Apologies.....

......for it being so long since our last post. My only excuse is that there has been quite a lot going on both in and out of the office. It's hard to believe the opening game is actually here, but it's so exciting. I hear and see it every day with staff, players, coaches and of course, the fans.

I'll just share a few of the fun experiences we've had in the last few weeks - one of them was at Covington Middle School. We are working with Austin ISD to help improve the cardio vascular fitness of the middle school kids and so our players have been going out and taking PE sessions, showing the kids soccer drills. The coach called me the day before the guys were due to go out and explained that the principal had called a pep rally, was that ok. Needless to say, the opportunity to spread the word about the Aztex to the whole school was too good to miss. Up steps Ron Dennie, our Youth Club Liaison & Camps Director and David Sias, our Californian defender. They had the school hall rocking, shouting for the Aztex, diving for the freebies they were throwing out into the crowd! They came back elated and feeling a bit like rock stars!

We had the pleasure of welcoming the Founder members to a meet the players event, the highlight of which was the chalk talk from Adrian and Bobby - it all makes such perfect sense now :)

The players will be at Cuatro's this evening and we'd love to see you there. Then we have a Youth Club night on Friday before we even get started on the game activities. Can't wait for you to meet the mascot!

Finally, this has all been made even more wonderful for me personally because my daughter Nikki and her boyfriend Rich are visiting from the UK along with our director Gary and his wife plus another 8 'Stokies' here to cheer on the Aztex - what's 5000 miles between friends!

See you on Saturday!

Kay