but what if your field looks like a swimming pool?
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Yay for rain to ease our drought, but the fields are soaked. – Things don’t look much better for this weekend, but we can’t complain too much. More rain = less drought!
Thankfully we only had rain and some wind, unlike Elon University which saw their football goal posts snapped like twigs by a possible tornado.
March 6th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Looks deep enough to lose a U6.
One of my favorite soccer moments occurred a couple of days after a big rain. There was standing water in some places but the kids hadn’t played in 6 weeks because of the sniper attacks. The game was sloppy, muddy and the kids had a blast. At the end of the match, my daughter walked up to the biggest puddle and jumped in with both feet– leaving a great big mud streak up her back.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
We actually had a match one time where there was a depression about 4 feet across near midfield. It was full of water and if the ball went through it, it would stop dead as the kids went flying by splashing all the way. So we figured ‘awesome coaching moment’ – always bring the ball up on the wings! Stop going through the middle.
“But coach! We can’t splash through the puddle if we do that!”
They had a ball.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
When we went to the fields today to practice, the fields had dried out a decent amount. But so much water had come down SO fast, as the picture shows, it had washed ALL the grass clippings into these waves that were over an inch high all over the field every foot or so. The poor guys from the Rec department were trying to rake them flat so you could get a ball to roll on the ground again! 🙂 It was a losing battle! I’ve never seen the thatch that bunched up – it’s been in thin waves before but these were long hills of it everywhere. Unreal.