November sports thread

[covergirl82]

What's going on this month?

[waverly]

Soccer is finally over- yay. It’s my favorite sport/ time of year but it’s getting so cold now.

Dance is ongoing. DS is doing 3rd/4th grade basketball, and I guess the draft is this weekend where they pick the teams. Hopefully we get a coach that only wants to practice 1 time a week. Games don’t start until January.

I think I should probably sign them up for 1 more semi private swim lesson. They are in groups of 3 lessons. We could do that 3 Sunday’s until the holidays maybe....

[campermom]

DS has a fencing tournament tomorrow. So far only 5 kids in his weapon. He’s Y10 but they will combine 12 and 14. He has been doing well lately. He placed 5/14 at his tournament last weekend, and he was one of the only kids not from that club.

DD is doing girls on the run and I think they have a practice 5k coming up. I have no idea how much she has run with that club. She was walk/running 2.25 with me this summer. Her 5k is at the beginning of December and I’m her race buddy!

[covergirl82]

DS had his first rec basketball game this morning (11/2), dark and early at 8:00 am. His team lost, but we don't have any expectations for this team winning. Besides, the coach of the team they played this morning decided to keep his two best players in most of the game, when coaches are supposed to give kids equal playing time. DH is coaching with DS's best friend's dad, and the coach of the other team is the dad of a friend of DS and DS's best friend. This dad is definitely making a reputation for himself as playing favorites as a coach.

DS is going to assessments for a club basketball league on Sunday and Tuesday nights. Last year he made the "B" team, and we just hope he makes that team again. DH and I don't think he'll make the "A" team, but it would be cool for DS if he did. (There also will be a "C" team and maybe a "D" team, but I would be surprised if DS makes one of those teams.)

DD is loving the hip hop dance class so far!  I'm glad she found something new that she's enjoying. 

[mommyatty]

DD had her first volleyball games this morning. Two of them back to back. They play best of 3 sets, to 25, or 30ish minutes per set if they aren’t scoring. DD’s team won all four sets, 3 by very wide margins. DD did not get the ball over the net even once, but her coach was still awesome and told her she’s going to be a great volleyball player. She waffles between “I hate it” and “this is really fun.” The girls on the team are very cliquish, as are their moms. I’m grinning and bearing it, and told DD to do the same. It’s only 4 weeks plus a tournament. Week 1 is over. 3 more to go.

Both kids are loving Taekwondo. DD took her first belt test, and she was really good! She passed “with excellence,” which means more than half her marks were As. None of the boys in her class managed that. DS is doing so well that his instructor mentioned it to his kindergarten teacher. He said DS went from last to get ready/most likely to get distracted to first or second to get ready and one of the most focused.

[mae0111]

It seems that sports has finally broke my filter.

DD2 (6 yo) played her last soccer game of the season today in the wealthy yet crunchy town where she goes to school. No one disciplines there, and I’ve found the kids (and parents) in this league to be incredibly rude.

One kid on her team went after DD2 3 separate times today. HER OWN TEAMMATE. Clipped her legs while shoving her with both hands. Overt crap. The last time it happened, DD stole the ball from the other team, and that kid was across the field away from the play. She had a breakaway and was heading for the goal, and her teammate came over and pushed her so hard with both hands - DD went down, kid took the ball, and lost it.

I loudly said, “Hey, maybe next time Susie can just punch DD in the face. I mean, she’ll get the ball faster that way.” Susie’s mom was next to me. She moved away. I gave zero sh!ts that I offended her, because if DD played like that, I’d be talking to her as soon as she left the field. Susie did not get any sort of reprimand. M

Broken filter. Making friends. 😬

[sdlaura]

DD’s soccer team finally won their first soccer game today! It’s maybe like the 8th game? They’re 2nd graders, We only have 2 Games left. So it was a long time coming, and against a team that previously beat them 5-1. It was a super exciting game, final score 3-2. It was so cool to watch them come together. DD played goalie for half (this is their first year with goalies) and only allowed one goal.

DS1(5) also did better than normal in soccer today, just in that he paid attention and acted like he actually wanted to be there. His coach told him after that it was his best game of the season. They don’t keep score yet.

