* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:08] SO, WELCOME TO THE AWARD CEREMONY FOR THE 20 24, 20 25 HASTIES REC BASKETBALL SEASON. UH, ABSOLUTELY AN AMAZING SEASON. AS, AS YOU ALL KNOW, UH, WE HAD THE HIGHEST, UH, ENROLLMENT IN THIS PROGRAM IN ITS HISTORY. THIS YEAR WE HAD CLOSE TO 240 PLAYERS. I'M NOT SURE. NOT SURE. UM, AND, UH, NOT ONLY DID WE HAVE THAT MANY PLAYERS, BUT WE HAD ENOUGH VOLUNTEER COACHES TO COACH ALL OF THOSE PLAYERS. SO THAT IS . AND WE HAD ENOUGH YOUTH REFEREES TO OFFICIATE ALL OF OUR GAMES AS WELL. FAVOR STATED, YOU KNOW, I, AS, UH, I IDENTIFIED AN ISSUE LAST YEAR THAT WE NEEDED TO IMPROVE OUR, UH, REFEREE PERFORMANCE, INCLUDING MYSELF. SO I WENT OUT AND I GOT CERTIFIED AS A, UH, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ACCREDITED BASKETBALL REFEREES, WHICH IS THE KIND OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION, COLLEGIATELY SCHOLASTICALLY THAT TRAINS REFEREES. AND SO I'VE BEEN DOING GAMES IN OTHER REC LEAGUES IN WESTCHESTER, AND I'LL TELL YOU, WE ARE THE ONLY REC LEAGUE IN WESTCHESTER THAT HAS YOUTH OFFICIALS. EVERY OTHER LEAGUE HIRES, OFFICIALS, PAYS OFFICIALS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT'S INDUSTRY RATE FOR THEIR SERVICES. WE ARE THE ONLY ONE THAT RECRUITS AND EMPLOYS HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, UH, REFEREES. SO THAT'S REALLY TO BE, UH, COMMENDED FOR US THAT WE DO THAT. AND I, SO I DON'T FORGET TO ANNOUNCE THIS. I WANNA ANNOUNCE THIS IS SUPER EXCITING. THIS FALL JUST HAPPENED YESTERDAY. UH, WE ARE GOING TO BE TRAINING OUR REFEREES AS CERTIFIED JUNIOR IA BOAT REFEREES IN THE OFF SEASON. SO THEY'RE GONNA BE ACCREDITED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION. THEY'RE GOING TO BE TRAINED, UH, BOTH IN, UH, UH, BOOK TESTS AS WELL AS FLOOR TESTS. AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE, UH, CERTIFIED. AND WHENEVER THEY TURN 18, THAT CERTIFICATION CAN AUTOMATICALLY TURN INTO AN ADULT, UH, CERTIFICATION, AND THEY CAN GO AND REP HIGH SCHOOL GAMES AND JUNIOR VARSITY GAMES IN WESTCHESTER, UH, OR ANYWHERE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SO WE'RE JUST SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT PARTNERSHIP WITH, UH, IVO, UH, THE JUNIOR IVO PROGRAM. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE MAKE FUN OF PROGRAMS, RIGHT? WHERE IT'S LIKE EVERYBODY GETS A TROPHY, RIGHT? AND THEY DO THE TROPHY. GUESS WHAT? IN HAS REC BASKETBALL. EVERYBODY GETS A TROPHY. WE WE'RE A PARTICIPATION PROGRAM. WE ARE A DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM. EVERYONE PLAYS, EVERYONE PARTICIPATES, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR BACKGROUND OR EXPERIENCES. AND THAT'S SOMETHING FOR US TO BE PROUD ABOUT AND BE REALLY HAPPY ABOUT, RIGHT? THAT WE GET TO HAVE THAT HERE. THAT THERE'S NO TRYOUTS, THERE'S NO, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE ON THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM, WHATEVER. EVERYBODY PLAYS, EVERYBODY COACHES. AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS SPECIAL. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU FOR BEING, UH, SO ONE OF OUR, YOU KNOW, WITH THE GROWTH OF THIS PROGRAM, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CHALLENGES, RIGHT? AND ONE OF OUR CHALLENGES IS GONNA BE GETTING THROUGH TONIGHT, UH, QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY. SO WE'RE GONNA BE STARTING WITH THE THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE. UM, AND AS I HAD SENT OUT THE EMAIL TO THE COACHES, EACH COACH, EACH TEAM IS GONNA HAVE TWO MINUTES WHEN YOU COME UP TO ACCEPT YOUR AWARDS. UH, WE WANT THE COACHES TO ACKNOWLEDGE, YOU KNOW, THEIR TEAM, ACKNOWLEDGE EVERY PLAYER, BUT DO SO SUCCINCTLY AND EFFICIENTLY, UH, SO THAT EVERYBODY GETS THEIR MOMENT. AND WE'RE NOT HERE UNTIL LATE WITH LEERY EYES AND, AND PEOPLE AT THE END DON'T FEEL AS APPRECIATED OR AS ACCOMPLISHED. SO THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR DOING THAT. AND IF YOU GET A TAP ON THE SHOULDER, UH, OR A LITTLE HUG OR A LITTLE NUDGE FROM THE COMMISSIONER, THAT'S JUST BECAUSE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME, BUT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO WALK OFF. AND SO THE NEXT TEAM, UM, AND, UH, SO BY DIVISION, UM, WE ALSO, UH, IN ADDITION TO THE AWARDS FOR, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY PARTICIPATING AND, UM, AND, UH, THE CHAMPIONS WINNING EACH DIVISION, WE ALSO HAVE A FEW, UH, SPIRIT AWARDS TO GIVE OUT. EVERY YEAR WE GIVE OUT, UH, HASTINGS REC BASKETBALL SPIRIT AWARDS TO PEOPLE WHO REALLY, UH, EXEMPLIFY [00:05:01] THE VALUES OF THE PROGRAM, WHICH IS INCLUSION, UH, KINDNESS, UH, COMPASSION, UH, PASSION FOR TEACHING BASKETBALL, PASSION FOR PLAYING, UM, AND, UH, PASSION FOR COMMUNITY. SO BY DIVISION, WE HAVE A VIEW TO GIVE OUT. AND, UH, WHILE WE HAVE THIS FRESH, CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, I WANT TO TAKE THIS ADVANTAGE, THIS, UH, THIS MOMENT, TAKE ADVANTAGE AND GIVE OUT OUR FIRST HASTINGS REC BASKETBALL, UH, SPIRIT AWARD THIS YEAR. UH, YOU KNOW, WE ALL TALK ABOUT THIS PROGRAM CAN HAPPEN WITHOUT COACHES. IT CAN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT THE BOTH REFEREES, UH, CAN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT ALL THESE PEOPLE PITCHING IN. BUT CERTAINLY IT CAN'T EXIST AT ALL WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THE HAMAN'S RECREATION DEPARTMENT, AND OBVIOUSLY SPECIFICALLY LISA O'BRIEN. SO, SO I'M PROUD TO PREVENT TO PRESENT THIS YEAR'S FIRST 2025 HASTINGS REC BASKETBALL SPIRIT AWARD FOR CARRYING ON THE BEST TRADITIONS OF EFFORT AND SPIRIT FOR THE GAME IS HEREBY AWARDED TO LISA. OI JUST WANNA GIVE A HUGE THANK YOU TO JEREMY AND HIS TEAM FOR THE AMAZING, AMAZING JOB THAT WE'VE DONE WITH THIS PROGRAM. UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH, JEREMY. YOU DUNNO HOW MUCH ME AND MY FAMILY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT AND FIRST TO MANAGE EXPECTATIONS. NOBODY ELSE IS GETTING FLOWERS, OKAY? SO DON'T, DON'T GET UP HERE AND THINK THERE'S MORE FLOWERS THAT, OKAY. UH, I HAVE A PIECE OF PAPER HERE THAT TOLD ME BY DIVISION, WHO'S GETTING WHAT, BUT INSTEAD, I'M JUST GONNA HAVE TO LOOK. SO WITHOUT, UH, I REALLY DO THAT PIECE OF PAPER. , WHERE IS IT? YES. ALRIGHT, WITH THE THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE. CAN WE START BEFORE YOU START? YES. UH, YES YOU CAN. ANYWAY, UH, SO BOTH THE, THE FAMILIES, ERIC HAS THE ONE THAT THE FAMILY'S GOT. 'CAUSE JEREMY DID SUCH AN AMAZING JOB WITH ALL OF HIS HARDWORKING DEDICATION. I HAVE ONE FOR THE COACHES, WE GOT A BOTTLE. WE THINK YOU LIKE AND, UH, IT'S ENG. SO HOPE YOU ENJOY, APPRECIATE. CAN EVERYBODY HEAR ME? WE APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH AND ALL THE EFFORT. AND THIS EVERYBODY, YEAH, IT'S ACTUALLY GATE BECAUSE THAT'S NOT OTHER ONE. SORRY. THAT'S, THAT'S NICE. BUT THAT'S BEHIND ME NOW. UM, OKAY, SO FOR THE THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE BOYS DIVISION, UH, WE WOULD LIKE TO, UH, YEP, WE WOULD LIKE TO START BY INVITING UP NONE OTHER THEN MATT WAXMAN'S, BULL ROCKS, WE MISSING ANY BULL DRUGS? MISSING ONE. UM, WELL FIRST OFF, THANK YOU JEREMY FOR, UH, RUNNING SUCH A TIGHT SHIP. UH, I KNOW IT'S NOT EASY AND THERE'S A MILLION KIDS AND A MILLION HASSLES, SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. UH, BULLFROGS, I THINK OUR SEASON CAN BE SUMMED UP IN, UH, ONE STORY. I REMEMBER LOOKING AT THE SCOREBOARD AND SEEING AT THE END OF THE GAME WE HAD, UM, FOUR AND THE OTHER TEAM HAD, UH, 30 AND, UH, NOT ONE FROWN ON THESE KIDS FACE. UH, THEY WERE NOT AT ALL DISAPPOINTED AND THEY SHOWED A LEVEL OF IMPROVEMENT AFTER THAT. THAT WAS, UM, INCREDIBLE TO SEE RALLYING WINNING TWO OF OUR LAST FOUR GAMES. SO, REAL QUICK TO GO DOWN THE LINE, UH, SOME OF OUR BEST PLAYERS, WE HAVE AIDEN WHO WENT FROM JUST PICKING UP THE SPORT TO BEING OUR LEADING SPORT IN THE LAST GAME. BENJI, OUR MOST INFECTIOUS PLAYER WHO IS PERFECTED THE ART OF DRIBBLING TO HIS RIGHT HOBBY, WHO, UH, I DON'T THINK ANYONE SCORED ON HOBBY ALL SEASON AND, UM, WAS A LOCKDOWN DEFENDER. OUR TWO FOURTH GRADERS, UH, REMY AND PAOLO, WHO, UM, WERE OUR CAPTAINS, OUR, UM, BEST REBOUNDERS [00:10:01] AND OUR, UM, LEADERS. AND CHARLIE, OUR SHARP SHEET SHOOTER. UH, GREAT JOB BY ALL YOU GUYS. THANK YOU SO MUCH, COACH WILL, A LOT OF THE INTRICATE PLAY DESIGN AND COMPLICATED PRACTICES WERE THANKS TO WILL. SO , THAT IS THE GOLD STANDARD OF EFFICIENCY THAT YOU'RE ALL GONNA HAVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU CAN HAVE A SEAT. WE WOULD NOW LIKE TO INVITE OUT LAUREN LINKS AND THE THUNDER. SO I SEE THAT LAUREN IS NOT, UH, WITH US THIS EVENING, UH, AT THIS TIME. UH, HOWEVER, WE GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU THUNDER. COME ON OVER HERE BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW YOUR NAMES. COME HERE. WHAT'S YOUR NAME? JONATHAN BOOK. JONATHAN BOOKSTEIN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HENRY HENRY. LADIES, GENTLEMEN. NEXT WE WOULD LOVE TO INVITE UP THE HUSKIES. THE GENTLEMAN KNOCKED HUSKY. AND WHILE THEY'RE COMING UP, I'LL JUST SAY ANOTHER AMAZING PART OF THIS YEAR HAS BEEN THAT WE HAD, UH, THREE DIFFERENT TEAMS COACHED BY, UH, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THIS YEAR. UH, WE HAD THE HUSKIES, WE HAD THE DEVILS, AND WE HAD THE CHILL GUYS. AND, UH, IT WAS JUST GREAT TO BE ABLE TO INCLUDE. IT WAS GREAT TO BE ABLE TO INCLUDE, UH, THESE, THESE FINE YOUNG PEOPLE, NOT JUST AS REFEREES, UH, BUT AS COACHES AND HAVE 'EM REALLY BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY AND CHIPPING IN. AND WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD ENOUGH COACHES THIS YEAR IF THAT HADN'T HAPPENED. SO MY THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU MOMENT TO SAY, SAY HOW PROUD I'M OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FROM OUR FIRST PRACTICE TO OUR LAST GAME. YOU ALL WORKED HARD AND HAD FUN. YOU SHOWED HEART EVERY TIME YOU STEPPED IN THE COURT, AND THAT'S WHAT TRULY MATTERS. I ALSO WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR PARENTS, RUSS AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO MADE THIS, UH, SEASON POSSIBLE. I HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL BACK ON THE COURT, UH, SOMETIME SOON. FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO JEREMY. NOTHING, NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT HAND. UM, THANK YOU TO THE REPS WHO WERE MAINLY, UM, STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL, STILL PREPPING FOR THE COLLEGE AND TAKING THEIR TIME, UM, TO REFEREE. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR PLAYERS MARLEY, UM, FOR HIS, UH, DEFENSIVE EFFORTS AND PASSING DAVID FOR, UM, HIS SCORING ABILITY, UH, ACROSS COURT, SIMEON'S DEFENSE IN THE PAINT OUTSTANDING, UM, FOR WHEREVER ELLIOT IS. UH, GREAT JOB SCORING THIS SEASON A LOT. UM, TO JULIUS. UM, THANK YOU FOR BEING AWARE IN PRACTICE ALL THE TIME, EVERY SECOND, UM, TO EZRA, UM, AND TO, AND TO HENRY. THANK, THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING. SO TEST, TEST, TEST. WE'RE GONNA SWITCH TO, UH, THIS, JUST MAKE IT A LITTLE CLEARER. SO THAT WAS AMAZING. THANK YOU BOTH. NOW WE WOULD LOVE TO INVITE UP, UH, THIS, THIS, WELL, LET'S JUST, LET'S JUST DO IT THE RIGHT WAY. SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A LOT OF GREAT, UH, COACHING STORIES THIS YEAR, UH, OF PEOPLE WHO'VE STEPPED UP AND VOLUNTEERED FROM UNEXPECTED PLACES. I MENTIONED THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. UH, WE'VE HAD OTHER PARENTS FILL IN. WE HAD A PARENT FILL IN AT A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, UH, LAST MINUTE AND, UH, DID AN AMAZING JOB. AND IN THE THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE BOYS DIVISION, WE HAD SOMEONE STEP UP A COACH, EVEN THOUGH SHE DID NOT HAVE A CHILD IN THIS DIVISION, , UH, SHE DECIDED THAT SHE WOULD TAKE IT ON AND, UH, AND JUST DO HER BEST. AND SHE TURNED OUT TO JUST DO AN AMAZING JOB. UH, THE SPIRIT WAS, UH, OVERWHELMING. THE EMAILS CONSTANT COMMUNICATION WITH HER TEAM, [00:15:01] WITH HER PLAYERS, THE ATTITUDE THAT SHE EXEMPLIFIED IN, IN COACHING HER PLAYERS ON THE COURT. SO BEFORE WE, UH, ASKED HER TO COME UP AND ACKNOWLEDGE HER PLAYERS, I WOULD LOVE TO, UH, PRESENT MAYA DUNKEL WITH A HASTINGS. WELL, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH. UH, I WAS GONNA SAY THIS WHEN, UM, THE CHEFS CAME UP, BUT THIS, UH, COACH HOPLEY SAID THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME COACHING AND IT WAS JUST TRULY FANTASTIC. UM, IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE, SO THANK YOU TO THE PLAYERS. UM, IT REALLY WAS AN HONOR TO COACH YOU, UM, A BIG THANK YOU. AND SHOUT OUT TO THEIR FABULOUS PARENTS FOR THEIR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE SEASON AND TO COACH HOT FOR ALL THE ITEMS THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. OKAY, I'M GONNA USE SOME OF THE TIME THAT THE, UH, OTHER COACHES SORT OF GAVE UP AND I'LL TALK WITH MY CHEF. BUT, UM, I THINK WE'RE DOWN ONE PLAYER, BUT, UM, ALL THE CHEFS WORK REALLY HARD AND WE LEARNED A LOT, BUT MOSTLY WE HAVE FUN. UH, LAST THURSDAY WE HAD A LITTLE CELEBRATION AT MY HOUSE AND I WANTED TO SHARE THE AWARDS EACH PLAYER RECEIVED. THESE ARE, THESE ARE QUALITIES THAT WILL SERVE THEM ON AND OFF THE COURT. SO WE'LL START WITH MILLEN RA MILLEN HAS A GREAT ATTITUDE, A TALENTED PLAYER. HE WAS A MODEL COMPETITOR AND TEAMMATE, NEVER MOPING, ALWAYS CHEERY. HE LIFTED EVERYONE UP. THUS MILAN RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR COMPASSIONATE SPORTSMAN. RONAN MARTIN ISN'T HERE, BUT HE WON THE AWARD FOR PARADE. JUSTIN FASTEST LEARNER, WE HAVE ZANDER. ABRAHAM ZANDER ZANDER HAD HIS HAND ON THE BASKETBALL TEAM BEFORE, BUT YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW IT. HE'S AN ALL AROUND GREAT PLAYER AND AN EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE WHO GETS AHEAD BECAUSE OF HIS POSITIVITY. PERSEVERANCE AND STRONG WORK ETHIC. THUS, XANDER RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR ENTHUSIASTIC PERSEVERANCE. RAISE YOUR HAND. HENRY MOVES AROUND THE COURT LIKE NOBODY'S BUSINESS. HE'S GOT MAJOR HUSTLE AND WAS IN EVERY CORNER. HE'S A TRUE TEAM PLAYER, NEVER ASKING FOR THE ATTENTION HE SURELY DESERVED. THUS, HE RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR UNSUNG HERO. SIMON BAKER HAS GREAT BASKETBALL SKILLS. HE ALSO HAD GREAT IDEAS FOR DRILLS AND HOW TO MAKE PRACTICES MORE FUN WITH HIS POSITIVE ATTITUDE. SIMON HELPED BRING OUT THE BEST IN EVERY PLAYER THAT SIMON RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR EMPOWERING ENTHUSIAST BRODY STARR. RAISE YOUR HAND. UM, IT WAS IMMEDIATELY CLEAR BLUR. BRODY LOVES BASKETBALL, A GREAT ALL AROUND PLAYER. HE WAS THE KEY TO OUR DEFENSE WITH LASER FOCUS. HE IS A RARE ABILITY TO LISTEN AND EXECUTE WHATEVER IS ASKED OF HIM. THUS, BRODY RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR AMBITIOUS TASK MASTER SEA. RAISE YOUR