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Collectively, A Thread To Celebrate Our Kids Athletic Accomplishments (1 Viewer)

Senior Night tonight for my daughter's varsity girls hockey team. In addition to the normal festivites/ceremony, the coach is surprising the girls by having a parent or parent representative (former coach, grandparents, etc.) for each senior come into the locker room to have them tie their girl's skates "one last time" like we did when we they were younger.

How the heck am I supposed to do that without bawling like a baby, coach?

Any tips on how to get through a daughter's senior night without embarrassing myself? I did well at my son's a few years ago, but this one is going to be hard.
No advice on controlling emotion but what a great idea. Just enjoy it, tears and all.
 
Bouldering season ended for my kids on Saturday. I posted about this last year, but to recap, this is just their 2nd year if competing. They both qualified for the regional championships (region 61 consists of ND, SD, MN, IA, NE, WI, IL). In their age categories, U13 and U15 there were approximately 100 kids that competed throughout the season. Top 26 make it to regionals. My 11 year old qualified in 5th place, my 13 year old barely squeaked in tied for 26th.

11 year old finished in 4th, and really had no chance to get on the podium. There are 3 kids that are just a notch above him. My 13 year old finished in 16th, which was far better than he expected. If he finished top 13 he would have advanced to divisionals, but alas it wasn't meant to be.

If anyone is interested in watching my kids climb, below is the timestamped youtube links to each of their 4 climbs. And for those who aren't real familiar with bouldering, scoring is based on getting to the top in the fewest amount of attempts. If you don't get to the top, then it is based on getting to a zone, again in the fewest amount of attempts.

We went back to the gym yesterday for they had practice but also because I wanted to try each of their climbs. In watching their comp, I thought I would be able to top 3 or 4 of their boulders. No such chance. I was only able to get two of them. I am not a great climber, but if you chose ten random 50 year old climbers in any gym (there aren't too many of us) I would be top 50% for sure. And if you chose any random buff 20 year old bro who has never climbed or only climbed a few times, I would for sure be able to top way more boulders than them. All that to say that this **** is hard. Like way way harder than it looks. Even after all this I still fall into the "oh they made that look easy, I can definitely get that one" false notion.

Anyway, super stoked and way proud of them

Ollie # 1
Ollie # 2
Ollie # 3
Ollie # 4

Nico # 1
Nico # 2
Nico # 3
Nico # 4
 
I love this thread. While my daughters D3 soccer career is 5 years behind us, as a teacher I love supporting my high school students at various athletic events, drama and robotics. Scratches that itch. I'll have a D1 golfer next year and a past student will be a jr on a D1 soccer team next year, she made the sweet 16 this year and has started every game of her college career.
 
Senior Night tonight for my daughter's varsity girls hockey team. In addition to the normal festivites/ceremony, the coach is surprising the girls by having a parent or parent representative (former coach, grandparents, etc.) for each senior come into the locker room to have them tie their girl's skates "one last time" like we did when we they were younger.

How the heck am I supposed to do that without bawling like a baby, coach?

Any tips on how to get through a daughter's senior night without embarrassing myself? I did well at my son's a few years ago, but this one is going to be hard.
hug her and cry and be proud about it and know that it is aok bromigo thats your baby and its her senior night aint no shame in loving your girl take that to the bank brohan
 
Senior Night tonight for my daughter's varsity girls hockey team. In addition to the normal festivites/ceremony, the coach is surprising the girls by having a parent or parent representative (former coach, grandparents, etc.) for each senior come into the locker room to have them tie their girl's skates "one last time" like we did when we they were younger.

How the heck am I supposed to do that without bawling like a baby, coach?

Any tips on how to get through a daughter's senior night without embarrassing myself? I did well at my son's a few years ago, but this one is going to be hard.
hug her and cry and be proud about it and know that it is aok bromigo thats your baby and its her senior night aint no shame in loving your girl take that to the bank brohan
I held it together pretty good. She, on the other hand, was a mess. As soon as the coach told them he had a surprise for them and she saw me walk in the locker room to tie her skates she lost it, full-on crying. I teared up a bit myself, but kept it together.