So overall a good sports day! I still can’t wait till soccer is over in two weeks

[honeydew1894]

We ended soccer for DS (7) and DD (4) last weekend. DD took up gymnastics again after a short summer and fall hiatus. She has 2 of her good friends in the class so she is really happy. DS is playing basketball for the first time. His league is grades 2-3. He had his first practice yesterday, and the season wraps up by Christmas.

[covergirl82]

mae0111, can you approach the coach or league coordinator/director about that? Taking out a teammate is completely unacceptable, on any team.

And Susie's mom should have said something (e.g., "I can't believe Susie did that, I'm going to talk with her after the game") rather than just move away. Says a lot about her as a parent.

[traveltheworld]

DS's hockey team is crushing it. They won their last 2 games 13-3 and 10-2. DS is not improving as quickly as the rest of his teammates though, so I think comparatively, he's actually doing less than he did before. But he's having fun; and is more motivated to practice at home, so we'll see how that goes.

[mommyatty]

mae0111, I’m sure you know, but 6 is far too old to still be pulling stuff like that. You know, unless the kid’s parents have totally shirked their responsibility or there’s something developmentally wrong with the kid. In which case, the parent should be parenting twice as hard to teach those lessons.

[madringal]

DD1 - swim season is in full swing, and she is training pretty hard right now. This time of the season is usually really hard for her. She struggles to drop time at meets, but her friends are dropping time left and right. So she's been kind of all over the place so far this season. We just ended a series of meets over the past month and she had her best one yet this past weekend. Some new personal bests, a few season best, and ended it by swimming the mile for the first time and came in under her goal - so she was super happy with that. Got some great feedback from her coach. Now, she has 6 weeks of no meets, so lots of time to practice and put in the work for those late season meets where evr tenth of a second really counts.

DD2- her arm is still casted. So no swim or gymnastics for her. Cast comes off on the 15th. She can go back to swim pretty much right away, but we'll give it another few weeks for gymnastics. She is dying to go back to the gym though!

[mae0111]

covergirl82 and mommyatty - thanks for the support. Not my finest hour, upon reflection. There is not a lot of parenting that happens in that league, and the kids have proven to be rude and entitled (much like their parents). But DD2 loves soccer, so we keep it up.

As a coach in another league, we had a kid that was very physically aggressive. She was also respectful and polite. We addressed it with her several times each game, and she would always listen and respond politely... and then knock everyone over. Turns out her dad was encouraging the behavior, so that’s hard to correct... but at least we tried...

Saturday was the last game until spring, so not worth addressing with the coach. The coach was awful anyway, and really only concerned with his kid getting the ball. When she didn’t, she would leave the field crying, so... yeah, kind of a mess of a team. It’s the same team in the spring. I’m hoping for some maturity over the winter. 🙄

[186momx]

No changes with gymnastics since last month. DD took the first step in making a change last night. She asked her old Coach A if she could try power tumbling to work on her back-handspring. Coach A said yes but told her the class was geared towards teens so it might not work. Couple of the teens were grumbling about a little kid and then DD jumped on the trampoline and they shut up. Coach A also told them that DD was there because she was stuck on a skill and to watch their mouths. DD had a blast almost got her back-handspring on her own on the trampoline and came off it on a huge high. She got invited back for next week and is planning on asking Coach A tonight if they could do a private to work on some other skills on Monday since no one has school (coach A works at a local high school).

[divanerd]

Our last game is this weekend

[covergirl82]

Rosters were posted this morning for the club basketball team DS went to assessments for (all kids make a team). He made the "B" team, but I think, based on his position on the roster, that he was ranked higher on the team in terms of skill, which shows he improved since last year, so I'm proud of him for that. I'm kind of glad he's on this team, as it means we don't have to travel outside of our metro area in the winter for tournaments. DS's best friend also made the same team, so I'm glad they're together. He has two other friends on this team (who were also on this team last year), and two other players were on this same team last year, so mostly the same team from last year. It will also be the same coach as last year, and he's a good basketball coach, so we're happy about that.

We signed DS up for a few baseball lessons for pitching and hitting. He had his first pitching lesson last night, and the coach was impressed with DS's accuracy. (DH wanted DS to do lessons to improve his pitching form.) So that was good to hear. Hopefully DS will get more pitching time on his travel team this year. (It's both good and bad that this team has 6 kids (of 11) who are good pitchers.)