Happy Halloween Everyone (:

Hope everyone is enjoying Halloween today but not eating too much candy! Over the weekend the team dressed up for Halloween. There was Miss America, Black Swan, a nurse, a yellow jacket, a cheerleader, Captain America, an angel, and many more different custumes. I love hanging out with the team because we always have so much fun and get along great! I am extremely excited that the season has started because I feel that we are becoming more of a family, and I hope that carries onto the court. The Intrasquad scrimmage was a success, and being on the Brown squad, getting a win for Coach K was awesome! Everyone played great, and it shows how far we have come over the last two weeks. We have a scrimmage coming up on Wednesday against Tiffin; we hope to see everyone there :)

Tonight was the pep rally for winter sports! Four athletes from each sport team got a chance to participate in a three-point contest, while the girls and boys basketball team rebounded. We did a great job rebounding for sure! Also, during the fall season, there was a contest to see what teams showed up to the most sporting events and had the most spirit, and because we are so awesome the girl’s basketball team won! For winning, we got a nice long sleeve shirt as a prize!

Well, because Shari Mangas jinxed us, we are getting up nice and early again tomorrow for a morning practice, so it’s off to bed! See you on the court in seven hours yellow jackets (:

Sharlee Bailey #13

BROWNTOWN

Browtown came up with the big W this weekend!!! :D Gave coach K his first career Intrasquad scrimmage win! Everyone looked amazing this Friday and as a result we were able to have this Saturday and Sunday off. Which was extra-awesome because a lot of us got the chance to go and visit friends and really enjoy the college Halloween experience. Being a broke college child, I was the reincarnation of high school Catherine Spisak for Halloween! I wore Catherine's actual high school cheerleading uniform. OVerall, it was a great night and we had a ton of fun. My favorite outfit was definitely Jess Carpenter's! She was Miss America. It was simple, yet realllllly good! And shout out to Jen and Rachel for making their own costumes instead of buying them. They were a very impressive Captain America and Thor. Unfortunately nobody really knew what Thor was supposed to look like but still, it was excellently executed. Currently, some of the frosh and I are actually watching Thor. I think Rachel is trying to show them all how accurate the costume really is.

Super excited for the season to start! We scrimmage Tiffin on Wednesday. Last year they pretty much beat our butts. Looking for some #payback this time around!! One of my best friends/ ex-teammate plays for Tiffin so I am super excited to play and see her. It should be some excellent competition. Well... I'm off to see watch the rest of Thor now!!! Goodnight Jacket Nation!!!!

<3 Jessica Lairson #3

a.k.a. Larry. :D

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Like Catherine said, we had our scrimmagen Friday and everyone did really well and played hard. Gold squad came up a little short, but we got better and that's all that counts. It was great to finally meet all of the freshmen's families as well. Saturday we celebrated Halloween! I was Miss America , Rachel was Thor and Jen was Captain America if you couldn't tell. I would just like to say as well that Jen and Rachel both made their entire costumes. Don't they look great? I think so. This is one of the many pictures from last night, but all of the girls costumes were very creative and funny! This year has been a lot of fun already and our group gets along great.. I can't wait to see how our chemistry transpires onto the court this season. I have a feeling we are going to have a great season this year :) Our next scrimmage is on Wednesday at home against Tiffin. And can you believe it, our first game is in almost 2 weeks! With that being said, the jackets are back at it tomorrow with practice!

Jess Carpenter #33

#JACKETNATION

Happy Saturday!!

(It is also very happy because we didn’t have practice at 8:30 a.m. & I could finally sleep in !! Thanks Coaches :-) )
Yesterday was our annual Intersquad scrimmage! It was also my last one, such a weird thought. It was a lot of fun and always a great time playing against each other in a real game setting. All of our parents were invited to watch and have a little reception afterwards. It is always fun to play the “guessing game” of whose parents belong to what freshman. The scrimmage was filled with a lot of great things that we have spent the past two weeks putting in at practice, but it was also filled with things we need to improve on. The brown squad officially has bragging rights until Monday at 5 p.m. when we return to practice. Coach K had his first victory in the intersquad scrimmage, he now improves his record to 1-2 and Coach Campbell recorded her first loss and has a record of 1-1. After the scrimmage was over we headed to Tressel Lounge and indulged ourselves with pizza and snacks. Every player introduced their family that was there with them and we welcomed everyone in to the yellow jacket family for the 2011-2012 season. Practice has been going very well and we are improving every day. Our next opponent is our scrimmage against Tiffin University on Wednesday. We are going to see a lot of screens and cuts, so we will have our pistols ready and be in defensive stance. Other than basketball, all of the girls have been hanging out with each other and we have a great group this year. Tonight we are celebrating Halloween. It will be interesting to see what everyone is going to dress up as. So far I have about 7 hours to come up with a costume. Stay tuned for the next blog , I’m sure someone will upload some pictures of our team.

Awwww Jackets ;)

-Catherine #42
“Look Good, You Play Good.”

Getting better every day

Hi everyone--

I hope you are all as excited about the season as the girls on the team and the coaching staff is. So far, the girls have been a pleasure to coach. It is usually pretty easy to tell when a team has chemistry, and I can definitely tell that the 2011-12 Yellow Jackets have the ability to be a really special group. I am thrilled with the attitude and effort that the girls have displayed, and mostly with their encouragement of each other. The beginning of practice can be a time of mixed emotions and difficult transitions for players and coaches alike, but no matter what the situation, this group is constantly encouraging each other and building each other up. I am very proud of the returners for their leadership, organization, and for embracing the roles that have been asked of them. I am also extremely proud of the freshmen for stepping into some huge roles, and doing everything we are asking of them. It really makes coaching a whole lot easier!

