Fall Sports

We have been busy with sports again this Fall.

As if we don't keep Ashlee busy enough with school and piano, Ashlee was on TWO volleyball teams this Fall.   

Here is the MacLaren school A team.  Gabe helped as an assistant coach.

And here is the YMCA team, along with Ben.

Gabe was the coach of this team.  

Why did we have Ashlee on both teams you ask?  Well, it was for Ben. Ben has been on Ashlee's team for the last few seasons, and playing up at her level.  We want to keep challenging him by playing a few levels ahead.  But he couldn't play on her school team, and at the YMCA we didn't think he'd want to play on a team with all girls that were 3 years older than him.  So we put Ashlee on the team too.  And with Daddy as the coach, it was a winning combination.

Ashlee loves volleyball, and didn't mind the extra practice.  She really improved her serve this season, and now has a killer serve.

Ben played really well too, and helped push his team to victory.

Now lets talk about Sam.  Sam also played two sports this season.  We signed him up for YMCA soccer, where he made quite a few goals!

This is Sam with his coach.

The other sport Sam did was Cross country.  At first I wasn't planning on signing him up for it, but I noticed when we would go watch volleyball practices and games, Sam wanted to go run laps around the indoor track.  Then he told me he really likes running.  When I mentioned cross country, he seemed excited to do it.  So here he is, after one of his cross country meets.

We were super busy, making sure each kid got to where they needed to be during the week.  Kudos to Gabe for taking time out to coach both volleyball teams.  I think it was a successful season!