Still Undefeated!

Tonight our girls had a game against the Helper Rams. It was a pretty easy win and our team looked pretty good. All of our Varsity members scored, which is good. It was fun. That meas that our Varsity is still undefeated with tournament coming in a few short weeks. Our JV had another tough loss. They are coming along though. We just need to go work on the basics and if we get those down, they would be allright. Our next game will be against our in county rivals, Canyon View Cougars.

Pinewood Derby!!!

I am the Cubmaster for two packs here in our area and today was our pinewood derby. You can read more about it here at our Cub Scout blog!

Girls' Basketball

If you didn't know, I am the head coach of the Girls' basketball team at San Rafael JH. With the high school taking several of my girls, I was left with 2 ninth graders and then a handful of 8th graders to make up my varsity team. I knew that we would still so well, but how well I was not sure. As of now, about half way through the season, we are still undefeated at the Varsity level. Our last game was against the Mont Harmon Pirates, who until our game was also undefeated. It was a very interesting game. Our team came out strong going up 9-0 to start and had a 15-6 lead at the end of first quarter. Mont Harmon started to come back and then took the lead in the 3rd quarter. By the end of that quarter Mont Harmon had an 8 point lead. My girls fought back and won the game by 3. It was a very entertaining game.

Our JV team is very young. All are 7th graders except for when we play some 8th graders down. It is tough. It is like on the job training for many of them. There are a lot of things that we need to work on, but they are coming along. They had their first win Thursday night and the won again on Friday. It was good. Hopefully they will keep coming along and developing and do well in the tournament.

Now I will step on my soap box for a quick minute. The district and school board really need to move ninth grade athletics up to the high school. It is hard to run a program when you don't know how many ninth graders you will have. I do encourage all my girls to go and try up just so the high school coaches know that they are interested. Then at the Junior High there needs to be strictly and 8th grade team and a 7th grade team. That would help even things up in athletics in the junior highs

Holiday Time

I love the holidays for more than a few reasons. For one, I love getting a week and a half off of work. Really, it would have been better if it had been two weeks, but our district thought that it would be great to have school on Monday and a half day of school on Tuesday. Not a great teaching environment on those two days. Oh well, the district knows best I guess. Another reason I love the holidays is all the great food. Nothing like gaining 10 pounds in two weeks. The third reason is being around family. This year we stayed here and had my wife's family around. It was good. I miss being with my family, but we've got to have equal time. Now, those are only three reasons why I love the holidays. There are plenty more, but that is good enough for now.