I was going to begin this post with a complaint about the weather. Then I realized that our recent run of swings between warm and cool are what spring is supposed to be like. Sure, it would be great if it was 60 for two weeks, then 65 for two weeks, and so on. Recent years have seemed a lot more like 40s until April 10 then it\u2019s suddenly 85. The bouncing back-and-forth is normal, we\u2019ve just grown accustomed to the abnormal.<\/p>\n
The weather was good enough last week for me to spend two full days outside prepping the pool and pool area for the crew to come open it for the season tomorrow. Lots of power washing, scrubbing, scooping of leaves, etc. That water was cooooold when I I had to stick my hand in it! That\u2019s how I spent pretty much the entire school day both Thursday and Friday. Thus my lack of content.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend L\u2019s team had another basketball tournament. They won all four games and took the championship. I must disclose that two of those games were against sixth grade teams. One of them was a 40-point win, the other was by 16. That second team was good, and nasty. The refs were calling no fouls so they were shoving and grabbing our girls the entire game. One of our girls even got hit in the face, a hit that drew blood, and the ref standing four feet away didn\u2019t call a foul. Unbelievable. Fortunately our girls were poised and put them away.<\/p>\n
That first sixth grade team, not sure why they were playing in a seventh grade tournament when they were not good. Losing by 40 doesn\u2019t make you any better.<\/p>\n
The championship game was a big, cathartic win for many of our girls. Our coach and five of his players have played against that group for years in both AAU and middle school ball. And they had never beat them. L lost to them twice this winter, so even she was 0-fer. We led pretty much the entire game, a couple times by 12, and held on late to win by three. Another set of medals for our girls.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019ve buried the lede a bit: L did not play at all this weekend. Friday at recess she fell and cracked her tailbone on the ground. I guess she was jumping, landed on a ball, and fell straight backwards. She was in crazy pain Friday and could barely walk when she got home. <\/p>\n
When she woke Saturday the pain wasn\u2019t any better. Fortunately the first three games of the tournament were easy wins. They could have used her in the title game, as our guards really struggled to handle the other team\u2019s pressure in the last five minutes. Having another solid ball handler would have kept the game from getting close, I bet.<\/p>\n
As of this morning the pain still had not improved. There\u2019s not much you can do, according to S. Whether it\u2019s just a deep bone bruise or a fracture, the only thing L can do is rest, treat the pain, and wait for it to heal. She was super bummed to sit on the bench all weekend. She will miss the rest of kickball season. She will miss all her basketball practices at least this week and maybe next. This coming weekend is off for basketball, so that\u2019s good. <\/p>\n
What she is most worried about is our first out-of-town tournament in three weeks in Louisville. That seems right on the border of when she will be cleared to play again, assuming no setbacks. She really wants to be a part of that weekend. <\/p>\n
In her abbreviated kickball season she went 16–20 with six home runs. The team had two easy wins then lost a tough game to eighth graders last week. They play that team again tomorrow and we hoped we could steal that to force a playoff. But with L out that\u2019s probably not in the cards. Tonight they have to play with just eight players because another girl has a conflict. I don\u2019t think this game will be a problem, but when you\u2019re down two fielders dumb things can happen on defense.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s a big, ol\u2019 bummer. We just got her knees checked two weeks ago and the sports medicine doc confirmed her pain is just Osgood-Schlatter and there\u2019s no need to worry about it. He also confirmed she has plenty of open space in her growth plates so she will continue to add some height for at least a little longer.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll admit I was a little mad that she got hurt in recess. It\u2019s one thing to get hurt in a game, although when she pitched in kickball I got nervous about her getting some kind of hand\/finger injury. But recess?!?! Seriously?!?! <\/p>\n
The dad of one of L\u2019s friends made a good point when I admitted I was a little annoyed by the cause of her injury. \u201cYeah,\u201d he said, \u201cit\u2019s hard when they get older and start playing sports more seriously to still let them be kids and just have fun sometimes.\u201d <\/p>\n
