Cheetos

You can't miss these players out on the field. Every year I can't wait to see what fun color jersey Jade ends up with. The kids get to choose their own team name, usually coordinated with their jersey color. The first year she played they had blue jerseys. Their team name was the Rainbow Waterfalls. Jade came up with that one. Before she went to their first game this season, I talked to her about some good names... that you wanted a name that sounded like you could clobber the other team. They chose to be the Orange Cheetahs. Well on Saturday the other team misunderstood when they told them the team name so they cheered for the Orange Cheetos. Besides the fact that Cheetos aren't very intimidating, it fits pretty well.

The end of spring soccer is always bittersweet. Jade's team played an excellent season, only giving up two goals to the competition the whole season and it was great having Nate out there coaching. In the past he's complained about the rotation of players. Nate worked out a system so that every player had a turn playing the various positions and sitting out. Their team rarely had more than one extra player, so they all looked forward to playing goalie and defender so they could catch their breath a little. When they recruited Nate to coach I wondered why there weren't any incentives offered to coach. Well, we were pleasantly surprised to be handed a complimentary team photo on Saturday. Since I don't splurge on the photos (I stand there being tacky behind the photographer to take my own pictures), this was a nice little plus.