Today was an exhausting trial run for Taylor's U10 All-Star Team. They played their 1st games together as a team and had a lot of fun. The league put together a mini tournament between the TVSA All-Stars and the Hawks teams. Our girls have been practicing for weeks and have really come together. We started with a 10:00 game against the Hawks U10 team and then played again at 12:15 and 2:25 against their U9 and U11 teams. Although we lost all of the games, we told the girls they had a lot to be proud of. The other teams have been playing together for an entire year and this was our 1st outing. It was good practice for our tournaments in January against other All-Star teams. 
The team with Coach Charlie
The team with Coach Charlie
Taking some warm up shots
Coach Charlie gives last minute encouragement and the line up
Taylor and Emily are so happy to be playing together
U10 All-StarsBefore game #3, the girls learned a cheer that I'm sure will stick for the remainder of the games. While standing in a circle with their arms around each other, they jumped up and down and chanted the following...
"Mirror, Mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest of them all? Pretty girls don't play ball. So let's get UGLY!"
It was so cute to watch and the smiles on their faces were priceless. I told Taylor to embrace all of these fun times with her teammates and not worry about wins or losses. I think she saw that today!
