Basketball

This winter Avery played basketball for the first time. It was a great program. The kids were evaluated for skill and spread amongst all the teams evenly. Then they wore colored strips on their shoulders during games to match them up man-on-man with their similarly skilled counterpart. After every game was a little ceremony in which the kids were awarded stars. The color of the star corresponded with a positive quality the kids displayed during the game, ie: hustle, courage, defense, offense, sportsmanship, etc. The stars were iron-ons and as the season progressed the kids could show off more and more of their stars on their team t-shirt.

The kids entered each game to much fanfare and the announcer calling their name. They ran in through a tunnel with a smoke machine. Then they would run around the whole gym slapping hands with the crowd.


The kids really loved that part.


Being run by a Christian organization, they always opened with prayer.








He shoots... HE SCORES!




A clean steal!




Avery made a lot of really good improvements during the season and hopefully with future sports we can keep working on attitude with handling loss. And in the end, a trophy makes any kid ecstatic!