Way to Go Amanda !

The REALLY big news around here is that Amanda made the basketball team this week!

Yippee! Woo Hooooo! and WOW!

Amanda has always loved sports - especially basketball and soccer....

I was actually feeling kind of bad for sending her to such a large high school. The competition is so fierce - that to get on a team is virtually impossible. She has well over 600 kids in her class and 1/2 are girls, and there are only 13 spots on each of the two freshman teams. One girl from her class made the JV team and everyone else that wanted to play basketball was her competition. She wanted to play sooooo much. I knew that she could easily make any team from one of the surrounding area schools, but our school is ranked in the top three for the state in every sport. Athletics are serious business here.

It was a pretty intense week and cuts were made on two different nights. I have to be honest, I didn't think that she would make it - not based on her skills, but on her lack of height. She is still only 5'3". The taller girls definitely have an advantage.

I guess they need a few feisty little ones to get the ball to the tall people. :)

This is one huge accomplishment for our "little" Peanut!