Last night we attended high school graduation to support all eleven basketball family members of the graduating class. We were lucky to receive invitations from one player in particular, who happens to be heading to Stanford in the fall. His entrance speech was basketball related and I'm not surprised it resulted in UNIVERSITY ACCEPTANCE at all! (Refer back to ANY basketball team related post I've written....EVER.....and you will feel similarly.)
The ceremony was long (we didn't get home until 11 p.m.!!!), but worth attending indeed! Phil and I gave eleven standing ovations (obviously) and several more as the boys were called up for individual awards. Six of the boys won best male athlete (I wouldn't have been able to pick just one either!), two of the boys won awards for positive contributions to the school community, two of the boys graduated with high honour roll with distinction (4.0+), and one of the boys was VALEDICTORIAN! Seems to me like this group of men are also all-stars OFF the court. Ah-hem, if you ever doubted the correlation between athletics, academic performance, and character - THINK AGAIN! These boys are a shining example of that.
WAY TO GO BULLDOGS! Thank you for inviting us to your big night. We are SO, SO proud of you!
The ceremony was long (we didn't get home until 11 p.m.!!!), but worth attending indeed! Phil and I gave eleven standing ovations (obviously) and several more as the boys were called up for individual awards. Six of the boys won best male athlete (I wouldn't have been able to pick just one either!), two of the boys won awards for positive contributions to the school community, two of the boys graduated with high honour roll with distinction (4.0+), and one of the boys was VALEDICTORIAN! Seems to me like this group of men are also all-stars OFF the court. Ah-hem, if you ever doubted the correlation between athletics, academic performance, and character - THINK AGAIN! These boys are a shining example of that.
WAY TO GO BULLDOGS! Thank you for inviting us to your big night. We are SO, SO proud of you!
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