Our goal each practice is to "get better every day". Here is to another day of getting better... WIN TODAY! : )

Coach Campbell

JacketNation

So this morning we had our last early morning pracctice! Getting up at 4:30 for practice at 5:30 just is down right hard. Not only was getting up early tough, running champion makers at 7 was even tougher. But, when push comes to shove, we'll be the last ones standing :) We have had 6 practices so far and everyone is working their tails off. If we keep up the hard work and intenstiy we have showed thus far, I have no doubt that we will make a deep tournament run! I think I speak for most of the Freshman by saying that we are thankful for all of the upperclassmens help and guidance so far this season. Without them, we would be completely lost!!
We have also had some pretty fun times together!! This past weekend was Jen's Birthday so everyone helped make that day special for her! This weekend is Megan (PILLS) Pillsbury's birthday so I'm sure it'll be another fun weekend! Also, all of the relaxing nights at the Hamilton Apartments watching our favorite TV shows are what makes me feel like home! Being only 8 weeks into school, I feel as if the team is my own family already! :)
Classes have been okay for the most part. Extremely different from high school, but I think we have all made the transition well :)
Only 627 hours and 58 more minutes until our first game!! Hope to see all of our blog readers there!!!
Awwwwww Jackets :)
Shari Mangas #20

Missing Monopoly Piece...

Hey Everyone
So finally it is my time to blog (2 weeks ago)!! Anyways today i had McDonalds for lunch...my roommate Jen and I are trying to win the million dollars but i think by the time i actually get the boardwalk piece i might not be able to run down the floor. Don't worry though we'll keep trying! On a positive note today will be our fourth practice this season! they have all gone really well and everyone is working hard...even though there is plenty of new material for the freshmen they are putting forth a great effort. Everyone is sore which is a good sign but it might be from our new stretches that put us a lot of pain! This week is midterm week but we don't have classes friday and hopefully everyone can visit their family this weekend. Anyways just to clarify the previous alumni game this weekend i did help! megan wouldnt have been able to announce so clearly if it wasnt for me...and i think that i deserve a shirt for my tremendous efforts!! Thats all for now!

AWWW Jackets
Rachel Rossman #10

P.S.
If anyone finds a boardwalk piece i'll give you a whopping thousand dollars from my reward :)

What a weekend for the Hive!

This weekend ended in fun and excitement! I got to celebrate my 21st birthday with my teammates/family, Lairson and I got to ref the alumni game which was awesome! and then we all worked the Homecoming football game and rested up for the first practice of the season! Can't believe in one week we have our intrasquad scrimmage and then the following week we have a scrimmage! It's already going by way too fast and time needs to slow down. I can't wait for our first game though because we look fly in our new uni's!!!

Can't wait for fall break to start and I hope all are doing well. We looooove our blog readers!

Jen #21

And the season is underway!!! :):))

Hiii!

We had our first two official practices today! We were all looking good in our practice gear and played even better! (we looked good, so we played good, of course!!) We have already learned so much, and we are looking forward to learning much more. It is going to be a great season, and I couldn't be more excited!! :) I have the best teammates there are. Not only are they teammates, but I consider them good friends and even family. Thank you so very much for nominating me as your Jacket Princess! I am very fortunate I was able to represent you all for homecoming! It was an all around wonderful experience :) I cannot wait for all the fun times ahead, I hope your year has started off as well as mine! Best of luck this season!

GOOOO JACKETS!!! :):)

Laurel Thomas #30

Let The Season Begin

Hey everyone!
Time has been flying
by. I cannot believe it is the middle October already! I hope everyone is
having a great fall so far :)
Offseason is officially OVER! It was a challange, but a good one. Swimming was a lot of fun
and so was capture the flag for sure. Props to Catherine who did a great job at
organizing everything and making it fun as well as challenging! The season
begins today!!...I can't wait! It is definitely going to be a fun season. Our
uniforms are sweeeeeet and so are our shoes. Look good play good ;)
We’ve had some pretty good times so far here on campus from taking a dip in the freezing cold ice
bath to jammin’ out in our dorms….cough cough Shari Mangas. I am surprised as
to how well I have adjusted to college and I absolutely love it! I have the
best roommate ever (Shari) and I have her to thank for helping me adjust and
stay focused! (somewhat hahaha). The alumni game yesterday morning was a lot of fun to watch and to get to know a lot of the alumni’s. Megan Frisina did a fantastic job at announcing the game and Rachel Rossman did a great job at doing nothing haha.
I hope everyone has a great rest of the year! Let’s go YELLOW JACKETS!

Audrey #24

So it's been slow on our blog so I think I'll show you a few shots of some of the latest around BW.
We had some pretty big excitement in that the college is moving some houses to make way for some other improvements on campus. The first shot is the house in front of it's original lot, then the next is the same house as it is moving toward it's new location, and the third is very near its final destination. The move drew lots of attention from the neighborhood and was pretty amazing to watch.

The next set of pictures is some of our players taking advantage of the cold plunge after a workout. It is FREEZING but it works! :)

:)

Heyyy everyone :) . I hope everyone’s first month went amazing! I know mine did. I mean I can’t lie classes are kind of hard right now! Taking chemistry and biology in the same semester is just a little bit rough but I'm glad to be getting them out of the way! I have really enjoyed getting to hang out with the team the past month and also getting to meet all of the freshman. I have definitely been enjoying all of the preseason workouts I’d have to say my favorite so far has been ultimate football and my least favorite was the swimming workout. I felt like I was drowning the whole time I guess I’m not the best swimmer out there… Anyway only two weeks until season starts and I can’t waitttt! I hope everyone is doing well and keeping up on their school work!!.

Melissa