HAND. HERE YOU ARE. SOMEBODY HAVE WALKED. SAMMY JOINS THE SEASON PLAYER AND QUICKLY BECAME THE NORTH STAR OF OUR TEAM. HE SCORED THE MOST BASKETS, WAS A SUPER POINT GUARD AND ALWAYS KEPT THE TEAM MOTIVATED. THUS, SAMMY RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR TEAM MENTOR AND MOTIVATOR. AND FINALLY, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE AN UNOFFICIAL CHEF, MY DAUGHTER, MILA DONAL, WHO'S ON A THIRD, FOURTH GRADE TEAM WHO HELPED ME COACH THIS SEASON. SHE TOOK NOTES, HELPED THE DRILLS, AND FILLED IN ON ONE GAME WHEN WE HAD ONLY FOUR PLAYERS. THUS, NEIL RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR EAGER ADVISOR AND ASSISTANT . CHEF. THANK YOU SO MUCH. PICTURE. SO WHILE THAT PICTURE'S BEING TAKEN, WE ARE GOING TO INVITE UP SEAN TULLY'S, DRASTIC DUNKERS. UH, THANKS JEREMY. UM, WAIT, SAY QUICK THANK YOU TO JEREMY, UH, FOR HIS CLOSE EFFORTS. UM, REFEREES, ALL THE VOLUNTEER COACHES, UM, PARENTS, THANK YOU FOR KIDS TO PRACTICE TO THE GAMES. THEY'LL ALL HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THIS TO WORK. UM, GOING DOWN THE LINE, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA START WITH MY SON ACTUALLY GOING PLAYED T UM, IT'S HIS FIRST YEAR, MY FIRST YEAR KIND OF GOT THROUGH IT TOGETHER. SO [00:20:01] IT WAS FUN. HOPE HAD A GOOD TIME. UM, WE HAVE ELIAS BURGER. UM, REALLY CAME INTO HIS ZONE AT THE END OF THE SEASON WITH DEFENSE. REALLY STARTED PLAYING REALLY STRONG DEFENSE. GOT NO GOBY, WHO WAS A GREAT SCORER, UM, AND A REAL LEADER ON THE CORNERS. REALLY FUN TO WATCH. UH, THEORE, UH, I THINK IT'S YOUR FIRST YEAR TOO IN BASKETBALL, RIGHT? YEAH. WE REALLY HAD GREAT, UH, BALL HANDLING SKILLS DOWN THE STRETCH. AND SAM, I COULD SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. YOU'RE GONNA BE A GOOD SCORE NEXT YEAR. I CAN SEE YOU. UM, THANK YOU GUYS. IT WAS REALLY PLEASURE COACHING YOU AND BEING AT THIS GAME AND EVERYONE ELSE. THE TWO PLAYERS COULDN'T MAKE IT. LES NEIL AND KIM LIEBERT, UM, ALSO HAD GREAT SEASONS. I'M GONNA TOO GREAT. AND IF ANYBODY KNOW IF ANYBODY SAW THIS ON SOCIAL, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU SAID, OH, THEY'RE THAT GREAT, YOU GREAT PLAYERS IN THE REP, THE BOYS, UH, THREE, FOUR CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. THE FINAL SCORE WAS 46 TO 42. WOW. WHAT? AND, UH, MR. SBY, UH, SCORED, I COULD BE WRONG, BUT I'M PRETTY CONFIDENT HE SCORED 40 OF HIS TEAMS, 42 POINTS. UH, IT WAS QUITE SOMETHING. SO, UH, WE HAVE MANY, UH, YEARS TO LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, BOTH GOOLSBY UH, CHILDREN, UH, PLAYING IN, UH, IN OUR TOWN. SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, SPEAKING OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, LET'S BRING UP THE GRIZZLIES. THE THREE FOUR BOYS CHAMPION, GRIZZLIES COACH BY WHAT'S UP, GRIZZLIES. THESE ARE MY GUYS HERE. WE HAD, UH, WE HAD SUCH AN AMAZING SEASON. UH, THE GROWTH WAS AMAZING. WE REALLY MOVED TOGETHER AS ONE, UH, IT'S REALLY HARD TO PUT IT, UH, INDIVIDUALLY 'CAUSE WE REALLY MOVED AS A TEAM. THE CONFIDENCE, UH, IT SHOWED WHENEVER I CALLED SOMEONE'S NUMBER, THEY STEPPED UP, THEY WERE READY. UH, THEY WERE SURE OF THEIR JOB. THEY LEARNED A LOT OF BASKETBALL AND, AND WE HAD SOME REALLY EXCITING GAMES. UH, AND THEY REALLY WORKED TOGETHER WITH TEAMWORK, PASSING THE BALL. EVERYONE SCORED, EVERYONE BROUGHT THE BALL DOWN TO JUST GET INACTIVE PLAYING BASKETBALL. UM, THEY GOT A GREAT FUTURE. THEY WANT TO CONTINUE TO PLAY, BUT IT WAS, IT WAS GREAT. IT WAS MY PLEASURE. AND THEY REALLY EARNED, UH, THEY EARNED THE CHAMPIONSHIP. AND TONY REACHED OUT TO ME, UH, WITH A REQUEST THAT I, I CERTAINLY AGREED. UH, HE FELT THAT HE HAD A PLAYER WHO REALLY DID EXEMPLIFY THE SPIRIT OF OUR PROGRAM, UH, GIVING TO HIS TEAMMATES, DOING WHAT HE'S ASKED, NOT HAVING AN EGO AND CERTAINLY, UH, VERY DESERVING OF THE HASTENS REC BASKETBALL SPIRIT AWARD. AND THAT IS GEORGE EATER. I THINK THAT WE DID AMAZING. WE'VE ALREADY GOT THROUGH THE THREE FOUR BOYS. THAT IS, THAT IS INCREDIBLE. SO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. CONGRATULATIONS. SO MANY. OKAY. AND NOW WE'RE ON TO THE THREE, FOUR GIRLS. AND LET'S START, I FORGOT. YEAH, THE, THE, THE THREE FOUR GIRLS INCLUDE THE SLATE QUEENS. SO THERE'S A, A HUGE, UH, ENTHUSIASTIC, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'VE EVER HAD A MORE ENTHUSIASTIC, UM, COACHING STAFF THAN WE HAD FOR THE SLATE QUEENS. BUT NONETHELESS, LET'S START BY, UM, INVITING SEAN PERONI AND THE SHOOTING STARS UP. AND, UH, BEFORE, UH, [00:25:01] SEAN ACKNOWLEDGES, UH, HIS PLAYERS INDIVIDUALLY. UM, , THIS WAS NOT INTENTIONAL, BUT I, I SEE NOW THAT WE ARE, UH, LADEN WITH AWARDS, UH, IN THIS MOMENT HERE. UH, AS WE SAID, WE TRY TO GIVE OUT AWARDS, UH, SPIRITED AWARDS AND OTHER AWARDS THAT REALLY WE'RE JUST TRYING TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, WHEN PEOPLE BRING, UH, SPIRIT AND ENERGY AND KINDNESS, UM, TO THIS PROGRAM. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS ABOUT. IT'S ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS OF A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT COME TOGETHER TO MAKE MAGIC. AND, UH, ON THIS TEAM, WE HAVE NO SHORTAGE OF THOSE PEOPLE. SO, UH, I LIKE TO START BY ACKNOWLEDGING, UH, COACH BRUNEY. UH, WERE AT A CLINIC ONE NIGHT AND A MOM WHO BROUGHT HER SON TO THE CLINIC, WHO'D NEVER BEEN TO CLINIC BEFORE, JUST TURNED TO ME AND SAID, GOD, I JUST LOVE HIM . I JUST LOVE HIM. EVERYBODY LOVES SEAN BECAUSE HE'S ALWAYS LIKE ON THE BALL. HE IS ALWAYS WITH IT, BUT HE ALWAYS WITH A SMILE AND ALWAYS JUST LIFTING OTHER PEOPLE UP. AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE WORK THAT I DO IN THIS PROGRAM, IT JUST MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE REWARDING FOR ME, UH, TO BE ABLE TO COLLABORATE WITH PEOPLE LIKE COACH BRUNEY. SO, UH, COACH BRUNEY, YOU ARE RECIPIENT OF A HASTY REC BASKETBALL SPIRIT LEADER. AND, YOU KNOW, THIS AWARD COULD ALSO BE GIVEN OUT. THIS NEXT, UH, AWARD COULD ALSO BE GIVEN OUT, UH, DURING THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE GIRLS DIVISION. BUT I'LL JUST GIVE IT OUT NOW BECAUSE STANDING TO COACH ROONEY'S WRIGHT IS COACH CRUZ, WHO, WHO I, I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE, BUT VERY WELL COULD BE THE YOUNGEST COACH IN THE HISTORY OF HASTINGS RED BASKETBALL. CRUZ IS AN EIGHTH GRADE. UH, WE PUT OUT THE WORDS SAYING WE NEEDED COACHES AND ASSISTANT COACHES AND CREW STEPPED FORWARD AND, UH, GAVE ME THE BUSINESS DURING A TIMEOUT ONE, ONE GAME THIS YEAR BECAUSE I WAS MESSING UP THE ALTERNATING POSSESSION. AND SHE POINTED THAT OUT TO ME VERY KINDLY, UH, DID NOT GET ANY KIND OF WARNING OR TECHNICAL FOUL, BUT SHE WAS DEFINITELY ON . UM, AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT CRUZ IS A PLAYER IN THE EIGHTH GRADE DIVISION. SHE'S BEEN A PLAYER IN THIS PROGRAM FOR MANY YEARS, UH, PLAYS FOR THE HASTINGS SCHOOL SYSTEM. SHE'S A TREMENDOUS PLAYER, HAS A TREMENDOUS SPIRIT, COMES FROM A TREMENDOUS FAMILY, AND IS CERTAINLY DESERVING OF A HASTINGS REC BASKETBALL SPIRIT AWARD. THANK YOU. YES. OH, THAT'S MY SEMI NAME. UM, SO WE'RE KNOCKING OUT THE AWARDS HERE. SO IN ADDITION TO THE HASTINGS, UH, REC BASKETBALL SPEAR AWARDS, AND ACTUALLY I, UM, CAN YOU GO AHEAD AND COME OVER HERE, NATHAN, PLEASE? NO, NO, YOU'RE NOT. OH, I JUST SET THAT UP TERRIBLY. YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWARD, DON'T WORRY. , I I JUST WANT YOU TO TAKE, YOU COULD VIDEO THIS. I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE PERSON WHO'S GONNA VIDEO WHILE I GIVE SOMEONE ELSE. SO, UM, WE HAVE TWO AWARDS THAT WE GIVE OUT THAT ARE LEAGUE WIDE, UH, EVERY YEAR. AND, UH, WE'RE ABOUT TO GIVE OUT ONE OF THOSE TWO AWARDS. AND THIS, THIS AWARD IS A MEMORIAL AWARD, UH, FOR, UH, CATHERINE HOPWOOD, UH, WHO WAS SOMEONE WHO PASSED AWAY, UH, FAR TOO EARLY IN LIFE. AND, UM, THE AWARD IS GIVEN TO A PLAYER WHO JUST EXEMPLIFIES AN UPLIFTING SPIRIT, UH, BOTH ON AND OFF THE COURT, UH, BEYOND THE X'S AND O'S OF THE GAME BEYOND SUCCESS OR, YOU KNOW, WIN WINS OR LOSSES ON THE COURT. SOMEONE WHO JUST ALWAYS SEEMS TO LIFT OTHER PEOPLE UP AROUND THEM. AND I CAN SAY CERTAINLY LIFT LIFTED ME UP THIS YEAR, UH, WHENEVER I SAW HER, SHE WAS ALWAYS SUPER HELPFUL, ALWAYS WANTING TO GET THINGS GOING, ALWAYS WANTING TO PITCH IN BOTH ON HER TEAM AS WELL AS, UH, JUST IN GENERAL FOR THE PROGRAM. AND CERTAINLY ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT MADE MY SEASON VERY REWARDING AND I KNOW MADE, MADE IT A BETTER EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYBODY INVOLVED. SO THIS YEAR'S, UH, KATHERINE HOPWOOD, UH, [00:30:01] INSPIRATION AWARD GOES TO STELLA RUN. HEY, NOW I'LL HAND IT OVER TO COACH BERNIE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE SHOOTING STARS. HI EVERYONE. I WANT, THIS IS NOT MY FAVORITE THING TO DO IN THE WORLD, SO I TRY TO MAKE AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE. UM, I FIRST WANNA SAY THANKS TO JEREMY FOR HARD WORK, PUTTING THIS LEAD TOGETHER. UM, I WANT TO COMMEND THE, FOR HIS PROFESSIONALISM, ATTENTION TO DETAIL, DEMAND, AND A DEMAND FOR INCLUSION. YOU REALLY STRIKE TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE FEELS INVOLVED AND LIKE THE SPECIAL PATH. AND THEY HAVE A SPECIAL ROLE TO PLAY IN ACHIEVING THE GOALS OF, OF THE PROGRAM. UM, I WANNA SAY A BIG THANKS TO THE REFEREES GAME OFFICIALS. WE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS SEASON COULD NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT YOU. UM, ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE LISA, RIGHT IN THE REC DEPARTMENT. I SEE YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS WORKED REALLY HARD. I PERSONALLY THINK WE HAD THE BEST PARENTS ALL SEASON. THEY WERE THE MOST CHEERFUL PARENTS, THE MOST ENCOURAGING, UH, THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC. AND, UM, FOR US, FOR US COACHES, IT MADE MADE LIFE SO MUCH EASIER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND CRUZ, JEREMY SAID A LOT OF IT ALREADY. YOU, YOU ARE REALLY A START TO US, YOU REALLY A START. MR. AS YOU KNOW, SHE'S A FIFTH GRADE REC REC UNMODIFIED STAFF, AND SHE TAUGHT US A WHOLE LOT HERE. SCENE. SHE WAS OUR, OUR TEACHER. UM, I WANT TO, I WANNA START GOING ONE BY ONE AND TEAM. UM, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. I DON'T WANT TO KIND OF GO THROUGH EVERYBODY'S PLAY, BUT I WANTED TO KIND OF GIVE ONE WORD THAT SORT OF DESCRIBES THAT INDIVIDUAL, BUT AS WELL AS EVERYBODY ON THE TEAM. I TALKED ABOUT THE WHOLE TEAM. SO I STARTED MY DAUGHTER SARA SIT TOGETHER. UM, THAT WAS WILL, SHE ALWAYS HAD THE POWER TO TAKE ON THE TOUGHEST CHALLENGES. CATHERINE CATHERINE'S NOT HERE WITH US, BUT TONIGHT, BUT I WANTED TO COMMEND HER FOR HER WEEK FOR INTELLIGENCE TOWARDS THE GAME AND LIFE. I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE MILA FOR A PASSION FOR, FOR NOT ACCEPTING ANYTHING BUT SUCCESS AND NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT FAILURE. CARRIE KAYRA AND RAISING HER TO TAKE ALL ALONG. SO EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU ARE, UM, YOUR POSITIVE ATTITUDE, UM, AND EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, YOUR POSITIVITY. THANK YOU SO MUCH AMELIA MASSEY FOR YOUR COMPASSION. AND AMELIA WAS QUIETLY EVERYBODY'S FRIEND, QUIETLY EVERYBODY'S ENCOURAGEMENT. UM, ESELLE YOUR DETERMINATION. I THINK ESTELLE TOOK THE MOST SHOT THAT I'VE EVER SEEN. SHE SHOT, SHOT AND SHOT AND MADE SURE SHE IS GOING TO BE A GOOD SHOOTER. I KNOW YOU ARE. UM, SYLVIA ROGERS FOR HER PROGRESS AND REPRESENTS HER ENTIRE. I DON'T THINK SYLVIA PLAYED BASKETBALL BEFORE THIS. I THINK SHE WAS OUR MOST IMPROVED PLAYERS FOR THE MOST DETERMINATION IN IMPROVING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING US WANT TO IMPROVE. UM, STELLA, YOUR CONFIDENCE, RIGHT? , THAT'S ALL. I'M SAY. YOU GAVE IT TO ALL OF US. YOU GAVE US CONFIDENCE THAT YOU COULD GO INTO EVERY GAME AND WIN. UM, AND ROW. I THINK ROWAN IS OUR MOST PLAYER. SHE, I MEAN ALL, ALL OF THE WORDS THAT I HAVE MENTIONED TONIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 1, 2, 3. OKAY, NOW WE WOULD LOVE TO INVITE UP, WE WOULD LOVE TO ASK, THIS PHOTO IS BEING TAKEN. WE WOULD LOVE TO INVITE UP THE SLATE QUEEN. OKAY? SO LIKE YOU'RE GONNA GET, BUT THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO STAND UP THERE FOR LIKE FIVE. THE BOTTOM ONE WOULD LIKE TO BUY A SLATE SWEATSHIRT THAT ARE AVAILABLE ON THE TABLE OVER HERE. THEY'RE ONLY $55 AND UH, IT GOES DIRECTLY CARTER, CARTER JACKSON RETIREMENT. YEAH. UH, BUT SERIOUSLY FOLKS, UM, LET ME JUST TAKE THIS MOMENT TO SAY THAT I REMEMBER. WE HAVE THE AMAZING AND TALENTED ERICAS OVER HERE AT THE REGISTRATION TABLE. KEY ITEM IS WE HAVE OUR 20 25, 20 26 REGISTRATION FORMS HERE FOR HASTINGS REC BASKETBALL. IF YOU REGISTER BEFORE JUNE 1ST, GET 10% DISCOUNT. SO WHY NOT SAVE THE MONEY IF IT'S, OH, OF COURSE WE'RE GONNA DO THIS NEXT YEAR ABOUT A SIGN UP LATER. WHY NOT SAVE THE [00:35:01] MONEY AND SIGN UP NOW? SO OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE LEAVE THIS GIF TONIGHT WITH SOMEONE HAVING ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR NEXT SEASON. SO YOU COULD BE THAT PERSON. UH, SO THINK ABOUT IT. HEAD OVER TO THE TABLE AND ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS IS SIGN THE, THE SIGN THE PAPER RIGHT NOW, UH, ZERO DOWN, PAY LATER, LOW INTEREST, UH, CASH BACK AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF. THE OTHER THING WE HAVE IS REGISTRATION FORMS FOR THE HASTINGS REC, UH, SORRY, JUST THE HASTINGS BASKETBALL SUMMER CAMP. THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN RIGHT HERE IN THE COCHRANE GYM IN JULY. I KNOW A LOT OF YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING ABOUT THAT DATES AND ALL THE INFORMATION. SO THAT'S THERE ON THE YELLOW FORMS THERE ON THE TABLE AS WELL. THANK YOU. AND WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE AMAZING SLATE, PLEASE. UH, I WANNA START OFF LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. THANKS JEREMY. PUTTING THIS TOGETHER. THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT JEREMY AND WE'RE ALL REALLY EXCITED AND HAPPY TO HAVE, UH, BEEN ABLE TO TAKE PART. LISA RILEY IN THE REC DEPARTMENT, ALL THE RESTS, ALL THE PARENTS. I WANT TO THANK THE OTHER PLAYERS, UH, AND THEIR COACHES. 