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soccer/girl
If you’ve been following my photos for a while, I bet you’ve seen more than one of my granddaughter, Bennett. She’s going into the seventh grade in the fall and loves sports. It doesn’t much matter WHICH sport; she likes them all and is one of those people who has natural athletic ability. She’s played soccer since she was four, and it’s her first love. She also plays volleyball, basketball, and golf, and runs cross country and track. And if her school offered fencing or water polo or bobsledding, she’d do that stuff, too.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.12.2026
game/face
That fierced-faced player is my granddaughter Bennett. Off the soccer field, she’s the sweetest kid you’ll ever meet but she’s super competitive otherwise.
Soccer is her favorite, but she’s also played softball, basketball, volleyball, flag football, and golf. And she is, she assures me, the fastest runner in her grade – “Even faster than the boys,” she reported. I believe her.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.19.2025
soccer abstract
Oh, just playing around with my camera while the home team lost the game. What did you do the other night?
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.18.2023
free kick, and a score
My younger granddaughter is a soccer player; she’s 10 and has played with the same team since she was four. It’s been a lot of fun to watch them transform from a clump of tiny players who didn’t know what they were doing (and who sometimes needed the coach to hold their hand while they were on the field) to a team that consistently wins and is usually the top finisher in their league and whose coach will always ask them – win or lose – “Who’s having fun?”
All that’s why we found ourselves taking her to a professional soccer game the other night. The local team lost, but still it was fun to watch the game and try my hand at sports photography. I’m not planning on making that a full-time deal, but I did like this shot of the other team scoring on a free kick.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.18.2023
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