End of the Storm Season

So SO sad basketball season is over. The season is WAY too short and so are the games. 

The face off for the jump ball. 

Do not scroll up to the photo before because you will see it is a different game but wanted to show an action shot of the jump ball. I can tell you my photo and video skills in basketball frankly suck. By the time you have your phone out and ready to go, the play is over. And when you have your camera out to video your daughter making a basket, she misses. When she makes a basket, your phone will run out of memory. I just didn't have much luck.

Happy girls after a win!

Lining up for picture day.

Our team always wore wacky socks to set them apart from the rest. 

End of season pizza party!

Coach Tyler and Coach Jules (not pictured) were awesome coaches. We had quite a mix on our team of abilities and our coaches did a great job with not only teaching the game but they were fair and made it fun. We grew close to a lot of new sports families and are excited to keep in touch throughout the year and team up again next season. 

There were only four teams in our bracket with ours being the team with all first graders so we feel pretty excited that we were in a 3-way tie for second before play-offs. Unfortunately, they took a point differential to break the tie and while we outplayed both of the teams against the first place team, our point difference between the teams we were tied with put us at the bottom of the bracket for play-offs. Did that make any sense? So basically, we had to play the first place team in the play-offs and they were undefeated, taller, older and yes, better ;) 

And this is why I am going to miss basketball so much. Our games, for the most part, were so close in score with the other teams. My heart was pounding all four quarters because they were always nail biters! This video is my favorite. We were tied four to four and went into a two minute overtime. When that didn't produce a basket from either team (yes, just 4 to 4), the refs announced we were doing Sudden Death. We all thought they were joking. So for another 10 minutes or so, the girls were going up and down the court, stealing balls, taking shots and doing whatever they could do to get a basket and FINALLY our superstar player, Bailey, won the game for us! 

How bad is the blue sheet background?! We think they forgot to photoshop the background in like the individual photos or else it truly is the worst idea for a backdrop. Ever.