'CAUSE IT WAS A LOT OF FUN PLAYING WITH YOU WEEK IN, WEEK OUT, DOUBLE HEADERS ON SATURDAYS EVERY THIRD WEEK, UH, EIGHT 15 START. UM, YEP, WE HAD THAT. IT WAS AWESOME. ONE TOOK MY OTHER COACHES WHO WERE ABLE TO, UH, TO GET THE TEAM UP AND RUNNING TO A, UH, AN UNDEFEATED START BEFORE I WAS ABLE TO JOIN. AND THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED LOSING. UM, NO, JUST KIDDING. I NOT, NOT JUST KIDDING. UH, I WANT START THANKING THE GIRLS AND I'M GONNA TAKE TWO AND I'M GONNA PASS IT DOWN THE LINE. SO, UH, I'M GONNA START WITH LILIANA. LILIANA IS OUR MOST PASSIONATE PLAYER. I CAN SAY THAT. NOT OBJECTIVELY LILIANA'S SUPER PASSIONATE. SHE BRINGS SO MUCH ENERGY AND DRIVE ONTO THE COURT, SOMETIMES ENDING UP ONTO THE COURT. BUT YOUR ABILITY TO LEARN AND GROW WAS UNBELIEVABLE. SO THANK YOU FOR BEING ON THE TEAM. YOUR SPIRIT WAS REMARKABLE. AND THEN I'M GONNA TAKE CASSIDY JACKSON BECAUSE SHE'S MINE. UH, CASSIDY GILBERT CAME A LOT TO BE HERE AND, UH, CAME INTO THE TEAM WHO WAS ON A WIN STREAK AND HUSTLED GAME IN GAME OUT. UH, DID WHAT SHE WAS TOLD, WHICH WAS REMARKABLE. I'M TRYING TO REPLICATE THAT AT HOME. BUT ALWAYS BROUGHT HER SPIRIT, HER SMILE, AND HER PERSEVERANCE TO EVERYTHING SHE DID. LOVE YOU. ALRIGHT, WE HAVE ANNIE. UM, ANNIE, YOU'RE SUCH A TALENTED, WELL-ROUNDED PLAYER. UM, YOU'VE BEEN A RELIABLY STEADY FORCE IN THE COURT, BOTH ON DEFENSE AND OFFENSE, BUT YOU ALSO ARE RELIABLY KIND, GOOD NATURE AND HARDWORKING TEAMMATE, UM, ALWAYS. AND WE'RE REALLY GRATEFUL FOR YOU NOAH. WOO . I LOVE HOW MUCH YOU ENJOYED THE SEASON. ALWAYS READY TO GO BEFORE ME TO GET THE PRACTICES AND GAMES SOMETIMES TELLING YOU NOT TOO LATE. UM, AND YOUR ENTHUSIASM SHOWED THROUGH YOUR PLAN. YOU IMPROVED SO MUCH. YOU'RE A BEAST ON DEFENSE AND YOU TOTALLY CRUSHED IN YOUR FINAL GRAND SCHEME. SO PROUD OF YOU, SHOWED MY DAUGHTER ZORA, THE GREEN, THE FASHION, THE FUN, THE FIRE, AND THE FEARLESSNESS. DIVING FOR THE BALL IN DEFENSE OR TRYING TO MAKE THOSE THREE POINTERS, WHICH YOU'LL GET ONE DAY YOUR BIG HEART SHINES ON AND OFF THE COURT. AND IT WAS SUCH A JOY TO WATCH YOU PLAY THIS SEASON. I'M SO PROUD YOU FOR GETTING IT. YOU'RE ALL. AND THEN TOMA, HI GOING ON ONE BUDDY. HELLO, HELLO. UH, YOU GREW SO MUCH THIS SEASON. YOUR GRIT AND DETERMINATION TO IMPROVE YOUR PASSING, SHOOTING AND DEFENSE WERE TRULY UNMATCHED. I HAD SO MUCH FUN WORKING WITH YOU ONE-ON-ONE AND ONLY. YEP. YES. OH, I WAS GONNA SAY, EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE INCIDENT WHERE WE ALMOST BROKE SOMETHING. BUT, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU SHOULD BE SO PROUD OF HOW FAR YOU CAME AND I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT'S NEXT FOR YOU. HI, SO PROUD OF YOU. YOU ARE THE QUEEN OF THE JUMP STOP AND IT WAS ALWAYS FUN TO SEE YOU PUT INTO WORK IN A GAME, WHAT WE LEARNED IN PRACTICE. AND JUST THAT CAPACITY FOR GROWTH HAS REALLY MADE ME SO PROUD. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, RILEY. UH, SO, UH, WHEN WE WOULD HAVE SCRIMMAGES, UH, RILEY WAS THE TEAMMATE WHO WOULD'VE TO STEP IN WITH THINGS I A LITTLE SPICY AND JUST REMIND EVERYBODY, GUYS WE'RE ON THE SAME TEAM. AND SHE WAS, UH, WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, BEATING HARD ON THIS TEAM. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT'S WHAT DO, LET'S BREAK UP THE DOUBLES THE CHAMPIONS. [00:40:04] AND, AND ALSO, SO TO ACKNOWLEDGE, YOU KNOW, ME IS ALSO, UH, A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WHO TOOK ON THIS CHALLENGE OF COACHING THE DEVILS. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, IT WORKED OUT VERY WELL. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. I FIRST WANNA THANK JEREMY IS EVERYONE ELSE, BUT JEREMY, LISA, GEORGIA, AND EVERYONE IN CHARGE OF MAKING REC BASKETBALL HAPPEN. THIS PROGRAM WOULDN'T BE, WOULDN'T BE ANYTHING WITHOUT YOU. SECOND, HUGE THANK YOU TO THE PARENTS. GIRLS, YOUR PARENTS ARE AMAZING. THEY DRIVE YOU TO GAMES, PRACTICE, AND THEY EVEN HELP TO STEP, STEP IN AS COACH WHEN I WAS IN THERE. . THANK YOU. AND FINALLY, THE PARENTS, THANK YOU ALL FOR BRINGING AMAZING ENERGY ON SATURDAY MORNINGS AT 8:00 AM GIRLS, I'M SO PROUD OF ALL OF YOU. SOME OF YOU CAME INTO THE SEASON KNOWING SOME THINGS ABOUT BASKETBALL, BUT MOST OF YOU DIDN'T. IT HAS TRULY BEEN AN AMAZING SEASON AND TO SEE YOUR GROWTH OVER THE COURSE OF THE SEASON GO. I REMEMBER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON WHEN YOU WALKED INTO OUR PRACTICE , YOU WERE SHY BUT KIND AND YOU COULDN'T REALLY REACH THE BASKET OR REBOUND. BUT NOW YOU WERE ONE OF OUR BEST REBOUNDERS AND CONSISTENT SHOOTERS, ESPECIALLY WITH LAYOFFS. IT HAS BEEN AMAZING TO SEE YOUR SHOT AND OFFENSIVE TACTICS IMPROVE AMELIA WOO. AND SINCE THE FIRST DAY, YOU HAVE ALWAYS HAD THE FIRE INSIDE OF YOU AND HAS BEEN AMAZING TO SEE IT GROW AND SHINE THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. YOU'RE SUPER AGGRESSIVE ON DEFENSE, LEADING OUR TEAM IN STEELS AND ARE ALWAYS WORKING HARD ON THE COURT. WHENEVER I LOOK UP AMELIA'S RUNNING, SHE'S ALWAYS THERE TO GET BACK ON DEFENSE OR HELP ON OFFENSE. SHE'S SPEEDY. I RACE THE GIRLS ONE TIME IN PRACTICE. THIS ONE GAVE ME A RUN FOR MY MONEY. DEVELOP. I HAVE KNOWN YOU, I HAVE KNOWN YOU LONGER THAN ALL OF THE GIRLS BECAUSE OUR FAMILIES ARE FRIENDS. SO COACHING YOU HAS BEEN A VERY SPECIAL EXPERIENCE FOR ME. IT HAS BEEN HEARTWARMING TO SEE YOU DEVELOP AS A BASKETBALL PLAYER, BUT ALSO AS A PERSON. YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN KIND AND OUTGOING, BUT IT WAS INCREDIBLE TO SEE YOUR PASSION AND TEAMWORK SHOW ON THE BASKETBALL COURT. THE, I WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO WIN THE BALL BACK. EVEN IF WE CAN'T PRESS, SHE WILL BE UP THERE. THE MOST INSISTENCE ON GETTING THE BALL BACK HAS GOTTEN US A LOT OF STEALS AND MAYBE SOME FOULS TOO. BUT OVERALL IT HAS BEEN AN AMAZING SEASON TO SEE HER GROW. ABBY COACHING YOU, COACHING YOU HAS BEEN A PLEASURE. EVERY TIME ABBY COMES TO PRACTICE, SHE'S ALWAYS EXCITED AND READY TO PLAY. ABBY HAS BEEN WORKING ON HER POSITIONING AND SHOPPING FOR THE SEASON AND I THINK SHE'LL MAKE A GREAT SHOOTING GUARD ONE DAY. ABBY IS VERY KIND AND THOUGHTFUL TOWARDS HER TEAMMATES AND ALWAYS HELPS TO MAKE PRACTICE FUN AND EXCITING. AEL, WE HAVE MADE SO MANY FUN MEMORIES THIS SEASON FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW HER. AEL IS A BUNDLE OF ENERGY AND IS ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH. AND FOR ME, A HIGH SCHOOLER GOING TO COACH AFTER A LONG DAY OF SCHOOL AND HOMEWORK AND PRACTICE. SEEING A, BEING SILLY AND BRINGING LAUGH DUE TO OUR PRACTICE WAS VERY SPECIAL. AURELIA, I LOVE YOUR ENERGY AND PASSION. STAY TRUE TO WHO YOU ARE AND KEEP LAUGHING. SO SORRY FOR THE LONG SPEECH, BY THE WAY. SO MOST OF YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW, BUT MARGO AND MAYA ARE BEST FRIENDS. , THESE GIRLS ARE INSEPARABLE. THEY'LL ALWAYS WANNA BE ON THE SAME TEAM WHEN WE SCRIMMAGE. AND I CAN SEE WHY THEY ARE UNSTOPPABLE WHEN PUT ON THE SAME TEAM. THIS WAS SPECIAL AND HEARTWARMING FOR ME TO SEE BECAUSE THEY REMIND ME 'CAUSE THEY REMIND ME OF THE WAY MY BEST FRIEND AND I ARE KEEP SUPPORTING EACH OTHER AND MAKING EACH OTHER LAUGH AND WHATEVER THEY SAY, DO NOT PUT THEM ON THE SAME TEAM. , THEY'LL WIN. UNLESS THEY'RE ON MY REC TEAM, THEN THAT'S FINE, WE CAN, I'LL COACH 'EM AGAIN. MARGO, YOU ARE SO KIND AND FUNNY OFF THE COURT, BUT ON THE COURT YOU ARE A BRICK WALL. NO ONE GETS PAST MARGO. SHE'S OUR DEFENSIVE STAR, LEADING OUR TEAM IN BLOCKS AND REBOUNDS FOR A LOT OF GAMES. I WOULD JUST TELL MARGO TO GO STAND IN THE PAINT UNDER THE HOOP AND DEFEND THE TALLEST PLAYERS. POOR MARGOT'S BATTLING AGAINST PLAYERS THAT WERE ALMOST TALLER THAN HER, BUT SHE KNEW HOW TO PUT UP A FIGHT. MAYA, YOU'RE A SILLY ONE. IT'S BEEN SO MUCH FUN TO COACH YOU THIS SEASON. MAYA IS OUR LEADING SCORER AND SHE DIDN'T EARN THIS TITLE BY JUST SHOOTING LAYUPS AND FREE THROWS, BUT BY MAKING FLOATERS AND CRAZY JUMP SHOTS FROM PLACES NO ONE ELSE WOULD DARE SHOOT FROM. BUT SHE PROVED IT POSSIBLE. THERE WAS ONE GAME WHERE MAYA DRIBBLED THROUGH THE OTHER TEAM AND SHE WENT UP FOR A FLOATER WITH TWO DEFENDERS ON HER. SHE MADE THE SHOT AND CASUALLY RAN BACK ON DEFENSE. I LOOKED AT THE PARENTS IN OTTER SHOP, ALL THE REPS WERE COMPLETELY SURPRISED. I WAS SO PROUD. GIRLS, IT HAS BEEN AN AMAZING SEASON. I'M SO INCREDIBLY PROUD OF EACH ONE OF YOU. THANK YOU EVERYONE. I HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. [00:45:04] ALRIGHT, AND AS WE'RE TAKING THAT PHOTO, WE ARE GOING TO INVITE UP THE FIRST BOYS FIVE 16 TO ACCEPT AWARDS THIS EVENING. THE AVERY POISON, POISON. COME ON DOWN. SO WHO HERE SINCE UH, WE ANNOUNCED THE, UH, GO BACK UP. GO BACK EMMY. I SKIPPED THE P BACK. YOU'RE GOING BACK UP. SORRY GUYS, I CAN'T READ TONIGHT. I FULLY SKIPPED A PARAGRAPH. I'M SO SORRY. EMMY. ALRIGHT. EMMY HAS BEEN A TRUE LEADER ON THE COURT SINCE DAY ONE. SHE'S SOMETIMES A LITTLE SHY, BUT SHE'S GOT THAT FIRE EVERY TIME WHEN SHE'S ON THE COURT. SHE'S ALWAYS CALLING FOR THE BALL AND SHE MAKES GREAT PLAYS. I KNOW I CAN ALWAYS TRUST HER TO BE OUR POINT GUARD. I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. BOY. AVERY. POISON. COME ON BOYS. FIVE SIX. LET'S GO. YOU COMING? HELLO? UM, I'LL TRY TO MAKE, UH, EXTRA TIME THERE. SETTLE IN. QUIET PLEASE. YOU'RE LEAVING. THAT'S FINE. BUT LET'S JUST SHOW RESPECT. NOT SHOULD NOT BE HAVING CONVERSATIONS IN THE STANDS. OKAY. QUIET PLEASE. QUIET PLEASE. WE'RE WAITING ON YOU. STILL WAITING. THANK YOU. OKAY, POISON TEAM. POISON. SO THIS IS BASICALLY REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR AVERAGE AMOUNT OF PLAYERS PER GAME. , UM, JOKE . UM, BUT I WANT TO THANK THE PARENTS OF COURSE FOR BRINGING THE KIDS TO PRACTICE, GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO COACH YOUR CHILDREN. UH, THE REFS WERE SHOWING UP EVERY GAME AND DOING THEIR BEST THERE. AND JEREMY ALSO FOR, YOU KNOW, ORGANIZING EVERYTHING AND WRESTLING AS WELL. UM, I'LL START AND THEN PROBABLY HAND OFF TO, UM, DAVID, WHO'S NOT HERE, I DON'T THINK. UH, HE WAS BASICALLY THE SPIRIT AWARD FOR OUR TEAM. HE WAS, UH, AMAZING HUSTLE. UH, BASICALLY JOSH HART OF, OF, UH, OUR SQUAD. UH, HE WAS A COACH ON THE FLOOR AND CRAZY ON DEFENSE. UH, REED, MY SON HERE, UH, HE WAS FEARLESS, PESKY DEFENSE. HE WOULD LEAVE THE AMOUNT OF JUMP BALLS THIS GUY GOT. UM, I MEAN, HELP BALLS, , SORRY YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO JUMP BALLS. UM, WE GOT, UH, JONAH HERE WHO'S A SCORING MACHINE, UH, BALL HANDLER AND, UH, YEAH, JUST ALL, ALL OUT SCORING. UM, AND FRANKIE, WHO, I DON'T KNOW IF HE KNEW WHERE TO STAND IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON, AND THEN HE ENDED UP BEING OUR BEST REBOUNDER AND BEST AT, UH, CAUSING TURNOVERS. SO GREAT JOB THERE. UM, LUCAS, YOU, UH, WE'RE AT THE FIRST COUPLE GAMES THEN UNFORTUNATELY BROKE YOUR ARM, BUT REGARDLESS, YOU ARE NUMBER ONE SUPPORTER AND STILL SHOWED UP TO EVERY GAME. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. THANKS FOR CO-COACHING. OH MY GOD, AND GRAY. GRAY GRAY WAS FANTASTIC IN OUR, OUR PRACTICES AND THE COUPLE GAMES THAT WE, OH, I I'M JUST GOING BY WHO'S HERE? SORRY. UH, THAT, THAT, UH, OKAY, ELI, I'M GONNA DO ELI. ELI, ELI. UM, HE WAS, IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET INTO IT, BUT IN HIS FI THE FINAL COUPLE PRACTICES, HE REALLY GOT THIS ONE SHOT DOWN. SO IN THE SCRIMMAGE THAT GAME, HE MADE TWO SHOTS AND THAT WAS, THAT WAS AMAZING. AND THE PRACTICE REALLY PAID OFF. UM, SO I THINK THAT'S EVERYONE. THANK [00:50:03] THE POISON. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE WOULD NOW LIKE TO INVITE UP THE, SORRY. OKAY. THAT'S OKAY. UH, LET'S INVITE UP THE BUCKET SQUAD PLEASE. THE BOYS FIVE SIX BUCKET SQUAD WITH COACH JOSH THICK. AND THIS IS A SERENDIPITOUS MOMENT BECAUSE WHILE JACK IS THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE BUCKET SQUAD TO REPRESENT TONIGHT, UH, JACK IS ALSO A PLAYER, UH, IN OUR PROGRAM WHO HAS BEEN, UH, SHOWN TREMENDOUS SPIRIT. UH, HE HAS RUN THE SCOREBOARD AT MANY A GAME, UH, THIS SEASON. UH, HE'S BEEN AT ALMOST ALL THE CLINICS ON THURSDAY NIGHTS AND, UH, HAS ALL, YOU KNOW, IN MANY WAYS BEEN A RIGHT HAND, UH, TO ME WHEN I'VE BEEN IN THE GREEN GYM. SO I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. UH, JACK AND AS MUCH AS ANYONE IN THIS PROGRAM THIS YEAR, UH, JACK RUG IS DESERVING OF A HASTINGS REC BASKETBALL SPIRIT AWARD. NOW WE GET PICK UP A LITTLE, LET'S GET THE DAW IN DOWN HERE. DAWSON, INFERNO BOYS. FIVE, SIX DAW IN. OKAY GUYS, SO, UH, WE'LL TRY TO BE QUICK. UH, I'M GONNA DO FOUR PLAYERS, COACH JOHN, WE'LL DO THE OTHER THREE. I WANTED TO THANK JEREMY AND ALL THE REPS, UH, FOR ALL THE WORK THEY PUT INTO THE SEASON, AS WELL AS THE PARENTS WHO ARE RELIABLY BRINGING THE PLAYERS TO PRACTICE. UH, THIS IS MY THIRD YEAR COACHING B AN AMAZING TEAM. UH, WE HAD ONE LOSS IN THE REGULAR SEASON. WE HAD A TOUGH BREAK IN THE SEMIFINALS, UH, BUT I THINK THE PLAYERS SHOULD ALL BE PROUD OF THEIR YEAR. SO, UH, I'LL START WITH MAX SECOND YEAR COACHING MAX. I APPRECIATED MAX'S NO NONSENSE ATTITUDE AND HUSTLE AND CHASING AROUND PLAYERS ON DEFENSE. UH, ALSO THIS YEAR, MAX IMPROVED HIS SKILLS AS A DECISION MAKER, WHICH WERE ALREADY SOLID. THEO WAS A HARD WORKER. THEO WAS PROBABLY THE EASIEST PLAYER ON THE TEAM TO COACH. UH, YOU HAD A WAY OF JUST UNDERSTANDING THE DRILLS WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING ALMOST INSTANTLY. EVERYBODY ELSE TOOK A LITTLE LONGER, BUT YOU JUST KIND OF HAD A, HAD A MIND FOR THE GAME AND I APPRECIATED THAT. UH, SOME OUTSTANDING DEFENSIVE PLAYS AS WELL, THEO. SO THANK YOU. UH, WISTON, UH, ONE OF THE MOST IMPROVED, I THINK THE MOST IMPROVED PLAYER ON THE TEAM TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEASON. UH, WISTON WAS, UH, TAKING A DECENT NUMBER OF SHOTS, PULLING DOWN, REBOUND, SETTLED INTO THE LOW POST, UH, WITH DANNY. AND THEN FINALLY, UH, MY SON DANNY. UH, THIS IS MY THIRD YEAR COACHING YOU. UH, AS USUAL, DANNY WAS THE TEAM'S TOP REBOUNDER THIS YEAR. HE ADDED A DEADLY OUTSIDE SHOT. I'LL NOTE THAT HE BEAT ME IN ONE-ON-ONE FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST WEEK. DESPITE MY HEIGHT ADVANTAGE, I MAY NEVER WIN AGAIN. . SO I'LL PASS . THANK YOU. UH, AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK ALL THE COACHES, UH, IN THE LEAVE. THANK YOU TO JEREMY, THANK YOU TO REP GREAT THIS YEAR. THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS FOR BEING, UH, GETTING KIDS TO PRACTICE EVERY SINGLE WEEK. UM, ASHER, UH, YOU'VE ALWAYS PLAYED WITH TENACITY. YOU HAVE THIS ABILITY TO TAKE OVER THE GAME WITH YOUR DRIBBLING AND SHOOTING AND THE SPEED IN WHICH YOU BRING A BALL UP THE COURT. IT WAS REALLY QUITE IMPRESSIVE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, EVEN THE TEAM IN ALL SCORING, UH, GRIFFIN, UH, UH, GRIFFIN WAS A GREAT SHOOTER. HE HIT ALL OF THESE OUT SIDE SHOTS AS WELL AS DRIVING INTO THE BASKET. HE PLAYED WITH THIS DRIVE TO WIN AND I KNOW THAT HE'S GONNA CONTINUE TO PLAY ON, UH, THROUGHOUT JUNIOR HIGH, UH, HIGH SCHOOL. UM, AND EVAN, UM, MY SON, YOU PLAYED AWESOME THROUGHOUT THIS SEASON AND YOU WERE FOCUSED ON MAKING YOUR TEAM BETTER THROUGH ALL OF YOUR PASSING AND YOUR D AND YOU JUST MADE EVERYTHING BETTER AROUND YOU. UM, HE WAS THE ULTIMATE UNSELFISH [00:55:01] PLAYER AND A GREAT CONTRIBUTOR TO THE TEAM. UH, IT'S SUCH A GREAT REWARD TO HAVE, UH, TO COACH AND TO HAVE YOUR YOUR KID ON THE TEAM. IT'S JUST A WONDERFUL THING TO BE ABLE TO DO AND REALLY, I THINK, BELIEVE FOR BEING ABLE TO DO THAT. THANK YOU. AND AS WE TAKE A PICTURE OF THE DOTSON INFERNO, WE ARE GOING TO INVITE UP THE, OUR DIDDY SIXERS. SIXERS. SIXERS ARE NOT HERE WITH PROTEST, ACTUALLY, SO IT'S A CONTROVERSY. OKAY, WE HAVE TWO