Charlotte

Ted my youngest (14) is on a traveling lacrosse team. He LOVES it. First off he is a huge kid, he is over 6 feet and around 225 pounds. When he played football he always had to play with kids his own size and they were usually 2 to 4 years older. Physically they matched up but mentally at that age their is a big difference, don't get me wrong he played very well and kept pace were needed. We never feared for his safety or any other issues, it was what it was and we all had a good time.
Lacrosse is different, there is no size or weight limits, it's all about the age. He towers over a lot of players and lacrosse IS a physical game. I never had it as a Florida boy growing up so I am unfamiliar with a lot of it, but we all like it.



Secondly, it is a travel team. Last weekend took us to Charlotte, North Carolina. We got in town just as a strong cold front was making it's way into town and we enjoyed some cold and frosty mornings. I think it made our boy's play even better. When we go on these trips we have dubbed it "It's all about Teddy weekends".
What this mean is Sam is at left behind covering the home front and the zoo of pets and Ted chooses everything (well almost).
He picks what we will eat, where we stay, times for arrivals and departures, and what extra activities we do. We all get a kick out of this and it all has worked out rather well.





The tournament went very well for us considering the first one was last April in Parkland and I believe the team went 1 and 4.
The team has improved immensely over the last 6 months. They won 4 games and was the #1 seed going into the playoffs but they got beat by a very good team from Atlanta.
They took the loss kinda hard.





Our next and last tournament for this team will be in 2 weeks outside of Tampa and we will look forward to another Teddy weekend. Good luck Blue Devils it's been a fun and very educational year. I know you will all do fine.

Driving a van,
Tim