- Jun 18, 2010
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Last night DDs High School Team had their end-of-season banquet (fall HS ball). DD is a freshman this year so I wasn’t sure what to expect.
The banquet started with dinner, followed by the coaches saying a few words. After the individual and team awards were handed out, the three seniors walked to the podium one at a time. With them, they each carried a softball. You could see each softball had quite a bit written on it, obviously a personalized message. Each senior got to present a ball to someone who impacted their life over the course of their High School softball seasons. This was every emotional for the seniors as their High School Softball journey was coming to an end.
The last of the three seniors began to speak, her voice quivering from the start as she fought back tears. She addressed the underclassmen telling them, in kind words, to not take their HS experiences for granted. She described how Softball had impacted her life. As the tears started to flow, she then looked at her father and said, “Dad I want you to have this ball, to remember all of the time we spent together practicing, fighting, and talking”. She went on to describe times they spent practicing together when it was so dark neither could see, how they laughed, and cried at times. Sometimes they would be at each other arguing so much her mother would lock them out of the house until they both calmed down. Now as a young adult, she realized how much her father loved her to dedicate that much time and energy working with her over the years, and how much she was going to miss it. As I was fighting back the tears, I thought to myself, I hope I am having that type of impact on my daughter.
The banquet started with dinner, followed by the coaches saying a few words. After the individual and team awards were handed out, the three seniors walked to the podium one at a time. With them, they each carried a softball. You could see each softball had quite a bit written on it, obviously a personalized message. Each senior got to present a ball to someone who impacted their life over the course of their High School softball seasons. This was every emotional for the seniors as their High School Softball journey was coming to an end.
The last of the three seniors began to speak, her voice quivering from the start as she fought back tears. She addressed the underclassmen telling them, in kind words, to not take their HS experiences for granted. She described how Softball had impacted her life. As the tears started to flow, she then looked at her father and said, “Dad I want you to have this ball, to remember all of the time we spent together practicing, fighting, and talking”. She went on to describe times they spent practicing together when it was so dark neither could see, how they laughed, and cried at times. Sometimes they would be at each other arguing so much her mother would lock them out of the house until they both calmed down. Now as a young adult, she realized how much her father loved her to dedicate that much time and energy working with her over the years, and how much she was going to miss it. As I was fighting back the tears, I thought to myself, I hope I am having that type of impact on my daughter.
