A Great Season

One of the many events that has quickly come and passed this fall in the life of our family holds importance for Andrew: his final game as a 4th grade football player.

Over the course of this season, Andrew began to take on many roles for his team, varying from kicker, to center, to defensive tackle. All of these roles Andrew enthusiastically embraced. Unfortunately, the season wasn't a roaring success for the boys.

Andrew's team won one game in the middle of the season, but they continued to get beaten by much bigger boys. For the final game, their team had much discussion about the enormity of the players they were about to face from Pecatonica. Two of the linesman were purportedly over 160 pounds. In 4th grade. Seriously. So, they went into the last game a little cautious.

At the game, we could see that the size discussion was correct. Look at this picture with Andrew walking and notice the size of the guy in the background. He's a 4th grader!
But on this day, similar to David and Goliath, size didn't matter. The boys played hard and won their second and final game. Here is Andrew lining up on defense. (He has the 4 on his shirt- he was number 54.)
After the game, the team celebrated with the standard Gatorade-on-coaches-head celebration-- much to what I assume was the coach's displeasure as it was freezing cold that day. Then, the team also concluded their season by awarded spirit awards to each of the boys.
Andrew received the Mr. Positive Award for his consistent positive attitude and willingness to do whatever his coaches said he should. This attitude was obvious when in the final two games, Andrew played almost every snap of the games because he was playing both offense and defense, filling in for missing kids.

It was a fun season full of learning of all sorts. I am proud of Andrew's tenacity and commitment to doing his best. What a great fall for him!