Good Morning!
I feel really good and am heading to water aerobics this morning! I am excited and then to Trader Joes for some grocery shopping.
E - great questions about Treyner. He did know they were a conservative Christian school and he is going in pretty blind obviously to the rest as he has not set foot on campus. His faith in the a lpot right now comes from talking with the coach and undertsanding his coaching style and what he wants. He is talking with a few players tonight via phone and also with the graphics profs.
He and I spent probably over 30 hours again looking at schools in the past 2 months. Hard to find a good soccer program, young team, team that needs a goalie and also has graphic art/design or also a few other things he may choose to major in since we all know majors can change. We started with looking at the ranks of the top 20 NCAA Division II teams each week and researching everybody.
Treyner wanted to leave the RMAC conference since he had seen the level of paly and met with many coaches all season. Did not want to be in the same conference as Fort Lewis. Liked Anderson's conference because it was more competitive. Usually has 4 schools in the top 20 versus Fort Lewis had 2. There was a school in WI that wanted him but he does not want to be in Wisconsin. He liked the fact that a huge percent of the team has international players of all races. Most schools did not have graphic art/design at all. Most schools were huge not smaller like Anderson and Fort Lewis and then it also came to money.
Anderson has been ranked in money magazine polls as one of the top affordable Universities in the US. They are about $8,000 cheaper right off the bat from Fort Lewis, will give him $5,000 a year for being out of state and just being a transfer student will get him $3500 a year. So before he begins - it has cut his FLC tuition in half regardless of soccer scholarship. He will have to earn a spot like anyone else but he also could travel to a few other schools in the area he contimplated and look at them if he does not like it there for any reason.
If they do not like him/he does not like them - he has another experience under his belt and will head to Dana in NE for a full ride in the fall. He is in a no lose situation right now because Dana is a for sure and he would rather not play NAIA if he can make a NCAA team. This way he has been in training at least for another semester versus if he was not kept at FLC, he would have bot been allowed to practice all spring. He has not been officialy cut by FLC - he is just in limbo and disslikes the coaching so much he is choosing to leave them. Not the practicing because he still is working out 3-4 hours a day with them - just the coaching.
As far as co-eds - they were in Las Vegas - he did not leave with them and whatever he experiences there with different points of view will be part of his maturing I guess. He did not expect to find racist rant and hatred in the middle of Colorado and has been in a few places he said made him ashamed of the human race so he is prepared that he is heading south and some people may choose to think different from himself. More so than Minnesota prepared him for sure.
His girlfriend is older - 21 and she needs next year to finish her last year as a 5th year senior due to transfering to FLC. She wants to become an attorney and work in the professional sports arena as right now. If they last, she is looking at schools in SC to see what is available. She is different than his usual picks, I actually think he is maturing in the girl department and that has me relieved! Her family lives on a ranch 40 minutes from Durango and he has met them on several occasions. In fact he is working for her Dad right now who lost his artist and creating new ideas for designs for his t-shirts and other merchandise for his company. (He owns a very successfull guitar string company.)
He described her as smart and easy to have a converstaion with when I asked him what she is like. Then went on to say 10 other things that had nothing to do with looks like driven, head on straight and down to earth. I about passed out. So we will see. She is comming here prior to New Years I believe.
She has to pass the Carsyn test!
Pic of Halloween - Treyner went as Ace Ventura!
Oh well, Christmas is soon enough!
