Trophies

This is a picture of the trophies we are proposing getting this year for the girls. They can be done in purple, custom engraved and are way nicer than the ones LHSA gives us. If anyone is opposed to this or has other ideas, post a comment or shoot me an email.

Big Cheers for the Mighty Mermaids!!

Well, we successfully defended out LHSA 3 v 3 Tournament Championship! Congrats to Allie, Maddie, Anna, Sloan, Taylor and Jacqueline for their stellar performance. We played two play in games and two playoff games as the number 1 seed.

We won the first two 4-2 and 9-3 and won our playoff games 2-1 and 4-0 for the final game against the Zebras! The girls definitely saved their best for last. With tired legs and bodies they really stuck it out and played one of their best games to date. The Zebras had maybe three shots all game and rarely came over the center line.

I cannot tell you how proud I am of the Mermaids, tourney girls and all those that did not play. I have seen such improvement in every girl. It makes it all worthwhile as a coach.

FYI, the "Mighty Mermaids" was not something I came up with....that is what the Zebras were calling us!

See you Tuesday, GO MERMAIDS!

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New place to send all your mermaid photos

I have created a place to send all your Mermaid photos. Click here to go to a web gallery of photos. On this web gallery you can upload all your Mermaid photos to share with the rest of us. This can be done via upload directly to the gallery or via email. Click on the icons at the top of the page to see what they do. You can also download any photos that you like.

At the bottom of the page you can adjust how you look at the photos. They can be viewed in a grid, mosaic or whatever works best for you.

I have uploaded some photos from the original Mermaids to get things started.

Let me know if you have any questions.

I'm so confused....

I cannot keep all the combinations straight that people like. So how else to solve this than with a poll!

I am making this as democratic as possible, but unless anyone totally objects to uni's period, I will make the final decision. I know you wouldn't want it any other way!

GO MERMAIDS!

Other option on uniforms

Lisa saw the uniforms and did not appear to enthused, so I thought I'd put another style on here as well.

Also know that if we get away from purple we can pretty much get any brand we like (adidas, etc...) for basically the same price. With purple however, the choices are much more limited. I kind of like the purple however.

Another option is the black short like we have now, but I am not a big fan of the black short.

The masses have spoken....

It looks like Mermaids it is... Perhaps a small change like Dan suggested like FC Mermaids or Mermaids FC.

On the uniform issue, it looks like majority says yes. Even if they didn't, we do not have much of a choice as the jerseys we have now are no longer available.

I guess the only other issue is the color. I thought red would be cool, but as Ken pointed out, there will be a lot of red teams as we keep going. However, there do not appear to be many purple teams.

This is a jersey and socks by xara soccer. I think it looks pretty cool. With purple shorts I think this would look awesome.

I have researched kits and think I can put one together for around $50. If anyone absolutely cannot do this then e-mail me and let me know.

Also, if you know your daughter will be on the team in the fall, we can start the process of getting the new uni's while this season is still going. This will help in getting sizing, etc... Soccer City will let me bring samples to a practice so we can get sizing just right.

Soccer Practice

Great game by the girls today, they are really looking good. We will practice Tuesday but there will be no group practice Thursday.

Change of Team Name

I have heard a lot of opinions on the change of team name, but the votes don't reflect it. If you do not vote, you do not count. I know that there are those out there that back the change of the name yet I have not seen any comments. What gives? Scared to stir things up? Come on, it is fun, stir away.