SIXERS. DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER SIX? SO I WILL SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, IN ONE THING THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE, WE'RE ING GAMES, WE'RE ORGANIZING THINGS, UH, I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE ENERGY AND THE ATTITUDE OF THESE TWO AMAZING PLAYERS. UH, SO LEWIS O'BRIEN, UH, JUST TREMENDOUS ENERGY, UH, ALWAYS GOING AFTER LOOSE BALLS, UH, CARED A LOT, UH, ABOUT THE OUTCOME OF EVERY GAME. CARED A LOT ABOUT HOW HE PLAYED, AND JUST BROUGHT A LOT OF PASSION. SO A GREAT, A GREAT CONTRIBUTOR TO OUR PROGRAM AND A GREAT CONTRIBUTOR TO HIS TEAM. SO MR. JIMMY JONES, UH, TOTAL SPARK PLUG, UH, YOU KNOW, VERY SKILLED, UH, VERY GOOD DISTRIBUTOR OF THE BALL, UH, MADE HIS TEAMMATES BETTER, UH, THROUGHOUT THE SEASON AND WAS JUST A, A JOY TO BE AROUND, A JOY TO OFFICIATE AND LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, JIMMY, HOW YOU DEVELOP AS A PLAYER IN YEARS TO COME BOTH IN HASTINGS REC, BASKETBALL AND OTHER PROGRAMS. AND, AND I'LL SAY WHILE NEIL ARDI THE COACH IS NOT HERE TONIGHT, HE AND HIS WIFE MOHEY, UH, STEPPED IN. THAT WAS ONE OF THOSE, LIKE, WE NEED SOMEBODY TO COACH THE TEAM. AND, UH, MOHEY STEPPED IN TO ORGANIZE, DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BASKETBALL, BUT SHE WAS HAPPY TO ORGANIZE. AND NEIL DID A TREMENDOUS JOB OF, UH, COACHING AND JUST A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW THIS PROGRAM LIKE HAPPENS BY PEOPLE STEPPING UP AND PARTICIPATING WHEN THEY NEED TO. WHICH, UM, COINCIDENTALLY IS ACCIDENTALLY HOW I FIRST CAME INTO THIS PROGRAM IS A COACH WHO SAID THEY WERE GONNA COACH BUT DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. SAID, I'LL HELP YOU AT ONE PRACTICE. AND NOW HERE WE ARE, . ANYWAY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HERE WE GO, THE SIXERS. AND WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET'S INVITE UP THE PATEL CELTICS. PATEL CELTICS, WHICH I ACTUALLY THINK MIGHT NOT BE HERE TONIGHT. I WILL TELL YOU THOUGH, EVEN THOUGH THE PATEL CELTICS ARE NOT HERE, I HEARD THAT THEY HAD A TEAM. OH, GREAT. GOT A COUPLE THE, UM, THEY HAD A TEAM DINNER LAST NIGHT, RIGHT? YEP. THEY HAD A TEAM DINNER LAST NIGHT AT COACH'S HOUSE AND EVERYBODY CAME. SO THERE'S TREMENDOUS SPIRIT HERE, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT ALL HERE AT THE AWARDS PROGRAM. SO I THINK ALMOST EVERYBODY HERE IS FAMILIAR WITH CYRUS IN TERMS OF HIS ABILITY, UH, TO PLAY BASKETBALL AND JUST A TREMENDOUS JOY TO, TO HAVE AROUND, UH, TO HAVE ON THE COURT. UH, WE'RE JUST SO LUCKY, UH, TO HAVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, UH, AS PART OF THIS PROGRAM. UH, THEY MAKE US BETTER AS, UH, IN, IN TERMS OF OUR BASKETBALL PLAY, UH, AND IN TERMS OF OUR SPIRIT. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO DANNY, UH, YOU KNOW, HAS HAD A GREAT SEASON, UH, A VERY DEDICATED PLAYER, SOMEONE WHO I KNOW IS GONNA BE PLAYING, UH, WITH US THIS SPRING AS WELL IN ANOTHER PROGRAM. SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT, UH, TO CONTINUE HIS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND, UH, DEFINITELY MADE BOTH, UH, HIS, UH, COPLAY AND HIS COACHES, UH, BETTER AT WHAT THEY DO THIS SEASON. DANNY MASSEY DAYS. AND WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET'S INVITE UP THE KIRSCHNER JAGUARS, THE CHAMPIONS OF THE BOYS FIVE SIX DIVISION. [01:00:17] UH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. THANK YOU, UH, JIMMY, THANK YOU FOR ORGANIZING. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT AN EASY THING TO DO TO ORGANIZE ALL THESE GYM TIMES AND GET ALL THESE TEAMS AND HAVE FAIRLY BALANCED, UH, AMONGST THE LEAGUE. SO THANK YOU, UM, TO THE REFEREES. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR THE ENTHUSIASM THAT SOMETIMES I TOOK PERHAPS A LITTLE BIT FAR, BUT MUCH APPRECIATED FOR, FOR BEING PATIENT. UH, THANK YOU TO THE PARENTS. I MEAN, YOU HAVE AMAZING KIDS. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH JOY ONE GETS FROM DOING THIS. SO THANK YOU. AND, UM, THANK YOU TO MY WIFE CHRISTINE, WHO, UH, MEANS A WORLD TO ME AND DEALS MY BASKETBALL OBSESSION. LETS ME GET UP EARLY TO GO PLAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. BUT TO THESE GUYS, YOU GUYS WERE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. AND THESE ARE MEMORIES THAT I WON'T FORGET. I'LL SAY A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EACH OF YOU, BUT IT WAS A PRETTY AWESOME EXPERIENCE. SO THANK YOU. AND WE'RE GONNA START WITH ONE GENTLEMAN WHO'S NOT HERE. UH, OUR ONE PLAYER WHO'S MISSING. UH, IT IS HENRY DIMARTINO, YES, WHO IS AN ABSOLUTE FEARLESS LEADER OF OUR TEAM, GAVE SO MUCH GRANT, HIS PASSION FOR BASKETBALL IS TRULY INSPIRATIONAL. SO HENRY, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT HERE, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR DEDICATION AND AWESOME PLAY. AND NEXT WE HAVE MY MAN MAX HERE WHO IS JUST, YOU CAN SEE THE SMILE. I MEAN, AGAIN, SO MUCH FUN, AN INCREDIBLE REBOUNDER, SO MUCH SPIRIT. AND THIS TEAM IS SO MUCH ABOUT JUST HAVING A GOOD TIME, UM, AND JUST BRINGING IT. AND I APPRECIATE YOU, MAN, THANK YOU. AND, AND THEN REHAN IS, UH, YOU ARE THE SPIRITUAL BOND. YOU HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HEART AND SO KIND THAT YOU KEPT NOT JUST THE TEAM GROUNDED, BUT YOU KEPT ME GROUNDED. NOW SOMETIMES YOU GET VERY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING AND JUST THE KINDNESS AND BOND YOU BROUGHT TO THIS TEAM AND THE COHESION THAT LED TO WAS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. I'M SO APPRECIATIVE OF IT. THANK YOU. AND ROBINSON, I MEAN, AWESOME. I DON'T KNOW WHO IS HERE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. I'M GONNA INTERJECT SOMETHING ACTUALLY, UH, PROPS TO THE, BECAUSE THEY WERE UNBELIEVABLE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AND THAT GAME COULD HAVE GONE EITHER WAY. AND SPEAKING OF CYRUS, I WAS LIKE BEHOLDEN BY THE FACT HE TOOK SOME VERY HARD FOULS FROM US, GOT INJURED, STILL CAME BACK, AND THE WAY THAT TEAM RALLIED, LIKE IT WAS SUPER TIGHT AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE. SO HATS OFF TO YOU ALL IN THAT GAME. MR. ROBINSON. ROBINSON WAS SICK THE WEEK PRIOR, HAD MISSED SOME OF HER PLAYOFF GAMES. AND I'M NOT GONNA LIE, I WAS LIKE KINDA UNSURE, LIKE, WHERE'S THIS GOING? AND THEN ROBINSON COMES TO OUR CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. THE SECOND HE GETS IN THE GAME, HE PLAYS THE MOST LOCKDOWN DEFENSE THAT I'VE EVER SEEN PLAYED IN THIS LEAGUE. AND AT THAT MOMENT I SAID, OH, SUGAR, I DIDN'T SAY SUGAR, BUT GUESS WHAT I SAID? I SAID, WE HAVE A GOOD SHOT OF WINNING THIS. YOUR DEFENSE WAS RIDICULOUS. YOU CAME UP AT THE BIGGEST TIME ON THE BIGGEST STAGE AND YOU WERE UNBELIEVABLE. YOU SHOULD BE SUPER, SUPER PROUD. AND THEN WE GOT OUR GUY JUNO, WHO PROBABLY LIKE A LOT OF US WATCHING THE GAMES, MAN, YOU'RE JUST REALLY FUN TO WATCH. YOU'RE INCREDIBLY ATHLETIC. YOU'RE FLARE AND YOU'RE SO HUMBLE WHILE YOU DO IT. IF I HAD YOUR SKILLS, I'D BE TALKING ALL SORTS OF SMACK AND TRASH. YOU'RE SO HUMBLE IN THE WAY YOU APPROACH THE GAME AND SO FOCUSED. IT WAS HONESTLY AN HONOR TO WATCH MY MAN. SO THANK YOU. AND NO, I MEAN, SIMILAR AGAIN. SO ATHLETIC, SO COMMITTED, YOUR ENERGY WAS INCESSANT. YOU KEPT THAT ENERGY LEVEL HIGH WITHOUT THAT ENERGY LEVEL, WE DON'T WIN THESE GAMES AND YOU JUST ARE UNFAZED AND SO FOCUSED IN THE GAME AND JUST APPRECIATE HOW YOU CREATED THAT SPIRIT FOR US ON THE COURT AND ALL THANK YOU, REALLY BEAUTIFUL. AND ROBERT NER, I MEAN, YOUR GAME HAS DEVELOPED SO MUCH. WE STARTED JUST BY RUNNING SCREENS AND TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, FREE UP OUR SCORES AND JUST TRYING TO LIKE, YOU KNOW, BE PART OF THE GAME. AND TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEASON HE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M READY. YOU'RE PRACTICING YOUR SHOT. YOU GO TO THE TOP OF THE KEY. YOU'RE DEMANDING THE BALL, YOU'RE REALLY GOING INTO A BASKETBALL PLAYER BESIDES BEING A GREAT SON. SO THANK YOU EVERYBODY. THANK YOU. AND LET'S INVITE UP OUR FIVE SIX GIRLS PATEL ARDS. [01:05:06] ALRIGHT. ALL RIGHT. CAN'T HEAR STING. I KNOW THIS IS WHY YOU CAME HERE TONIGHT. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, WELL LET ME START BY THANKING JEREMY. YOU TAUGHT ME HOW TO LOVE JEREMY AND UH, YOU MADE ME THE MANNA ON TODAY. UM, UH, ALRIGHT. ALRIGHT, LET'S GET SERIOUS. UM, FIRST OF ALL, I'LL GO DOWN THIS DIRECTION HERE. SYDNEY, UM, SYDNEY'S LIKE AN ENERGIZER BUNNY CROSSED WITH A BULLDOZER. SO GOOD JOB. I THINK SHE SCORED 45 TO 90% OF OUR POINTS. UM, LEILA, UH, YOU DID A LOT OF AMAZING THINGS THIS YEAR. ONE OF MY FAVORITE WAS THIS THING YOU WOULD DO WHERE YOU WOULD DRIBBLE DOWN THE THREE POINT LINE TO THE RIGHT AND THEN RUN IN AND DRIBBLE ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER THREE POINT LINE UNDER THE BASKET AND THEN TURN AROUND AND YOU SHOULD HAVE AN OPEN SHOT 'CAUSE EVERYONE WOULD BE SO CONFUSED AND YOU SW A COUPLE POINTS THAT WAY AND IT WAS AMAZING. , MIA, MIA, WE HAVE TWO. MIA AND MIA, MIA LOPEZ, MIA AND THEY ARE THE, WE CALL THEM THE INSANE HUMAN BEINGS. UM, NO, WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT. MIA LAST YEAR CAME THE SLOGAN OF, IF YOU DON'T GET A FOUL, YOU'RE NOT PLAYING HARD ENOUGH. AND THIS YEAR SHE, SHE RAISED IT TO, IF YOU DON'T MAKE SOMEONE BLEED, YOU'RE NOT PLAYING HARD ENOUGH. . AND UH, UH, YEAH, AMIA BASICALLY IS LIKE OUR HYPE PERSON. UH, YEAH, AMAZING. ANYA, MY DAUGHTER, UM, SHE WAS, I THINK I THINKING AS GREAT ALL AROUND PLAYER, BUT LIKE A SURPRISE SHARK SHOOTER TOWARD THE END OF THE SEASON, STARTED MAKING SOME AMAZING SHOTS FROM PRETTY FAR OUT. ROSIE THE REBOUNDER, OBVIOUSLY, RIGHT? , UM, UH, YEAH, WE PRETTY MUCH, I DON'T KNOW IF WE EVER WOULD'VE GOTTEN THE BALL BACK AND CLOSING FOR YOU, SO THANK YOU ROSIE. UM, WINTER. OKAY, SO THE THING I'M MOST PROUD ABOUT OF THIS TEAM IS THAT THEY PRACTICE AT HOME ALMOST EVERY DAY. LIKE ALL THE KIDS PRACTICE AT HOME EVERY DAY, WHICH WAS AMAZING. WE WORKED HARD ON IT, BUT WINTER STARTED IT UP. I WAS LIKE, I KEPT ON IT. AND THEN WINTER ALL OF A SUDDEN OVER WINTER BREAK PRACTICES EVERY DAY. AND AFTER ALL THE OTHER KIDS WERE LIKE TRYING TO CATCH UP AND EVERYONE GOT INTO IT, IT WAS AMAZING. MIA LOPEZ. OKAY, SO THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON, MIA WAS LIKE, KIND OF LIKE A GENTLE BUTTERFLY. SHE HADN'T PLAYED BASKETBALL BEFORE. UM, AND BY THE END OF THE SEASON SHE WAS LIKE A TERRIFYING BANSE. LIKE SHE WAS LITERALLY RUNNING AROUND IN EVERYONE'S FACE, JUST LIKE SLAPPING THE BALL, SMACKING PEOPLE, GETTING COWS. IT WAS AWESOME. I LOVED IT. AND ISABELLE. SO ISABELLE WAS MADE INCREDIBLE PROGRESS THIS YEAR. ISABELLE HAD NEVER PLAYED GOSPEL AND HAD NEVER PLAYED A SPORT. AND BY THE END OF THE YEAR SHE WAS DRIBBLING, SHE WAS PASSING, SHE WAS SHOOTING, SHE SCORED A, A BASKET. THIS, IT WAS, IT WAS GREAT AND IT WAS WONDERFUL SEEING YOU GO FROM, YOU KNOW, YOU'D NEVER PLAYED BASKETBALL FOR IN, IN PRACTICE. NOW YOU'RE MAKING SHOTS ALL THE TIME. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. AND THEN, UH, COACH AMIT IS REALLY THE HEART OF THE TEAM AND, UH, INSPIRES ALL TO BE A BETTER PERSON. AND ALSO THERE'S COACH SEAN WHO'S NOT HERE, BUT HE ALREADY WON AN AWARD. WHERE ARE YOU? SEAN'S, SEAN, THE MOST OF THE ACTUAL COACHING. SO THANK YOU SEAN. . CONGRATULATIONS. FURTHER, FURTHER ADO, LET'S BRING UP THE BERKOWITZ I, FEVER. FEVER. AND AS THE FEVER ARE COMING UP, I WILL JUST SAY, UH, AS I WAS GOING THROUGH THE ORDER OF HOW TO, UH, HAVE THESE TEAMS COME UP, I WAS JUST ASTOUNDED BY THE JUST TEAM AFTER TEAM IN THIS DIVISION. WE HAD SIX TEAMS IN THE BOYS, FIVE, SIX, WE HAD SIX TEAMS. UH, JUST, THERE'S SO MANY PLAYERS, SO MANY GREAT COACHES, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED ATTENTION. THIS WILL BE, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS CEREMONY WILL BE AS LONG AS IT NEEDS TO BE. AND UH, IT'S JUST PART OF THE, PART OF THIS EXPERIENCE. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR FOCUS AND YOUR ATTENTION AS WE GO THROUGH EVERY TEAM. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. UH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. UH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE HAD A FEVER, HAD AN UNFORGETTABLE SEASON. WE WERE NINE, NO DURING THE REGULAR SEASON AND IT WAS A TESTIMONY TO THE HARD WORK OF ALL THESE GIRLS HERE. SO, UM, A COUPLE PEOPLE I WANT TO THANK, UH, FIRST, UH, PARENTS. THANKS FOR GETTING YOUR KIDS HERE. UH, SECONDLY, REST, WE HAD OUR DIFFERENCES, BUT APPRECIATE [01:10:01] YOUR HARD WORK AND YOUR EFFORT AND, UH, YOU VALUE YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THANK, UH, LISA, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND JEREMY, OF COURSE, THANK YOU. WE COULDN'T PUT THIS THING TOGETHER AND YOU'VE REALLY TAKEN THIS TO ANOTHER LEVEL, THE WHOLE TASK. UM, AND, AND LAST, UH, MY, MY CO CO-COACH MARK, UH, COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU. WE'RE A GREAT TEAM, GREAT TEAM. SO, UH, WE WERE NINE ON THE REGULAR SEASON. WE HAD A, A LOSS IN THE SEMI-FINALS. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR CHAMPIONS. BUT EVEN IN THAT LOSS, UH, OUR TEAM, WE WORKED HARD, WE WERE DEDICATED, WE WERE FIERCE. WE COMPETED THE WHOLE WHOLE GAME. ALRIGHT, SO JUST WANNA RECOGNIZE A FEW FOLKS. UM, WE'LL START WITH, UH, JOSIE. JOSIE, ALRIGHT, JOSIE, AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE DOWN LOW. A KEY PLAYER OF GUARD WHEN I NEEDED YOU AND A MAJOR SCORER. OH, THAT'S MUCH BETTER. OKAY, JOSIE, COME UP. WE ALSO, UM, GOT THIS A LITTLE AWARD THAT WE GAVE WE WANT FOR YOU. OKAY, NEXT UP. GENE. WHERE'S GENE? GENE, MY TEAM ASSIST LEADER. JEAN STARTED OUT, UM, JUST TAKING THE BALL DOWN THE COURT, BUT SHE BECAME A PLAYMAKER AND DISTRIBUTED THE BALL. VERY COACHABLE. OPEN THE FEEDBACK, KEEP THAT QUALITY THROUGHOUT LIFE. YOU DID GREAT TO SEE JEAN. PLEASURE HAVING YOU. OKAY, . EMMA. EMMA, YOU STARTED OUT AS A WALLFLOWER. WE COULDN'T HEAR YOU, BUT BY THE END, YOU KNOW, YOU WERE FORCED DOWN LOW AND YOU WERE MADE. YOUR LAYS WERE DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENTS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION. EMMA. EMMA TESS. FIRST, FIRST SEASON. AM I RIGHT? FIRST SEASON, BUT YOUR DEFENSE CAME OUT AT THE END OF THE SEASON. YOU WERE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. GET UP HERE, TESS. COME ON MR. WARD. UH, I DON'T, I THINK WE'RE MISSING KIVA. SO I'LL JUST SAY SHE WAS A LEADER ON AND OFF THE COURT. I COULD ASK HER TO DO ANYTHING. DEFENSIVE AWARENESS WAS A GAME CHANGER. LAYLA. LAYLA, YOU YOUR ENTHUSIASM, YOUR, YOUR DEFENSE, UH, YOUR APPROVED DRAMATICALLY IN ALL OFFENSES OF THE GAME. YOU GET THE LOVE OF THE GAME AWARD. GET UP HERE AND TAKE OUT AWARD. I'M GONNA DO, UM, MY, UH, UM, I'LL DO DRILL THIS FIRST. ALRIGHT, RAH, RAH. YOU HAD, YOU HAD OFFENSIVE GROWTH CULMINATING IN THE MOST MEMORABLE ENDING OF A SEASON GAME IN MY REC LEAGUE HISTORY. A BUZZER BEATER WITH NO SECONDS ON OR 1.01 SECONDS ON THE CLOCK. TRULY, I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT THAT BUZZER BEATER AMAZING TO WATCH YOU GROW. AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR BASKETBALL CAREER CONTINUE. COME HERE, GET THIS AWARD. MY ZOE, MY DAUGHTER WHO WASN'T, BASKETBALL IS NOT HER FAVORITE SPORT, BUT SHE WENT IN WITH, UH, PASSION AND PLAYED HARD DEFENSE AND PUT HER ALL INTO IT NO MATTER WHAT. APPRECIATE THAT EFFORT. THANK YOU, ZOE. GET UP HERE. COME ON FOR DEFENSE. