Basketball Season!

 

Winter Basketball season was amazing!!

It was the first year Ocean Springs had enough girls to play an ALL GIRL league!

Addison really improved on all of her basketball skills this season, having played with all boys in previous years, she arose as a leader, ball handler and master stealer :)

 

Alden and Addie, the dynamic duo.

SHUT DOWN DEFENSE THESE TWO.

No one could get by them.  They would trap and steal, over and over and over.

 

Determination.

AND, she dribbles down the court on a fast break with her right hand AND her left hand!

 

Speed demon, off on another fast break.

Steal number 182.

 

Ashton, Anna and Easton have been on multiple basketball teams with Addison and came to cheer her on!  So sweet :)

 

Our neighbor, Chad St. Amant, and I coached the girls this year.  

It was so fun, we really made so much progress considering we only had two girls (our daughters) who had played before.  

So to go from the first practice, when they did not know the difference between offense and defense, what it meant to travel or double dribble, etc. to the end of the season where they knew how to rebound, throw an inbound play, and each tell me they LOVE basketball, was remarkable! 

I love basketball so, so, so much and I want more girls to love it and play it so for my girls to tell me that, was so special.

 

Addison and all her high school friends that came to watch her play.

Lucky #2!

 

My favorite player.

I'm a tough coach (says Addie).  I would agree, Chad was too, but we taught the girls a lot of basketball and every time my girls see me out and about in Ocean Springs, they run up and hug me so it couldn't have been too bad.  We only made them run suicides sometimes :) 

And we may have, ahem, raised our voice a few times about them not listening...we also jumped higher, cheered louder, and high fived harder than anyone when they made a shot, got a rebound, or for some of them, just went and stood in the right spot :)

 

And after it was all said and done...guess which team won the most regular season games!

So proud of these girls!