The last games

Jocie's second year of traveling basketball has come to an end. Last year, as forth graders, most girls were new to the game and were just getting used to playing as a team. Often times at tournaments, they were put up against 5th grade teams and struggled to score many points.

This year as fifth graders, they really learned how to play as a team. Many of the girls from last year came back to play again this year, which made our team stronger. The girls practiced really hard, and along with Coach Carl's brilliant plays, the girls had an amazing year!

This weekend, we had our final games against Waconia and Glencoe/Silver Lake and beat them both, which brought their final record to 16-2!!


Jocie played some great defense (as you can see). According to Carl, she still needs to work on being more aggressive. He said he won't be satisfied until she starts getting fouls for knocking girls down when she boxes them out...


As you can see....I need a new camera!! If you can see (in this dark picture) Jocie was playing such great defense that she caused a turn-over during this play by intercepting this pass.

Claire watched the games intently...while taking frequent water breaks :)

Time Out - the girls needed some words of encouragement

After being fouled, Jocie went to the line to "swish" this free throw. Look at that form!!

Carl getting Jocie fired up!

After wins, the girls always meet in the middle of the gym to do their "Magic" cheer....along with the water girl, Ella!

The girls are looking forward to the summer when they will make a few 3 on 3 teams so they can enter into the St. Michael 3 on 3 tourneys. We can only hope that next year will be as great as this season has been!