Basketball Dad

This past weekend on March 2 my daughters junior high basketball team went into a four-team playoff for the season championship after having won their quarter-final earlier in the week. They were nervous and scared going into it and very worried about how they would play. Then, as I knew they would, once the game started they settled down and began to play some basketball. They talked. They helped each other. They actually worked together as a team and it showed. In the end we defeated the team that had gone undefeated throughout the season and had beaten us by 30+ points during the regular season to win the championship.…

I was reffing with an excellent referee named Cam Scott the other day and I was trying to find a way to internalize the lesson he was giving me and this is what I came up with. I generally think in terms of three so I broke it into three to help me remember it Unsafe – A referee should blow the whistle when they see something unsafe happening on the court. This can take many forms such as liquid spilled on the court or a player doing something that endangers himself/herself or others Unfair – This is the most common reason to blow your whistle. If a player does…

Wrapped up the junior nba program in Winkler tonight. Such a great time with the most amazing kids 

Today was the first day of school for the kids. Alex is grade 8 and Alicia is grade 7.  

played for 2 hours last night at the Winkler courts. What a great facility

kids had a chance to take in some of the stampede events in Morris tonight

Today is the last day of my holidays so I wanted to do one last thing with the kids. We went to watch the new Ant-Man & Wasp movie in Winkler

And finally it all ends with a light show 6DA57A8A-8788-4D70-BB6F-24CC33525253

My daughter even went on this roller coaster that scared me just looking at it. It’s been reported that on the way up she could be heard saying “I’m scared, I’m scared, I’m scared…” but once she reached the top she stopped and said “I can see my house!” Which is odd as we live in a different province. Maybe the ride is higher than I thought