No secret we don’t get much time to do "fun" stuff as oldest daughter plays volleyball/softball for school (she started 9th grade last fall and played jv and varsity for both sports) and last fall got asked to play up on a 17u travel volleyball team and the hs varsity coaches 18u travel softball team (mainly comprised of the varsity players to get a jump on the season). Been doing travel ball bother sports since brooke was in 5th grade but never realized how intense it got practice and travel schedule wiset until we were asked to play up…wow. literally year round training for softball with our indoor facility, and volleyball only gets time off due to softball season, but the girls will practice one sport after school, then another sport in evening..busy.

Last night was season opener for school ball and brooke got some pics in newspaper and local news story so she’s pretty happy lol. But just glad to see the years of sacrifice on all our parts have really paid off and she’s become an incredible athlete. Was nominated to all star team during nationals in july, but we may be heading to maryland for east coast tourniment (travel club girls again once high school state is finished). Busy busy busy all the time. Think this year I’ve only burned a couple gallons of fuel in the quad to date:( was hoping to break in our new to us camper but weather doesn’t look to play nice at all all weekend…so probably no riding once again.

Link to local news story, if ya got 1 minute to watch it’s pretty fun to watch the triple play go down, not often you get to see that, luckily the other teams runners were hell bent on running and weren’t thinking lol.

Triple play helps secure East softball win over CR Washington – KWWL – Eastern Iowa Breaking News, Weather, Closings

Local news online picture of brooke sliding home for our first point of the game

Local newspaper sports opening page for us with daughter covering 1st (she plays 2nd base)