The season is almost here..... :)

Well we've been at BW for almost two months now and the weeks keep going by faster and faster! I can't believe our season officially starts this Sunday! 3 more days!! Everyone is super excited that conditioning is now over and the real fun is beginning! Our team worked so hard in preseason workouts and I can tell everyone is motivated and ready for the season to start. We have fall break this week so no classes tomorrow, which is great! School is getting busier and busier with midterm exams right now, so that's not too much fun. We had a team bonding activity Tuesday night which was pretty cool. It was a personality test that described your personality with colors. I think it helped us get to know and understand each other better, so that was fun. :) Oh Catherine, Megan, and I had a wonderful time studying together last night at Cat's apartment. (more like being creepy and googling people) :) haha it's sooo fun to be a yellowjacket!! Well I'm heading to Columbus to watch my little brother kick some butt at State for Golf...last weekend with the family for a while so it should be a good time.

AAAWWWWW JACKETS!!!

Kristen #23

Hey hey hey.
I'm a little late too on this but better late than never. Today was the last day of 6 a.m. conditioning!!!! Woot woot. I'm just happy my eye isn't grottie anymore. That was terrible. Not to mention other people who are getting sick :( hopefully all of us that aren't feeling so good will get better soon! School is getting a little tougher and I'm sure everyone has been busy busy busy. My friend asked me how long we have been up here and I realized that we have all been here for almost two months already! Time is flying and season starts in less than a week. I'm really excited and a little nervous, but the good kind of nervous... It's hard to know what all to expect. Hopefully we can all finish strong on Wednesday and stay healthy! :) Love ya Jackets.

*J Lair.

So I know i'm a little late writing this but i've been sooo busy with school and basketball everyday of the week besides weekends ha. We're already on the seventh week of school, its hard to believe but playing basketball i think has made it go by so fast. In less than a week we officially start practice and say goodbye to conditioning and i think everyone will be happy about that i know i will. This past weekend i went home so i missed broth returning back to the hive :(. But i attended my family reunion down in yellow springs, oh such a great place and even though it was cold and started to rain it was fun to see everybody that i haven't seen for years or so, its always good being able to go home. I came back to the most amzing roommate ever ali :) and she cleaned the room while i was gone which was really nice of her thank you!. its always a good time in 107b ha. but school is going great i went to maya for one of my classes that was delicious lol and the weekends here at bw are going great and can't wait for halloween!! love october! and the movies that come on this month. Being a yellowjacket is amazing!.. happy halloween to everyone in advance


OLIVIA #11

TIMEE IS FLYINGGG!!

Hello Everyone!!
Like I said, time is certainly flying by very fast. I realized that including today, we only have 5 more conditioning sessions left and approximately 13 days until our first practice! That is amazing. I am personally super excited for this season and I can tell everyone else is as well by how hard everyone is working in conditioning and open gym. Last Wednesday, Coach Campbell put us through an intense spinning workout, and on Friday we had our swimming workout which is always fun!
Lastly classes are going good, almost time for mini B and I get to add two more classes to my schedule...yay! Also, I love living in an apartment this year!! It is sooooo nice having my own bathroom along with it is having a kitchen to cook in! Of course, the living room is completely decorated in batman, I LOVE BATMAN. Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well in classes and having fun so far!
GO JACKETS!
~Nancy Coulter #32

BUZZZZZZZ

Hello Yellowjackets.

