Tuesday, March 3, 2009

...but track has begun

Posted by sheliplus5 at 1:03 PM




Technically Chelsea's high school soccer season is still going on, but we try to just ignore that. This poor kid has sat the bench her whole senior season because of her new crazy coach thinking that she is lazy and a quitter (not to be confused with the last crazy coach that she endured for the last 3 years)! Unfortunately, soccer season starts first but then overlaps track season. Because the high school has endowed all power to the coaches they get to decide if, and when, she can attend track. If she quits soccer UIL rules will not allow her to compete in track. Poor Chelsea has had many a sleepless night (and even more days of being so sick to her stomach that she can't eat) worrying about having to talk to the coach. After Chelsea talked to the coach, the girls athletic director and then the two of them together she was able to broker a deal that allows her to attend track practice half of every practice time. Sadly, this is at the cost of any remaining goodwill her soccer coach might have had. 

So we have already had two very cold, for Austin (55-60 but it's been windy!) track meets. So far these have coordinated perfectly with Emma's volleyball. The first was in a town just a few minutes from where Emma was and the second was when Emma's team had a bye.  That is just how lucky we are! 
Here's to hoping that Westlake Girls Soccer loses in the first round of playoffs and Chelsea can then go on to a wonderful last year of track!! (Just incase you are thinking that we hate sports and/or coaches ~ we love track and our wonderful, wonderful track coach.) 

pic 1 - Chelsea (red and blue) running in the open 200
pic 2 - Chelsea just clearing the high jump bar
pic 3 - Chelsea actually cleared this time too it just looks bad from this angle
pic 4 - running up to the bar

 

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1 Comment:

  1. Unknown said...
    March 4, 2009 at 4:33 PM  
    Way to go Chelsea! Laugh at the coaches. Their loss,, what do they expect their teams to do to play? Your work at getting to be on both fields sure shows the lawyer in you.

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