Every year we have a Halloween Scrimmage. It’s a practice where we all get to dress up and play in our costumes. Groups of us tend to pick themes and all dress up as characters from the same movie or tv show.
My group this year did Star Wars. We decided about a month ago what our theme was going to be and who was going to be what. Laura was going to be Yoda because she loves him, that’s a little bit of an understatement. Ellyn was going to be Jabba because she’s got the goalie pads to fluff her up a bit, Lauren was darth vader, Jill was R2D2 and I was Princess Leia. Jill made her costume out of a round cardboard box and looked hysterical. Watching her play was even funnier. She couldn’t see her feet or the ball for that matter. My costume was pretty simple to make, the hardest part was doing my hair. I ended up putting lofus in my hair to make poufy buns. Yup that’s right, shower lofus.
Another group of Fhocers did SpongeBob. Marguerite was Patrick and used her hair to make the fifth arm of the star. Rachel was SpongeBob. Her costume was also made out of cardboard. When she went against R2D2 it was the funniest thing ever. Both of them were reaching with their sticks but the majority of the time could only manage to kick the ball, if they touched it at all. Mary was Plankton and Caroline was Sandy.
The Rugrats also made an appearance at practice. Yes they were in diapers. Sam Karen Mel and Worm were all babies, and Krysten turned her goalie uniform into Reptar.
There were three M&Ms. Caitlin, Chelsea, and Katie were the yellow, blue, and red M&Ms.
Another group was an iPod commercial. Lena was dressed as an iPod, Megan and Grace were her two headphones. And Mary B was the crazy dancer from all the commercials.
Coach Jess definitely had the best costume of the day. She came into the locker room dressed as our very own Grace. Cornrows, mouth guard, #26 uniform and all. She played with us too.
All in all it was a great practice. Many of us could barely possess the ball but it was still a really fun day.
Now we are preparing for the upcoming weekend, Empire 8 Championships! Hope to see you all there.
Mallory
