Coach Sam

As many of you know, Anna has been doing soccer with Lil' Kickers since she was about 18 months old. We have had many great coaches there but one stands out - Coach Sam. She started coaching Anna's class when it was still a parent participation class. A teacher at heart, she was not afraid to keep the kids in line and classes became much less chaotic and they actually started to learn things! So, we made the decision to follow Coach Sam from session to session. Whatever class Coach Sam was teaching was where Anna would be. And we weren't the only ones... we grew a core group of kids and parents who followed her around from class to class. When they tried to split our kids into two classes (one without Coach Sam) we protested - and won :) We had our ups and downs as a class - from the day almost all the kids were in tears after Coach introduced the concept of taking the ball away from each other, to the day of the first real soccer scrimmage.

One day about a month ago, Coach Sam gathered all the parents to break the news - she had just been hired as a full time PE teacher and was leaving Lil' Kickers. What would we do??? One thing was for certain, we would have a picnic to celebrate Coach Sam after the the last class!

Team Photo

Final Scrimmage

Party Time!

Coach Sam gets hugs from Anna, Jordan, Sofia and Summer

Playing in the water with Coach Sam and the presents she gave the kids

Soccer Dads