Last Galaxy Game of the Season

Courtney had her last Galaxy Elite FC soccer game of the season on Saturday.  It was in Cedar City at 9 a.m. so we had to get up and get on the road by 7:30 a.m.  Their team did a great job.  It was a physical game with a lot of parents yelling and screaming but in the end...we won!

We ended the season in 3rd place, which isn't bad at all!  She now has the summer off, kind of, and then will start again at the end of July.  The league has changed the dates of eligibility but we will still have the same basic team.  The age deadline was August 1st so Courtney was always the oldest on her team.  This season she was supposed to be a U10 because she was only 9 as of August 1st, but her team didn't have a U10 team so they played her up a year and she as on a U11 team.  This was great because she was playing with the girls in her grade.  The new rules goes by birth year.  So all those born in 2005 will be a U11 team because they were 10 at the beginning of 2016, but with the way the birthdays fall of the players, they are going to play up the team born in 2005 (so the team will be girls born in 2004 and 2005) and Courtney will be on a U12 team.  Clear as mud?  Yup, it is for us too.

Courtney is third from the left.

I noticed a couple of girls on the opposing team wore mis-matched socks.  I have always wondered why Courtney hasn't done this before.  She rarely wears matching socks!