Cat's Soccer Season

Cat's soccer team had a great fall season!  They smoked everyone so much in the first three games (winning 12-0, 9-0, 9-0) that they switched things around a lot to try to give other girls a chance to score in the fourth game.  That time they only won 1-0.  Coach also jokingly blamed the close game on the fact that the game was right after the Saturday afternoon session of conference and told the girls "not to watch any more conference!" before the next game, haha.  (Though there's probably some truth to it.  I'm guessing most of the team had spent a significant portion of the day sitting around watching TV and eating junk food.  I know Cat had..)

The next game will live in infamy as the worst game of the season not only because it was their only loss (0-2), but because it was played in cold, rainy, windy weather.  The temperatures had to be in the 30s and it was just miserable.  We played the same team again a few days later on our own field and won 2-0, so we felt great about that.  Cat scored one of those goals.  The next two games were wins also (4-0, 5-1).

Cat had really great ball handling, good passes, and lots of shots on goal.  She scored 6 goals total this fall.  She also has the distinction of being the only player on the team to get a yellow card, haha.  The ref called a legitimate foul on her at the beginning of the game, but the second foul that earned her the yellow card was completely ridiculous.  She was dribbling the ball toward the goal and the defender was running alongside her and fell.  I'm not sure how Cat would have tripped an opponent while controlling the ball, but oh well.  At least she was able to play the rest of the game.

Cat still mostly played forward, but was a back-up keeper and spent time at defense and midfield too.  Her teammates also elected her to be a team captain again this year.

(I shared this video once already but it's the only one we have of Cat scoring this season,

and this seems an appropriate place to include it...)