You're Gonna Miss This

The other day I was watching CMT and Trace Adkins song "You're gonna miss this" came on. I immediately thought of my high school days and sports. This song reminded me of how much I miss playing competivite basketball. Everytime I go watch high school games, I realize that those were good times... The games, practices, bus trips, long weekends!! I may have not loved practice at the time but I honestly miss it now. I hate running, dont get me wrong, but I miss being in shape!! I was reading my dear friend Jana's blog and she calculated how much time was spent playing and it was like 464 days of basketball during high school!! That is alot of basketball!! I wish I could go back and play again. I admit I was not the nicest person on the court and I did some things that I am not proud of but I still had fun doing it:) lol and at times I didn't like the coaches and what they did but I am glad that they pushed us to be better!! Some people think that you don't have to win to have fun, but I can atest that its so much funner to win games than it is to lose them. When I become a coach I will push my players to be successful because winning is the best thing ever. The feeling of working your butt off for 36 minutes a game and coming out on top is an amazing feeling. I will never forget the way I felt my senior year at state. We went into state 4th seed and played Gillette who was the 1st seed... just some background, we had lost to them in December by like 60 points so we were definately the underdogs... anyways the game was close the whole time and it came down to the end. We were tied with about 10 seconds left and we got called for a travel then we fouled them (not on purpose). So they had two shots with less than one second and she made the first and missed the second. So we didnt even have time for a desperation full court shot!! That feeling of defeat was the worst feeling I have felt in all my sports years. We wanted to be so happy because we played so good but we still lost and didnt have a chance at winning state. So whoever says that winning isn't everything, obviously hasn't felt that feeling of defeat.

so anyways I plan on moving back to Evanston and helping coach next year. I'm so excited to work with the coaches and the girls!! Well here are some of my pictures from my senior year!!