Last week, TT finished up his season playing on the Freshman Sophomore Silver Corner Canyon High School team. There are a ton of kids who play LaCrosse, enough to make up two fresh/soph teams, a JV and a Varsity team. TT’s team was coached by an ex-BYU LaCrosse player and a kid who was waiting to leave on his mission who’d been on Corner Canyon’s Varsity team when they won the state championship. We spent many a Saturday either baking in the sun or freezing to death watching TT run in and out of the games, up and down the fields, make one goal, pick up multiple ground balls, beat the ball out of another kid’s stick playing defense, gain continuous bruises all over his arms and legs (enough that if someone suspected child abuse, we’d be screwed!) and enjoy almost every minute of it – unless he was really mad at the refs or the other team. His goalie memorized the Braveheart speech and yelled it to his team while pacing back and forth before each game. Just in case you don’t know the Braveheart speech:
And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!!!
The rest of the team would yell together:
Alba gu bra! (Scotland forever!)
They were a really fun and funny team of 14, 15 and 16 year old boys.
TT played Long Stick Midi (LSM) which means he would stand on the sidelines while his teammate Andre’ (a hilarious super cool exchange student from Italy who lives in our ward would get away with swearing at the refs in Italian) would face off and then he’d run in and try to get the ball, if he got the ball he could take it to make a goal or pass it and then run off, if the other team got it, he’d go play defense. He did a lot of running on and off the field and was awarded defensive player of the year at his end of season banquet (where they also gave us a ton of good photos taken by one of the dads with a great camera). 
