Mar. 23, 2008 - The end of the season...almost
Last weekend was the boys' state hockey tournament, in Anchorage, 4 games over 2 days. Delaney also had a meet, luckily it was in Anchorage as well. For once, I had actually looked ahead at the beginning of the season, and saw that if Connor played as a PeeWee he would have been in Fairbanks for the state tournament and Blake, as a Bantam, would have been in Soldotna, 500 miles apart (Never mind Delaney's meet in the confusion of all that.) So I moved Connor up and I LOVE having my boys play together. And then they decided that as we were winning every game as Bantam D's we should move up to Bantam C. Which was fine with me, as it is rather awkward to win games 16 to 0! And so that is what made their tournament be in Anchorage. Woo hoo!
Of course, they only won 1 of their 4 games...but that's life.
Delaney did fine. Not great, she didn't get the score she wanted, and she fell off the balance beam, but I didn't bring home a weeping mass of humanity...and that is really all I care about.
The boys on the other hand were REALLY GRUMPY. But luckily they were in Leny's vehicle for the ride home, so I didn't suffer. And that is also all I care about. (Just kidding)
Yesterday was Blake's state gymnastics meet. (Yes, he is over scheduled.) As our gym hosted it, and I am the Booster Club president, I was fairly busy. He had some weird wrist injury, that was threatening to prevent him from competing, but he got over it. (I think it was a mental issue.) He seemed to have a good meet. He is almost always a very good competitor. No matter how practice has been going, he steps up to the plate at meets. Except on high bar, but we don't talk about that. USGA (or is it USAG?) instituted a new scoring system this year for the upper levels, so we are no longer just using the "perfect 10" scoring system, so I have no context yet to understand how he actually did. For 6 events, his all around score was 72.something. His pommel routine was the best I had ever seen him. His rings got oohhhs and ahhhs. He stuck hes double full on floor . Bars...yeah...well...who needs a dismount anyway. So he qualified for regionals, on the virtue of their only being 3 level 10's in the state, and he placed 2nd at the meet. The kid he is competing against is spectacular, so 2nd is a good place.
Delaney's state meet is next weekend.
Then Blake will have Regionals in Portland OR in April. He has to go without us because we will be doing curriculum fairs. Last year, he place 2nd a regionals, but he skipped level 9 this year, so we aren't expecting that this year. And then possibly he will have Nationals in May in Michigan. Who cares about the bookstore....I would try to go to that.
OK...so my title is wrong...the season is not over... maybe in 8 years, when Delaney graduates.
Comments
Mar. 23, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Jenni in KS
Oh, that last comment was horrible! How could you say that? No, the season is definitely almost over--for a season:o)
Josh had his last wrestling tournament this weekend. I was going to write about it, but didn't have time yesterday and didn't think I should be saying some of the things I had to say on Resurrection Sunday. Grrrr.
We have to be in KC at 8am this coming Friday for Na's state meet. And then the season is over. So what if we still have practice five times a week and a regional meet to host next month? At least we'll have the weekend off--sorta--for a while.