I am currently sitting in the cybercafe drinking a strawberry-banana smoothie in celebration of finishing my first econ test of the year. I had a half hour to kill before my next class so I thought to myself, what would I rather be doing right now than blogging? Answer: NOTHING. so here we go... we're about a month into the school year and everything is going really well so far! Everyone is getting settled into classes and of course saving a little time for fun. Morning workouts are chugging along and soon actual practices will be startinggg!! Last Friday we played football, and Catherine Spisak was actually recruited to the Browns, but thankfully she decided to stay and play for the BW Women's Basketball team instead. Thanks for your generosity kitty. My team was not so lucky, and we had to do stations twice, which meant getting to know the 5 ton tire flipping station a little better than I wanted to. Grey's Anatomy premiered last Thursday and we had a watch party at Catherine and Monica's apartment, complete with chicken wing dip that I oh so generously provided. We also had to overcome some adversity early on, with Lizzy and Jess Carpenter both suffering injuries. It is making us stronger as a group though, and we are all pulling together in support of them. Other than that, it's been pretty quiet in the hive. AAAAWWWWWWW JJAACCKKETTSSSS!!

Megan Frisina
#4

Start of week 5!

I'm already experiencing senioritis therefore I am a few days late on my blog. Classes have been going very well. This week I get to dissect the left leg of a cadaver along with 2 other girls in my class. So a warning in advance girls...I will probably smell like the lab when I come to the workout on Wednesday, but no big deal. I am pretty excited to literally start digging in.
Workouts have been going very well. Everyone is pushing themselves and striving to do the best that they can. I have come down with a cold which I am not very happy about...I think the flu shot should contain every possible strand of the flu/cold. I am feeling very miserable as I sit here and write this lovely blog and I will try not to infect any of you girls!
I am very excited to be done with preseason and finally start actual practices! :) This season should be very exciting and a lot of fun and I can't wait!

Fall starts this week and that's it! BYE!


Amanda Schroeder #12

BOOOOOOM!

Well I just remembered that it's my week to write in the blog! So here we go.

Who knew being a yellow jacket was so fun.... :) We went camping and I must say that I really love the fact that four out of 8 freshman stayed in the ritz. Suckaaaas! We offered to the 2 seniors, but they play fair and square. Clearly, it was TOO hot in there and I guess I would have liked more of a breeze, but I can't have EVERYTHING. So it is what it is.

I was a little hesitant of these early morning workouts, but they are going really really well and everyone is busting their butts every day -- especially on that ladder.
Monica is my lifting partner, and we go hard in the paint...all day every day. End of story.

I also want to thank the people who literally held me up at conditioning when i was dying..haha I didn't see any faces...so thanks guys.

So in conclusion, I love it here at BW and i really think of you guys as my family. Seriously. I really look forward to the next four years playing basketball with everyone. Let's ball it up :)

Much Love,

Lizzard

my first few weeks as yellow jacket!..

The first couple weeks at BW have been great! I feel like I'm constantly running around and busy, but it keeps me out of trouble =) I'm either studying, at study table, open gym, workouts (like everybody else on the team), or I'm in my room eating in my nice cozy twin size bed (even though my feet hang off) haha. All my classes have been going pretty good, I have never read so much in my life though! My grandma (baba) is constantly calling telling me I should come home after basketball to shower, sleep, and eat..she is basically saying that she wants me to move back home haha I do miss my family, but no that much! I'm really excited for the season to start and glad everybody gets along so well it will be a fun year =)

Natalia Simovic

Labor Dayy babbyyy

Unfortunately it is the end of the labor day weekend and we all have to return to classes in the morning. I went home for the weekend for a big family cookout. It was great to see the family because I probably won't go home again until Thanksgiving. The first two weeks of school already flew by. I really enjoy all of my classes (for once I don't dread going to all of them haha). The first conditioning workout took place Wednesday and everyone survived! I live in Ehouse with my wonderful teammate Olivia. She is probably sick of me already but at least she pretends to like me. As monica stated earlier, we went camping last weekend. It was a lot of fun, except having to put up the tents in the dark and having to sleep in the Econolodge tent. We all have pneumonia now thanks to the water that leaked on us all night. Always a fun time with the lady yellow jackets though. :)



