Softball or Tennis, anyone?

Just a quick post on Teresa and Kara trying out new sports this past spring!  I was excited that both of them were willing to try something new.

SOFTBALL. Teresa had not participated in an 'official" spring sport at the high school...for her first 2 years of high school, she played Ultimate (frisbee) with David and his friends after school sometimes.

But this year, she had some volleyball friends who said, "You should come try softball in the spring!" She thought about it all winter, then signed up for it in March.

Teresa batting

Teresa running out to center field, on right

Teresa "on deck," left

It turns out, she does really well with softball!  The coach was a little disgusted that she waited until her senior year to try it.  She had to learn the rules, since we are not huge baseball fans.  We hadn't watched it on t.v. or gone to many professional games.

"Senior Night," 2 coaches + 3 seniors

But she is actually a good player, and she won some awards at the Spring Sports Night.  One for having a good attitude that supported and lifted the team throughout the season, and the other was "Most Improved." She held multiple "best" records for the whole team, from just this season.

TENNIS.  Kara also tried a new sport.  She was interested in tennis, and started by being in a camp last summer.  Then during the winter, she took some lessons and practiced some with a girl who was already on the high school team.

doubles, back left

serving

She signed up, and in spite of the snow making it impossible to actually practice for the first 3 weeks of the season, she got to play lots of "doubles" matches with the JV team.

Her award at the end of the season talked about how she had a positive attitude, and everyone on the team liked to be paired with her.  That she enjoyed playing, and was happy with any partner.

Overall, this has been a fun spring for us, too, to watch their games and learn the sports with them.  I didn't even know how tennis scored points, actually.  And softball has some rules that I had never heard of!

Once the snow finally melted, they had some good opportunities to learn the sport and play.