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before I could walk . My parents had me

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basically handling a soccer ball . So

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I've been playing my entire life . My

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dad was my first coach and it just

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always pushed me to be my best .

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Unfortunately , I didn't have the , the

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path or the momentum to really take it

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to college . Uh but I joined the Air

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Force and I just basically just kept

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trying to play anywhere I could , I'm a

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part of the 22nd Lrs at McConnell Air

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Force Base , but my main job is

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material management . We supply

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aircraft parts for the aircraft , so

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the 46 and 135 can do their jobs and

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refuel . I came back from a deployment

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in january and I met my now

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wife and she told me that , hey , I

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think you would do really good at , you

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know , trying out for the wings and

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playing for them . I went to a few

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matches last year and I just got on

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their website so that they had open

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tryouts this year and I decided to take

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a shot . Okay , so Wichita Wings were a

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professional indoor soccer team every

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season we have an open tryout for

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anybody who wants to come try out for

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the team they're more than welcome to .

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So thomas came to our open tryouts . I

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never knew thomas before . The open

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tryout um in his work rate alone in the

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tryouts got him a spot on our practice

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squad . He's really joined our , our

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Wichita Wing family and we're super

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happy to have him . Mhm . He's very

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dedicated , very loyal . He's been

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fantastic for our team and he finally

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got his first dress on sunday this week .

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The indoor soccer game is a lot

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different from outdoor . I'm used to

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playing outdoor . I grew up playing

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outdoor . You know , you're playing a

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larger field , 11 V 11 out here , it's

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a smaller field . You're using walls ,

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it's five V five . The game is a lot

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faster . The game is a lot harder . But

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I think I would take this over outdoor

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any day . Yeah . I

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was talking to my dad the other day and

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I told him that I was suiting up for

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this game and he said he said do your

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best and then he stops himself and he's

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like look at me telling a professional

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soccer players to do his best . And

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then he just he just says , I love you

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and just hangs up the phone because

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he's just like , I've done my job and

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he's just , you know , it was him being

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so proud that just touched me . Yeah .

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Yeah . It's a dream