Ali #22

Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor day jacket junkies.  Or should I say, "Today is Labor Day, and it has been a wonderful day of no labor so far! " But i have a sport media relations paper that I really need to start and finish at some point. Anyways, we have been through two weeks of school and one conditioning workout.  It wasn't tooo tooo bad, because coach saw us all crumpling before her eyes and decided to let us slide on the spin around the cone and sprint mumbojumbo.  I can tell this is a great group of people who are going to work hard, work together and have fun.  I need to buy my Celtics ticket for when they come to demolish the cavs on october 27.  It's not going to be a fair game, but it will give me a chance to cheer for Rondo in person.  Other notables coming up is the homecoming football game, the VMA's and of course, Grey's Anatomy season premiere.  I like to watch TV.  Oh yea WE WENT CAMPING, as a team.  It was a first for me.  We had three hotels, winners got to stay in the Ritz, wich was the cabin, and the loosers had to stay in actual tents, aptly named the Econo Lodge and the Ramada.  Jess Carpenter woke up in a puddle of dew. Apparently the Econo Lodge had some leaks.  Thank goodness my team won the scavenger hunt and got to sleep in the cabin.  We won because mostly of JoBeth Roll's obsession of doing things correctly instead of quickly, and Mellissa Hoffenbofen's dad's gardening skills.  Another first for me on this trip was four-wheeling.  You could fit about three people safely on the car thing, and for some reason Schreoder and Catherine let me drive.  I hate driving slowly, and all I heard was them screaming slow down slow down.  Then they threw me in the pool.

AWW JACKETS

STINGM

Monica Gustin

Lexi Rohrbach, Freshman

Hi! Well, I'm Lexi. I'm from Tiffin, Ohio and I went to Columbian High School. I played volleyball and basketball and I ran track. My family and friends are a big part of my life because I am definitely a people person. My family is just me, my mom, and my brother, but it doesn't seem that small because the rest of my family lives around us too. My mom's name is Becky and we are really close. She was my volleyball coach so I saw her pretty much all day everyday during volleyball season. My brother's name is Michael and he's a sophomore in high school. He's into sports just as much as I am. My Aunt Debbie and Uncle David are a big part of my life, too. About a year and a half ago my dad passed away so they became like my extended family after that. I really don't know what I would do if they weren't a part of my life. They plan on coming to a lot of games so I'm sure you'll meet them at some point. For fun I like to just hang out with friends and I usually get into really random situations. If I had to describe myself I would just say fun and random. I'm a really open person so if anyone wants to know anything you just have to ask me.

Pics: Ok, I don't know what order they are going to be in, but here it goes. The 1st pic is me and my friend with headlamps we found in her barn. We were going to adventure into the woods in the middle of the night but we chickened out haha. The 2nd pic is me, my mom, my Aunt Debbie, and my Uncle David on the beach in North Carolina. The 3rd pic is me and my mom and the last one is me and my brother cleaning out the warehouse that my family owns.

Melissa Hoffbauer :)(:

Hi everybody!!! My name is Melissa Hoffbauer and I am a Freshman here at Baldwin Wallace this year :). I am double majoring in Pre-Physical Therapy and Athletic training with the goal of one day becoming a licensed Physical Therapist! I am from super small town called New Washington and I went to an even smaller high school where I graduated with a class of 48!!! BW is definitely different than my hometown because where I live if 4 cars went down my road a day that was a lot of traffic to me ha. One of the pictures is of my classmates and I in our snow days shirts which was a little project a few of us seniors at Buckeye worked on to question why our school board was the first to get rid of all calamity days in a school year! The teachers and students all got involved and we got like a ton of publicity numerous articles including one in the Columbus Dispatch! It was awesome! :) One of the others is of me and my little cousin Lyric he is my little buddy I spent quite a bit of babysitting him this summer! Also in the two other pictures we made a hugeee slip and slide and found a mud slide haha enough said :)! So pretty much from that you can see most of my spare when I wasnt in school or playing basketball ;) I was with my friends and family! Well we are all at BW now and starting open gym on Thursday so Im pumpedddddd! See you all then! =]