Damnit!
I can't believe I woke up at 4am. This is setting me up to be miserable all day! It totally sucks. We aren't leaving until around 10:30 this morning so maybe I can convince my body to sleep some more instead of screaming for coffee.
About a week or so ago I mentioned Lucia Micarelli, the violinist that rocked the house during the Josh Groban concert. Take a listen. If you don't recognize the music at first, don't panick. At about the halfway point it you will. I promise. (Led Zeppelin's Kashmir)
The tournament this weekend is in Royce City... 80 miles from here! But since this is the first time that her and Destini are playing with DFW Elite I really don't want to miss it. This team has a couple of All American players on it- very exciting. (Destini Hughes, Brooklyn Pope) But they don't play the same position as Ryan. Ryan plays a 4 or 5 (forward or post) while Destini and Brooklyn are both guards, however either one of them can play ANYwhere on the court.
I wish Vance was still our coach but Maques is coaching it. His daughter is an All American and The University of Texas (Tiffany Jackson) and he owns DFW Elite. The funniest part of this team is that Ryan is the only white girl on it. She looks SO out of place! I'm really curious to see how much playing time she'll get.
Our travel schedule this year is CRAZY! We are all over the nation this year. Virginia second week in APril, Tennessee first week of May, Nike Showdown in Ohio for Labor Day weekend, Home tournament mid June, Tallahassee that next weekend... then it gets REALLY crazy. Each week of July we are in a different city across the nation. First is Houston (6-8), second week Atlanta (10-12), third Chicago (13-15), fourth Birmingham (22-25), fifth Home for All American camp at SMU (26-27), 6th is Nike Nationals in Augusta (28-31). So as you can see it's going to be a madhouse. We may send Ryan to a couple of these while we stay home. Not too sure yet.
I don't like missing her games... especially this year since its her last summer of doing this. Next summer will only be spent doing conditioning and summer school at whichever college she chooses. The colleges like them to do summer school so that they can get a jump on classes and to sort of get a feel for the classes and stuff BEFORE they get the added pressure of heavy travel. If she chooses one of the out of state universities I'll probably go nuts trying to find ways to watch her.
So it's now 6:03am. Maybe I can go back to sleep now.