March 8, 2009
We’ll chalk this weekend up to good experience and a learning lesson!! We started off well, and just couldn’t find our niche as the weekend progressed. This is why we continue to do tournaments, as they provide us with more competition than we get during league play and continue to test our players will and determination. No need to be disappointed….everyone did great things, just maybe not all at the same time!! We’ll be more prepared for Bentonville in April.
We will NOT have practice this Wed nor will we practice next Sunday. We will plan to do this: Practice Wednesdays as a club team to keep the chemistry, then two weeks prior to any tournament we are in, we will practice twice a week. Wednesday’s will be a consistent day of the week…..5:00-6:30. We’ll see how schedules match up for the practices prior to Bentonville.
Neither Jen nor Kelsy will be able to make it to Bentonville, as they have games that weekend for Drury. Jen has suggested Logan Hoffman, a graduating Sr. Drury Men’s player who has an enormous amount of experience coaching and may have the ability to travel as he has finished his playing career at Drury. He is a wonderful person and extremely organized and focused. I’d like some feedback before I ask him….if you could e-mail me with yea or nea…thoughts and opinions that would be great. Jen, Steve and I discussed it after the game today and Steve said it would be great to have him if Logan were up to it. Obviously, he would need to start practicing with us prior to the tournament, but he will already know the Ozark girls as he is the varsity middle school coach, and will have had the opportunity to get to know those girls. It will be easier for him to learn 1/2 a team than a whole team in a two week time span. With the assistance of Steve who is more familiar with the girls and Logan’s extensive knowledge, it would be a great situation….IF Logan was available. I’d like feedback (honest please!!) about it so I can give him plenty of notice if we choose to ask him!!
We are going to extend the sponsorship opportunities for a unspecified time….I’d rather see you able to bring in more money than I would make sure the shirts come out. This will allow a few more weeks to gather some sponsors. It’s certainly working for some…we have had several girls turn in money and they have done a great job!! Someone out there is still able to donate!! PLEASE PLEASE…if you can, go find a few sponsors. It will make your life so much more stress free when it comes time to pay your hotel bills!!!!! REMEMBER if you own a business, and you don’t want to go out looking for sponsors, then put some money into your own daughters account (it all goes right back to you)…AND you get your name on the sponsor list.
I’m hoping that I can get some photo’s posted here soon. I’m still not a wiz at this web site thing!! Payton’s Papa said he took some, so hopefully I can figure it out and get them hooked up here on the site!!
See you all Wednesday, March 18th for practice. From there we will practice Sun/Wed unless you hear differently via e-mail…