Photos from Half-Time - Sportsmanship Award

Who knew my cousin, John Oxton (Lakeville North), was going to be the opposing head coach at the Prior Lake High School varsity boys basketball game on Friday night? What a welcome surprise! As mentioned in the previous post, Dylan and his teammates were recognized at half-time for the Sportsmanship Award for P.L.A.Y. in-house boys basketball league for 3rd grade. Here are some fun photos from that night. Let's just say we had some proud coaches and parents and some pretty cute 9-yr old boys beaming with serious pride as well :)

PS - We lost by 1 point in the last few seconds of the game. A thriller! Sad for PLHS team and fans but I was happy for John :)

The Thunder Won Sportsmanship Award!

The news just came in. Our team won the 3rd Grade Boys Basketball Sportsmanship Award!!! Here is the news we received via email from our head coach this morning:

"The Thunder won the "Good Sportsmanship Award" for the 3rd grade.  After every game referees and coaches have to fill out evaluations for teams about coaches conduct, players conduct and respect for Prior Lake PLAY values during the game and we ended up being the winner! I am really proud of the boys for this award!  This Thursday night, February 20th at the Prior Lake high school basketball game we will get our awards."

This is a direct reflection of the coaches and their style with our young boys. Always positive, encouraging, fair, motivating and inspiring. Excellent mentors who did a fantastic job "leading by example". Well deserved. Very proud. Thank you!

Basketball Season Comes to an End

3rd Grade Boys Basketball regular season is officially over and what a year it has been. Dylan and his 7 teammates and their coaches (Dave was an assistant coach) had an excellent season and played in the top ring (top 4 teams with the best records) this past Saturday for the championship. They may not have won the overall championship but they gave it their all, played by the rules, and they HAD FUN! That's what it's all about :) Way to go, Thunder! We are very proud of you!

Next up for Dylan, lots of snowboarding and then there's baseball to look forward to. Regardless of what sports or activities LTD are involved in (academics, piano, sewing lessons, AWANA, gymnastics, dance, track, basketball, skiing, snowboarding, baseball), Camp Clark's principles will always be:  practice/study hard, give it your best effort, stay positive, but most of all, have fun. We pray that as these kids get older that we all keep these principles in our hearts and at the forefront of our values. Here is an article I recently read that summarizes our beliefs and how we feel it should always be.

http://fulleryouthinstitute.org/blog/the-only-six-words-parents-need-to-say-to-their-kids-about-sportsor-any-per