Well the tournament ended for us last night after the third game and even though we lost all three games, it was a huge learning experience for the girls and they finally get to know what it is like to play in competitive soccer.

The first game Friday night as a blow-out 0-7 to Tyler Tsunami 95.  This was our first game to play competitive and the first game since last spring.  Our girls were really nervous and that played a huge part.

Saturday morning we played Fort Worth United 95 Blue and we played a lot better but started to fall apart in the second half.  It was good to play this team as they will be in our league come September.  WE lost 0-5.

Saturday evening we played East Texas Elite 95 and we lost 1-3.  This was a really good pair up and we should have won this game but we still are not clicking and communicating as a team.

In less than 2 weeks we will be heading for Austin for our second pre-league tournament.

Today is the day for my soccer team to finally do something they have been training for this last 11 months.  Finally play in a competitive tournament.  The girls all seem to be ready, and if they are not well its too late since our first game is about 10 hours. lol

I think they are ready for this challenge and we are going to use these 3 games this weekend to help us get ready for the next tournament in 2 weeks in Austin.

Us coaches are pretty excited that the season is basically beginning and the girls get to finally start playing some games, etc.

I will drop some updates after we finish up some games.

Yes I’m soliciting my daily, frequent and not so frequent readers of my site and ask them if they would like to purchase a raffle ticket.

Let me explain this.  This raffle is for our soccer club (Polaris Soccer Club - North Texas) and being a coach this raffle tremendously helps out with our team fees and our budget.  So for $5 per raffle ticket, you are helping out my team (that I coach)

Now I have to say that this is really for US readers only, as some of the items might not work in other parts of the world.

Prize List:
2 - $1000 Gift Cards to Circuit City
2 - $500 Gift Cards to Circuit City
4 - $500 Gift Cards to Shell Gas
3 - $100 Gift Cards for Albertson’s
4 - $100 Gift Cards for Outback Steak House

Drawing is September 1st at 6:00pm
Again you do NOT need to be present to win

Plus with the purchase of the raffle ticket you are helping out our team.  So what are you waiting for, order some up

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Our soccer team is moving forward after a long training streak.  This week we have finally got our team registered and then today we have applied and registered for our first two tournaments.

Basically we have until August 15th to get this team of 13 ready (maybe 14) for there first shot at competitive soccer.  We are participating in a tournament in Fort Worth that weekend, and they will probably get 3 games on Saturday alone.  I guess it just depends on the number of teams.  Then labor day weekend the team is going to head south a few hours down to Austin, TX.  This should be a fun tournament as this will be right before league play starts and we are not playing at home!  lol   It should be a lot of fun..

League play starts 1 or 2 weeks after that till early December.  So the season is starting after 9 months of hard training.

Well the season starts today.
North Texas Competitive Girls Soccer.

You can hold tryouts at any time from July 1st to the 10th.

So tonight is our first night as a new competitive team.  I really don’t think we did enough recruiting or advertising, but we will see what happens.

If no new girls show up then we might have to combine teams and I don’t think the parents really want to do that, but on the flip side I don’t want to lose the team and then they all don’t get to play.  Not to mention we have all really worked hard the last 9 months to get ready for today!

So I’m about to leave work and head on out to the field…

A team in the club I coach with [Polaris Soccer] are in the Region III Championships in RALEIGH, N.C.

Today they won 4-1 over Hurricane FC C to advance to the semi-finals tomorrow.  They play Challenge 92 at 1:30pm [est]

Good luck Polaris 92 and we hope you make it to the finals.

I started off the weekend Friday night by going out to dinner at one of our favorite BBQ places.  It was really good and we ate way too much,  I’m getting hungry right now thinking about it. LOL

Saturday morning I was off to soccer practice (like most Saturday mornings).  Today we were having two practice games against 2 teams in our same club.  Our team showed up 45 minutes to 1 hour early to start warming up, and then we started shortly after 10am.  We lost both of our games.  The first one was really bad and the girls acted like they had chains staked into the ground and their ankles were tied to them.  The second game wasn’t as bad, but still bad enough.  After the 2 games, the 4 teams that were there all had a water balloon and soaker fight. (the temps were getting really hot).  So 3 weeks till tryouts, so I hope we get some players showing up at that time to add to our team.  After soccer I ran home and then off to target we go really quick, then off to our friends house in Alvarado for some games and dinner.

Sunday came quick and off to church we go - Servanthood was the theme. (John 13:1-17) was the focus.  After that a quick lunch and I was off to work for 3 hours since we had to upgrade some of our NIC’s in our Exchange, SQL and File servers.  All went great until we realized that DELL screwed up again (this isn’t there first time) and didn’t send us the right card for the Exchange Server.  Oh well I like to work weekends (NOT) and this will just make another weekend visit.  After work it was home to relax the rest of the night!

Tonight for some reason, the league decided it might be a good idea to hold a game on a Friday night at 600pm.. hmm I don’t think I agree with them.

The game started out like a normal game then our defense let down and then our goal keeper, bam.. 0-1 we go… I start to get a little nervous since the last time we played this team we took a draw 1-1.

Then we started to get some things in order and managed to get in 3 more goals (over the rest of the game) (Heather = 2 and Brooke = 1)

We are getting better as this is our 3rd game to win and in a row. (3-2-1)
Still have a lot to work on, but we won, great job “Polaris 96 White.”