(here is Julie Murphy #45 and myself at our 2006 Athletics Hall of Fame banquet - she is a sophomore first basewoman and is VERY fun!)Good morning!!
Wow, lots going on here!
Softball related: We finished 2nd at the NCCAA (national Christian college athletic association) North Central Regional tournament last weekend. We beat a couple very good scholarship schools (we don’t offer scholarships) and held our own with the winner... the result was that we received a bid to the National Tournament this weekend! This is quite an exciting proposition for us – as the last time a GC softball team was awarded a nat. tourney berth was almost 10 years ago! We had to switch around a couple of other games (one of which is a conference game) to allow us to play. We are also tied for 2nd place right now in our conference and we play the first place team tonight – they are pretty good if you look at stats, but I’m hoping that our heart and determination will make up for what they bring in physical strength – we’re not talking David vs. Goliath... but its pretty close. J I would be pretty excited if we took one win of two games, though there is a chance... a chance... that we could win both. After the games today and then the last conference matchup next week (versus the team with which we are tied), we’ll be playing in the conference tournament (next weekend) and depending on how that goes, we’ll be done or headed to post season play (our hope!).
Work related: The Fitness Center is slowing down for a time (as is normal right now) – the weather is so nice outside, warm but with low humidity that people are working out outside! That’s been a nice change, because I can get more time to work on other projects – like softball recruiting or fitness center improvements. But its not helping my efforts to increase our membership income! We are interviewing people right now to take over my position and that is going well. We have 3 or 4 really good candidates!
Life related: I am continuing forward with my plans for Texas. Danny asked if there would be tornadoes there... I hope not, though I suppose its possible. It will be hotter there than here in Greenville, and it was more humid when I was there in March than it was here. That part is not particularly appealing, though I figure I can do anything for 2 years and if I lived in the middle east or southeast asia or central america ever as a missionary it would be pretty darn hot too! J Right now I’m trying to figure out how to pay for the move (I don’t have really any savings to draw from) and to see what I should move as far as furniture, etc. In the meantime, I’m trying to spend as much time as possible with my girls, but am being thwarted by the pervasive softball season, which takes up a lot of my free time....
I guess I’m pretty excited lately that I don’t own an SUV – though I don’t have 5th gear all the time – I’ve just made the executive decision to not drive much and I got a basket and headlight for my bike so I’ll be riding that to work now in the next weeks – hoping to get some exercise AND save on gas money! J
That’s it from me for now. I love you all and some of you I will see VERY soon!
