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This Week in Chelsea Sports Photography: 15 June – 21 June

All Week: WOOOO (youth) FOOTBALL!
Chelsea football held its annual Future Bulldog Camp for kids from third through seventh grade; the camp featured five days of instruction in the fundamentals of football by Chelsea coaches and varsity players, as well as an Air Force Football tournament.  (Air Force Football is a variation that allows any number of passes in any direction.)  This year’s camp set a record with over 200 kids in attendance.

Varsity head coach Brad Bush started the Future Bulldog Camp when he came to Chelsea ten years ago; the camp has been going long enough that most — if not all — of the varsity players helping with the camp this year attended the camp when they were younger.

Monday:
Morning

Afternoon

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This Week in Chelsea Sports Photography: 1 June – 7 June

Tuesday: Soccer
Chelsea defeated Stevensville Lakeshore. As is immediately obvious in the pictures, the game was played on a football field, which meant the football sidelines — very wide, very bright white lines about five feet inside the soccer boundaries — were immensely distracting (and the end zones didn’t really help, either). While I understand the practical necessity of a multi-use field, I don’t think soccer and football are a good mix: a football field is cluttered with lines and numbers (and now, with the growing popularity of artificial turf, midfield and end zone graphics) all over the place, while a soccer field is quiet and clean. Football on a soccer field would be fine, but soccer on a football field is just hard on the eyes.

So, to all the schools with dedicated soccer facilities: thank you.

(Full gallery.)

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Photo of the Variable Time Period, vol. 137

Chelsea’s Memorial Day ceremonies (26 May 2008).

Chelsea held its traditional Memorial Day parade and ceremony, and, as usual, it was excellent.  If you haven’t attended the parade and ceremony, you should go next year; it’s just an hour or two, and it’s a good way to honor those who have given their lives for our freedom.

Full gallery of images available here.  And now, if you see pictures you like, you can buy them online right from the gallery.

It’s raining books, hallelujah

The baseball team’s season ended last weekend, and the soccer team is bounding playfully through the playoffs, which means its season is going to end within the next week or two. Why is this important? Because there are two more books!

I’m still putting the finishing touches on the baseball book, and the soccer book can’t be completed until the team’s season ends. But I am accepting orders now.

Fun fact: I didn’t have definite cover images for either book until very late in the seasons. For soccer, I got the cover image at the fourth-round playoff game; for baseball, I got the cover image at the first-round playoff game (which ended up being the last game of the season).

This Week in Chelsea Sports Photography: 25 May – 31 May

Thursday: Soccer
In a battle of Bulldogs in the second round of the playoffs, Chelsea defeated Mason. (The next day, Chelsea defeated Eaton Rapids to claim the district championship. But sadly, I wasn’t there for that game.)


When both teams are the Bulldogs, this sentiment becomes inclusive and nonthreatening. But since yellow isn’t a Mason color, the declaration still can carry some weight … particularly when it’s being displayed after a Chelsea victory, as it was here.

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