Then on the ice for the ceremony she was bawling again. She played great though, team got the win..a great night all around.

Now we get to go to Lake Placid for a tournament with her travel team this weekend, where a good buddy of mine and his son are coming up to watch and visit the town for the first time, and the following weekend will be Senior Night for her travel team. Fully enjoying this last ride before she heads off to play NCAA D3 hockey in the Fall.
 
Senior Night tonight for my daughter's varsity girls hockey team. In addition to the normal festivites/ceremony, the coach is surprising the girls by having a parent or parent representative (former coach, grandparents, etc.) for each senior come into the locker room to have them tie their girl's skates "one last time" like we did when we they were younger.

How the heck am I supposed to do that without bawling like a baby, coach?

Any tips on how to get through a daughter's senior night without embarrassing myself? I did well at my son's a few years ago, but this one is going to be hard.
hug her and cry and be proud about it and know that it is aok bromigo thats your baby and its her senior night aint no shame in loving your girl take that to the bank brohan
I held it together pretty good. She, on the other hand, was a mess. As soon as the coach told them he had a surprise for them and she saw me walk in the locker room to tie her skates she lost it, full-on crying. I teared up a bit myself, but kept it together.

Then on the ice for the ceremony she was bawling again. She played great though, team got the win..a great night all around.

Now we get to go to Lake Placid for a tournament with her travel team this weekend, where a good buddy of mine and his son are coming up to watch and visit the town for the first time, and the following weekend will be Senior Night for her travel team. Fully enjoying this last ride before she heads off to play NCAA D3 hockey in the Fall.
Well this is going to stink. I'm heading to Lake Placid this weekend with the wife. First time and we always wanted to visit!!! It's going to stink because it'll be packed with hockey teams lok
 
Senior Night tonight for my daughter's varsity girls hockey team. In addition to the normal festivites/ceremony, the coach is surprising the girls by having a parent or parent representative (former coach, grandparents, etc.) for each senior come into the locker room to have them tie their girl's skates "one last time" like we did when we they were younger.

How the heck am I supposed to do that without bawling like a baby, coach?

Any tips on how to get through a daughter's senior night without embarrassing myself? I did well at my son's a few years ago, but this one is going to be hard.
hug her and cry and be proud about it and know that it is aok bromigo thats your baby and its her senior night aint no shame in loving your girl take that to the bank brohan
I held it together pretty good. She, on the other hand, was a mess. As soon as the coach told them he had a surprise for them and she saw me walk in the locker room to tie her skates she lost it, full-on crying. I teared up a bit myself, but kept it together.

Then on the ice for the ceremony she was bawling again. She played great though, team got the win..a great night all around.

Now we get to go to Lake Placid for a tournament with her travel team this weekend, where a good buddy of mine and his son are coming up to watch and visit the town for the first time, and the following weekend will be Senior Night for her travel team. Fully enjoying this last ride before she heads off to play NCAA D3 hockey in the Fall.
Well this is going to stink. I'm heading to Lake Placid this weekend with the wife. First time and we always wanted to visit!!! It's going to stink because it'll be packed with hockey teams lok
You'll love it (even with the hockey teams). One of my favorite places on earth. If I run into you at the Lake Placid Pub and Brewery, first one's on me.
 
Senior Night tonight for my daughter's varsity girls hockey team. In addition to the normal festivites/ceremony, the coach is surprising the girls by having a parent or parent representative (former coach, grandparents, etc.) for each senior come into the locker room to have them tie their girl's skates "one last time" like we did when we they were younger.

How the heck am I supposed to do that without bawling like a baby, coach?

Any tips on how to get through a daughter's senior night without embarrassing myself? I did well at my son's a few years ago, but this one is going to be hard.
hug her and cry and be proud about it and know that it is aok bromigo thats your baby and its her senior night aint no shame in loving your girl take that to the bank brohan
I held it together pretty good. She, on the other hand, was a mess. As soon as the coach told them he had a surprise for them and she saw me walk in the locker room to tie her skates she lost it, full-on crying. I teared up a bit myself, but kept it together.

