By now we are well over halfway through our season, and I can’t believe how far we’ve come. Since I last posted, we have beaten Otterbein and Marietta at home and John Carroll and Muskingum away. All four games were great team wins. The John Carroll and Marietta games were televised, which is always exciting, and perhaps a little nerve-wracking. Luckily, aside from a view embarrassing facial expressions on my part, no one did anything embarrassing. A former player, junior Paige Watson, was the color commentator for the Marietta game. She did a great job describing the team from an insider’s point of view. She also added some accurate and insightful comments. We are all very proud of her! :) It was also “Bring a Kid to the Game Day”, so we sat at a long table after the game and signed autographs for them. A couple of our male student fans even got some shirts signed, haha! I guess we are big time!
The trip to John Carroll, our cross town rival, got a little crazy. Now, when I say cross town, you would assume it would be a short trip. But you have not taken Cleveland weather into consideration. Instead, the forty minute trip took two hours. I didn’t mind, since I was able to relax and listen to my iPod longer, but Coach announced that it would be necessary for us to change on the bus. Chaos ensued as 16 sizable girls tried to change into their uniforms on a charter bus. We got some good jokes out of it, and I think it got us energized and focused on the game. Needless to say, anyone that was driving on I-480 that night got quite a show as they passed our bus. As junior forward Serena Farage pointed out, at least we’re probably not going to see any those drivers again. We literally ran into the locker room, threw on our warm-ups and ran onto the court. I’ll never forget that experience!
So today is officially the start of the second round of OAC tournament games. We play home against Capital University, who is a big rival of ours. Despite a strange bout of minor finger injuries, we have been practicing well. We are excited and ready to go. It should be a good game, and rumor is some of our guy fans are wearing body paint. We always appreciate their support and they make the games even more intense.
AWWWWWWWW JACKETS! Sting ‘em!
Junior Center Ariel Brough, #45
The trip to John Carroll, our cross town rival, got a little crazy. Now, when I say cross town, you would assume it would be a short trip. But you have not taken Cleveland weather into consideration. Instead, the forty minute trip took two hours. I didn’t mind, since I was able to relax and listen to my iPod longer, but Coach announced that it would be necessary for us to change on the bus. Chaos ensued as 16 sizable girls tried to change into their uniforms on a charter bus. We got some good jokes out of it, and I think it got us energized and focused on the game. Needless to say, anyone that was driving on I-480 that night got quite a show as they passed our bus. As junior forward Serena Farage pointed out, at least we’re probably not going to see any those drivers again. We literally ran into the locker room, threw on our warm-ups and ran onto the court. I’ll never forget that experience!
So today is officially the start of the second round of OAC tournament games. We play home against Capital University, who is a big rival of ours. Despite a strange bout of minor finger injuries, we have been practicing well. We are excited and ready to go. It should be a good game, and rumor is some of our guy fans are wearing body paint. We always appreciate their support and they make the games even more intense.
AWWWWWWWW JACKETS! Sting ‘em!
Junior Center Ariel Brough, #45
To the left are me and freshman forward Katie Heinlen at our Ugly Christmas Sweater Party!
To the right are freshman forward Mariah Strayer, senior guard Amanda Mondrach and freshman forward Catherine Spisak all hanging out after a game.
