Well, maybe not just yet. But Big O had an excellent debut for her Lady Falcons! Sure, we lost to St. Michaels 36-8, but that's missing the trees and only seeing the forest.
We've got 15 girls on the team, and half of them have never played any basketball at all. Opening the season against the best team in the league is a tough way to start, but after trailing 22-1, we played them pretty doggone even.
But the real story, at least in this household, was O's career debut. As evidenced by the score, we were having a tough time just getting shots up, so I instructed O to start shooting, to try to loosen everyone up. Boy did she! After putting up about 5 shots on 5 trips down the floor, I had to reign her in a little. But she hit a nice bank shot from about 10 feet, and got fouled twice in the act of shooting, making one of four. She scored 3, and the only other kids on the team that scored were the two best players from last year who tallied 3 and two respectively. As my good buddy put it, not many players lead their team in scoring in their debut.
Despite the loss, she had fun, and after coaching other kids for the past 5 years at SFX, it was quite enjoyable to watch her out there, giving it her best, and having a good time.
We are 0-1 on the season, but that game was nothing but a giant win to me!
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