Our new RB Spirit team officially began its new, 2008-09 season, with a pool party at Coach Charlie's house. Here's Charlie, sporting this year's latest fashion of RB red, RB white, and RB blue softball visor. It will be met with trepidation by many an opponent when seen in the opposing dugout this coming softball season.
While many teams are spending this weekend holding more tryouts to fill in one or two last roster spots, our girls spent a quality afternoon bonding and getting to know each other. Charlie's goal is to have the girls establish a rapport that carries beyond the softball diamond. The adults also had the chance to meet each other and partake of some fine smoked ribs and gobs of other food while hopefully establishing friendships that will carry this team through the next twelve 
months. By providing the opportunity for this newly established team to come together like this at least monthly, it is Charlie's intention to avoid conflicts between kids and parents that arise from self-centered tunnel vision that can happen when people forget that the team comes before the individual. Our successes will be team successes; our failures will be team failures. I'm banking on more of the former and few of the latter.
The girls graciously allowed their new coach the chance to remove his wallet from his pocket before they tossed him into the pool.
Here are some friendships forming.
1 comment:
We are glad you had a good time and we did as well. Looked like Kenzie hung right in there with the "older" girls. Being one of many at home probably helps too...lol. Looking forward to sitting in the outfield watching our "Superstars" turn into "Supernovas"
Marie
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