Coaching in a small town

[Momo'sDad]

A couple of weeks ago, my daughter's middle school played their crosstown rivals in basketball. Between the 2 games (7th & 8th grades) that evening, I got to see 10 of my former players, both basketball and softball, on the same court. In the 7th grade game, there was even a point at which there were 6 of them on the court at the same time. I'll confess to beaming like a proud papa, having watched many of these girls grow up together from the time they were in t-ball.

Later that same week, her softball team played the local travel team in an evening friendly. One of her all-star teammates is the star of her basketball team, so following that day's bball game, they each had to switch jerseys and face off against one another a couple hours later. That night, 6 of those former all-stars were on the field together, 2 on her current team, 4 on the local team. What an evening!

And then last night, the basketball team capped off an awesome 16-0 season with an incredible come-from-behind victory in overtime of the league championship. I absolutely love the life *I* have been given, even though I rarely deserve it.

ps - please don't close my thread

 

[BobInMadison]

You get some of this in bigger towns. Like the times when I would drive DD#1 from a volleyball game to a softball game and a lot of girls were in both games.

Or DD #2 and her friend went with us to drop DD #3 at softball practice. It turns out the softball coach was DD2s friends hockey coach and the same guy had been her brothers soccer coach.

 

[Ken Krause]

That's a great story, MD. Always fun to see the kids you know playing with and against each other.

I remember one time when my son Eric was playing both AYSO and travel soccer. He and another kid on the other team went at it head-to-head in the AYSO game, playing hard. Then they changed jerseys and ran to a travel game where they were teammates, laughing all the way. It was probably tougher on the other kid's dad because he was both boys' travel coach, and he liked Eric a lot.