Declan - The Goalie

Declan was goalie in today's game. He had a blast.

He did really well too. His team only lost 5-1 today. That's a huge improvement.

He wasn't supposed to be goalie until next week. The kid that was to be goalie today backed out at the last minute. I was planning on coaching him this week on how to play goalie in lacrosse so he'd be prepared. I had 5 minutes to explain what he had to do. He did really well squaring himself to the play. Turns out he didn't need the coaching at all - he knew exactly what to do. He made a bunch of great saves and gave the opposition little net to shoot at.

All this traffic in front of the net did not intimidate him.