And with a small whimper, almost all of the winter season is over for the girls.
Maja: Has an entry with her school teammates in the 9th grade level of the Back Mountain Shootout, first weekend in March. Millie will not be there, but will be ready to don a uniform for the coach if something catastrophic happened. She is enjoying her downtime (and running the scoreboard for the rec league, even if there's controversy.
Millie: Her Freeland team is waiting on any and all challengers for the Freeland tournament. Her local team is skipping Back Mountain, based on the same level of competition they played all year, and Freeland is NOT putting in a team. The season appears to end with a Lewisburg tournament a week later. Clutch went there and raised havoc, so Mountain Top should take a few more minutes to achieve dominance.
Local Rec League: 10% of coaches and parents don't understand that 90% of the parents want this to be simple, then over by mid-February. I continue to deny schedule changes due to overbooked kids, and I think I have an overwhelming majority that want (a) target 8 kids per team for every division, cap the registration if need be. (b) an even-number of teams to avoid byes and playoff chaos. Everybody loves the byes until they don't go your way. We're also not keeping track of results and standings next year (Lord knows we failed to keep track this year).
Scheduling aside, the penultimate weekend of games was almost uneventful. One coach did find a loophole in our substitution rules, which I wouldn't recommended anyone trying to duplicate, and one of the our other problematic coaches got tossed from the game. At least half the games were extremely competitive and I had two complaints for the two dozen compliments I got from parents.
7th/8th Grade: I finished up the team stats with the game information I possessed. A few statistical surprises, most make sense if one remembers the kids with playing time at the end of the season slowly earned it through the season, so their stats are really stellar.
At least one of the girls went out for the AAU tryouts, as I suggested (I never suggested dropping the cash for the season, but four hours of high intensity workouts with talented girls is worth the tryout fee). By her own words, everyone else was so much better, but that's what I expected. She'll go to he second tryout, since it's already paid for, and if we're just working out at the park, and finding random lessons for the spring, so be it. Summer ball for them starts in 15 weeks.
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| This was in the lobby at the North Schuylkill Tournament last week. Figured it was a sign from God. |
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