Yesterday was a incredibly long day and I made a choice to make it even longer by taking in some Girls 👧 Basketball 🏀 at JRHS.
Pappy Meade and I go back roughly 20 years but because of our schedules we don’t get to spend much time together. Last night 🌙 we created a window that didn’t really exist and we used it to watch our Girls play at James River.
When asked by my friend what we would be taking in at JRHS, here is how I responded – both of our rosters are lite in regards to numbers and we don’t have a great deal of size. But we are well coached and we play hard from start to finish. The young ladies are actual Student Athletes and maybe a couple of them might look at Basketball as their main sport. Then I wrapped it up with describing how much respect I have for their parents.
When time allowed it I introduced Pappy to some folks. First, it was Kevin Burress as the Dad 👨 of #3. A few minutes later it was Velvet Leonard, Mom 👩 of #22. After a while we visited with the Parents of #10.
Last night was a work day for the Parents and a School day for the players and they were all in a Gym a long way from home 🏡, playing a game that would go unnoticed for the most part.
Realizing that I had never had the privilege of meeting the Mother of Miss Young, I asked for assistance in saying hello 👋. Turns out that Shannon Young teaches at the Elementary School 🏫 and works with Special Needs. Wow 👏, that combination is off the charts to me.
We watched our Ladies play hard, listen to their Coach and get spacing for good looks at the basket 🧺. There sat Pappy cheering away from our Lady 👩 Cavaliers, with just my words to go off.
The only thing that didn’t go our way was the shot attempts wouldn’t fall. It’s just that simple but in a World 🌎 where a great deal of emphasis is put on winning, the takeaway will be a 39-21 loss.
So, if one were to ask why I would go to such lengths to write ✍ about the game last night 🌙 please know its because there should be a statue somewhere of Brandi Cochran Mitchell, Kevin Burress woke up at 4am to go to work at Volvo, Shelia Harris taught, drove, watched, rode, napped and is now teaching again.
I could continue down the list and now I can fully appreciate that there’s another teacher in the mix. Solid people raising solid Children who are trying hard to represent our Community….
Kevin Worrell is now tasked with trying hard to make me Purdy but he says he’s just a Barber, not a magician….
A.S.P.N on The Hill 