Graceketball

Megan, Stone and Woody after Princeton beat Columbia on Saturday night. Princeton will have a chance to win the Ivy League title this coming Saturday against Harvard. It will be just two days after GraceAnne's birthday so we are hoping to get down to Jadwin for the game!

"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown." ~Albert Einstein GraceAnne has been going to some of the local High School playoff games the last week or so. The North Shore vs Lynbrook game was exciting! It's fun watching her figure things out and hearing her thoughts on what different teams are trying to do. She went to the St John's v Syracuse game last weekend and will be going to see Princeton play at Columbia tomorrow night. Hopefully she will get a chance to see Megan Griffith at the Princeton game. She's also been really watching some games on TV, asking questions and expressing her thoughts. I can tell she's really thinking about the game and learning a lot very quickly. Basketball IQ is a funny thing, some people play their whole life and never "get it" while others never play and "get it" right away. GraceAnne is in the process of ...

Quiet but productive weekend this time around. GraceAnne had a game at Island Garden Saturday morning, team lost but Woody played well. With a nice elbow jumper, a put back and a little hook she threw across her body she went three for four. Didn't see the ball much. Had 9 or 10 blocks and a bunch of rebounds against some pretty good older players. Sunday was fun. No Game7 boot camp but Marc opened the gym so Stone and Woody got some time to work on their game. It was fun to watch them try to figure out how to spend their time productively. They did a good job! As they mature they'll have to learn to develop a routine, a workout, and push themselves a little harder when they have time to themselves. Marc helped by giving the seven or eight older players that showed up a couple drills and then they played two on two on two. Woody was cranky toward the end but the scrimmaging and all the contact brought her back to life. Kid loves to block shots, she was telling me that's t...

“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.” ~John Wooden Why do we play? Because basketball is life. Everything you find in life, heartbreak to ecstasy, all that lies between and everything that leads to either one, can be found in the simple game of basketball. I'd rather my child experience and learn from, loss, struggle, injustice, competence, compassion, cooperation, success, even the meaning of "hate" in a safe, relatively controlled environment before she has to deal with the harsh reality of those same concepts in "real life". The lessons she learns both on and off the court, the wins and losses but more importantly what it takes to get to either outcome are life lessons that will eventually determine her success, her happiness, her character, who she is as a person. She still has a lot of growing, a lot of work to do but I could not be happier with her approach to the task. Proud of my girl and all of her team...