Travel Notes, Part 3 Of 3 -- Nothing About The Bakken -- May 26, 2019

Olivia is our middle granddaughter. She lives and breathes soccer. She plays for the FC Dallas soccer club, playing "up" one year: she is a year younger than her teammates.

Earlier this year she was asked by another team in the club to be a guest player for the team when it would play in the annual Memorial Day Colorado soccer tournament. She played with the same team last year in the same tournament.

Her own team was playing a tournament in Houston over the Memorial Day weekend, but her coach agreed to release her to play the Denver tournament with another team. On her own team, Olivia is a mid-fielder, primary a defender. On her own team she is not a striker; she does not play offense; she does not take shots on goal except by exception.

I still don't know the whole story, but she must have been moved to a striker position on the team for which she played in the Denver tournament. She scored, by far, the most goals of any player on her team.  In one of the team's 4 - 1 wins, she scored three points in regulation play and one point on a penalty kick.

In the bracket below, her team is in Bracket B, team #4, FC Dallas 06 Frontier Development League. They went on to play in the championship game which they won 3 - 1. I think she may have made all three goals, but am not sure. When I next see her, I will ask.

Link to the soccer brackets here.

Link to the homepage for the Denver tournament here.