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU ALL FOR AN INCREDIBLE SEASON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. FEVER. THANK YOU. FEVER. AND NOW WE WILL INVITE UP THE AUS STRAND KNICKS, AUS STRAND KNICKS. SO, OKAY, SO WE'RE SWITCHING BACK TO THE OTHER MICROPHONE HERE. AND, UH, AND WITH THAT, BEFORE WE GET INTO, UH, DOING INDIVIDUAL, UH, UH, AWARDS FOR, UH, THE AUSTRA NICKS, WE DO DO HAVE, UM, HERE ANOTHER AWARD THAT WE DO WANT TO GIVE OUT. AND THIS IS THE OTHER, UM, KIND OF LEAD WIDE AWARD THAT WE DO, UH, HERE IN HASTINGS, UH, REC BASKETBALL. AND THIS IS AN AWARD, UM, IN HONOR OF, UH, HASTINGS RESIDENT, UH, NAMED TYLER RETI, UH, WHO WAS A HUGE BASKETBALL FAN, HUGE, UH, JUST BASKETBALL MEANT THE WORLD TO HIM. AND, UH, UNFORTUNATELY, UH, TYLER PASSED AWAY IN A, IN AN ACCIDENT, UH, FAR TOO YOUNG. AND, UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU, YOU KNOW, FOR SURE A LOT OF YOU KNOW THAT THE, THE, UM, REVISION OF THE BASKETBALL COURTS AT REYNOLDS FIELD, UH, WAS DONE IN HIS HONOR. UM, AND I DID NOT KNOW TYLER DIRECTLY, BUT I MET HIS MOTHER A COUPLE OF TIMES. AND I KNOW THAT, YOU [01:15:01] KNOW, THE SPIRIT OF JUST LOVING THE GAME AND WHAT THAT MEANS, UH, WHAT THAT MEANT TO HIM, WHAT THAT MEANS TO THEIR FAMILY. AND YOU KNOW, WHAT THAT MEANS TO ALL OF US. IT'S KIND OF A FULL CIRCLE THING. SO THE TYLER, UH, RETI AWARD IS REALLY GIVEN, IT'S REALLY GIVEN TO OUR OUTSTANDING PLAYER, TO AN OUTSTANDING PLAYER. SOMEONE WHO JUST HAD EXEMPLIFIES A TREMENDOUS PASSION FOR PLAYING THE GAME OF BASKETBALL, PLAYS IT AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL, UH, PLAYS THE GAME IN A VERY INTELLIGENT WAY AND JUST SHOWS TREMENDOUS LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE X'S AND O'S WITHIN THE SKILLS AND WITHIN THE EXECUTION AND TECHNIQUE OF THE GAME OF BASKETBALL. AND SOMEONE WHO'S REALLY DESERVING, UH, OF THAT AWARD THIS YEAR IS NONE OTHER THAN BASKETBALL PASS NONE OTHER THAN HARLOW NORLAND. YEAH. SO I'LL JUST SAY, JUST REAL BRIEF, HARLOW'S, JUST TREMENDOUS PLAYER, TREMENDOUS TO BE AROUND, HAS A GREAT DEAL OF ENERGY. AND, UH, WE'RE JUST REALLY LOOKING FORWARD, LIKE I SAID, ABOUT SOME OTHER PLAYERS HERE, WHAT HARLOW'S ABLE TO DO IN OUR PROGRAM, AS WELL AS OTHER TEAMS AND OTHER PROGRAMS IN THE YEARS TO COME. SO, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I HAND IT OVER TO THE NEXT, ALRIGHT, I'M NOT GREAT AT THIS, SO I'LL BE QUICK. I'M GONNA HAND IT TO CHRISTINE, OUR ASSISTANT. UH, YOU GUYS WERE GREAT. I SAY THANK YOU. I'VE TOLD THE VOLUNTEERS, JEREMY, THE REPS, THE PARENTS ARE BRINGING UP. YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN ALL SMALL YEAR, CAME IN AS AN UNDERDOG. YOU GUYS ALL CAME BACK AND REALLY TRIED. WE GOT SO GOOD AT THE END OF THE YEAR. WE WERE SO CLOSE, SO MANY GAMES. WE WANTED A FEW. AND I REALLY ENJOYED COACHING YOU GUYS. I HOPE YOU GUYS HAD FUN. I HAD FUN AND I WAS REALLY PROUD OF YOU GUYS THE WAY YOU GUYS PLAYED. SO MUCH FUN. UM, I THOUGHT THAT I WAS GONNA BE COACHING THIS TEAM JUST TO SPEND SOME QUALITY TIME WITH MY DAUGHTER, SOPHIE. BUT ON A PERSONAL NOTE, UM, I DIDN'T REALLY REALIZE HOW MUCH I WAS GOING TO LOVE THIS. AND, UM, YOU GUYS JUST BROUGHT SO MUCH TO THIS AND YOU LEARNED SO MUCH OVER TIME AND AS A COACH HELPING YOU, UM, I REALLY GOT A LOT OF FULFILLMENT OUTTA THAT WITH FOR MYSELF. OKAY, SO FOR EACH OF YOU, I JUST WANTED TO SAY A COUPLE THINGS. I'M GONNA HOLD THIS MIC CLOSER. ZOE. G, RAISE YOUR HAND. ZOE. ZOE REALLY STEPPED IT UP ON DEEP END, DISRUPTING THE OTHER TEAM'S PASSING. SHE ALWAYS CAME ONTO THE COURT WITH A SMILE AND SHE DOES A GREAT LISTENER. GREAT JOB, ZOE. AND THEN WE HAVE JOHANNA. JOHANNA, YOU IMPROVED, UM, THE SEASON, ESPECIALLY ON DEFENSE. AND WITH REBOUNDING, YOU ALWAYS BROUGHT A SMILE TO THE COURT. I THINK THAT YOU LEARNED THAT YOU PLAY BETTER WITH SHORTER NAILS. , UH, ZOE, WHEN WE, UM, WANTED THE GIRLS TO UP THEIR DEFENSE, I TOLD THEM TO PRETEND TO BE LIKE, NA GIRLS REMEMBER THAT NO ONE TOOK THIS MORE LITERALLY THAN ZOE. SHE WAS ALL OVER PLAYERS. SHE WAS RELENTLESS. SHE WAS REALLY ANNOYING IN A REALLY GOOD WAY BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T LET ANYTHING GET PAST HER. UM, SHE WAS, UM, SHE DID A REALLY GREAT JOB. AND, UH, SHE ALSO BROUGHT HER PASSION TO READING TO PRACTICE, WHICH, UH, WE APPRECIATE. THANKS. IS THIS BETTER? YEAH. OKAY. WHERE WAS I? CAMIE, CAMIE, UH, ANOTHER WAY OF SUNSHINE. CAMIE ALWAYS BROUGHT HIGH ENERGY AND HEART TO THE GAME. SHE WAS SERIOUS ABOUT LEARNING, BUT ALSO KEPT IT FUN FOR EVERYONE. SHE LIKED TO COME UP WITH PLAYS AND FUNNY NAMES FOR SETTING THE PICK AND, AND IMPROVED HER SHOOTING, UH, THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. INCREDIBLE JOB, KEN. OKAY, WHERE'S CHARLIE? CHARLIE, OUR ONLY SIXTH GRADER CHARLIE CAME INTO, UH, I THINK YOU CAME INTO BASKETBALL, UNSURE IF YOU WERE GONNA LIKE IT. AND I THINK YOU'RE LEAVING A PLAYER REALLY IMPROVED A LOT THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. YOU GREW, UH, FROM LEARNING TO RUN BACKWARDS. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE GETTING BACK ON D GRABBING REBOUNDS AND TAKING SHOTS, GOOD JOB. AND THEN WE HAVEA MY DAUGHTER, [01:20:01] BUT IN THIS CASE, NOT JUST A PLAYER . UM, WHETHER IN SOCCER OR BASKETBALL. SOFIA STARTED HER JOURNEY AS AN ATHLETE BEING VERY POLITE TO OTHER GIRLS. AND I WOULD TELL HER, DON'T WORRY, YOU'RE NOT BEING RUDE. IT'S JUST THE GAME THIS SEASON. SHE REALLY CAME OUT OF HER SHELL BEING MORE AGGRESSIVE AND SHOWING US ALL THAT SHE HAS GRIT. SHE MADE SOME GREAT PASSES, WASN'T SHY WITH HER SHOTS, AND PROVIDED MANY ASSISTS TO OUR NUMBER ONE SHOOTER. YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF YOURSELF. OKAY, SO OUR NUMBER ONE SHOOTER BRINGS YOU TO HARLOW. UM, I THINK IT'S OBVIOUS THAT YOU LOVE BASKETBALL. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU NOT ONLY HAVE A LOT OF SKILL AND PERSEVERANCE, BUT YOU HAVE PASSION AND A BIG HEART. WHAT YOU, UM, UM, WHAT WE ALWAYS LIKE TALK ABOUT AS A TEAM WAS BRING THE ENERGY, DID IT EVERY SINGLE TIME. UM, YOU'RE ALSO, UM, A GREAT PLAYER TO COACH. YOU TOOK WHAT WE SAID AND PLAYED IT OUT ON THE COURT, AND YOU REALLY DID AN AMAZING JOB. CONGRATULATIONS GUYS. LAST ONE. THREE. AWESOME. NOW LET'S, UH, INVITE UP THE FLAG AND BOMB LIGHTNING HOOPERS. LIGHTNING HOOPERS. SO WHO HERE AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE, UH, REGISTRATION TABLE HAS THOUGHT? YEAH. I SHOULD HEAD OVER TO THE REGISTRATION TABLE AND MAYBE REGISTER. YOU THOUGHT ABOUT IT. YOU'RE DOING IT. FANTASTIC. HAVE WE GOTTEN SOMEONE TO REGISTER YET? SO WE HAVE GOTTEN SO MUCH TO REGISTER. YES. THAT'S AWESOME. CONGRATULATIONS. WE ALREADY HAVE A REGISTRATION FOR NEXT YEAR, . THAT'S AMAZING. AND NOW, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE LIGHTNING HOOPERS, ONE OF THE BETTER NAMES OF OUR 20 24, 20 25 SEASON. AMAZING. SO I WAS JUST GONNA GO ON FOREVER. ANYWAY. SO AARON, UH, IS JUST A TREMENDOUS FORCE IN OUR, IN OUR PROGRAM. UH, THE LIGHTNING HOOPERS PLAYED A FEW GAMES AGAINST THE, UH, EDGEMONT REC LEAGUE THIS YEAR, UH, WITH AARON AND OTHER COACHES AND OTHER TEAM MEMBERS IN THIS DIVISION. UH, AARON IS A STALWART, UH, AND WE'RE JUST SO LUCKY TO HAVE HIM AS A RETURNING COACH. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK, THANK YOU JEREMY, AND THANK JEREMY AND, UH, EVERYBODY WHO HELPS WITH THIS LEAD TO PUT IT TOGETHER. IT'S REALLY SOMETHING SPECIAL AND IT'S SO GREAT TO HAVE THIS HERE. UH, THANK THE REFS AS WELL. IT'S A, THAT'S A THANKLESS JOB, BUT, UH, YOU PUT UP WITH US. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR DOING THAT. I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL THE OTHER COACHES, UH, ESPECIALLY FOR BEING SO BAD AT THEIR JOBS THAT WE KNEW THAT WE HAD A CHANCE IN EVERY GAME. SO THANK YOU GUYS AS WELL. , I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR PARENTS, ESPECIALLY FOR THE DONUTS. WE MAY NOT HAVE WON THE MOST GAMES, BUT WE CERTAINLY ATE THE MOST DONUTS THIS YEAR. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH SARAH FOR DOING THAT. I'D LIKE TO THANK COACH RAMIR. COACH RAMIR VOLUNTEERED TO HELP OUT ON OUR TEAM, EVEN THOUGH HIS DAUGHTER PLAYS ON ANOTHER TEAM. SO THANK YOU COACH RAM. OF COURSE, BELLA GOT THE ULTIMATE REVENGE. THEY WON THE TITLE, SO GOOD JOB, BELLA. UM, NOW ONTO OUR PLAYERS. UH, CECE, YOU SCORED THE FIRST BASKET OF THE YEAR, SO WE'RE GONNA START WITH YOU. YES. AND THE BEST BASKET. YES, OF COURSE. WOO. CECE WANTED TO WIN THE FUNNIEST PLAYER AWARD, CECE, BUT WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU THE HAPPY HAIRSTON FUNNEST PLAYER AWARD 'CAUSE NOBODY IS MORE FUN TO HAVE ON A TEAM THAN YOU. SO VERY WELL DONE. CE UH, ELLERIE, ELLERIE, SPEEDY ELLERIE, ELLERIE, SPEEDY DRIBBLERS, SPEEDY SHOOTER, NOBODY AS FAST AS YOU ON THE COURT. AND ALSO SOME GREAT FLEX SHOOTING. YOU HIT THE WINNER IN THE PLAYOFFS, BUT ELLE, IT'S YOUR SPEED THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE. SO YOU'RE GONNA WIN THE KENNY, THE JET SMITH SPEED AWARD. WELL DONE GWEN. GW COULDN'T MAKE IT TONIGHT, BUT THOSE OF YOU IN KNOW GWEN, SHE'S IN SIXTH GRADE. SHE IS RELENTLESS ON THE OFFENSIVE BOARDS. HAD MORE PUT BACK POINTS. I GUARANTEE THAT ANYBODY, UH, IN THE LEAGUE THIS YEAR. SO SHE IS GOING TO WIN THE MOSES MALONE [01:25:01] RELENTLESS AWARD. SO GOOD JOB, GW. THEN WE HAVE ATEL RIGHT HERE. ATEL, SHE LOOKS SWEET AND INNOCENT, BUT NOBODY SETS A SCREEN LIKE A TELL ELLE ALSO PLAYS AWESOME DEFENSE AND YOUR SHOOTING REALLY CAME ON TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEASON. SO GREAT JOB ATEL TELL'S GONNA WIN THE CARL MALONE DO THE DIRTY THINGS AWARD WELL DONE. AND WE HAVE MALO MALO DOWN AT THE END THERE. MALO IS A DIFFERENCE MAKER IN THE MIDDLE. BLOCKING SHOTS, GETTING REBOUNDS, SCORING POINTS. MALO MALU, YOU WIN THE DICK KIMBE MUTOMBO DIFFERENCE MAKER AWARD. GOOD JOB. AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, LEO, WHERE'S LEO? FEROCIOUS DEFENDER. I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY PLAY DEFENSE LIKE YOU. MELINI, GREAT DEFENSE, GREAT BALL HANDLING, GREAT SHOOTING. YOU WIN THE GLOVE. GARY PEYTON AWARD TONIGHT. AND FINALLY WE HAVE ALEX. NOW WE HAVE A LOT OF, OF STRONG PLAYERS WITH A LOT OF HEART. BUT AFTER MOST GAMES, MOST PLAYERS, THEY GO HOME, THEY GO TO A FRIEND'S HOUSE OR THEY GO TO ANOTHER ACTIVITY AFTER OUR PLAYOFF, OUR LAST PLAYOFF GAME, UM, WHERE SHE REFUSED TO COME OUT OF THE GAME, ALEX WENT STRAIGHT TO THE HOSPITAL. . SO NOBODY IS TOUGHER THAN ALEX OUT HERE. ALEX, YOU WIN THE WEST ON SALE. TOUGHEST PLAYER AWARD. SO GREAT JOB ALEX. AND SHE ALWAYS COVERED THE TALLEST PLAYER ON THE OTHER TEAM. SO ONCE AGAIN, GIRLS, PARENTS AND JEREMY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT WAS A WONDERFUL YEAR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THE LIGHTNING HOOPERS. AND NOW LET'S INVITE UP THE FLA. LET'S TAKE A PICTURE. AND WE'RE, WHILE WE'RE TAKING OUR PICTURE, WE'RE GONNA INVITE UP THE VERA, FLAMING HOT CHEETAHS. ALSO, WE, WE BY, BY FAR HAD THE BEST, UH, THE BEST TEAM NAMES IN THE GIRLS FIVE SIX DIVISION. AND NOW PUT A FLAVORING HOT. HELLO. HELLO GUYS. THESE ARE LITTLE REWARDS FOR HERE. SO WE CLAIMING HOT CHEETAHS. THIS WAS MY FIRST YEAR COACHING. SECOND ASSISTANT COACH WAS LAST YEAR, BUT I TOOK OVER THESE GIRLS AND WATCHING THEM GROW FROM THE BEGINNING TO, WE MADE IT TO THE FINAL. LIKE I TOLD YOU, WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT RIGHT, HAD LITTLE ATTITUDES, BUT WE ARE, WE ARE HERE. WE GOT A NICE TROPHY, THEN WE MADE IT. I'M VERY PROUD OF EVERY, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM FROM WHERE THEY COME FROM. ROXY, ARIANNA, THERE YOU GO. FROM WHERE WE STARTED. SO SAY HERE NOW. SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EVERYTHING I CAN TELL YOU ROXY BRINGS EVERY GAME ATTITUDE. THAT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT ATTITUDE IS ALL YOU GIRL. AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT TO THE COURT. GENEVIEVE, I CALL HER A LITTLE, WHAT IS IT? UM, FLY LIKE A BUTTERFLY THING, LIKE A BEAT. BECAUSE WHY? BECAUSE HER DEFENSE IS ON POINT. AS SOON AS SHE STARTS FLAPPING HER WINGS OUT THERE, NO ONE'S GETTING BY. OKAY, AND DIANA, I KNOW WE MISSED YOU A LOT, BUT EVERY SINGLE GAME THAT YOU SHOWED UP, YOU SHOWED UP CONQUERED. AND THANK YOU FOR THAT 'CAUSE WE REALLY NEEDED THAT TOO. AND FROM ARIANA, FROM SEEING YOU FROM STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING, LEARNING HOW TO DRIBBLE, TO LET THE GET INTO REBOUNDS AND PIVOTING, GOING THROUGH YOUR THING, I'M VERY PROUD OF YOU AND OBVIOUSLY GOOD. YES, YES. GIANNA OBVIOUSLY MY PRINCESS. SHE COMES EVERY SINGLE TIME. THAT'S MY, MY ASSISTANT OBVIOUSLY THERE. BUT GIVING IT 110% AND OBVIOUSLY HELPING ME OUT WITH THE OTHER GIRLS. OBVIOUSLY THE ONLY FIFTH GRADER AMONGST ALL THE OTHER GIRLS HERE. EVERYBODY ELSE IS SIXTH GRADE. BUT I'M VERY PROUD OF YOU GUYS. VERY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALRIGHT. AMAZING. THE LIGHTNING HOOPER, UH, THE, UH, SORRY, THE FLAMING HOT CHEETAHS. EVERYBODY FLAMING HOT CHEETAHS. AND NOW LET'S INVITE UP THE FIVE SIX GIRLS CHAMPION HEN AND RISLEY. [01:30:04] THANK YOU ALL FOR STILL BEING HERE. UM, BEFORE WE HONOR THIS AWESOME TEAM RIGHT HERE, I WANNA GIVE A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT. THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS, UH, ESPECIALLY THE GRIZZLER PARENTS. YOU GUYS WERE AMAZING. YOU BROUGHT ENERGY, POSITIVITY, UH, AND YOU REALLY GOT THIS TEAM LIFTED AT THE TIMES THAT WE NEEDED THE MOST. UM, I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR THREE YEARS, ALONG WITH KAREN AND SANDRA, AND BY FAR THE BEST OFFICIATING, UH, THAT WE'VE SEEN TO DATE FOR ME ANYWAYS, UH, SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR THAT. UM, QUICK SHOUT OUT TO ERICA SEN, ALSO ONE OF OUR PARENTS, BUT SHE DOES A LOT OF, UH, YOU KNOW, BEHIND THE SCENES STUFF AND REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF YOU AND, UH, LISA O'REILLY, YOU'RE A ROCKSTAR. APPRECIATE YOU JERRY. UH, WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THIS LEAGUE, I FEEL LIKE I CAN SPEAK, YOU KNOW, FOR EVERYONE HERE. UH, AND SAY THAT YOU'VE JUST TAKEN IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL. UH, AND WE'RE ALL JUST SUPER GRATEFUL FOR THAT. IT'S, UH, TO SEE WHERE IT'S BEEN AND WHERE IT'S GOING IS JUST REALLY AN AWESOME THING. SO YOU GUYS ARE LUCKY TO HAVE SUCH AN AWESOME PERSON IN THE COMMUNITY TO GIVE BACK TO THIS. SO I'LL JUMP RIGHT IN AND, UH, START WITH ONE OF OUR TWO SIXTH GRADERS. I'M GONNA GO WITH AVA. UH, IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON, AVA WAS ASKED TO DO A LOT 'CAUSE UH, AYA WASN'T THERE DURING GAMES AS MUCH AS WE, YOU KNOW, CONFUSED HER. SO AVA WAS DEFINITELY ASKED TO DO A TON AND SHE NOT ONLY STEPPED UP TO THE PLAY, SHE HIT A HOME RUN AND SHE GOT REBOUNDS, MADE SHOTS AND JUST MADE SOME REAL CLUTCH SHOTS IN THAT CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. SO THAT WAS REALLY COOL TO SEE. UM, I'M GONNA GO JULIA, UH, WHOEVER GETS TO COACH YOU NEXT YEAR, I'M JEALOUS OF BECAUSE YOU ARE AN AWESOME PLAYER TO HAVE ON THE TEAM. UH, YOU TAKE WHATEVER, UH, A COACH TELLS YOU AND YOU APPLY IT IMMEDIATELY. AND NOT ALL PLAYERS CAN DO THAT. SO YOU SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF YOUR SEASON. UH, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST FOR ME ANYWAYS, IS MY DAUGHTER MILA. MILA, YOU ROCKED OUT THIS HERE AND DID SO MANY THINGS REALLY GOOD AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE WAY THAT YOU PLAYED. I'M PROUD OF YOUR LEADERSHIP AND JUST PROUD OF THE WAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TAKING THIS GAME AND RUNNING WITH IT AND HAVING FUN WITH IT. