Soccer Season

Ethan has been playing soccer for several years now, and he really loves it.

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This summer he participated in a week-long soccer camp, with a group of young men from Great Britain coaching the kids. I'm sure it wasn't just their cool accents, but the kids really loved the guys and Ethan seemed to really learn a lot from the camp. We will probably do it again next summer.

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August started practices with Ethan's local soccer team. He was doing great, with a fun team, until one week ago when we got his team's game schedule for the season. Every single game was scheduled for Sunday! I had been under the impression that about half of them would be, so I figured Ethan would just have to miss those games, since we do not participate in sporting events on Sunday.

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After contacting the league to see if there were any other teams that Ethan could trade into, that didn't have all-Sunday games, we came to the difficult conclusion that we would have to find another league to participate in.

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So last week we got Ethan signed up with the Northwest Christian Sporting League, which does not hold any Sunday games, and also does not hold any practices on Wednesday nights.

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Ethan went to his first practice and we were happy to discover that the coach used to live in our Ward, and his wife's family is still in our Ward. Almost his entire team is LDS. His coach is amazing!!! We love him already! He is so supportive of the boys.

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Ethan's team is called the Vikings. The team mom made iron-on transfers for the boys' T-shirts, giving each of them a ferocious-sounding name. Ethan's name is Frenzied Warrior. Saturday was the Vikings' first game!

They are playing on a full-size field, so there was a lot of running!!

Our Frenzied Warrior fought bravely!

They had a great game. Unfortunately they lost, but we were proud of them!

We are looking forward to this entire soccer season, and all the exciting games out in the rain!!