A Day Of Small Competitions

We haven't had a ton of good luck on the soccer field lately (at least during games) so we've decided to spend the week getting back to the basics--how to compete, why is competing fun, how can we help our teammates compete. In that spirit, we had a number of small and somewhat bizarre games at practice today. The team was divided into two groups:

The Blue Barracudas

and Team Pride

They arm wrestled (no photo available),

played towel tug of war,

did push-ups (predictably the Canadian won, all that chopping down trees and wrestling bears makes you strong),

ran an obstacle course

sumo-ed with pads,

and wrestled (which is not as weird as it may seem, I swear) .

All in all, a good time was had by all. Not to mention that we COMPETED and WORKED.

And our training staff was available to provide Gatorade and emotional support.
Thanks Nikki and Sam!