Celestial Confessional: Viewmont Girls Lacrosse 2011

The Lacrosse season started and I've had two games so far. I started conditioning for it in January (not fun) and we started using our sticks in February. Last year was our first season, and we had about 18 girls on the team. Two of them only showed up to get their pictures taken and to get their uniforms so that they could tell everyone that they played lacrosse (losers). This year, there are about 36 girls on the team. Instead of being an only JV team, we had to have a varsity team and we got just barely enough girls to have a junior varsity team too. We didn't have try outs, they just put us where they thought we would do best. And I wasn't very happy with their decision that they made at first.

Everyone from last year's team was put on varsity.... except me. That's a downer. I was so mad, I didn't want to do lacrosse anymore. They put two freshman and two people who've never played before on varsity, but not me. I was on their first ever team, and if it wasn't for me then there wouldn't have been a team because I got Sammy to do it too and if neither of us had done it then there wouldn't have been enough girls to play. I paid for it too, I paid for all my gear and registration with my money from Lagoon and my mom was the treasurer. And they decided to put me back with all of the beginners who don't know how to play lacrosse. Thanks, I feel good about myself. I had a rough couple of weeks: it was hard to see all of my teammates from last year playing without me and doing scrimmages and learning new skills while I was left with all the new girls and got to learn how to throw and catch all over again as if I hadn't been doing it for over a year.

However, now that I've played at JV play day and have played two games with them, I've discovered that I LOVE being on JV. All of the girls are so nice and really fun to be around and have picked it up really quickly. I didn't really like some of the girls from last year's team and a lot of them are really cocky. Also, I didn't get to play very much last year. I was lucky if I got to play ten minutes in a game. Now, I play most of the game. The past two games, I played the entire first half and then sat out for only about three minutes in the second half. I also get play new positions. I used to just play offense, but now I play A-wing which is pretty much mid-field, and they had me play D-wing a couple of times too. Also, the girls on the team actually pass to me. Last year, they rarely passed to me in a game even if there wasn't a defender within twenty feet of me and they had five on them. During my first game, I played two new positions and made my first ever legal check during a game and I switched to my left hand a lot which is pretty tricky to do. It's going to be a great season.

Since there are now two teams to coach, we got a third coach,Brandon Supinger. He is our new JV coach, and he just graduated last year I think. I really didn't like him at first, but I'm starting to like him more and more every week and he's getting better at coaching. He used to just stare at us while we practiced, but now he actually gives us feedback. He's also in my ward. We got our ward boundaries changed and he was added in. It was a bit weird when I found that out.

Anyway, here are some pictures from my first two games. I will post more as the season progresses. I'm # 13. Enjoy :)