The Lion's...Growl

After a week in La Grande, OR, with 400+ highschool girls, it's nice to be back. It was a fun week, sometimes challenging, all-around worthwhile. The dorms were small, and there were only three showers for our hall (equate that with about 25 dirty, sweaty chicks), but it actually wasn't too bad. We had a small freshmen initiation, but word on the street is that there's a lot more to come. The Lady Lions (that's my team) won first place in our level. Before the three games the final day, we made a deal with our coach that if we won the championship, we could get coffee at Starbucks on the way home and gel his hair up, and we ended up making him cary the dinky little trophy we got around the store and into the olive garden with us. His hair looked flippin' awesome, I must say.
Our "discussion times" after the motivational speakers each evening were interesting. We rarely "discussed" anything, but Rachel invented twist on the game of tag (you have to stay on the cracks of the sidewalk) and we even had a mini talent show on Thursday that ended with Staci getting soaked, but that's a long story....
Anyway, I learned a lot at basketball camp that I hope to continue practicing and improving with. Everyone on my team set a lot of goals (or at least a few really good ones) for the summer, and we're going to try to stay accountable to one another and keep striving to grow. If we keep training hard, I know we can rise above the competition next season and go far...maybe even win some more hardware for the school trophy case that doesn't exist.