Carrie's Soccer Triumphs

In the weeks before Carrie found out she was pregnant with our first child, Carrie played for the Andersen Air Force Base Bombers, in the Guam Women's Soccer league, the highest level of soccer on the island. In her five games, she was voted player of the game three times by the opposing team's players. Playing sweeper, she reprised her role as vicious defender that she played for her college team at Western Illinois. I personally enjoyed watching her play serious soccer for the first time. I didn't know her in college, so I didn't get to watch her play at that level. So it was a real pleasure for me to watch her play. She is quite an aggressive player and has no problem with knocking down players on the other team and intimidating them into complaceny. Right before she was forced to stop playing, she was offered a spot on the Guam Women's National Team, a team ranked 75th in the world out of 126 women's national teams worldwide, not too bad for a little island 30 miles long in the middle of the Pacific. Carrie looks forward to playing with them as well as her Andersen Bomber team when she returns to fighting shape after the birth of our firstborn. Here are some pictures of her in her uniform!