Sometimes I'm Amazed

You go through weeks of practice, and sometimes you're unsure if these kids, being so young and little, are really picking anything up.  Then they just amaze you.  With our first game only a week away, we scrimmage with the other team form our organization.  22 kids, aged 4 to 6, with only about 5 having any experience playing lacrosse.  We had to set up on an unlined field, using cones and imaginary lines.  These kids were amazing.  Following directions, and playing hard for the whole scrimmage.  If they put in this kind of effort every week, it is going to be one great, fun season.  I can't wait.  It just goes to show, that if you, as a coach, keep them interested and working on the basics at practice, they will pick this stuff up, and amaze you.