The end of the first full week of practice is coming to a close as we prepare to have a couple of scrimmages tomorrow (Saturday) morning. This week’s practices have had its shares of ups and downs. Sometimes I think it is coming together and sometimes I wonder if it ever will. For the most part it was a frustrating week as we are not as far along into learning the system as I had hoped we would be. There is just so much they need to learn. And yet, sometimes I wonder if the girls even know they have a lot to learn.
But just when I needed it the most, I got a few positive words of affirmation that lifted my spirits. First, my athletic director stopped me and told me to tell me how well I am doing and how many good things he has heard about the way I am running my practices, etc. And according to him, he is hearing these things from the players themselves who “are so excited about what [I] am doing with the team.”
Later that afternoon, a told me that several of the basketball girls were talking in her class and she wanted to tell me how much they respect me and that they were talking about how much I know about basketball and what I was teaching them. She told me how excited they were for the season.
Those two words of encouragement were enough to make me realize that we are getting somewhere and the season might just be as exciting as I am hoping it will be. I guess we will see where we stand tomorrow at our scrimmage.
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