Both of the girls are playing in the Monster Bash tournament this weekend in Shawnee. Gentry played in it last year and loved it aside from the fact that her brilliant coach at the time made them all dress like Disney princesses. Not the ideal costume if you are trying to sike your opponent out. This year her team has chosen to be the Hummer Hippies and Syd’s team is going to be some sort of bird zombies.  This is a big weekend for Sydie because it’s her first tournament as a Phenix. 

I’m very pleased with the coaches the girls have right now. Both are very aggressive but yet genuinely seem to care about the players as individuals. Syd’s coach is a teacher and the first night of practice she handed out composition notebooks then assigned softball related homework each week. Thank goodness she has since backed off on that because the extra assignments were ticking Syd off royally.  

It’s not unusual for Gentry’s coach to set the girls up to scrimmage an older, more experienced team in order to push them to excel. Last night the girls played the KU softball club team. This team was comprised mostly of KU students who may or may not be on the KU softball team but still play competitive ball. Talk about intimidating. When we were walking up to the fields I said, “Whoa! Good thing you’re not playing those girls. They’re huge! What?? Ooopsy, turns out you ARE playing them. Ew. Well,… I’ll be over here. Good luck Sis!” (I do what I can).