Dillon's Soccer Season

I decided this year that it was best to wait and post it all together.  So here are some pictures from the fall soccer season for Dillon.  Most of his team carried over from last year, it was fun for the kids to know each other already.  Daddy took over coaching this team this year and Coach Austin did the younger team.  Dillon got to spend a lot more time playing midfield this year.  He wanted out of the goalie box, which broke my heart a little bit.  The other goalie stepped up his game some but you could still see a definite skill difference between him and Dillon.  Goalie is just a natural position for his and he outshines most of the goalies we've seen.  He was able to make 4 goals this season.  One of which was the only goal of the entire game, for either team.  Many people commented about his natural leading ability.  He tends to set the tone for the rest of the team, helps everyone play better, he lead the team but helping everyone get into the right positions and generally guided play.  Goal box or not, this kiddo is a rock star.  In my personal, biased, opinion he was the most valuable player.  You put him anywhere on the field and he could do the job and do it WELL.  Soccer has become my absolute favorite sport to watch.  We actually had pretty good weather, only a couple rainy ones and a couple windy ones.  Generally it was decent out.  There were a LOT of really fun games to watch this year.  I love having my group of moms to sit and cheer with!  We've been together long enough that we'll often yell the same thing, at the same time.  As much fun as we have doing it, it doesn't do any good, Dillon said he doesn't even hear us! His team had 5 wins and 5 losses this year.  The were often played against the older age group.  They had 3 wins and 2 loss against the other under 11 teams.  2 wins and 3 losses against the under 12 teams.  They placed 6th out of 11 teams. 

 Coach Austin, Daddy, Coach Houser
Landon, Brandon, Jude, Zach, Carter, Dayton, Angel, Issac, Aiden
Dillon, Leelan, Logan, Timmy, Aiden, Anthony
He had one more on his team, Quincy, that didn't show up in time for pictures before the game.

 This kid has NO fear as goalie.  He'll dive on top of the ball no matter how close the offensive player is to it.  He makes me nervous a lot of the time but I LOVE it!