Water polo Summer Rec League

This week has been exhausting and filled with all ranges of emotions. Swim meets, synchro meets and a waterpolo tournament all in one week. So so so hot 🥵 and sooooo long! Lol I’m so proud of my kids. It’s not easy My boys fought hard and played 4 games in the championship finishing 5th place in the city. I love watching Mason keep his cool in frustrating situations he never gets visibly angry and I really respect that. (He certainly did NOT get that from me 🤦🏼‍♀️🙈) I also love how you can see his love for this sport almost every second of everyday. Haha This is the first time I've seen Mason's skills in a game setting. Because of Covid we haven't been able to watch him play much. I really looked forward to these Saturday games and I REALLY loved sitting in the stands and hearing parents from the other team say things like "Who's that #6?! He's a BEAST!" or "Don't let #6 get the ball!" Mason's friend Kelsie came to one of his games and at the end of the game she went up to him and said something like "Mason! I knew you liked water polo but you never told me you were really good at it!" Haha

Noah is another story. Waterpolo isn’t his favorite thing in the world but whether he admits it or not I KNOW he enjoys it. And probably one of my favorite things ever is to see sweet kind Noah flip a switch and the aggression comes out. That said he was abused at this last Friday night's game. There were a couple of bigger players beating on him and playing really dirty. (Just a bunch of sore losers) Bullying is NEVER ok. And I have to say I was really close to jumping in the water to drown the punk myself. One of the hardest things for me as a mom is to see my child hurting and traumatized. I don’t like feeling helpless. That was NOT ok and momma bear came out 🙈 He was really shaken up and upset. It just broke my heart. 

Noah woke up early Saturday morning refreshed and ready to play hard. I’m so proud of him and I hope that he learned from this. Learned to stick up for himself, he learned to NEVER be like that and to hold his head high.

I have teamed up with a couple moms to push for waterpolo to be started in the high schools. It’s going to be a long road but I’m excited and very optimistic about it. I even recruited my nephew visiting from Texas to help me out with the IT stuff. He’s so awesome. He helped me get a google form and a website up and running to gather statistics and info. Thank you Corbin!!

This was one of the coaches fort Mason and Noah. His name was Skylar (I'm spelling his name wrong but that's how it's pronounced). Skylar was so nice and kind to my boys very uplifting and stood up for my boys (mostly Noah when he was getting beat up in the pool. Skylar would go inform the refs and was very vocal about how that was not ok.)