Final feat

This weekend marked the last time I would coach for about ten more months when it starts all over again, but with after losing 6 very important girls to high school. It's crazy how close I got to the older girls- I feel like I am a friend and sister to them in so many ways. At first, I was completely unsure about how it would all work out, but we came together and grew dramatically in just two and a half months.
We went into our final match Saturday night knowing we had to pull out all three games in order to keep our first place status, not knowing what the second place team had done earlier that day. We were only in the lead by one game, and could easily fall into second place if the right moves weren't made. The game was late in the evening, the exact opposite of when they had been previously the entire season, not to mention no practice during the week because of the endless amount of snow, so I was extremely nervous about what the night was going to bring. My sister and assistant coach, Heather, was breaking out in rashes down her neck throughout the first game because her nerves had gotten the best of her! We brought our game faces in front of a large crowd at Victory to cheer the 8th graders on in their last pursuit, and took the win and the trophy.