Then on the ice for the ceremony she was bawling again. She played great though, team got the win..a great night all around.

Now we get to go to Lake Placid for a tournament with her travel team this weekend, where a good buddy of mine and his son are coming up to watch and visit the town for the first time, and the following weekend will be Senior Night for her travel team. Fully enjoying this last ride before she heads off to play NCAA D3 hockey in the Fall.
Well this is going to stink. I'm heading to Lake Placid this weekend with the wife. First time and we always wanted to visit!!! It's going to stink because it'll be packed with hockey teams lok
You'll love it (even with the hockey teams). One of my favorite places on earth. If I run into you at the Lake Placid Pub and Brewery, first one's on me.
Beautiful place. I did IM Lake Placid and proposed to my wife near the finish line... The place holds a really special spot for me.
 
Senior Night tonight for my daughter's varsity girls hockey team. In addition to the normal festivites/ceremony, the coach is surprising the girls by having a parent or parent representative (former coach, grandparents, etc.) for each senior come into the locker room to have them tie their girl's skates "one last time" like we did when we they were younger.

How the heck am I supposed to do that without bawling like a baby, coach?

Any tips on how to get through a daughter's senior night without embarrassing myself? I did well at my son's a few years ago, but this one is going to be hard.
hug her and cry and be proud about it and know that it is aok bromigo thats your baby and its her senior night aint no shame in loving your girl take that to the bank brohan
I held it together pretty good. She, on the other hand, was a mess. As soon as the coach told them he had a surprise for them and she saw me walk in the locker room to tie her skates she lost it, full-on crying. I teared up a bit myself, but kept it together.

Then on the ice for the ceremony she was bawling again. She played great though, team got the win..a great night all around.

Now we get to go to Lake Placid for a tournament with her travel team this weekend, where a good buddy of mine and his son are coming up to watch and visit the town for the first time, and the following weekend will be Senior Night for her travel team. Fully enjoying this last ride before she heads off to play NCAA D3 hockey in the Fall.
best thing ive read this week take that to the bank brohans
 
I have posted earlier in here, I think. Here is an update. My 22 year old son has been in various combat sports basically his whole life, from little kid Karate at age 3 on. He is now a national level boxer on the cusp of being ranked in the top 10 for his weight class. The ranking is based on 2 years of results. He only started boxing again 15 months ago after training a bunch of disciplines just to stay in shape and learn (basically 2 years away from just boxing) He goes to a national tournament in Colorado later this summer with a shot to get to the Olympic Trials. His 1st National Tournament he won 2 bouts before bowing out in a very close contest. Just proud of that kid and how insanely dedicated he is. #Flex
So here is the update. It is not the best. Colorado did not happen. He had been battling shoulder pain since a bout last summer. We had shut him down for a few weeks and that seemed to help. We were thinking tendonitis or something similar. Shortly after posting this it was clear that something was not right. Rehab which did nothing so insurance will pay for the MRI. MRI reveals a partially torn labrum. Surgery two weeks from today and then 6 months of sling, rehab etc. Good news - it is a partial tear and expected complete recovery. Bad news - well this sucks all the way around.
Good news - Labrum not nearly as bad as they thought it might be when he went under; Bad news - the real source of the pain was a detached Biceps tendon. Good news - The tendon was intact and "just" a little inflamed.. Other than not being attached to his shoulder of course! The recovery on the re-attachment is actually quicker than a labrum repair so he has already started PT; Wild what modern medicine can do.
Took a while to recover from the shoulder surgery but he is back at it. He still coaches boxing and has gone to MMA. 1ST bout was last weekend. He won by 2nd round KO victory against a very good opponent who had his own share of combat sports accomplishment including all state wrestling multiple times. Let's go!
 
