Graceketball

This is a highlight video Blake made of GraceAnne's spring Long Island Lightning AAU team.

Blake put together a nice highlight film for GraceAnne's Summer CYO team. They had a lot of fun playing ball this summer.

GraceAnne's Summer League CYO team, the St Hyacinth Storm, won their final game last night to go undefeated for the summer season. Congratulations to all the girls and parents for working so hard and achieving such an outstanding result! The team won last night's game in a 30-9 blowout. The opposing team wasn't all that bad but they seemed to get intimidated quickly by the smothering defense and the fact that Storm jumped out to an early lead. The Storm had beaten them the last two times they played in pretty competitive games so maybe they became disheartened. Grace played well with only six points but fourteen rebounds, two blocks and three steals. In this clip (about 5 minutes in) Grace gets fouled after beating her girl in a clear-out and taking it to the hole. She is also enjoying the Pro-Hoops camp... though sometimes you wouldn't know it. This in spite of being on a team with only one former AAU teammate and a pointguard she describes as an unapologeti...

Although it seems to have started off a little strangely I have heard lots of good things about Pro-Hoops. No early dropoff, no aftercare and the location changed kind of last minutey all of which left me with very hectic, pre-work, shuttle-bus duties. Inconvenient. Not happy. It will all work itself out. Today is GraceAnne's first day at Pro-Hoops camp. Pro-Hoops founder is Jay Hernandez who played with Speedy Claxton at Hofstra. Wally Szerbiak who played for Cold Spring Harbor Highschool and is a current NBA player trains with him. Bethany LeSueur is running this camp and Grace has at least 4 Hudson Storm teammates attending with her. That should be fun. Bethany LeSueur played at Georgetown after graduating from Garden City Highschool where she led them to THREE Long Island championships. She remains Long Island's all time leading scorer with 3,167 points. Which all means she's crazy good. Hope GraceAnne has fun and that the camp itself is as good as folk...

Grace and Grace Stone had a good time working with Carrie Moore yesterday. Grace's other teammate Tristan didn't get a chance to go but hopefully we will do it again in the future.

Tomorrow Grace is going back to Princeton with two of her teammates for a workout with Carrie Moore. Carrie Moore is director of women's basketball operations for Princeton University.... she was also the nation's NCAA leading scorer in 2007 averaging 25.4 ppg as a senior at Western Michigan U and then played a season for the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA. Pretty cool. Grace should get a great workout.

Grace dropped 12 on Our Lady of Hope last night on six for twelve shooting, 9 rebounds, three steals and an assist. She drove coast to coast a couple times and scored once from the left side doing it. Storm won 47 to 18. Girls all looked like they were having fun.