Tuesday's Stories

Cara, Team Coach, Red Division- “I love the red division because the kids are hilarious and awesome. The kids actually had attention spans for the most part for the curriculum and drills. And they call it curricu-William which  I thought was awesome. Their dreams for their families included: going to Hawaii, going to the park, and for dad to come home.”

Sam, Assistant Coach, Blue Division- “Okay, so I got to help nominate our king who was Abdullah, and I felt so proud. He’s just great. He shook hands with people. We had new team members. He welcomed them- was really into it. He wanted to share about his family and his pet turtle in Algeria. So I learned a lot of cool stuff.” 

Joyce, Assistant Coach, Orange Division- “So the queen of last night from the orange division was Ruth. And today she learned to dribble with her outside foot. And she just showed me how she did and she was like ‘Woah I just did the whole thing with my outside foot!’ And I was like, ‘Did you just learn that today?’ And she said, ‘Yeah you just taught me!’ So it was pretty cool.” 

Nick, Team Coach, Green Division- “So today we had one drill that looked like a real soccer team playing and running a drilling across the field which was awesome. In addition to that during curriculum, at the 2 minute warning we realized that no one had filled out a dream bubble because we were having so much fun talking with each other. So we managed to distribute markers. Everyone filled out a dream bubble including some of my kids helping other kids think of things to do with their family because they weren’t that that creative. And within 2 minutes we had our dream bubbles filled out, taped down, and all set. All thanks to kids helping each other out, so it was pretty sweet.” 
 
Nia, Lead Volunteer, 3-5 year olds- “We made puppets today, and I thought about bring one up here to show you, but I forgot. But we also played soccer! So at first we were just playing kick the soccer ball into the goal. And we were just in a line, and everyone had his/her turn. But then one of the boys who was probably on the older end said, ‘We want to play a game!’ And so I’m like ok! I don’t really know how to play a game, but we can try. So we separated into two teams. One team was Spiderman Soccer Team or something. And the other one was Fire. So I don’t think they knew which team they were on in the end, but it was basically chase the soccer ball. So it kind of turned into football and then fight over it. And then start over. So that was really nice.”

 Grant, Lead Volunteer, Registration- “Well registration went really well tonight. If you haven’t heard, we had 200 kids on the field tonight. That’s a really big deal. Give yourselves a round of applause for just being a coach and dealing with that. One of the issues last night was that we had to turn away some kids and waitlist them. But today we were actually able to invite some of them back for this week. We thought that we weren’t going to be to invite them back at all, but being able to be at the registration table tonight and just see how much MORE enthusiastic those kids were. They went from the disappointment of last night and not being able to come to a few of them being able to come tonight. Seeing that enthusiasm was really really cool. That was probably the
highlight of registration tonight.”  
  
Evadne, Lead Volunteer, Teens & Volunteer Check-In- “We had 100 volunteers (you guys) last night. 101 today. It’s a lot of name tags, so when we came, Doug, Andrew, Yvonne, Erik, Belinda, Kameron, and Leslie helped sort all those name tags. And later tonight, Belinda and Kameron and Leslie, who weren’t even registered to help, scanned the field for trash and helped with volunteer registration to make it smooth. So I just want to shout out to all those awesome teens that helped out.”

 Katie, Lead Volunteer, Parent Pals- “Hey, I’m Katie. Steph and I are on the Parent Pals team. So basically we get to walk around, talk to the different parents, and hear their stories. We were just really honored to hear the different dreams that these parents have for their families. One woman in particular told us about her story. She moved from Colombia and they had to come here for safety and just sort of the adversity they went through. And how they just kept working through everything that happened and got to go to law school and get their masters. It was just a really uplifting night.”