My First Trophy as COACH

Last weekend was the final tournament to end our basketball season. We took 3rd place!! I was hoping to do better and we could have taken 2nd place or even 1st, but it pretty much all came down to luck.....

The tournament was double elimination. We played our biggest rival right off, Paradigm (the bracket was totally messed up). During the season they beat us twice and we beat them twice. This was the most exciting game that I'll probably ever get to coach. It went into DOUBLE overtime and.... we barely lost 26 -24. The crowd was going wild too.

So we fell into the losers bracket and easily won the next two games, Provo Canyon School 30 - 11 and Merit 52 - 29. It was nice because as a coach I was able to play my 2nd and 3rd stringers tons and give them more playing time. It was a brutal tournament schedule though, because the 3 games I just told you about were played straight in a row. My girls didn't even get a 10 minute break! Man....

The next day, Saturday, we had an 8 am game against Paradigm.....again! This was also a really good game. It went back and forth the whole time, but we just couldn't do it. We lost to them again 43 - 40. I'll tell you what, we are two really evenly matched teams! I love playing them for that reason. Basically either of us could have won both of those games (the first one & this one), but we just weren't lucky I guess.

My girls were disappointed to lose to them again, but I think they were happy with where we ended up. They played AMAZING!!! If you could have seen these girls at the beginning of the season and then see them now, you'd see a difference of night and day. They have improved sooo much. I'm proud of the progress they've made, both individually and as a team. I'm already looking forward to next year!

This trophy is proudly on display in my classroom. Pretty big for 3rd place, eh? Oh, and next year I'll be coaching volleyball as well. They asked me just the other day. Should be exciting!!

Look at that teamwork!!