On Thursday we made our way over to the soccer field for what we were realizing was our last home game ever. We also realized that Claire is the last of our four lady red devils (soccering, or swimming), that this is the end of a kind of amazing 16 year journey! 17, really, since Sarah got to come back and coach last year.
The can't-quite-see-it of Claire's number and surname on the grass on the hillside alongside the soccer field is analogous to the sunrise/ sunset glancingness, the quiet, inexpressible preciousness of this whole process. Families!
Warming up. This old tapering off in the north-west corner field has been the scene of many involving, dramatic, delightful family events over the years!
Claire, captaining ...
Well, we won this game against Wasatch High (Heber), 5-0. Claire, who continues to play left back, got an assist, an ankle twist that took her out for a stretch, and two fouls called against her. Pretty good, though not as good as that very vivid yellow card that she earned at the end of that last annoying Mapleton game!
Teenagers ...
This next thing is very classy. The High School brought a photographer in to take pictures of the eight kids that are graduating, and then a couple of parents blew the best one up and made these posters. Captain Claire's is extremely cool, we must say. Does this image sort of sum this whole long, winding down, wonderful career? Precise technique, sharp strategy and real, remarkable, beautiful power.
Boom!
