Carly's JV Basketball Season

 To be honest, Carly was hoping to make the Varsity Basketball Team at Cardston High School. But then they put her on the Junior Varsity team instead. She shed a couple tears and then decided to make the most of it. It turned out to be a really great season.

First, she had amazing coaches. Logan Van Dusen and Jeremy Townsend were the perfect mix of intensity and high expectations in such a positive way. They put so much effort into the team and built up each player. Practices were productive and fun. They had a team Christmas party and a team bonding activity in Lethbridge to watch a college basketball game and go axe throwing. When the season was over, they met with each girl to talk about their strengths and things to improve on.

Logan and Jeremy each came to me and Austin a few times at the beginning of the season to say that they knew she probably wanted to make varsity and she was good enough to, but she would get so much more playing time on JV and they needed a few older girls to be on the team to be team leaders.  Two other girls from grade 11 also stayed on JV - Lilah Kormos and Miya Hansen. 

Sidenote deep thought: Logan said they put Carly and Lilah and Miya on JV so that they would have the best opportunity to improve and to help their team. Then Logan said this would be the best preparation so next year's varsity team could be provincial champions. In life, there are opportunities we have, some hard and some really good, to help us become provincial champions in life. We are also placed with certain people at certain times to help them to become provincial champions... all of us as a team of provincial champions and working on our goal of becoming more like Jesus and working towards eternal life.

The team played in 4 tournaments (Western Canada, CHS, Holy Trinity in Okotoks, and Immanuel Christian in Lethbridge) and won 3 of them. The last tournament was a varsity tournament, and they won 2 games and lost one 58-56 after being tied with 8 seconds to go. They won all of their league games except they lost to Raymond both times. Then they won both games of the zone tournament and were zone champs!  Their season record was 21-3. 

It really was a really great season...great coaches, great teammates, great athletes