Spring League Basketball & Softball

Carly got to play on a fun spring league basketball team with Alan Kormos and Skyler Leavitt as their coaches. They had practices at 7 am twice a week. Dedication.

Their first tournament was the opening Battle at the Bridge in Lethbridge. There were a few girls who also had a dance recital that weekend, so their first game they only had 6 players. They played good for a while, but they ran out of gas. Their second game they had a full team, and their third game they only had 2 subs again. They did good.

The next tournament was in Cardston. They played hard. I think they won all their games.

The third tournament was the Battle at the Bridge. They lost their first game to Magrath by a couple points. But then Magrath couldn't go to the second game that night because they were all in a school play. So our team got to stay on the winning side of the bracket, and they ended up winning the tournament. Our girls got t-shirts for winning the tournament. So they went out of the gym and just held up the t-shirts for a picture, and then they took them back into the gym and gave them to Magrath because they should have been in the championship. It was an impressive sportsmanship gesture. Even the organizers of the tournament wrote an email to the coach later to tell him how impressed they were. 

Lucy ~ Softball

Lucy also played spring league basketball (but I possibly can't find any pictures)

Lucy Track & Field

Lucy's last year at Cardston Junior High Track Meet -

Triple jump - 1st place

Long jump - 5th place

400 meters

Off to Westwind Divisionals Track and Field
  A few weeks ago, Lucy's PE teacher, Erica Burt, text me and asked if Lucy wanted to compete in the 80-meter hurtles at divisionals. Lucy had only ever tried them one time in gym class. She said she would try it. Jill and I were there cheering her on. There were only about 6 girls who competed. Lucy was in the second heat and there was only one other girl in her heat, and that girl beat her by a few steps. So right after the event they went to hand out the ribbons and they hand Lucy the second place ribbon. We were all surprised. Lucy comes right over to us and with a sigh says, "Now I have to go to zones in hurtles."  Too funny.
Luckily, she ended up second in triple jump so she qualified for zones in that event too.

So Lucy got to go to Zones too. Austin even took a day off and the three of us headed to Medicine Hat. She didn't place in hurtles, but she did it. She was super nervous. She did place in triple jump and ended up 4th place jumping 8.62 meters. Go Lucy.

Story of Rodeo & Hanna

Hanna Nunn

Senior Year

Alberta High School Rodeo

Fall season

Excelled in goat tying

Except in the mud at Foremost

Caught a couple times in breakaway

Only team roped a couple times

Spring season

Goat ate Lena’s tail

Buy horse tail extension

Rocked the goat tying

Only competed on Saturday rodeos

Keep the Sabbath Day Holy

Roped well at most rodeos

Personal best at High River in goat tying

6.9 seconds

Often placed in team roping with a barrier and a leg

Last regular season rodeo – Strathmore

Sitting 2^nd in goats; 7^th in team roping; 10^th in breakaway

Top 10 go to provincials

Check the draw

Hanna forgot to enter

Not good

Dad is mad

Hanna is sick about it

Still had to go because team roping partner entered her

Longest, quiet drive to Strathmore

Talia, team roping header, missed

Drove back home

Dad fasted that she could hold her 10^th spot

TJ texted Sunday afternoon

Hanna held her breakaway spot

Bumped down to third in goats

Provincials

Priesthood blessing

Peaceful and happy drive to Ponoka

Checked in

No problems

Day one

Goat tying is her first event

7.9 seconds

2^nd place

Success

Relief – last year her goat got up on the first day

Breakaway

First out because she came in last place out of 30 girls

3.0 seconds

Clean run

Placed third

Team roping

Caught two feet

Slipped her dalley

Dropped her reigns

Took both hands to pull the rope tight

Dad yelling

Held both feet in the loop and pulled tight

13 seconds

7^th place

Serious rope burn blister on her hand

Successful first day

Good night sleep

Stampeder Inn

Day 2

Austin had to leave to go back for Stake Conference

Tears.

From Austin

Last words of advice:

One big step (breakaway score)

6.9 seconds (goats)

First event of the day – goats

“Is this supposed to be fun?”

6.9 seconds

She did it

First place

Loud cheering

Buckle

Breakaway roping

Last to go

3.2 seconds

Clean run

Tied for 5^th/6^th place

Team roping

7.8 seconds

2^nd place

Girl power

Only 3 teams out of 30 caught two

Cowboy Prom

Jill did Hanna’s hair and make up

She looked beautiful

AHSRA scholarship

NHSRA merit scholarship

No dance for Hanna

Day 3

This is it

Prayers

More prayers

Lucky shirt

Goat tying

Hanna sitting in first coming in to final round

Last to go

Smokin down the arena

Fast tie

7.2 seconds

Goat gets up

Nooooooo

Heartbroken

No provincial championship

Why

Tears

From each of us

Presentation minutes later

Hanna has been voted for the spirit award for District 1

Oh wait

They drew for the buckle for the 3 spirit award winners

It wasn’t Hanna

Never mind

Steps back out of the arena

Couldn’t have been worse timing

Text Austin

He is heartbroken

And sad

And mad he’s not there

Hanna to the truck

Text dad

So much for blessings

Decided it’s over

Nothing else she can do about it

Dad’s advice: regroup and go rope

Words of consoling from everyone

Hug to Kaylynn from the mom of the girl who won goats

More tears from Carly

Back to the arena

Breakaway

Jill helping Hanna in the box

3.6 seconds

4^th place in the round

Three clean runs

Top 6 girls all missed or had to use 2 loops

She won the average

Goat tying final results

5^th place overall

Only top 4 go to nationals

Third place girl in goats – Kenda Statham

Not going to nationals this year

Only a freshman

Her mom, Jody, came to tell me

Hanna can roll up

She can still go to nationals in goats

Breakaway results

Hanna ended up third overall

She gets to go nationals in breakaway

Things are looking up

Maybe there are still blessings

Maybe this is a good sport

Hanna – “What is this day?”

Team roping

Hanna and Talia

Just have to catch

Ride in the box

Talia catches the head

Hanna comes around the corner

Two swings and deliver

Two feet

Pull tight

9.4 seconds

They won the average

Waiting for final results

Carly keeps checking for them to post it

Finally here comes the paper

1^st place – Hanna and Talia

What

For real?

Provincial champions

That’s not even their best event

They win saddles and buckles

First place

Not the event we expected to get the saddle for

There are blessings

It all worked out

After a roller coaster day

Austin reading all the texts

Eating lunch with the visiting general authority

Can’t believe it

Going to nationals in 3 events

Go upstairs to sign up

Kenda may have changed her mind about nationals

Down the roller coaster

At least Hanna gets to go

Kenda still not going

Hanna gets to do goats too

Signed up and entered

Walking back to the truck

Kaylynn – “that was an emotionally exhausting day”

Hanna – “I’m doing ok.

I’m proud of myself.

I held it together.”

Yes you did

Yes, Hanna you did.

Provincial champion!

Blessings

Hard work

Talent

High School Rodeo ~ Provincial Champion