Graceketball

Today GraceAnne unleashed the drop-step she's been working on with Carrie Moore. Thanks Blake for the dramatic video editing! Thanks Carrie for everything you do!

GraceAnne's Super League team, Lightning Hudson, starts its schedule this weekend. Their opening game will be Friday night at 8:30 at Island Garden. She then has a CYO League game with The Storm at St Mary's in Manhasset at 2:30 Saturday followed by her second game of the Super League season at Island Garden at 6:30 Saturday night. This crazy weekend wraps up on Sunday with a home game (thankfully) at St Hyacinth gym at 3:30. If the two teams don't get tired or lose focus they could very well come away with four wins. It doesn't look like there are any more 4 game weekends on the schedule this winter. This is very similar to an AAU tournament schedule which they'll have to get used to come spring. Lots of sleep and healthy meals.

Here is some video of the girls all having fun at the Stony Brook v Princeton game last Friday. Princeton won and a lot of the girls really fell in love with Niveen Rasheed (Venus) and Devona Allgood both of whom played extremely well and the girls got to meet after the game. Last night Grace and I watched Princeton beat American University on her laptop. Venus and Devona both played well again and Grace was excited to see them, Carrie and "her court" at Jadwin on the "TV". Grace got an invitation to a camper's reunion at Princeton yesterday. She's looking forward to it!

GraceAnne's CYO team is undefeated at 4-0, a really nice start. They have scored 40 and 50 points and are winning by an average of 14 points, pretty high powered offense. Hopefully they keep the momentum going. Super League at Island Garden is starting up and Grace will be playing for Lightning Hudson once again. First game is next Friday, the 20th. Her super league team consists of most of the players on The Storm adding Jenna Brown and a new girl named Zoey. Jenna's big sis Taylor is only a freshman but already there are a lot of eyes on her as a prospect. GraceAnne played AAU with Jenna last year and she's a super nice kid. Should be fun. The first Lightning practice will be this Sunday. The Storm is heading to Stony Brook this evening to see the season opener between the Princeton Tigers women's team and the Stony Brook Sea Wolves. Carrie Moore provided passes for about 30 people to see the game. How cool is that? Should be a good time! Tomorrow GraceAnne and I are ...

Great workout for Stone and Woody at Jadwin yesterday. Shows a lot of dedication to miss out on all that candy to get better at bball. They actually got a chance to get their trick-or-treat on when they got back home in the evening. They both really respond to Carrie's training and you can see the intensity, they both want to do well and push themselves to get better. She gets them to work on the skills that need improvement without any complaint on their part.... how does she do it? Sounds like Carrie is willing to drive up and run a training session for The St Hyacinth Storm CYO team. It would be a great thing for all the girls to experience. Hopefully we can find the gym time. Princeton will be opening their season against Stony Brook here on LI Nov 13th. A bunch of the girls from GraceAnne's team will be going. Should be fun!