Big weekend in the Glvsav house.

• Daughters college dance team captures their 3rd straight (daughter's 1st) National Championship at UDA in Orlando
• Son's 14UAA ice hockey team runs the table at the CCM MLK invitational in Mass/RI.

Funny thing is the semi's and final game were both on monday, our team had to play our game but in the 2-3 game, the #3 team forfeit b/c their kids were ill. So we had to take on a fresh team in the finals–ultimately playing 6 games while they only played 5. Thankfully we built up a good lead early, bc you could tell we were gassed in the 3rd and it got a little scary. Ahhh to be young and athletic again lol
 
Solid outing for my daughter and her 15U club volleyball team. Had a 3-game tourney this past Saturday. Won the first match quite handily. Lost to the eventual champion in the second match, but honestly they should have beat them. And then beat the #1 seed in the third and final match of the day in a nailbiter. And my kid made a crazy, ninja-like dig at the sideline that fortunately, one of the moms got on video.
 
We stopped by the Olympic center and caught some prep hockey this weekend. I had to keep reminding myself the giants were HS kids lol
At least you're not there now- so cold!!

I proposed on the speed skating oval- at the bend before the IM finish line because I knew she didn't want to be on the diamond vision screen set up there. Fortunately some other spectators sussed out what I was doing and took a few photos- tracking me down by race number through the race organizer.
 
We stopped by the Olympic center and caught some prep hockey this weekend. I had to keep reminding myself the giants were HS kids lol
At least you're not there now- so cold!!

I proposed on the speed skating oval- at the bend before the IM finish line because I knew she didn't want to be on the diamond vision screen set up there. Fortunately some other spectators sussed out what I was doing and took a few photos- tracking me down by race number through the race organizer.
Bro it was cold yesterday
 
I am a long ways off from actually needing it, but can someone recommend a site (or does it vary by sport) where I can start uploading videos of my daughter's "greatest hits"? I want her to have a solid library of highlights starting as early as 8th grade to show progression. Or is this just a bad idea? I know the chances are miniscule for her to get noticed but I'm a hopeful dad. :)
 
I am a long ways off from actually needing it, but can someone recommend a site (or does it vary by sport) where I can start uploading videos of my daughter's "greatest hits"? I want her to have a solid library of highlights starting as early as 8th grade to show progression. Or is this just a bad idea? I know the chances are miniscule for her to get noticed but I'm a hopeful dad. :)
We used In Shot to splice together videos and uploaded it to youtube so I could send a link to the coaches (and cut down on email size by sending the entire file). I am an amateur and no nothing about videography.

I know some local high schools use a service that they upload the entire game films to and then you can input number etc for each player and then pull just the shots of that player. I am not sure how it works or what it was but I am sure someone on here may know. Our school didn't film baseball so we had to do our own which is why I don't know what that service was called.

Good Luck.
 
I am a long ways off from actually needing it, but can someone recommend a site (or does it vary by sport) where I can start uploading videos of my daughter's "greatest hits"? I want her to have a solid library of highlights starting as early as 8th grade to show progression. Or is this just a bad idea? I know the chances are miniscule for her to get noticed but I'm a hopeful dad. :)
We loaded all clips to YouTube and sent that link to coaches. Then would break down some of those clips and emailed the clip directly. Ymmv
 
Gally Jr was told by the coach last week that he plans to redshirt him this year. Somewhat contradictory to all the feedback he has gotten through the fall and into the winter. The team has a large freshman class and the coach told 9 of the 11 freshman and one transfer that his plan is to redshirt them this year.

Gally Jr doesn't like it as he thinks he has performed better than the two freshman that weren't included and many of the other transfers that aren't redshirting. It doesn't sound like the coach expanded much on his reasoning but if the first weekend of games (this past weekend) are any indication it could be that he plans to have the team be senior heavy as 7 out of the 10 starters (9 positions plus DH) were seniors with the other spots being juniors.

