Tourney Champs!

Cold morning.  This tournament is always cold.  The forecast was predicting it to warm up into the 70s though.  Fingers crossed.  We were hoping the warmer weather would be the key to helping us finally bring home a championship.  So many seasons of coming up short in the freezing cold.

We took all of the usual pictures...

Except this year, we got to take the team photo as champs!  We won our age group.  Finally these kids got to see what it feels like to be called tourney champs!  

After months of practice.  Coming up short of the championship games, not once but twice, in our two earlier tournaments.  Dropping from 1st in our division to 3rd by the end of the season on a 3 game losing streak.  Losing to the last place team. Watching Jayke deal with a lack of playing time.   Overcoming many pulled muscles and finally fighting through 4 tough games this weekend to come out on top by beating the team that dropped us to 3rd place. We finally beat the Indy Premier team that beat us in our final two games of the season.  Finally got a trophy that wasn't a participation trophy.  Finally get to be called Champions.  Instantly all of those previous things didn't matter.

It was a great weekend of soccer.  It was 70 degrees.