Basketball Tryouts?

Courtney loves basketball! And she is pretty good at it too. :) She certainly did not get her "sports genes" from me, but it is something that she really has a passion for and strives to do better every single week.

Because of this drive and because she is not challenged with every league we sign her up for, Matt and I decided to let her try out for a select team today.  This team is associated with the local high school (which she would attend if she ever went to public school), and it is a feeder program for their high school basketball program. 

I have been looking around at select teams and realized that this certain team would work out the best for us.  I know of another parent whose daughter plays for this team and she loves it. It is close by our house and is one of the cheapest select teams around, seriously, one team I found was $650 MORE than this team!!! No WAY!! Sorry, kid!

I also emailed this coach a couple weeks ago and talked about one main issue we have with select sports. This is the fact that she (and we as her parents) will need to choose whether she will do sports on Sunday morning or go to church. For many, many years, Matt and I have had a rule that there are no extra-curricular activities on Sundays.  Before we had kids, we drove by a baseball field on Sunday mornings on our way to church and there were always games going on. We told ourselves way back then that our children's spiritual health is MUCH more important than sports and we would not allow sports to take over Sundays.

I talked to the coach about this over email and he seemed to be receptive to the idea that she would not be able to make any games, especially on Sunday morning. Matt and I can allow a game once in awhile on a Sunday afternoon, just not every Sunday. Our Sundays are busy enough with small group and families get-togethers! He said if she missed 2-3 games out of the 32-40 that they will play, she will be ok.  He said that mostly tournaments would be scheduled on Sundays anyway, most of their league games will be on Saturdays. If they did have a league game that was scheduled on Sunday, they usually request that it is put after 1 pm. 

Because of all this, we let her try out today. She will know on Tuesday if she made the team.  Matt took her today and said there were some players that were better than her, but yet some that were not as good as her. She was about in the middle.  The coach is going to call personally if she makes it. I am anxious for Tuesday!