My guess is that he believes this freshman class is a good group and wants them to stay together and with being top heavy this allows this group to save a year of eligibility. At least this is the only thing that makes sense if his feedback is to be believed thus far.

My son is taking it in stride and isn't really too frustrated yet although I can tell from some of his responses about how practice it going that he is a bit miffed. Obviously the redshirt players aren't going to get the same practice time but when I ask how practice went and he is responding with shoveling snow and shagging balls" there is a hint of frustration there.
I suggested he talk to the coach just to see his reasoning and to see if there is something in particular he needs to work on to move up on the depth chart but he doesn't want to do that because he thinks it would be "weird" because it's not like "I am gonna change his mind by talking to him". It tried to explain that wasn't the purpose of the conversation but it was to get a better understanding of where you need to get better. He said he will try to talk to his pitching coach to see what he thinks about it or has any clarifications.

One of the two freshman they did keep active started one of the four games this past weekend. He went 4+ innings and gave up 9 hits, 9 R (5 ER), and had an error leading to a few of those unearned runs. Not a great outing. The other freshman didn't play in any of the four games. But the team did go 3-1 so a promising start overall.

Obviously things can change in a hurry with people not performing or injuries happening and redshirting may be the best thing for the long term but I can tell its hard on him when he thinks he is better than quite a few of the guys getting the opportunities. I told just keep working hard and getting better and he will get his chance. He said, I know I will get a chance next year for sure so I just have to wait my time. Not a bad approach.
 
Semi athletic related so I'll put it here - my son received the Orange County ADA Athlete of Character Award. It is given to one male and one female athlete from each high school in the county. Pretty select group when you think about how many student athletes there are at each high school.
 
I am a long ways off from actually needing it, but can someone recommend a site (or does it vary by sport) where I can start uploading videos of my daughter's "greatest hits"? I want her to have a solid library of highlights starting as early as 8th grade to show progression. Or is this just a bad idea? I know the chances are miniscule for her to get noticed but I'm a hopeful dad. :)
My son plays high school football, he uses Hudl for his highlights and you can keep them available as long as you like. He has loaded his freshman year highlights, then this past season was sophomore highlights, and he will continue on. Not sure how much Hudl is used for volleyball.
 
I am a long ways off from actually needing it, but can someone recommend a site (or does it vary by sport) where I can start uploading videos of my daughter's "greatest hits"? I want her to have a solid library of highlights starting as early as 8th grade to show progression. Or is this just a bad idea? I know the chances are miniscule for her to get noticed but I'm a hopeful dad. :)
My son plays high school football, he uses Hudl for his highlights and you can keep them available as long as you like. He has loaded his freshman year highlights, then this past season was sophomore highlights, and he will continue on. Not sure how much Hudl is used for volleyball.
HUDL is also something that is set up by the school, but each kid can access their highlights, team film, etc. through it so long as the team films their game and uploads it. At my kid's high school, we have a HUDL camera in the gym, so games are automatically recorded and uploaded to HUDL. For road games, all games are filmed and uploaded to HUDL. For field sports, they will film and upload the game film as we do not have HUDL cameras on the fields. I believe HUDL can also link directly to maxpreps if I am not mistaken.

Many athletes use Youtube to curate their highlights and put together compilations that they want to show coaches.

Email works, but more and more contact/communication is via Twitter/X.
 
HUDL is also something that is set up by the school,
Our school did not have HUDL but I know other's in the area did have it. It also wasn't for all sports so even if your school has it it may not be for the sport you are playing. Definitely worth checking with your coach or AD to see if it's available.
 
HUDL is also something that is set up by the school,
Our school did not have HUDL but I know other's in the area did have it. It also wasn't for all sports so even if your school has it it may not be for the sport you are playing. Definitely worth checking with your coach or AD to see if it's available.
There is a fee associated with it, so at our school the various sports choose to opt in or not if they want to use it, but that is paid for through the boosters usually as there definitely isn't budget for it through the district. I know for sure football and basketball pay a higher fee as they use some of the other services such as the automatic stats, etc.
 

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