After reading all your posts, I think we have a great group of parents on the team. I can hear everyone cheer for all the players. We get so excited when they do well because the beginning of the season was filled with a lot of devastating, blow-out losses. Now they are keeping the games within just a few points, and have taken the lead quite a few times.
Good luck to you and your daughter. Sounds like she has a good coach who had developed the team nicely over the course of the season. Bball's a great team sport for kids. I hope she's gotten enough positive feedback and feels good about all she's accomplished that she wants to play again next year. Sounds like she's a good little player!! Have fun!
Thanks! She's come a long way. I'm not sure if she'll play next season or not, but she's definitely coming away from the season a stronger person all around.
What's really interesting, is since the season started, her grades have improved. She never had poor grades to begin with, but I think it's helped her grow all-around. (I'm just a little bit proud, can you tell).
After reading all your posts, I think we have a great group of parents on the team. I can hear everyone cheer for all the players. We get so excited when they do well because the beginning of the season was filled with a lot of devastating, blow-out losses. Now they are keeping the games within just a few points, and have taken the lead quite a few times.
Good luck to you and your daughter. Sounds like she has a good coach who had developed the team nicely over the course of the season. Bball's a great team sport for kids. I hope she's gotten enough positive feedback and feels good about all she's accomplished that she wants to play again next year. Sounds like she's a good little player!! Have fun!
Thanks! She's come a long way. I'm not sure if she'll play next season or not, but she's definitely coming away from the season a stronger person all around.
What's really interesting, is since the season started, her grades have improved. She never had poor grades to begin with, but I think it's helped her grow all-around. (I'm just a little bit proud, can you tell).
It's weird isn't it? I always find that my kids do better in school when they're involved in a school sport. You'd think they wouldn't because they have less time, but I think the trick is that they have to budget their time so much better, and it makes them concentrate and focus more.
Jollymom21 wrote:
It's weird isn't it? I always find that my kids do better in school when they're involved in a school sport. You'd think they wouldn't because they have less time, but I think the trick is that they have to budget their time so much better, and it makes them concentrate and focus more.
I noticed that when I was in sports I did better in school, but as the team I was on/the boat I was in did also reflected how well I was doing in school.
"Oh all the money that e'er I spent, I spent it in good company.
And all the harm that I ever did, Alas it was to none but me.
And since it falls, unto my lot, that I should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call, 'Goodnight and Joy be with you all.'"
-JMH
some of the biggest fights me and mroc had were over watching the kids at sports. He just couldn't keep his mouth shut. And remember, you never know if the person sitting next to you is that kid from the other team's parent.
My kids have played sports all their lives. I've cheered baseball, softball, soccer, football, hockey, etc.
BTW- the older kids got the worst it got at hockey games. There parents, kids, etc were regularly ejected.
Of all the sports I had to watch my kids do the two hardest were wrestling and xc/track. When a kid does these sports, esp wrestling they're completely on their own. Wrestling is so short and so hard. I've seen some of the biggest toughest guys break down and cry after a match, and that's if the win.
I had parents who never went to any of mine or siblings events. Even now we wish they had gone. I swore I wouldn't do that to my kids. As they get older it's tough. Alot of kids will say they don't want their parents there but underneath it they do.
Navy Seals are Cooler then Pirates You Can Dream Anyway, There's always next year!!!
buffettbride wrote:I wanna know how Cubbie's Carie did in the basketball shoot last nite.
"Funny you should ask, Alan"
Carie made 10 of 15 and advanced to the District round on Feb 5th, in the Quad Cities. In addition her 10/15 was the best of all the shooters boys and girls and she will get a certificate for that and a trophy for winning
If she advance from there, she will go to Cedar Rapids to shoot and the finals are in the Des Moine area.
"Boat drinks, waitress we........nevermind"
He ain't wrong he's just different
but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right
buffettbride wrote:I wanna know how Cubbie's Carie did in the basketball shoot last nite.
"Funny you should ask, Alan"
Carie made 10 of 15 and advanced to the District round on Feb 5th, in the Quad Cities. In addition her 10/15 was the best of all the shooters boys and girls and she will get a certificate for that and a trophy for winning
If she advance from there, she will go to Cedar Rapids to shoot and the finals are in the Des Moine area.
On The Edge wrote: I have coached for 23 years, you name it, I've coached it. BBall is my passion. I have yet to see a "parent coach" that could coach their way out of a paper bag, due to the fact that they are always blinded by the outstanding talent of their own children.
On this I take exception to what you said. I often can tell which kid is the coach's by the way he's hardest on his own child (I'm sure partly because he expects so much from him).
I agree! I have known many coach's kids to get the worst treatment on the team because they are expected to deal with it better... sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. I've seen it go both ways... sometimes their enthusiasm for the sport grows and they achieve at a high level or sometimes they just can't take the pressure and end up quitting.
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
I'm a huge proponent of sports. I believe with a good coach they are great for teaching life skills. The discipline, confidence, and determination will stick with you forever.
Navy Seals are Cooler then Pirates You Can Dream Anyway, There's always next year!!!
buffettbride wrote:I wanna know how Cubbie's Carie did in the basketball shoot last nite.
"Funny you should ask, Alan"
Carie made 10 of 15 and advanced to the District round on Feb 5th, in the Quad Cities. In addition her 10/15 was the best of all the shooters boys and girls and she will get a certificate for that and a trophy for winning
If she advance from there, she will go to Cedar Rapids to shoot and the finals are in the Des Moine area.
WTG !!!!
Does she have any tips for the perfect free-throw? Maybe she could teach some of the pros a thing or two (you'd think after H.S, College and the pros, some of them would have as good a percentage as Carie!!)
Good luck on the next round!! Keep us posted and hope she has fun with it!!
Have fun!
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.