Yeah, I am still playing basketball... I feel pretty good, considering I have been playing longer than most of the girls on my team have been alive. Here is my team. We entered a local league and won the tournament! (I am in the back row #12)
I never realized how much work went into running a basketball team. My first year here, the program almost crashed. We were down to 3 or 4 girls at practices and it was fairly unorganized. This past year, I was captain and I didn't want that to happen. I spent my summer organizing and finding out how things worked. For practices, I organized a coach to run practices, scheduled gym time, and gathered equipment. For away games I organized transportation, directions, which girls were going to the game. For home games, I organized referees, table officials, gym time, who was going to play, and gym set up. This doesn't even include worrying about the budget, how people were going to get paid, entering in a local league, and running/organizing social events to keep the team together. The lists don't seem like long, but they sure felt long sometimes when I was doing it. It was an amazing feeling when I looked around and saw all of the girls at practice. I wanted to give them the love for basketball I have. We would get somewhere between 10-25 girls at practice (and that even counts our Monday morning 8 AM practice!). Our coach, despite being a little frustrated with the numbers, realized my goal, and together we continued making the program bigger and better.
As a fundraiser, I decided to run a 4 on 4 basketball tournament. It was a great hit. I had four teams show up and Arnie and Tim help ref and run the clock. We also had a raffle and a social afterward. It was the first tournament I have ever ran and I would have to say it was a success!
The Amazing JSA's won the tournament
(or maybe they were the Awesome JSA's)
Here is my team: (I am in the middle back!)
I can't remember their team name, but it was great to have them in the tournament. I wanted to point out Ellie's shirt (Third, blue shirt with red hair). At the beginning of the year, I designed those shirts. I was pretty proud to see my girls wearing them either to practices, games, or even around town.
"Team Nina" with all of their raffle prizes that they won!
The BIG chocolate bunny was the biggest treat! Nina organized the raffle and did a wonderful job for me!
I never realized how much work went into running a basketball team. My first year here, the program almost crashed. We were down to 3 or 4 girls at practices and it was fairly unorganized. This past year, I was captain and I didn't want that to happen. I spent my summer organizing and finding out how things worked. For practices, I organized a coach to run practices, scheduled gym time, and gathered equipment. For away games I organized transportation, directions, which girls were going to the game. For home games, I organized referees, table officials, gym time, who was going to play, and gym set up. This doesn't even include worrying about the budget, how people were going to get paid, entering in a local league, and running/organizing social events to keep the team together. The lists don't seem like long, but they sure felt long sometimes when I was doing it. It was an amazing feeling when I looked around and saw all of the girls at practice. I wanted to give them the love for basketball I have. We would get somewhere between 10-25 girls at practice (and that even counts our Monday morning 8 AM practice!). Our coach, despite being a little frustrated with the numbers, realized my goal, and together we continued making the program bigger and better.As a fundraiser, I decided to run a 4 on 4 basketball tournament. It was a great hit. I had four teams show up and Arnie and Tim help ref and run the clock. We also had a raffle and a social afterward. It was the first tournament I have ever ran and I would have to say it was a success!
The Amazing JSA's won the tournament(or maybe they were the Awesome JSA's)
Here is my team: (I am in the middle back!)
I can't remember their team name, but it was great to have them in the tournament. I wanted to point out Ellie's shirt (Third, blue shirt with red hair). At the beginning of the year, I designed those shirts. I was pretty proud to see my girls wearing them either to practices, games, or even around town.
"Team Nina" with all of their raffle prizes that they won!
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