelines yelling "encouragement" at her the entire time).

Her team put up a good showing at their game on Saturday, but fell short of the victory. Kella played goalie the 2nd half of the game and no one scored on her. She blocked quite a few shots and didn't let anyone intimidate her (way to go girl!!!). It's fun watching her learn the sport and push herself.

4 comments:

Alison said...

That is the cutest soccer player I have ever seen! I am so glad she is enjoying it.

Dunklees said...

Love the pink soccer shirt! Have fun!

Lani said...

That is such a cute picture of her against the wall!
Way to go as goalie!! That's one tough job!

Marlo said...

Way to go Machella, glad your having such a great time playing soccor!!