Graceketball

Can't say enough good things about GraceAnne's experience with Jay Hernandez and Pro-Hoops. For the past six weeks Grace has been working out four nights a week at "Pro-Hoops Academy" for between 2-3 hours. Around one hour of "shoot-around", where she gets to do her own thing, an hour, more or less, of skills, strength, agility or whatever they are working on and an hour of playing the game... One on one, three on three, five on five. All the while guided expertly by Jay. It has been a great experience for GraceAnne to work so intensely with such a great bunch of older girls. I think the next youngest are the three sophomore girls, Mei Lyn, Jordan and McKayla from St Mary's.... ALL the girls have been GREAT to her and for her game! Very nice opportunity for an 8th grader preparing to play varsity for the first time. And, it's right here in Glen Cove only 5 minutes away! Jay has been fantastic for her game, skills, strength and conditioning but, m...

Sunday was a beautiful day for a breast cancer walk at Jones Beach. Woody, Amara & Samara Things are happening fast and GraceAnne continues to put it all together. Played very well in three games this past weekend. Last game she went to the line seven times, almost all on drives to the basket. Training hard is translating into playing hard and staying focused.   "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." ~Samuel Clemons  Woody is pushing herself hard enough that she is willing to make mistakes. Big breakthrough there. She's always been too concerned with screwing up. She's been told by Marc Von Essen time and again, you can't be afraid to make mistakes, you have to push yourself, Go Hard Every Time and you'll make mistakes. Mistakes have generally upset her in the past and she ends up losing her focus... no time for that now, moving on too quickly to the next thing.  Right now the momentum is looking good leading up ...

Grace had one of those weekends you wish you could bottle up and save a little of... sprinkle a bit out every once in a while when you need it. Friday, great practice, very physical, banging with Moffit and Jasmine for rebounds. Saturday Woody went into Brooklyn with Grace Stone to check out her Rose Classic games with the Baldwin team at Bishop Ford. Ran into a bunch of old teammates. Came home and played really well in a loss against a tough Saint Vincent DePaul team... mostly Floral Park and Sewanaka varsity starters as well as Kaela Hillaire from LuHi.... Kaela is a small, very quick freshman pg who transferred from Floral Park this year. In the past week and a half we have seen her play in five games with three different teams.... she's young, so she has some growing to do for sure but she is going to be a good one. Very fun to watch. Sunday started out freezing cold with the Pancreatic Cancer Walk at Jones Beach.... straight to LuHi for a pre-season bootcamp style clinic ...

Grace has a CYO game tonight against St Rose in Massapequa... she'll have to miss her workout to do that. She missed last night's open gym with Glen Cove varsity coach Gus Sirakis so she could try out for Jazz Band, she plays tenor sax.... hope she did well and makes it! She did get to her Pro Hoops workout with Jay Hernandez after the try-out. That has been going extremely well, she likes all the girls and has been enjoying the experience tremendously! She's the youngest in the group and has to work very hard to keep up with the others, all very talented girls. Jay always keeps it very positive and you can see an improvement in her confidence already. Friday she has CYO practice, Saturday she has a home game for CYO as well as a game at Northsport... at the same time. It's the only conflict this season so she'll have to figure out what she wants to do. Sunday she is doing a walk for Pancreatic Cancer Research at Jones Beach then attending a clinic at LuHi. Coach ...

Great weekend! Won one lost one, went to see Stone in the Rose, best workout with Laura EVER and lots of good news going forward.... nice to be winning.