Fourth Season
The Fourth Season to me is known as after post season, its the time when you don't make the playoffs and you are in the beginning stages of planning your spring practice, summer league and team camps and summer workouts and weight lifting. Now, that's a lot to fit in over the spring and summer but now add in two young children with their baseball and summer camps plus a husband that coaches baseball and travel ball and family vacations and then try coaching AAU basketball... WHEW!!! But what an amazing life and choice of profession, wait.. did I say "choice of profession." The coaching profession choice me, at one time I actually tried to get out of coaching, thinking I might want a "normal" 9-5 job, but I couldn't even stay out of the job 3 months without jumping back in FULL FORCE. My boys have grow up in the gym and the friendships I have made over the years are now part of our family. Although I never gave birth to a daughter, my boys have hundreds and hundreds of big sisters. They have lived with us over the years and have been a part of every single part of our life, we even take them on vacation with us. There are some coaches I know that don't understand why I do the stuff I do over the summer, why do we work out and go to team camps but we get better and it pays off! Love what you do and do it good!

What's Behind a Name?
What is behind a name? Well two in twenty-two has a lot of meaning between myself and a group of girls that first played basketball for me from 1996- today. If you mention this phrase, some of them want to throw up, while others cringe and the rest, well haven't heard that since 1996. It became the dreaded words out of my mouth when they knew that there was running involved. It meant that the entire team had to make it baseline to baseline twice in 22 seconds. For some of you that don't run much or play basketball, this feat is very difficult. Some of my fastest girls on the team struggled with this. There would be days that we would start off with 8 sprints but because the entire team couldn't cut it in 22 seconds, those 8 turned into 20 or more. Once the season is over these girls appreciated 2 in 22 because we NEVER came across a team that was in better shape than we were. We won several games that we shouldn't have but because we were in better shape than our opponent we won in the end. Now I do believe that the coach in me now is much softer and easier than the coach that was in me 14 years ago(I will chalk that up to being a mom now, but more on that later).