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. YOU GOT BROUGHT SO LUCK. OUR LUCK CHARM RIGHT HERE AND OUR MASCOT, LUCIA. ALRIGHT, I'M GONNA TAKE NOMI. ALRIGHT, NOMI, ONE OF OUR TWO SIXTH GRADERS SHOWING A LOT OF LEADERSHIP AND JUST THE MOST VERSATILE PLAYER JUST GOING DEFENSE OFFENSE, COULD DO IT ALL. SHOOT, DRIBBLE. SHE GOT ALL OF IT AND IT WAS A REAL PLEASURE TO COACH YOU. AND THEN OVER AT THE END THERE, WE GOT BELLA. SHE IS FIERCE, FIERCE, FIERCE. BELLA NEVER LET SIDES, YOU KNOW, FOOL YOU. SHE WILL GO AFTER THAT BALL AND GET IT LIKE NOBODY ELSE. SO THANK YOU BELLA, YOU ARE AMAZING OUT THERE. I WAS ALSO SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT AVA AND I'M JUST GONNA DO A LITTLE QUICK ONE THERE, UM, BECAUSE THIS IS JUST ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS OF COACHING AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES IS JUST WHEN SOMEBODY COMES TO THE GAME WHO'S NEVER PLAYED BEFORE, WHO MAY HAVE EVEN BEEN FORCED TO PLAY, UM, AND WHO TURNS OUT TO LOVE IT. AND SO I'M REALLY GLAD YOU LOVE THE GAME AND THAT, AND I, YOU KNOW, PAT SAID THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A FEW YEARS AND WE HAVE, AND JUST SEEING SOME OF OUR PLAYERS FROM EARLIER YEARS AND IT JUST FILLS MY HEART TO SEE THEM HERE AND TO BE PLAYING IN BASKETBALL STILL. SO THANK YOU. OKAY, I'LL FINISH THIS OUT. UM, PARKER, THE DENNIS RODMAN OF THIS LEAGUE. SHE'S A BEAST ON THE REBOUNDS. SHE ALSO HAS, UH, FUNNILY ENOUGH, THE BEST EYE ROLL OF THIS WHOLE PROGRAM. , YOU ASKED TO DO SOMETHING TO PLAY, UM, DEL PACO. I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GET YOUR HEAD. IT'S BEAUTIFUL TO WATCH MUSIC. UM, FAMOUS MOST OF THE GAMES THIS YEAR, BUT SHE SHOWED UP TO EVERY SINGLE PRACTICE AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF HER FOR SHOWING GRIT, GETTING THROUGH IT, AND, UH, DEFINITELY SHOWING UP FOR HER PLAYOFFS. THANK YOU, MARLOW. YOU TELL MARLOW PUTTING IN THE WORK. SHE, SHE, SHE STARTED OFF THE SEASON A LITTLE SLOW AND THEN LOCKED IN HER SHOT AND IT JUST GOT BETTER AND BETTER ALL THROUGH THE YEAR. YEAH. MARLOW, THANK YOU SO MUCH. CONGRATULATIONS [01:35:01] AGAIN TO THE WRESTLERS FIVE SIX GIRLS CHAMPION. AND WHILE WE'RE TAKING A PICTURE OF THE CHAMPION FIVE SIX GIRLS GRIZZLER, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE SEVEN EIGHT DIVISION. AND WE'RE GONNA START WITH THE BOYS WITH THE HIGHLAND WOLVES. HIGHLAND WOLVES, HONEY. AND I WAS JUST REMINDED, UH, BY SOMEONE WHO BROUGHT SOME UNIFORMS, UH, WHETHER YOU BRING THEM TONIGHT OR, UH, YOU CAN DROP 'EM OFF AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER. WE WILL TAKE YOUR UNIFORMS FROM THIS YEAR SO THAT WE CAN RECYCLE THEM FOR NEXT YEAR. AND YOU CAN DO THAT, UH, ANYTIME DURING THE DAY AT THE JAMES HARMON COMMUNITY CENTER ON MAIN STREET TO THE RECREATION DEPARTMENT. SO AS WE HAVE WOLVES, LET'S GO, LET'S GO. WOLVES, COME ON DOWN, LET'S GO. WE'RE GONNA FINISH UP THE AWARDS TONIGHT AT UNCLE S UH, ONCE THE GYM CLOSES ON THIS. SO WE'RE AHEAD, WALK OVER THERE AS . UH, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I WOULD LIKE TO HAND OVER TO, UH, ERIC HIGHLAND TO TALK ABOUT THE AWARDS. THANK YOU. WE'LL KEEP IT BRIEF AND, UH, GET EVERYBODY OUT. UM, I THINK THE THING I SAID THE MOST THIS YEAR IS THAT, UH, WE'RE TAKING GOOD SHOTS AND THEY WILL EVENTUALLY GO IN AND I STILL BELIEVE THAT, UM, I AM GONNA ECHO PAST THOUGHTS, UH, QUICKLY, UH, THAT, UM, HAVING BEEN WITH THE PROGRAM FOR A WHILE, JUST SEEING ITS EVOLUTION, JEREMY, THANK YOU. UH, AND EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTS JEREMY FOR GETTING US TO THIS POINT, IT'S BEEN, UH, PRETTY IMPRESSIVE TO SEE. UM, WHEREAS PREVIOUS COACHES USED HALL OF FAMERS FOR COMPS, I'M GONNA USE MORE APPROPRIATE COMPS FOR OUR TEAM. UM, KABEER ANDRE KIRILENKO, UH, NAZI, RIGHT, TYRE EVANS. DYLAN IS JARED DUDLEY, UH, KI IS NOT HERE. TINO MOBLEY, UH, JAY TROY PHILLIPS IS DEVIN HARRIS. UH, CLINTON IS JORDAN CLARKSON. AND, UH, CHARLIE, MY SON WHO'S IN BED IS, UH, TRICK OR TREAT. TONY ALLEN. UH, THE WHOLE GOAL OF THIS IS THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO GO ON YOUTUBE AND FALL INTO A YOUTUBE CALL. SO THERE YOU GO. . UH, GUYS, IT WAS A REAL PLEASURE. UM, SERIOUSLY, IT WAS FUN EVEN THOUGH WE LOST A LOT. THANKS. SO, UH, I WOULD THINK THAT AS A, AS A COACH, UM, THE ONLY THING BETTER THAN, UH, BEING ACKNOWLEDGED AND RECEIVING A A HASTINGS DIRECT BASKETBALL SPIRIT AWARD WOULD BE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACCEPT ONE ON BEHALF OF YOUR SON. SO, UH, AS WE GO THROUGH THESE GAMES, SOMETIMES YOU SEE PLAYERS WHO, UH, I DON'T KNOW, THEY'RE JUST, YOU KNOW, REALLY GOOD. OR YOU SEE PLAYERS WHO HAVE GREAT DEFENSE, AND THEN YOU SEE PLAYERS WHO ARE JUST EXTREMELY PASSIONATE, UH, ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING. YOU CAN JUST SEE HOW MUCH THEY CARE. YOU CAN SEE HOW HARD THEY TRY. AND, UH, I KNOW WE GAVE OUT SOME AWARDS, SOME SPIRIT AWARDS LAST YEAR, UH, FOR THAT TYPE OF PLAYER. AND CERTAINLY AS I OFFICIATED THESE, UH, THIS BOY'S SEVEN EIGHT DIVISION THIS YEAR, I REALLY SAW THAT, UH, CHARLES HYLAND REALLY DID A TREMENDOUS JOB JUST GIVING IT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. HE HAD EVERY SINGLE PLAY, BOTH SIDES OF THE COURT. SO IT IS MY PLEASURE TO PRESENT THIS 2025 HASTINGS REC BASKETBALL SPIRIT AWARD TO CHARLES. HE, AND WHILE WE ARE TAKING A PICTURE OF THAT, WE ARE GOING TO INVITE UP THE ALI CHILL GUYS. AND THIS IS ANOTHER CHILL GUYS. COME ON. SO THIS IS ANOTHER TEAM THAT WAS COACHED BY A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, AND, UH, NATHAN HAS JUST BEEN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING THIS YEAR. HE'S BEEN A REFEREE, HE'S BEEN A COACH. UH, HE'S HELPING OUT TONIGHT. HE'S HELPED OUT AT, AT OTHER THINGS AND HAS, IF ANYONE KNOWS NATHAN, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, BASKETBALL IS NOT THE ONLY THING HE HAS GOING ON. HE IS A, HE IS A VERY FULL LIFE, A VERY FULL PLATE, UH, A VERY BUSY SCHEDULE, AND HE STILL TAKES TIME OUT TO DO THIS. SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT [01:40:01] OF APPRECIATION FOR NATHAN . THANK YOU. UM, IN TRUE HIGH SCHOOL FASHION, I'M GONNA, I TOTALLY WING THIS SPEECH, BUT, UM, TO START, I'LL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. WELL, TO START, UM, OBVIOUSLY I'M DAVID'S BROTHER, BUT, UH, WE REALIZED THAT THERE WAS LIKE A SHORTAGE OF COACHES FOR A LEAGUE. AND I REMEMBER ASKING DAVE AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, NOT REALLY ASKING. I TOLD DAVE AND I WAS LIKE, OH, I THINK I'M GONNA BE YOUR COACH THIS YEAR. AND I'LL NEVER FORGET, HE LOOKS AT ME AND HE GOES, YOU'RE KIDDING, RIGHT? , HE WAS SO TERRIFIED OF ME BEING HIS COACH, BUT I THINK IT TURNED OUT GREAT PERSONALLY. BUT TECHNOLOGY PEOPLE THAT WERE IN HERE FIRST, UH, JONAH SITES, HE CAN'T BE HERE TONIGHT, BUT HE WAS AMAZING THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SEASON. JUST LIKE, I MEAN, HE WAS JUST ALWAYS BRINGING THE ENERGY UP PRACTICE, ALWAYS GOING CRAZY. SO HE'S AWESOME. JACK FINN COULDN'T COME TO ALL THE GAMES, OBVIOUSLY HE MISSED QUITE A FEW AS WE KNOW, BUT TO THE GAMES, HE WAS THERE. HE WAS JUST, HE WAS AWESOME TO BE AROUND. LIKE, HONESTLY, JUST LIKE I WOULD TELL HIM, GET LOW IN THE PAIN AND JUST GO TO WORK, MAN. AND THAT ALWAYS WORKED. I DON'T THINK THEY LOST THE GAME THAT HE WENT TO. AND UM, ALSO ONE OTHER PERSON THAT IS IN HERE IS BEN'S BROTHER JACOB. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW ONE OF YOU COMES TO SOMETHING AND THE OTHER DOESN'T, LIKE JUST TELL THE OTHER ONES TO BE THERE. I DUNNO HOW THAT WORKS, BUT YEAH, I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS. BUT JACOB, UH, THIS, I MEAN, LIKE, IT'S JUST SO FUNNY. LIKE EVERY TIME HE'S ON THE BENCH, HE'S LIKE, I, THERE'S GONNA BE LIKE, OH, I'M DROPPING 40, OR PLEASE DON'T PUT ME IN FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. AND YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHICH ONE HE'S GONNA SAY. BUT ALWAYS JUST AWESOME TO TALK TO HIM. SO HONESTLY, THE GUYS THAT ARE HERE FIRST SPEAKING OF DROPPING 40, UM, NOT, NOT YOU, JON. TRUE. I'M JUST KIDDING. UH, SPEAKING OF PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY GO DROP 40, I GOTTA ACKNOWLEDGE GIDEON. UM, EVERY TIME THIS GUY, UM, I JUST LIKE, HE, EVERY TIME HE SITS DOWN ON THE BENCH AND HE IS LIKE, AND WE START GOING LIKE, YOU KNOW, THEY START TAKING A LEAD, THE OTHER TEAM'S TAKING A LEAD. HE JUST, HE JUST LOOKS AT ME AND HE GOES, PUT ME IN. I'M GONNA DROP 40. AND HE JUST SAYS IN THE MOST SERIOUS WAY. AND I'M LIKE, THIS IS RED BASKETBALL. YOU'RE NOT DROPPING 40. BUT GIDEON IS JUST SO FUN TO BE AROUND. HE'S SO CONFIDENT WITH THE BALL, HE'S LIKE AMAZING AT JUST LITERALLY ANYTHING. HE CAN DRIVE, HE CAN CHOOSE THREES, HE CAN PLAY HARD DEFENSE. SO GA WAS AWESOME TO BE AROUND YOU, BEN, BEN, YOU JUST GAVE ME SO MANY HEADACHES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SEASON. I CAN'T LIE TO YOU, MAN, BUT IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, YOU WERE ONE OF THE MOST FUN, LIVELY, ENERGETIC PEOPLE I'VE EVER BEEN AROUND. I HAD TO LITERALLY CHASE YOU DOWN EVERY CRACK TO PUT YOUR SHOES ON. YOU WOULD ALWAYS TRY TO PLAY IN THOSE UGGS AND WOULD MAKE ME DRIVE ME CRAZY. BUT IT WAS LIKE JUST TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THE CHARLOTTE HORNETS OR PLAYING BASKETBALL OR DOING WHATEVER. IT WAS AWESOME TO BE AROUND. UM, I HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY BROTHER DAVID, OBVIOUSLY. UM, I WAS OBVIOUSLY THE HARDEST ON HIM AND I THINK HE KNOWS THAT. I MEAN, HE ALWAYS GOT MAD AT ME FOR GETTING MAD AT HIM DURING GAMES AND PRACTICES OR WHATEVER, . BUT ALL JOKES ASIDE, DAVID'S LIKE MY CAPTAIN ON THE COURT, HE ALWAYS HELD ME OUT WITH, YOU KNOW, WHETHER WE'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TOGETHER AND ORGANIZE A PRACTICE OR JUST HELPING ME KEEP EVERYTHING IN CHECK, KEEP A COOL HEAD. AND HE WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR ME. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, DAVID. AND OF COURSE JONAH, UM, WOW, WHAT AN EXPERIENCE WE'VE HAD THIS ENTIRE SEASON. JONAH KNOWS, JUST JONAH, SPEAKING OF HIS ABILITY ON THE COURT, I MEAN, JONAH IS PROBABLY THE MOST INSANE EIGHTH GRADER I'VE SEEN PLAY. IF YOU WERE LIKE SIX FOOT FIVE, YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO THE NBA I'M ON BEING HONEST. BUT, UM, JONAH, I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW. YOU DROP, I THINK LIKE ONE GAME, YOU GOT 36 AND I'M LIKE, I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT'S POSSIBLE, BUT YOU'RE JUST, YOU'RE CRAZY PLAYER ON THE COURT. BUT YOU'RE EVEN JUST MORE INTERESTING AT PRACTICE, I WOULD SAY. WHETHER YOU'RE JUST, I, YEAH, BEN WAS A HEADACHE. YOU'RE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW. JUST ENTIRE FEVER. I DON'T KNOW. IT'S WORSE THAN IT, BUT YOU WERE TRULY CRAZY, BUT IN A GOOD WAY AND YOU MADE THIS SEASON REALLY FUN. SO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH GUYS. UM, THANK YOU AGAIN. AND WE'LL TAKE A PICTURE OF THAT TEAM AND WE WILL INVITE UP THE CHAMPION OF THE SO EIGHT BOYS DIVISION, THE CHEF LIONS. SORRY, I, HI EVERYBODY. UM, JUST WANNA SAY, MY NAME IS JASON SCH, THIS IS MY FIRST SEASON COACHING IN THIS LEAGUE. UM, AND I HAD [01:45:01] AN AWESOME, AWESOME TIME GETTING TO KNOW ALL THE BOYS HERE, THE PLAYERS ON THE OTHER TEAM, AND A LOT OF THE PARENTS HERE. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY, UM, THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH FOR GIVING THE COACHES AND THE PLAYERS, UM, SUCH A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY AND A WONDERFUL SEASON. UM, IT WAS REALLY FUN, A COUPLE OF MONTHS WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO JEREMY, UH, AND OBVIOUSLY THE REFS WHO, UH, ARE THE ONES WHO MAKE IT HAPPEN. AND WE'RE HERE EACH SATURDAY MAKING SURE THAT THERE WAS A CHORD AND A, AND A GAME TO PLAY, UM, AND SOME FUN TO BE HAD. SO TO OUR CHAMPIONS, THE SEVENTH, EIGHTH GRADE BOYS LIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP OR NOT, I THINK THAT WHEN YOU PLAY, UM, YOU KNOW, ANY SPORT OR WORK ON ANY PROJECT TOGETHER OVER THE COURSE OF THREE OR FOUR MONTHS, YOU LEARN A LOT ABOUT EACH OTHER. YOU LEARN A LOT ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HOW YOU'RE GONNA RESPOND WHEN YOU'RE LOSING, AND HOW YOU'RE GOING TO, HOW YOU'RE GOING TO ACT AND RESPECT YOUR OPPONENTS WHEN YOU'RE WINNING A GAME. UM, AND REGARDLESS OF THE RESULT, I THINK THAT THE, UH, THE EFFORT AND THE SPORTSMANSHIP SHOWN BY THESE GUYS ALL SEASON WAS TRULY SPECIAL. SO I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THAT. UM, I'LL JUST GO DOWN THE LINE HERE, MILO. UM, IT WAS AWESOME TO SEE YOUR GUARD SKILLS ON DISPLAY ALL SEASON, YOUR SPEED AND YOUR FINISHING ABILITY AT THE BASKET AS WELL AS YOUR FOOTWORK, LIKE ON THAT CRAZY EURO STEP IN ONE, HAVING THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. JUST REALLY FUN TO COACH YOU AND REALLY FUN TO WATCH YOU PLAY. SO GREAT JOB. ALRIGHT, SEBASTIAN, SEBASTIAN, I MET YOU ON THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON. I THINK THAT YOU CAME IN A LITTLE BIT LATE TO THE LEAGUE AND YOU WEREN'T AT THE FIRST PRACTICE, BUT TO SEE YOU IMPROVE THE WAY YOU DID FROM THE START TO THE END OF THE SEASON ON BOTH ENDS OF THE COURT WAS REALLY AMAZING TO SEE. YOU DID AN AWESOME JOB LOCKING DOWN THE WING IN THE CORNER OF OUR TWO THREE DEFENSE. YOU WERE CONSTANTLY CRASHING THE GLASS AND TAPPING THE BALL OUT ON OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS. AND, UM, GAINING AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO IMPACT THE GAME, WHETHER YOU'RE SCORING OR NOT, WAS A HUGE SIGN OF MATURITY FROM YOU THAT YOU SHOWED ALL SEASON. AND TO SEE THE EFFORT AND THE ENERGY THAT YOU, UM, THAT YOU GAVE TO THE TEAM AND TO THE COURT, EVERY GAME AND EVERY PRACTICE WAS A REALLY APPRECIATED BY YOUR TEAMMATES. