Fall Soccer 2013

Ben played another season of soccer - this is his 4th season now. His coach was Craig Weston (whose son, Nick, has been on Ben's team for two other seasons and was also in Ben's class last year at school). He moved up to U-10, which means he started playing on the bigger field using goalies and off-side calls. Ben took a turn as the goalie a couple of times at the very beginning of the season. He did pretty well, but I think he would rather run the field. As the season went on he was better about running hard through the whole game. He scored a couple of times (once on the last game of the season, along with a good assist too). He loves it. We've thought a little bit about getting him signed up with a competitive team because he seems to enjoy it so much, and although AYSO is a great program, it is run by all volunteers and I know he could improve his skills more with a private program. We'll see - he likes the friends he has made on these teams and enjoys the more relaxes environment too. He got this crazy rash under his skin guards after about the second or third game. We put cream on it and guaze over it. It seemed to improve for a while and then it would flare up again. Then it really started to dry up by the end of the season. Hopefully it will go away soon.