Update on What's Been Going On

Practically every weekend since the last post on here, I've been busy with games. Not to mention every week, three times a week, I have practice. As you can see, commitment is pretty big for my team. We practice on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless we don't have practice on one of the days. In that case, we would have practice on Wednesday as the replacement. We do lots of different drills and small games with the girls that show up to train. For example, if we do somewhat of a passing drill, our couch will give us a certain number of passes to complete and the last group that finishes has to run somewhere. Obviously, nobody wants to lose so that's what gets us motivated and then the practice turns out to be a blast
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The picture above is a demonstration of a passing drill we sometimes do. The person that's standing alone receives the ball from one of the other guys and passes it to another and so on.

My team has been doing fairly well in our games because we've really improved on our communication and possession of the ball. In the image below, you can see that the blue team has control of the ball whereas the red team is defending and unsuccessful at retrieving possession. It's very important to maintain control of the ball in games because that's how you get goals.

Our standings right now are 2-3 or somewhere around that. We started off a bit unstable because everyone had just come back from high school season so everyone had to readjust. Believe it or not, different teams have very different playing styles and it's difficult to switch back into old habits quickly. On the brighter side, as I previously mentioned, our communication and control has improved immensely.

This past weekend, three players from my team, including me, were asked to play with the older girls because they were low on players for this weekend. We stepped up and played a great game but unfortunately, the ending score was 2-4. However, the team that we guest-played for never gave up and continued to fight and we got those two goals in the second half because we wanted to get back in the game. In my opinion, that's where my team struggles. Whenever we're scored on first, we lose confidence and don't play as well. I think we should definitely keep our heads up no matter what the score is.

 Here's a picture of a girl on the older team and me locking our arms because we were acting as a wall to prevent a goal from happening. This is from the game on Saturday.