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, DUDE. ALRIGHT, SOLELY, THIS WAS YOUR FIRST SEASON PLAYING BASKETBALL, RIGHT? UM, TO SEE, TO SEE YOU BANK IN YOUR, UH, YOUR DEEP THREE POINT SHOTS AND SEE YOU FLYING AROUND ON DEFENSE. UM, THE IMPACT THAT YOU HAD ON BOTH ENDS OF THE FLOOR WAS, UH, REALLY IMPORTANT TO OUR TEAM'S SUCCESS THIS SEASON. I THINK THAT EV YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WHEN YOU'RE WATCHING A GAME OF BASKETBALL, THERE'S CERTAIN GUYS THAT STAND OUT THAT YOU JUST FEEL THEIR IMPACT AND YOU JUST SEE 'EM LIKE POPPING OFF THE TELEVISION SCREEN. AND YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE TYPES OF PLAYERS. YOU'VE GOT LONG ARMS, YOU'RE SUPER ATHLETIC, YOU'RE RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE COURT, FULL SPEED, UM, STOPPING ON A DIME. AND, UH, IT WAS REALLY GREAT TO COACH YOU THIS SEASON AND I HOPE THAT YOU PLAY BASKETBALL FOR ANOTHER YEAR AND KEEP ON PLAYING. SPENCER, YOU WERE ASKED TO HANDLE A LOT OF RESPONSIBILITY ON BOTH ENDS OF THE FLOOR THIS SEASON. YOU ARE CONSTANTLY, UM, BEING PHYSICAL AND AGGRESSIVE, EVEN AGAINST PLAYERS WHO ARE BIGGER THAN YOU. AND THE WAY YOU KNOW HOW TO USE YOUR BODY WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING TO THE BASKET, PROTECTING THE BALL. YOU CAN FINISH WITH BOTH HANDS, WHICH IS EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE AND EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR ANY GUARD TO BE ABLE TO DO. UM, HITTING YOUR CORNER JUMP SHOTS AND REALLY, UH, PRESSURING BALL HANDLERS ON THE DEFENSE BEND WAS, UH, LIKE I SAID, SUPER IMPORTANT TO OUR TEAM SUCCESS. AND, UM, EVERY TIME YOU GO OUT THERE ON THE FLOOR, I KNOW THAT YOU'RE GIVING A HUNDRED PERCENT AND YOUR COACHES KNOW THAT YOU'RE GIVING A HUNDRED PERCENT AND YOUR TEAMMATES, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE INSPIRED BY YOUR EFFORT OUT THERE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR AN AWESOME SEASON. YOU PLAY GREAT THIS YEAR. WOO. ALRIGHT, JEREMY. JEREMY, JEREMY'S A BUCKET GETTER. UM, HE, HE KNOWS THAT WHEN, WHEN HE GETS THE BALL, IT'S ON HIM TO LET THAT THING FLY. UM, HE, UH, I THINK THAT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN OUR TEAM, ONE OF OUR TEAM LEADERS IN THREE POINT SHOTS THIS SEASON. JEREMY WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, UM, REBOUNDING OFFENSIVELY AND DEFENSIVELY CLOSING POSSESSIONS OUT AS ONE OF OUR, UH, AS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST PLAYERS ON THE FLOOR. UM, AND YOU PROVIDED AN EXTRA SCORING BOOST WHENEVER WE NEEDED IT. BEING ABLE TO DRIVE TO THE BASKET, UM, ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FLOOR WHILE THERE'S GUYS ATTACKING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FLOOR, IS, UH, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT OFFENSIVE VERSATILITY TO HAVE. SO, JEREMY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SCORING BUCKETS AND, UH, REBOUNDING YOUR BUTT OFF THIS SEASON. THANK [01:50:06] RONAN. UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A, THERE'S A LOT TO SAY ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AS THE TYPE OF PLAYER AND TYPE OF PERSON YOU ARE. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING OUT ON THE FLOOR, WHETHER YOU'RE PLAYING GUARD AND BRINGING THE BALL UP, DEALING WITH DEFENSIVE PRESSURE, YOU'RE DRIVING TO THE BASKET, DEALING WITH GETTING HACKED AT, YOU KNOW, TAKING FOULS TO THE BODY AND TAKING SLAPS TO THE ARM WHILE YOU'RE FINISHING YOUR CONTACT. UM, THOSE ARE ALL GREAT THINGS. YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY VERY SKILLED, BUT THE BIGGEST THING IS YOUR, UH, RELENTLESS YOUR RELENTLESSNESS, UM, IN THE PURSUIT OF IMPROVING AND TRYING TO BE THE BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER THAT YOU ARE. UM, SO KEEP THAT ATTITUDE, KEEP WORKING HARD, AND, UH, YOU'LL SEE WHERE YOUR SKILLS AND YOUR HARD WORK TAKES YOU. IT WAS AWESOME COACHING YOU ALL THIS SEASON. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. AS YOU CAN TELL, LIKE, AS YOU CAN TELL, JASON DOESN'T REALLY KNOW MUCH ABOUT BASKETBALL . SO, UM, BUT WE, WE PUT UP WITH ANYWAY. BUT NO, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND I'LL JUST POINT OUT, YOU KNOW, JASON IS VOLUNTEERED TO COACH HIS TEAM. JASON'S NOT FROM HASTINGS, YOU KNOW, HE DOESN'T KNOW ANYBODY HERE. HE JUST MET ME AND I TOLD HIM ABOUT THIS LEAGUE. HE SAID, OH, I'D LOVE TO COACH. I'M LIKE, NO, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU'RE JUST GONNA LIKE VOLUNTEER. LIKE THERE'S NOTHING IN, HE SAID, NO, NO, I WANNA DO IT. AND HE'S, YOU KNOW, AS YOU CAN TELL, HE KNOWS A LOT ABOUT WHAT HE'S DOING AND YOU CAN SEE. SO THANK YOU. AND WHILE WE'RE TAKING A PICTURE OF THE LIONS, UH, WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA CLOSE THIS SECTION HERE. SO IF I COULD ASK EVERYONE IN THIS SECTION TO MOVE INTO THE CENTER, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 'CAUSE WE'RE JUST GONNA HAVE TO CLOSE THIS OFF. WE HAVE TO START THE CLEAN UP THE, UH, AND THE CLEANUP CREW NEEDS TO COME IN HERE, SO WE'RE JUST GONNA GET A LITTLE TIGHTER HERE. SO, UH, NOW THAT WE'RE ONTO THE, UH, GIRLS SEVEN EIGHT DIVISION, UH, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF AWARDS THAT I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN OUT PROBABLY EARLIER IN THE EVENING, UH, BUT STILL VERY HAPPY TO GIVE THEM OUT NOW. UH, AND AS WE'VE SAID MANY, MANY TIMES TONIGHT, UH, THIS PROGRAM DOESN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT THE HARD WORK OF A LOT OF PEOPLE, UH, DOING A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, UH, COORDINATING UNIFORMS, COORDINATING OUR REFEREES, UH, RECRUITMENT, UM, HELPING TO MATCH COACHES WITH TEAMS. AND THERE'S JUST SO MUCH THAT GOES ON, UH, THE HARD WORK OF SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. AND, UH, WHEN WE GIVE OUT OUR SPIRIT AWARDS, RIGHT, IT'S A SPIRIT AWARD. SO IT'S ABOUT DOING THAT HARD WORK, BUT DOING IT WITH GREAT SPIRIT AND GREAT ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM AND, UH, THERE'S NO ONE HERE, UH, WHO BRINGS MORE ENERGY, ENTHUSIASM, AND POSITIVITY AND RESULTS, UH, THAN ERICA SEN. SO I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE ERICA. SO IT'S, I GUESS IT WAS TWO YEARS AGO, THERE WASN'T GOING TO BE, THERE WASN'T GONNA BE A, UH, I GUESS IT WAS A FIVE SIX GIRLS DIVISION, UH, BUT THEN ERICA DECIDED THERE WAS GONNA BE A FIVE SIX GIRLS DIVISION AND SHE CREATED THAT, UH, BY HERSELF AND THAT GROUP OF KIDS. AND YOU'RE HERE TONIGHT, YOU KNOW, HAVE HAD TREMENDOUS, UH, EXPERIENCES IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. SO THANKS AGAIN TO ERICA. AND THIS YEAR, SO LAST YEAR WE HAD ABOUT, UM, A HUNDRED AND SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 140 AND 150 PLAYERS. UH, THIS YEAR WE HAD SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 230 AND 240 PLAYERS. AND, UH, YEAH, SO IN TERMS OF ADMINISTERING THAT AND DOING ALL THE THINGS WE NEED TO DO TO HAVE THESE GAMES, UH, THERE'S NO ON EARTH THAT I COULD HAVE PERSONALLY HANDLED. UM, COORDINATING, UH, OUR REFEREE SCHEDULE, RECRUITING AND COORDINATING OUR REFEREES, MAKING SURE THAT THEY SHOW UP, UH, MAKING SURE THAT THEY, UH, ARE HANDLING THEIR SCHEDULES, MAKING SURE THEY'RE HANDLING THEIR PAPERWORK, UH, AND ALL OF THAT STUFF. AND SO THIS YEAR DEFINITELY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HAPPEN WITHOUT THE TREMENDOUS SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS, SPIRIT AND ENERGY OF GEORGIA LOPEZ. SO WE'RE VERY PROUD TO PRESENT GEORGIA WITH THE HASTENS BASKETBALL [01:55:17] GEORGIA LOPEZ LADIES. AND WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL JUST KNOCK THIS OUT NOW BECAUSE, UH, WHEN SHE COMES UP, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE SHE'S JUST GONNA WANT TO TALK ABOUT, UH, HER TEAM. BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WE, WE TRY TO ACKNOWLEDGE PEOPLE WHO BRING SOMETHING SPECIAL AND, UH, THAT COULD BE DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE. SOME PEOPLE IT'S, IT'S JUST, IT'S ORGANIZATIONAL ENERGY. SOME PEOPLE IT'S THE X'S AND O'S. AND THEN WE HAVE COACHES WHO JUST BRING A LOT OF FORTITUDE AND A LOT OF DEDICATION AND A LOT OF GREAT ENERGY, UH, TO OUR PROGRAM. AND THAT'S WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS. IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A PROGRAM OF, OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL PLAYER, COACH, PARENT, UH, REFEREE, UH, ADMINISTRATOR THAT'S INVOLVED. AND, UH, KNOWING THAT THIS IS THE LAST, PROBABLY THE LAST SEASON THAT SHE'LL BE ABLE TO COACH, UH, I DIDN'T WANT TO LET, UH, CHRISTINE CANDLE OFF GO OUT THE DOOR WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGING HER. SHE GETS A PICTURE TOO. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAD JASON CHEF UP HERE A MOMENT AGO WHO, YOU KNOW, GREW UP PLAYING AND PLAYED IN HIGH SCHOOL AND ALL OF THAT. AND WE HAVE SOME COACHES WHO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE DIDN'T GROW UP PLAYING COMPETITIVE BASKETBALL, BUT OVERCOME THAT JUST BY SHEER DEDICATION. AND CHRISTINE SURLY AN EXAMPLE OF THAT. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH CHRISTINE. AND NOW LET'S START BY BRINGING UP THE REO STEIN. WETZEL RAVENS OF THE SEVEN EIGHTH. ALRIGHT, UH, BLEACHERS FOR THREE HOURS, MAN, MY BUTT IS TIRED, . UM, SO FIRST THANK YOU TO THE, TO THE ORGANIZATION, THE LEAGUE, UH, LEAST TO THE REST AND ESPECIALLY GERMAN FOR RUNNING THE LEAGUE WITH SUCH FOCUS AND RIGOR, ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR WITH THE FMS FLOOD. THERE WAS A REALLY FAST PIVOT THAT NEED TO HAPPEN THIS SEASON TO GET THE COURTS RIGHT AND YOU DID IT IN A MATTER OF DAYS, GERMANY. SO IT WAS REALLY GREAT. IT'S REALLY GREAT TO BE COACHING THIS LEAGUE. UM, AND TO THE GIRLS SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE, THEY GET REALLY BUSY. THE STUDENTS, EVERYONE'S GOT MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES, LONG SCHOOL DAYS, SO REALLY APPRECIATE Y'ALL SHOWING UP THE PRACTICE WITH A LOT OF ENERGY. GREAT. HAVE A LOT OF FUN AND REALLY SHOWING UP THE GAMES IS A LOT OF FOCUS. THIS IS REALLY GREAT COACHING YOU GUYS TO SEE. YEAH, THANK YOU EVERYONE. SO ALSO PARENTS JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING THERE IN THE BASEMENT OF MIDDLE SCHOOL ALL THE WAY OVER, UM, AT THE GRAHAM SCHOOL, GETTING YOUR KIDS THERE. WE HAD A LOT OF SUBSTITUTES, COACHES, THANKS SO MUCH FOR FILLING IN. I THINK WE HAD AT LEAST HALF OUR GAMES WHERE WE HAD HALF OF ANOTHER TEAM ON OUR TEAM. UM, SO IT WAS A LOT OF FUN. ALRIGHT, ALO, I'VE BEEN COACHING, UH, IN THIS, IN THIS LEAGUE AND ANOTHER LEAGUE FOR EIGHT OR NINE YEARS. I DO IT FOR YOU AND FOR MIA AND I CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON YOU. YOU BRING THE BALL UP, YOU PLAY DEFENSE, YOU PLAY ALL OVER THE COURT. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU GET, YOU OVERCOME. I THINK ALL OF THESE EIGHTH AND NINTH GRADE, OR SORRY, ALL THESE SEVENTH TO EIGHTH GRADERS HAVE, YOU KNOW, THESE MIDDLE SCHOOL FEARS AND YOU GET OVER IT AND YOU TRY YOUR BEST. AND IT'S BEEN AWESOME TO WATCH YOU BLOSSOM. SO THANK YOU. UH, YOU ARE, I THINK YOU ARE A STAR IN THE MAKING. YOU HAVE TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL. IT'S A LOT OF FUN TO WATCH YOU OUT THERE PLAYING. UH, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING. UM, MAKE YOUR TEAMMATES BETTER AND THAT WILL MAKE YOU BETTER. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, KEEP WORKING. WATCH BASKETBALL, YOU'LL BE TREMENDOUS. JUST KEEP GOING FOR IT. SO I'M TO WATCH, YOU ARE THE FIRST ONE DOWN THE COURT. YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE BALL. YOU ARE AGGRESSIVE ON DEFENSE. SOMEHOW YOU DON'T FOUL OUT, WHICH I LOVE ABOUT YOU. UM, 'CAUSE WE HAVE SOME OF OUR PLAYERS, UH, WHO HAVE DONE THAT A FEW TIMES, UM, TENACIOUS IN EVERY WAY. UH, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE JUST A PLEASURE COACH. UM, AT EVERY PRACTICE, IN EVERY GAME, YOU ARE JUST FULL OF ENERGY AND SPIRIT. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT, UH, I LOVE TO HAVE ON MY TEAM. THANK YOU MADDIE. SO MADDIE, MADDIE'S ONE OF THE PLAYERS WHO SHOWED UP ON THE FIRST DAY OF PRACTICE. AND I WAS LIKE, WE GOTTA LEARN HOW TO BOX OUT. AND BOX OUT MEANS LIKE, YOU KNOW, USING YOUR BUTT, YOU GOTTA PUSH THE OTHER PLAY OUTTA THE WAY [02:00:01] . AND SHE LOOKS AT ME AND SHE'S JUST AS EMBARRASSED AS SHE IS RIGHT NOW. AND YET, AS THE SEASON WENT ON, NOT ONLY DID SHE BOX OUT, NOT ONLY DID SHE HUSTLE DOWN THE FLOOR, BUT SHE STARTED TO STEAL THE BALL. SHE STARTED TO SHOOT THE BALL AND SHE PLAYED REALLY INCREDIBLY. I, I'M SORRY I MISSED THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. I HEARD A LOT OF HIGHLIGHTS. I HEARD YOU DID REALLY WELL AND UM, I WAS REALLY PROUD OF YOU FOR, FOR COMING AROUND AND FOR TRYING YOUR BEST AND DOING REALLY WELL. THANK YOU. YEAH, MAD MAY, MAY IS NOT HERE. UM, MAY MAE HAS JUST A TREMENDOUS SPIRIT TO HER. I WISH I COULD LIKE BOTTLE HER PRECOCIOUSLY AND, AND JUST, YOU KNOW, THROW IT OUT THERE. SHE'S ONE OF THOSE PLAYERS WHO, WHO YOU COULD JUST TELL WHEN SHE IS MAD AND SHE WANTS TO BEAT THE OTHER TEAM AND SHE MAKES EVERYONE ON THIS TEAM GET A LITTLE MORE ANGRY AND TRY A LITTLE HARDER. AND, YOU KNOW, SHE'S BEEN JUST A LOT OF FUN TO HAVE, UM, ON THE COURT THIS YEAR. UM, MARGO, SO I, WE HAD TO COMPETE. IF WE HAD TO COMPETE A LITTLE BIT WITH MAR WITH, UH, SKIING, DOWNHILL SKIING, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I WISH, I WISH THAT, UH, WE HAD YOU ON THE COURT 'CAUSE WHEN YOU WERE THERE, YOU BROUGHT LIKE A SERENITY TO THE TEAM, LIKE A CALMNESS TO IT. AND YOU WERE SOMEONE WHO LIKE, I THINK EVERYONE JUST FELT BETTER ON THE COURT WHEN YOU WERE THERE AND THEY FELT LIKE THEY COULD ACTUALLY PLAY AND BE THEMSELVES, WHICH IS REALLY TOUGH TO DO AGAIN IN SEVENTH AND UH, EIGHTH GRADE. SO THANK YOU. MARGO MARICE IS AWESOME. I HERE BUT, UM, SAT'S DAUGHTER MARICE IS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO'S LIKE CONSTANTLY WATCHING LIKE EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON AROUND HER AND SHE'S SORT OF HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH TWO PEOPLE AND THEN I'M LIKE, MARIL, WHAT DID I JUST SAY? AND SHE RECITES EVERYTHING BACK TO ME OF WHAT I JUST SAID AND WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING, WHERE EVERYONE SHOULD BE STANDING AND WHERE THEY SHOULD BE SCREENING. AND SHE'S JUST A TREMENDOUS PLAYER TO HAVE ON THE COURT. AND, YOU KNOW, I MISS HER TONIGHT, BUT SHE'S A LOT OF FUN TO HAVE MARCI WITH US. UM, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, ALRIGHT, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE HAVE, WE HAVE REMY WHO IS, WHO BASICALLY BECAME LIKE THE CENTERPIECE OF OUR TEAM THIS YEAR. WHEN WE NEEDED SOMEONE TO JUMP IN THE CENTER, SHE WOULD JUMP