Thursday night, Abby's basketball team had their annual "Varsity Night". This is a special night for our girls when they get to pair up with a BHS Golden Girl Varsity player, run onto the court with them at the beginning of the warm-ups for the varsity game, and then sit behind the bench for the entire varsity game. Our Fifth Grade team also got to scrimmage each other at half-time of the Varsity game! It is a big night for the girls, as they really look up to the varsity players, and they get to play on the high school court!
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Here is Abz and her good bud, Kristin, watching the game from behind the player's bench...
~~~Abby has a favorite varsity baller, Jordyn Hover. Jordyn also plays the point guard position and has come to one of our practices to help the girls with their dribbling skills. Abz made Jordyn a sign to cheer her on during the game...
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We had a big surprise this year when Coach Bartlett, the varsity coach, told me that he would have each girl's name announced and they could run out onto the center court to be recognized! No other team has had that happen before, and boy, were the girls excited!
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As the girls had their name called, they all got "fives" from the varsity players before running to center court to join their teammates. Here is Abz as her name was called...
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...and meeting her teammates at half court!
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The girls had only about four and a half minutes to scrimmage at half time (due to the cheerleaders and pom and dance team taking up half of our time :-( ), but they hustled and played hard!
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Abby played tough defense...
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Bringing the ball down the court...
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Shooting for two!!!
We had a fun night with Abby's fifth grade team.
~~~We had a big surprise this year when Coach Bartlett, the varsity coach, told me that he would have each girl's name announced and they could run out onto the center court to be recognized! No other team has had that happen before, and boy, were the girls excited!
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As the girls had their name called, they all got "fives" from the varsity players before running to center court to join their teammates. Here is Abz as her name was called...
~~~...and meeting her teammates at half court!
~~~The girls had only about four and a half minutes to scrimmage at half time (due to the cheerleaders and pom and dance team taking up half of our time :-( ), but they hustled and played hard!
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Abby played tough defense...
~~~Bringing the ball down the court...
~~~Shooting for two!!!
We had a fun night with Abby's fifth grade team.~~~
Our next tournament is this Saturday in Spooner...
2 comments:
Sounds like it was a fun night for Abz .... and Mom & Dad.
Very cool, Abby.....very cool!!
:-)
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