GOODBYE SUMMER!

Well Selects Fans, it's been a fantastic summer season.  We are now well on our way into the indoor season with pre-season practices and tryouts right around the corner.   

To send our summer season off with a bang here are a few more pictures to remember the time we had in Anaheim.  See you all on the indoor pitches soon!

A special thank you to all the Selects FC fans out there.  Keep the Blue Strong!!!

Coach Preston

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larger versions.

THANK YOU BELOW THE BELT

The team and the Mill Woods Selects want to again thank all our sponsors and especially Below the Belt as our primary sponsor.  This company gave us a tremendous amount of support in the way of team hoodies, t-shirts  jeans, Umbrellas, cash and much more.  

Thank you all so much for supporting our team!

MORE TEAM PICS

Here are a couple more pictures for our fans!  Thank you for all your support! Click on them to see larger versions.

THE TOWER OF TERROR

Over the next week I will be updating the blog with a more detailed account of the trip.  Most of us are back now with the last to arrive home in the next couple days. 

For now I thought I would share our AWESOME team picture on the Tower of Terror.  Please watch the blog over the next week or two to read details of the trip. 

SELECTS ON THE TOWER OF TERROR!!

SCREEEEEEEAM!   Click picture to see larger version.

SUNDAY UPDATE

Today the team played a game in the morning to see if we get to go to the gold medal game and we lost.   Thats the breaks in soccer. You win some and you lose some.

No matter the end result of the tournament everyone here is a winner in our eyes.  We had an AMAZING first season as a team and achieved way more success than people predicited we would.  Everyone should be very proud of the accomplishments we achieved in less than a year.

I know the coaches are all looking forward to how we will continue to grow as a team and players in the next indoor season.

After some pictures and a few other team housekeeping duties the entire team and parent group hit Disneyland in a serious way and had a TON OF FUN!   We managed as a group of 60 people to hit many rides such as Pirates, Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountian, Indy, Big Thunder and of course the Tower of Terror.

Everybody had a great time at the park and for me it was especially fun seeing the smiles on the faces of the girls at the park.  So much fun!

Over the next few days we will be collecting our pictures and posting some on the blog.   A bunch of us are also heading to Vegas in the next couple days too so more updates will come from there.

Thank you all for following us in this adventure over the past 11 months.  Watch the site for the next few days for more pics soon.

Coach Preston

SATURDAY UPDATE

The past 24 hours have sure been interesting and fun.  After two games one which was a loss of 1-0 and the other a win of 3-0 we are currently in second place.  As it stands right now if we win this mornings game we go to the medal match.  If we lose and the PCSC team beats Fullerton this morning we go to the medal match.   It just goes to prove that tournaments are always just crazy!

The teams down here are very good with ball handing and working together. We knew that we would see this here however I will say the teams here have awesome strikers.  Our keeper was tested alot in the first game but she kept us in it.  They snuck a weak goal on us though and thats just soccer....  As far as we are concerned the team is doing great, playing well and competing with teams that are considered Silver and Gold level down here.   Way to go girls!

Whatever happens today the coaches and parents are proud of you all girls!

DISNEY

Today will be the first Disney day as a team. We are heading out there this evening to have some serious fun , get some pictures and bond more as a team.


Watch for more updates and pictures to come.

FRIDAY UPDATE

Today was an awesome day for everyone on the team. We had a practice in the morning which was in a word, hot...... During our practice a fella from Anaheim FC was at the field checking for debris and we starting chatting with him for a while.  Southern California is apparently the soccer mecca for the US. He had lots to talk about and share ( what self resprecting soccer person doesn't  right?)
and we got a few pointers about how the teams play down here in SoCal.

The rest of the day saw the girls doing some pool activities, beach, sight seeing etc.  A bunch of us went down to Huntington Beach for the afternoon and it was Amazing!  The sun was bright, a nice wind from the ocean was there to cool you off and the waves were HUGE!  I even got in the ocean and did some wave jumping with the girls.  It was great!

After the beach 8 of the families went to a local Mexican restaurant called ElTorito.  It was a great time with good food and visiting.   Then we met up with the last five families due to arrive and got ready for the next day.

Tomorrow is the first day of our tournament so cheer on the girls as we go for the gold!

EAT AT JOES!

Today was a big travel day for the team. Many more girls came into Anaheim today and only a few more coming tomorrow.  Some of us went over to Joes Crab Shack for dinner tonight and had a great time. The girls we're a little worried if they would become the meal though as you can see below!  LOL

After dinner the girls invaded the pool and played games until the very last minute.  Everyone is so excited and ready to have fun.  Tomorrow we have a short practice in the morning and then many of the families are doing a beach day.

More updates to come soon!

ONLY HOURS NOW!!!

Practice tonight was a little light indeed with a good chunk of the team gone or going to Anaheim right now and over the next 40 hours.  Ten of the girls showed up for the practice only to have it seriously cut short by yet another evening storm.  The good part is they got to visit with each other tonight and I have to tell you all they are all PRETTY EXCITED!!

We also received our schedule today.  Our opponents this weekend will be (in no particular order):


1. Anaheim FC 98
2. PCSC White
3. Fullerton Rangers White

Win or lose this weekend we know that it's going to be fun, exciting and well worth the experience!  How much better does a trip like this get?  The girls get to travel with their friends, play in another country and go to Disneyland together!

Let's finish off strong girls.  We are all proud of everything you accomplished so far this year and no matter what happens this weekend you are all golden in our hearts!

It's going to be STUPID HOT!

Well it's official sports fans, this weekend is going to be a scorcher.  Check out the weekend forecast:

With temperatures like that the ball is going to MELT on the field.  LOL!    Thank goodness we sent our canopy down to Anaheim already!    

More to come....

IT'S GOING TO BE HOT!

Wow!  Am I ever glad that this summer has been hotter than normal in Alberta.  We had a look at the long range forecast for next weekend and the prediction is +38 Degrees Celsius during the day and +27 at night!


This tournament is going to be a hot one girls.  Bring your sunscreen!