UP AND SAY, I WOULD DO IT WHEN WE NEEDED SOMEONE TO PLAY DOWN LOW, SHE WOULD DO IT. WHEN WE NEEDED SOMEONE TO BRING THE BALL UP, SHE WOULD DO IT. AND WE NEEDED SOMEONE TO, TO RUN THE OFFENSE AND SIT IN THE MIDDLE AND SET ALL THE SCREENS. SHE WOULD DO IT. IT'S BEEN JUST AWESOME TO HAVE YOU. I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU, YOU STEPPED UP AND YOU STOOD UP FOR THIS TEAM AND YOU LET OUR CHEER OUT AND YOU MADE US LIKE THE TEAM THAT WE WERE. SO APPRECIATE YOU GUYS. THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU PARENTS. THANK YOU COACHES. SO JUST A QUICK COACHING TIP, INSTEAD OF SAYING, BUT YOU SAY HIPS. GOTTA USE OUR HIPS. YOU GET, YOU GET LESS GIGGLES WHEN YOU SAY HIPS. UH, AS WE TAKE THIS PHOTO, LET'S INVITE UP THE BALLERS, THE TEEING BALLERS. LADIES. HI, I'M SAM. I'M, UH, ASSISTANT COACH HERE WITH MICHELLE. UM, JAY COULDN'T MAKE IT HERE TONIGHT, BUT, UM, AND SOME OF OUR TEAM COULDN'T MAKE IT EITHER, BUT, UM, THE MOST REWARDING THING THIS SEASON WAS WATCHING EVERYONE ON THE TEAM GROW AND IMPROVE THEIR GAME. UH, ADELINE'S NOT HERE, BUT SHE WAS GETTING TO THE LOW POST FOR OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS AND SECOND CHANCE POINTS. MELANIE HAD UNSHAKEABLE DEFENSE STOPPING PLAYS AND FORCING TURNOVERS. KAREN WAS HUSTLING UP BOTH ENDS OF THE COURT, GETTING OPEN AND TAKING SHOTS, FAITH, FAST, BAKE, BRAKE SPEED, SHOOTING BOTH IN THE PAINT AND LONG SHOTS. UM, HUNTER WAS GOING AFTER THE BALL AND FINDING HER TEAMMATES. PHOEBE, EXCELLENT DEFENSE BALL HANDLING, SETTING. OLIVIA, YOUR DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE GAME, YOUR HANDLES, YOU GOT DEFENSE, YOU GOT SHOTS, YOU DRIVE TO THE BASKET. AMAZING. AND EMMY, MY DAUGHTER. UM, JUST AMAZING TO SEE YOU IMPROVE YOUR GAME OVERALL AND, UH, TO SUPPORT YOUR TEAMMATES. AND NOT JUST THE TEAMMATES THAT ARE HERE THERE, BUT ALL THE TEAMMATES THAT WERE YOU WERE PLAYING WITH. I SAW YOU OUT CHEERING FOR THEM AND ENCOURAGING THEM AND THAT WAS REALLY AMAZING TO SEE. SO, AND OF COURSE NONE OF THIS WOULD'VE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT COACH J'S COMMITMENT AND AMAZING TALENT. UM, MICHELLE AND I WERE HAPPY TO HELP WHEREVER WE COULD. UM, AND THANKS OF COURSE TO THE REC COACHES, STAFF PLAYERS, UH, THE PARENTS FOR MAKING IT A GREAT SEASON. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WATCHING YOU ALL CONTINUE TO PLAY THE GAME AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, [02:05:01] HAVE FUN WHILE DOING IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND AS WE TAKE THE PHOTO, WE TAKE THE PHOTO, DON'T FORGET THE PHOTO. AS WE TAKE THE PHOTO, WE WILL INVITE UP THE MULLEN LOPEZ PHANTOMS. ALRIGHT, SO HELLO EVERYONE. UH, I'LL TRY AND KEEP THIS NICE AND BRIEF. SO I WANT TO GET STRAIGHT TO THE SHOUT OUTS. UM, MY FIRST SHOUT OUT IS, UH, THANKING GOD FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY COACHING BECAUSE, UH, THIS RECREATIONAL LEAGUE IS EVERYTHING TO ME PLAYING IT, COACHING IT, WATCHING EVERYONE GROW IN THEIR OWN RIGHT. UM, I WANT TO THANK JEREMY, OF COURSE, FOR DOING EVERYTHING IN HIS WILLPOWER TO KEEP THIS LEAGUE RUNNING. SO HAND HAND FOR THIS. UM, ALL THE PLAYERS AND COACHES, UH, WATCHING EVERYONE GROW, COACHES, PLAYERS, REFEREES. THANK YOU ALL FOR DOING WHAT YOU DO. UM, I ALSO WANNA GIVE A QUICK SHOUT OUT TO IZO AND DANA, WHO ACTUALLY WERE PREVIOUSLY ON THIS TEAM. UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAD TO GIVE UP IZO TO UCLA. THEY SIGNED A EARLY CONTRACT AND GET THE FIRST AND SECOND ROUND DRAFT PICK FOR NEXT YEAR. SO, UH, WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT. BUT, UH, DANA AS WELL, UH, YOU DID PLAY ONE GAME WITH US, SO YOU ARE GETTING A SHADOW FROM YOUR COACH, FROM BOTH OF US AND PLAYERS. UM, THE NEXT THING I'D LIKE TO JUMP INTO HERE IS, UM, THE, THE WORDS OR A SENTENCE ABOUT EACH OF THESE PLAYERS. AND TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, IT'S REALLY HARD TO PICK A VOCABULARY WORD OR A SENTENCE ABOUT EACH OF THESE PLAYERS BECAUSE, UM, THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT AND HARD WORK THAT THEY PUT IN, IT'S JUST DAY IN AND DAY OUT, EVEN THOUGH WE DID NOT HAVE A HAPPY END TO WHAT I THOUGHT WOULD'VE BEEN AN INCREDIBLE SEASON, I MEAN 10 AND OH, THAT, THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN ALL DAY IN EVERY SEASON. SO , UH, OF COURSE FROM MY COACH HERE WHO USED TO COACH ME, UH, I LEARNED A LOT FROM MY COACH AND NOW BEING ABLE TO WORK WITH MY COACH THAT I FEEL LIKE DOUBLE TROUBLE RIGHT THERE. SO LISTEN, BEGINNING OF THE SEASON TO NOW, I'VE SEEN A LOT OF GROWTH FROM EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE PLAYERS, FAMILIAR FACES AND NEW, UM, ESPECIALLY THE SEVENTH GRADERS WHO WILL BE UPCOMING EIGHTH GRADERS I WOULD LOVE TO WORK WITH THIS YEAR AGAIN. SO JUST AN FYI, I'LL NOT BE GOING ANYWHERE ANYTIME SOON, . SO I'LL BE HERE COACHING AGAIN. UM, THE NEXT THING I'D LIKE TO DO IS KIND OF TALK ABOUT OUR SEASON A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH. UM, IT'S ACTUALLY FUNNY IS I WEAR THIS SWEATER, UH, DAN HURLEY, ONE OF THE COACHES FOR THE MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM, HE HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE AND HE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT HIS SEASON AND HOW THEY LOST TO THE FLORIDA GATORS. IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE MARCH MADNESS, UM, HE DESCRIBED HIS SEASON AS LIKE A TIDAL WAVE OF SUCCESS. AND THE WAY THAT I SAW THIS TEAM PLAY, I WOULD DESCRIBE THIS SEASON AS A TIDAL WAVE OF SUCCESS TOO, EVEN THOUGH AGAIN, IT DIDN'T GO OUR WAY. THERE WAS HARD WORK DAY IN AND DAY OUT IN PRACTICE AND IN GAMES. I SAW FIRES BURNING IN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE PLAYERS' HEARTS. AND, UM, I I JUST REALLY COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD. I SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD, BUT REALLY I'M SO PROUD OF YOU ALL. AW. UM, I ALSO WANT TO KIND OF BRING A LIFE LESSON INTO THIS, IF YOU WILL. SO BEAR WITH ME. SO THIS LESSON IS THAT, UH, EVEN THOUGH THINGS CAN KIND OF GO WELL FOR YOU IN THE VERY BEGINNING, SO 10 TO OH, BUT THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, PLAYOFFS CAN ARRIVE AND THE PLAYOFFS IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT ANIMAL. AND, UH, AT THE BLINK OF AN EYE, SOMETHING COULD GO WRONG, SOMETHING COULD GO RIGHT, BUT THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THINGS GO WRONG, DO YOU GET BACK UP OR ARE YOU JUST GONNA MOPE ABOUT IT AND JUST COME UP WITH EXCUSES? AND, UM, I WILL ADMIT HONESTLY, UH, WHEN WE DID SUFFER THAT DEFEAT AGAINST THE LIGHTNING, IT DID HURT. BUT CREDIT TO YOU GUYS FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE PRESS DEFENSE. BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE I'M JUST RAMBLING, BUT, UM, LET ME PASS MY COACH . I JUST WANNA SHOUT OUT, UH, JEREMY, WHO I USED TO COACH AGAINST MANY MOONS AGO WITH MY, WITH OUR BOYS. AND JUST QUICKLY GO DOWN THE LINE, LET'S START WITH THE SEVENTH GRADER GRADERS. ROSA, WHO WAS GREAT. SHE JUST PROGRESSED. SHE DIDN'T PLAY A LOT OF BALL, BUT SHE WAS THERE AT EVERY PRACTICE, EVERY GAME. SHE PLAYED ONE GAME WITH HER HOMIES NOT THERE, SO SHE GAVE IT HER ALL. WE HAD A FOUR ON FOUR WITH HER AND THREE EIGHTH GRADERS. [02:10:02] UH, WE HAVE NAMI OVER THERE WHO IS MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR WHO I SEE SHOOTING HOOPS EVERY DAY IN FRONT OF MY DRIVEWAY. AND AS SOON AS I SAW HER ON THE BOARD, JUST HER AND CREW ARE ALSO FRIENDLY. SO I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GREAT STORY. JUST HAVE THEM ON THE TEAM TOGETHER. POPPY, I KNOW FROM SOFTBALL, POPPY IS JUST FEISTY. UM, I JUST WANNA SAY NAMI TOO. WE HAD A PRACTICE THE NIGHT BEFORE OUR PLAYOFF GAME AND SHE SUNK EVERY SHOT. SHE WAS JUST ON FIRE. WE HAD TO, WE HAD TO KICK HER OUT. SO POPPY WAS JUST SPICY. I I'D KNOWN HER FROM SOFTBALL FOR MANY YEARS AND SHE'S JUST ALWAYS GREAT. AND I KNEW HAVING HER ON THE TEAM WAS A PLUS. DYLAN, WE INHERITED FROM MIDSEASON, BUT SHE PROGRESSED, HAD AN AWESOME LAST GAME. FIVE POINTS, GREAT DEFENSE, A BIG THREE WHEN WE NEEDED IT. UH, AVI CRUZ, YOU TWO WERE, YOU KNOW, GRADE ONE, TWO PUNCH. YOU PLAYED MOD TOGETHER. UM, WE WERE ALWAYS JUST, YOU KNOW, RELIABLE AND OUR TOP SCORES AND YOU KNOW, NEVE ALWAYS JUST BROUGHT THAT FIERCE ENERGY AND, AND LEADERSHIP AND TOUGHNESS THAT OUR TEAM, YOU KNOW, THRIVED ON ALL YEARS. SO JUST HANDS OFF, HANDS UP TO . LET'S TAKE A PHOTO, TAKE A PHOTO OF THE PHANTOMS. WE'RE GOING TO INVITE UP THE SOS LIGHTNINGS LIGHTNING IN A HOUSE. ALRIGHT, UH, SO THE LIGHTNING, UH, THE SEASON HAD A GREAT, WE HAD QUITE A SEASON. UH, WE WERE SHORT PLAYERS ALL SEASON LONG, SO WE PLAYED A LOT OF GAMES, UH, WITH SOME OTHER FOLKS. UM, BEFORE I START, I WANNA SHOUT OUT DYLAN, WHO WAS ON OUR TEAM FOR A WHILE. UH, GREAT TO SEE HOW SHE PROGRESSED. UM, UH, WE ALSO HAD TROUBLE GETTING TO PRACTICE. UH, WE, SCHEDULING WISE, IT TOOK US A WHILE TO GET INTO A CONSISTENT PRACTICE SCHEDULE. UH, SO PARENTS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS GOT US ALL TOGETHER THERE AT THE END. UM, SO EVEN THOUGH, BUT EVEN THOUGH IT TOOK A WHILE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER CONSISTENTLY, UM, UH, WE REALLY DIDN'T WIN ANY GAMES, UH, ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE SEASON UNTIL THE CALENDAR FLIPPED TO MARCH. UH, AND THEN ONCE MARCH HIT, WE STARTED WINNING AND WE WENT ON A SIX GAME WINNING STREAK AND, UH, RODE THAT ALL THE WAY TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, UH, WHICH IS AMAZING. AND I'M SO PROUD TO PLAY. THIS TEAM PLAYED TOGETHER, UH, PLAYED FOR EACH OTHER. THEY WERE ALWAYS ROOTING FOR EACH OTHER. UH, AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT GAVE US OUR SUCCESS THIS SEASON. UM, IT WAS, IT WAS REALLY AN AWESOME EXPERIENCE. UM, AND I WANT TO ALSO THANK ASSISTANT COACH KYLE MOONEY HERE, UH, WHO DID A GREAT JOB OF HELPING ME STAY ORGANIZED. UM, HE ALSO WANTS TO, UH, EXPRESS HIS APOLOGIES TO THE REFEREES FOR HIS ENTHUSIASM ON THE SIDELINES. , THANK YOU GUYS. UH, BUT I WANT TO SHOUT OUT TO OUR TEAM, UH, STARTING WITH KATIE MOODY, DOWN ON THE END, KATIE, KATIE BUCKETS. UH, KATIE HAD AN AMAZING, UH, JUMP SHOT OF THIS, THIS SEASON THAT DEVELOPED THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. UH, AND SHE HIT SOME REALLY BIG SHOTS FOR US DOWN AT THE END OF THE, IN, IN OUR PLAYOFF RUN, WHICH WAS GREAT. UH, BAYLA BAGLEY BAYLA IS ALWAYS READY WITH THE HARD QUESTIONS, UH, LIKE COACH, IS THAT PLAY GOING TO WORK? , UH, BAYLA HAS TONS OF GRIT AND, UH, SHE SETS AN AWESOME SCREEN AND IS A REALLY GREAT REBOUNDER. SO THANK YOU BAYLA. UH, DANA HASTINGS, WHO'S NOT HERE, UH, TONIGHT IS A GREAT HUSTLER, ALWAYS READY TO SCRAP FOR THE BALL, UH, AND GOT SOME CLUTCH REBOUNDS AND BASKETS FOR US DOWN THE STRETCH. UH, L WARNER. SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH TO COACH L. UM, HER USUAL RESPONSE TO ANYTHING I SAID WAS, I GOT YOU COACH . UH, WATCHING L GET OUT ON A FAST BREAK, SCORE, A LAYUP, TONGUE HANGING OUT OF THE MOUTH WAS REALLY, TRULY A THING OF BEAUTY. UM, MY DAUGHTER, CLARA SOS UH, OUR ROCK IN THE PAINT THIS SEASON. UH, GREAT JOB CALLING OUT THE CUTTERS, CALLING OUT THE SCREENERS, AND YOUR JUMP SHOT MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS, ESPECIALLY FROM THE ELBOW YOU CAME, BECAME A THREAT ON OFFENSE. UM, AND FINALLY, SAMMY KUMAR. SAMMY IS IN CASE [02:15:03] KUMAR IS A STONE COLD KILLER WHO CAN TAKE OVER A GAME BY HERSELF, WHICH, UH, WE FOUND OUT IN THE PLAYOFFS IN THE SEMI-FINAL GAME. SHE DID A GREAT JOB. UH, BUT THE BEST THING AS A COACH ABOUT SAMMY IS THAT SHE'S ALWAYS SMILING. UH, SHE'S ALWAYS GOT A SMILE ON HER FACE. SHE'S A GREAT TEAM TEAMMATE. SHE PICKS EVERYBODY UP. UH, AND FOR ME THAT'S WHAT MAKES HER OUR MVP AND I THINK EVERYBODY AGREES. SO WE HAD A GREAT SEASON, AND AS WE TAKE A PHOTO, WE ARE GONNA, AS WE TAKE THIS PHOTO, WE ARE GONNA INVITE UP THE FURY, THE SEVEN EIGHT GIRLS DIVISION CHAMPION FURY. UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN. WE WANT TO THANK JEREMY FOR, UH, THE AMAZING WORK HE DID THIS SEASON AND EVERY SEASON AND, UH, TO THE REFS. YOU GUYS DID AN AMAZING JOB TOO. AND, UH, LISA AND THE REC DEPARTMENT, WE REALLY APPRECIATE, UH, GETTING EVERYTHING ALL SORTED FOR US. UM, BUT REALLY WHAT AN AWESOME LEAGUE. WE, UH, IT'S AN EVERYBODY PLAYS. WE KNOW EVERYBODY. UH, WE REALLY ENJOYED, WE WERE THE, UH, GUEST COACHES FOR THE RAVENS. SO WE, IT WAS AN HONOR TO BE THERE FOR ONE OF THEM. UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE COACH. QUIT CHARLIE. AND, UH, REALLY JUST SO PROUD OF OUR TEAM. WE, UH, YOU KNOW, ALL WE REALLY DID WAS ASK THEM TO TRY THEIR BEST AND, UH, HAVE FUN. AND I THINK WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THAT. AND, UH, REALLY JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF HUSTLE AND A LOT OF HARD WORK AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THEY, UH, THEY WERE REALLY DEDICATED. THEY CAME ON THE SOCIAL NIGHT, THEY WENT ON PRACTICES OUTSIDE WITH US WHEN WE WERE FROZEN AND, UH, BUT REALLY JUST, UH, REALLY HAD A REALLY GREAT SEASON. AND, UH, AGAIN, JUST WANTED TO THANK ALL OF OUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS AND SIBLINGS THAT CAME OUT TO REALLY ROOT US ON. AND, UH, BUT YEAH. YES, WE REALLY LOVED COACHING. AGAIN, THIS IS MY SECOND YEAR DOING THIS. I DON'T THINK MY HEART CAN TAKE ANOTHER COACHING SEASON 'CAUSE I'M DYING OUT HERE SOMETIMES. UH, GIRLS ARE JUST FANTASTIC FAMILIES. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OTHER COACHES, THANK YOU SO MUCH. SPECIAL MENTION TO OWEN. UH, THANKS JEREMY AS ALWAYS, AND THE REFS, UM, JEAN ALSO FOR HELPING US OUT IN OUR PRACTICES. UM, YOU KNOW, WE JUST A REAL GREAT TEAM EFFORT. AND JUST REAL QUICK COMING DOWN, UH, I THINK JUNE WE HELPED STOP WITH SOME KEY SHOTS. WITHOUT THAT, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF WE, IF WE WENT INTO OVERTIME AGAINST THE LIGHTNING, I DON'T KNOW. YOU GUYS WERE PRETTY KILLING ON HARD THERE. UH, PILAR WAS AWESOME, GETTING REBOUNDS, GREAT DEFENSE, A REAL ROCK, LISA GETTING REBOUNDS, HUSTLING UP AND DOWN. LYDIA DOGGED DEFENSE SHUTTING DOWN PEOPLE. ASHA, LIKE STICKING TO PEOPLE LIKE GLUE. UH, GO ASHA. I THINK VIOLET WAS BITTEN BY A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER 'CAUSE SHE HAD SPIDERMAN HANDS. THE BALL DOES NOT LEAVE HER HANDS WHEN SHE GETS THEM. AND THEN, UH, A PLAYER I WAS INTRODUCED TO THIS YEAR, UH, UH, REAGAN, UH, REALLY GREAT COACHING YOU AGAIN SWEETHEART. AND, UH, GREAT PLAYING. AND, UH, JUST LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE REST OF YOU GUYS GROWING UP AND HOPEFULLY OPPONENTS FROM THIS YEAR PLAYING TOGETHER IN JV AND VARSITY AND KICKING SOME ASS. SO WE DON'T, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT CHARLIE DOES, BUT, UH, CHRISTINE LIKES HAVING HIM AROUND, SO, UM, THANK YOU CHARLIE. THANKS EVERYONE. THIS CONCLUDES OUR 2024. 2025. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.