Along with working at Urban Junction I am also coaching two girls basketball teams at Newpark, the local secondary school in Blackrock, the cadettes and the senior girls teams. Both teams had their first game today, I was excited and nervous. A bit of background, I've played basketball from when I was ten through college, I'm use to intense daily workouts and practices and regularly scheduled games. None of that exists here, or at least not at this school. I think we have had three practices, and none of the league games are scheduled, we have to work them in on the calender for when the gyms are not being used by others. We only practice once a week, for an hour, and at our last practice we had a total of nine players show up (there are ten girls on each team). So let's just say I wasn't expecting much with these first games. But the girls played hard and didn't give up.
The cadette girls lost, but I was proud of how they played, and considering we didn't have any structure, I was surprised that we only lost by about ten (it looked more like jungleball). They put their hearts into that match, it was fun to coach.
The senior girls won, by around 20, but that was more expected. Most of these girls have played on the team in years past and play well together. They also played hard and I am very proud of them.
I'm curious to see how the rest of the season is going to turn out, keep us in your prayers.
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