That's a Wrap

My basketball season is over! It was such an inspiring year and I feel like the kids really made a lot of progress. We were just one solid post player from contending for another league championship. As it turned out, we came out fairly flat at 8 this morning, and went down by 10 quick. Got after it on defense for a bit and kept it close (single digits) until about 10 to go, then just ran out of steam. We lost by 20 in our first game. Tough to win in basketball w/out some sort of post presence!

The 8th grade team (Last year's league champs) had a fairly easy road to the championship game. The bracket really looked like it was set up to have the leagues 2 best teams face each other in the championship game (as it usually is). Last year (7th grade), Summit went undefeated, or maybe only lost once. We beat them in the Championship game as the 3 seed by 5 points. Close game all the way. This year, I knew it would be a close game, as they are also a very talented team, but I had no idea it would be as close as it was. Biggest lead was Summit by 5pts in the 1st half. Every possession was critical! We went up by a few points with a couple minutes left and from there on Summit had to foul to get the ball back, and we hit huge free throws down the stretch! Such a fun game to watch and be a part of and see the kids play their hearts out! Our 8th grade team repeated their league title winning by 5 points.

I am one of the most competitive people I know, so I don't usually feel too badly for the losing person or team. But today, for some reason, I really felt bad for the kids from Summit. They went undefeated in back to back regular seasons and lost both championship games to us. Immediately when the time ran out, 5 or 6 kids from their team just burst into tears. That's when you can see how much it really means. The passion. It was pretty hard to watch! That being said, I am super happy that was not us!!!

Now more free time, time to start training for bike racing season!!! and maybe ref some girls basketball???