She better have been having fun in the moments before the cracked her ass on the ground. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was going to begin this post with a complaint about the weather. Then I realized that our recent run of swings between warm and cool are what spring is supposed to be like. Sure, it would be great if it was 60 for two weeks, then 65 for two weeks, and so on. Recent years have seemed a lot more like 40s until April 10 then it\u2019s suddenly 85. The bouncing back-and-forth is normal, we\u2019ve just grown accustomed to the abnormal. The weather was good enough last week for me to spend two full days outside prepping the pool and pool area for the crew to come open it for the season tomorrow. Lots of power washing, scrubbing, scooping of leaves, etc. That water was cooooold when I I had to stick my hand in it! That\u2019s how I spent pretty much the entire school day both Thursday and Friday. Thus my lack of content. Over the weekend L\u2019s team had another basketball tournament. They won all four games and took the championship. I must disclose that two of those games were against sixth grade teams. One of them was a 40-point win, the other was by 16. That second team was good, and nasty. The refs were calling no fouls so they were shoving and grabbing our girls the entire game. One of our girls even got hit in the face, a hit that drew blood, and the ref standing four feet away didn\u2019t call a foul. Unbelievable. Fortunately our girls were poised and put them away. That first sixth grade team, not sure why they were playing in a seventh grade tournament when they were not good. Losing by 40 doesn\u2019t make you any better. The championship game was a big, cathartic win for many of our girls. Our coach and five of his players have played against that group for years in both AAU and middle school ball. And they had never beat them. L lost to them twice this winter, so even she was 0-fer. We led pretty much the entire game, a couple times by 12, and held on late to win by three. Another set of medals for our girls. Now I\u2019ve buried the lede a bit: L did not play at all this weekend. Friday at recess she fell and cracked her tailbone on the ground. I guess she was jumping, landed on a ball, and fell straight backwards. She was in crazy pain Friday and could barely walk when she got home. When she woke Saturday the pain wasn\u2019t any better. Fortunately the first three games of the tournament were easy wins. They could have used her in the title game, as our guards really struggled to handle the other team\u2019s pressure in the last five minutes. Having another solid ball handler would have kept the game from getting close, I bet. As of this morning the pain still had not improved. There\u2019s not much you can do, according to S. Whether it\u2019s just a deep bone bruise or a fracture, the only thing L can do is rest, treat the pain, and wait for it to heal. She was super bummed to sit on the bench all weekend. She will miss the rest of kickball season. She will miss all her basketball practices at least this week and maybe next. This coming weekend is off for basketball, so that\u2019s good. What she is most worried about is our first out-of-town tournament in three weeks in Louisville. That seems right on the border of when she will be cleared to play again, assuming no setbacks. She really wants to be a part of that weekend. In her abbreviated kickball season she went 16–20 with six home runs. The team had two easy wins then lost a tough game to eighth graders last week. They play that team again tomorrow and we hoped we could steal that to force a playoff. But with L out that\u2019s probably not in the cards. Tonight they have to play with just eight players because another girl has a conflict. I don\u2019t think this game will be a problem, but when you\u2019re down two fielders dumb things can happen on defense. So that\u2019s a big, ol\u2019 bummer. We just got her knees checked two weeks ago and the sports medicine doc confirmed her pain is just Osgood-Schlatter and there\u2019s no need to worry about it. He also confirmed she has plenty of open space in her growth plates so she will continue to add some height for at least a little longer. I\u2019ll admit I was a little mad that she got hurt in recess. It\u2019s one thing to get hurt in a game, although when she pitched in kickball I got nervous about her getting some kind of hand\/finger injury. But recess?!?! Seriously?!?! The dad of one of L\u2019s friends made a good point when I admitted I was a little annoyed by the cause of her injury. \u201cYeah,\u201d he said, \u201cit\u2019s hard when they get older and start playing sports more seriously to still let them be kids and just have fun sometimes.\u201d She better have been having fun in the moments before the cracked her ass on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,98,15,30],"class_list":["post-11152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basketball","tag-kickball","tag-weather","tag-youth-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11153,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions\/11153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}