BYU basketball camp was everything I imagined and more. I learned so much, and I made some friends that I know I will have forever.
I got down here on Sunday and I was as sick as could be. I didn't want to wake up the next morning to go play basketball. You can't blame me. But as soon as I got on the court and made some friends I felt a bit better. Don't get me wrong I was still coughing like I was going to die and it sucked.
So on Monday we started by splitting into age groups which was a huge relief because I was scared that I was going to have to play with ten year olds because I was sick and wasn't going to be able to play my best, and then we did drills. After a few drills we went and ate lunch. Let me tell you the food at the Cannon Center is so much better than the food that I had at Gonzaga. We got back from lunch and I don't remember what we did. It was either ran more drills or had a "lecture" with one of the coaches. Then we practiced what we learned and then went to dinner. After dinner we came back and got our real life teams. My team was the best, literally. My coach's name was Tyler and our team name was the Fry Saucers, don't ask it's a long story. One of my greatest friends that I met this whole week was on my team. Her name is Devon. She's awesome. Any who, back to basketball. So we practiced with our team and had team bonding. I feel like our team was so close, it was like we had been playing together for years. We learned plays and then went home. The next day was Tuesday and we ran drills and then we ate lunch. After we ate lunch we had another team practice and then we played some game. I think we lost all but one. The one that we won was sudden death and I scored the game winning shot. What can I say, I'm a boss. Just kidding. We ate dinner and then we played the game with sudden death and one more game and did something else I can't remember, all the days are like one day. Then like on Monday I walked to my sister's apartment and we watched Thirteen Going on Thirty, and I now love movie. Wednesday was great. We ran lots of easy drills but we just could not seem to get them right. All I wanted at that point was to do the drills right. I have to take respectability for not doing the drills right because it is not just one persons fault that the drills are done wrong, it's everyone's fault. Then we went to lunch and came back and played more games with our teams. We only won one on Wednesday putting us at the bottom of the pool for the tournament. Then we went to Seven Peaks, and I swear I was going to die when I went on the boomerang. But it was really fun. My sister and brother came and picked me up early and we went to a party. When the party was over we needed a ride back to Provo, because Brady left us there, so we quickly made friends with some boys that were at the party. We ended up watching fireworks with them. They were mighty cool. It was a blast. Thursday was my favorite day, but it was also my least favorite. So we started off the day with a drill that I have been doing since I was in fourth grade, so it should have been really easy. But it wasn't. We just couldn't seem to get the ball in the basket. We only got like thirteen layups in three minutes. Then we got told that we could do a much better job and that we had chance to get to at least twenty-five layups or we were going to run. We didn't get it and I agree with the head coach in our gym that our scores were crap. So we ran and we got another shot. I swear that three people that were going with me ran up and down the floor like 25 time. We were the last ones and we kept throwing the ball away. It was terrible, only because I went with the team before and they did the drill at least three times in a row and then the next team only had two people so I volunteered to go with the next team, so I seriously ran down the court and back at least 15 times in a row all within a three minute time period. The next game we played was 3 on 3 cutthroat. I was playing alright when I planted my ankle funny and rolled. Then Steve ( who was one of the other coaches) made me go and ice it. I really didn't want to. I just wanted to walk it off. So the drill ended and there I was sitting by the trainer with ice on my ankle just chillin' when I saw Steve talking to Tyler, and then they looked at me and Tyler's face when he saw me with was priceless. I laughed while Tyler walked over to me to make sure that I was alright and that I was going to play. Then my team did a layup challenge and I watched them, then I went and got taped and then I came back and watched them again. The next thing we did was a shooting challenge and we counted the score in Spanish. Then we played 1 on 1 cutthroat and I chilled in the "basement" with Megan and Devon and Katie and Tyler who by now was the coolest coach. Then we all moved up and played at a different basket together. After that we went to lunch and it was pouring rain. I had ice on my ankle because it was killing me, but nobody knew that except for Sammie who was a friend that I met on the first day. I finished lunch and walked back to the gym and watched some old man basketball with Katrina and Devon. After lunch the real life tournament started and the Fry Saucers were the bottom team (that was my team by the way). Guess what team went undefeated until the very last game. The Fry Saucers. That's right. We played our butts off. The whole time I wanted to chop my ankle off because it killed. So I played anyway and then right before we played another game I asked the whole team if they by any chance had some pills that I could take that would make my ankle feel better. They told me to go ask the trainer. So she gave me some pills to pop and then I went and jumped, and I got the tip and we took it in for a layup. After that game we had two bye's because we were already in the championship and they had to find out who was going to play us. The pressure was on because Tyler's two teams from last year had made it to the championship game and lost. We lost our first game, but because the tourney was a double elimination we got to play again and we won. Meaning that we won the championship. We all got really cool t-shirts. Then camp was over and I wanted to cry but most of my team is coming next year and we made Tyler promise that he we be here next year. So it will all be good. I seriously cannot wait till next year.
P.S Guess who's half birthday is today. Mine!!! All I did was buy my sister J-Dawgs and go to work with her. But it was really fun.
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