Zachary Soccer Practice and Pictures
Zachary with two of his teammates waiting for team pictures.
Zach had soccer practice this morning and then team pictures this afternoon. It’s really fun being their coach, and it is quite humorous too! During the clinic and practice, the expert leader teaches them some things and then we go back and practice. It’s funny to watch them. During the scrimmage part of the clinic, they forget everything they learned and bunch up together like bees on huney and move around the field, kicking anything that moves! 🙂 It drives the leader of the clinic nuts, but they’re just in kindergarten. They’ll learn.
Soccer pictures were really quite cute. Only 5 of the 7 kids showed up so the pictures were very small. While they were waiting, they couldn’t help jumping in the water, running all over, and pulling all the loose threads off their socks! 🙂
Tonight Sarah was inducted into the Tri-M Music Honor Society at Metea Valley High School. The Tri-M Music Honor Society is the international music honor society for middle/junior high and high school students. It is designed to recognize students for their academic and musical achievements, reward them for their accomplishments and service activities, and to inspire other students to excel at music and leadership. Through more than 5,500 chartered chapters, Tri-M has helped thousands of young people provide years of service through music in schools throughout the world.
Today was quite the day. Zachary had his first day of soccer! He was SOOOO excited to go this morning! Angela volunteered me to be the assistant coach so I was involved today as well! 🙂 It’s been a LONG time since I played soccer but it really doesn’t matter that much with kids in Kindergarten. He looked so cute in his new socks, shin guards, jersey, black shorts kicking his ball around! 🙂
Tonight was a great night for Sarah and the Metea Valley Marching Mustangs! It was 8th Grade Night, and so all the 8th grade students from the middle schools that go to Metea came and rehearsed with the high school band. Sarah got to be in charge of some additional people and show the 8th graders how it’s done. She did a GREAT job!
They performed their pre-game show with the 8th graders wonderfully and were very crisp and clean as usual for their halftime show. They looked very sharp! We love the new uniforms.
Today Brittany had another Cross Country meet! She was feeling much better than she did on Tuesday and performed much better as well. She raced hard and passed 3 runners at the end. She was very excited! With hard work, she will continue to get better and better as the season progresses.
For the most part, we are very impressed with the faculty at the school. They are very dedicated to making the school a success and they seem to genuinely love the kids.
Tonight was an eye-opener for me! Sarah, Brittany and I attended a meeting at the Stake Center in Naperville where representatives from the 4 Church Schools (BYU, BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii, and LDS Business College) gave a presentation about attending these (or any other) for that matter. They also talked about the institute programs of the church in cases where a church school was not an option. They discussed tuition, scholarships, what it takes to be accepted, acceptance rates, housing, activities, sports, service opportunities, and all kinds of other interesting things. They also gave away t-shirts for correct answers to questions. 🙂
On a funner note, today was Brittany’s first Cross Country meet of the season. She was very excited but a little tentative becuase her knee was hurting her a little bit yesterday and she wasn’t sure how well she would do under these circumstances. The 8th graders run 2 miles which is an adjustment for her 1.5 mile races she ran last year. In the end, her knee was fine, but her foot started hurting and she didn’t have the kind of race she wanted, but did well for the first race of the year. They ran against Fischer which is the middle school that many of her friends who went to Still last year are going now. Great job, Brittany! Keep up the GREAT work!
BYU is now 2-0 as they totally walked over Tulane for a final score of 54-3! This moved them up to #7 in the AP Poll and #9 in the Coaches Poll! Max Hall looked GREAT and the team is very healthy! This coming Saturday they play Florida State at home in Provo! Go Cougars!
he halftime show went very well! They went out on the field and started it with the Metea Valley fight song (shown above) and then performed their halftime show, the “Magical Mystery Tour” featuring selections from the Beatles. They looked very professional out there and very crisp. Sarah really loves performing in the band this year. The band director is absolutely wonderful. She enjoyed the experience last year, but this year is a whole new thing. The director is much more relaxed, LOVES to have fun, and is great to be around. All the kids REALLY enjoy him. She also loves being a marching leader which is giving her some leadership experience. It’s great to see her out there leading the kids she is responsible for. 🙂
The football game also went wonderfully well. The Mustangs looked GREAT, especially for a team of just freshmen and sophomores! The Mustangs beat the De La Salle Meteors by a score of 28-13! Zachary was very excited at the end of the game. The starting quarterback and team captain (Jarrett House) is a buddy of his from Seminary carpooling last year. Every day when Angela would drive, Zach would come with and Jarrett would hop in the back and have great conversations with him. At the end of the game, Zach ran over and waved to Jarrett as he was coming off the field. Jarrett waved back and then ran out of his way to give Zach a high five and talk to him. Zach was thinking he was pretty cool because the star football player paid him some attention! 🙂