Becca's Soccer Team

So my daughter, Becca plays soccer with Parks and Rec in Blount County. She has been with the same coach for 4 years. Her team is the green team in the co-ed division for 13-16 year olds.

Today they played the blue team. Before today's game her team was in first place in the league.
Usually they are in last place, but the kids on the team got tired of getting laughed at by the other teams.  So, they have been playing very hard this season just to get in first place. She even has a player from Alcoa High School on the team who thought that this league was a joke at first.

Well they were so confident that they were going to win that they let the other team score.
The final score was 1-1, but that dropped them into second place with 3 games left to go this season.
I asked her how she felt about second place.  She replied, "Second is good, but we wanted first to show the other teams that we can have fun and win."

All of the kids are on this team for fun not to have to win. They all think of each other as a family not as rivals. The tie today was a big lesson for the team.