Well, this past weekend was definitely a rough one and Texas is still my least favorite trip!! We left Thursday morning and played Southwestern on Friday and Trinity on Sunday. I do not know what was wrong with us this weekend but we could not throw the basketball in the ocean if our lives depended on it. We shot horribly as a team. Despite the poor shooting, we were able to pull off a win at Southwestern but Trinity got the better of us. We got home early Monday morning with one win, one loss, and I got the bonus prize of a black eye. (Some people tell me that basketball is not a contact sport, HA, they have obviously never actually played the sport then!!) The weekend did not end up like we were hoping that it would, but that is now the past and we have to look towards the future.

Two big games this weekend, Friday we are playing Colorado College and then we have Austin College on Sunday. Our assistant coach from last year is now the head coach at Colorado, so we are all looking forward to seeing her!! We love you Liz!! So this weekend should be fun.

School is still killing me. One of the best parts and yet one of the worst parts about going on trips is that we have to miss class. It is great because who does not want to miss class, but it sucks because you have to make sure you stay up on your work. I, unfortunately, decided to not take any of my books on this trip and now I am playing catch up. It is not horrible, I am almost all the way caught up, but it still adds stress to the pot.

There is the saying "Time flies when you are having fun." Unfortunately, that is not the only case when time seems to fly. School has officially been back in session a week and a half and even though I am only taking three classes this semester, I feel as if I have so much I have to do and absolutely no time to do it in. And I am sure that senioritis has nothing to do with it whatsoever.....but, um, yeah, moving on. We finished our non-conference schedule a couple weeks ago with a defeat over Maryville and a record of 8-1 (9-1 if you count Birmingham Southern who is in our conference but do not count as conference games since then were a D-I program a couple years ago). We have then won our last 3 conference games against Sewanee, Hendrix, and Millsaps.

To keep a long story short, we ended up winning all three games fairly handily. We are playing well right now and we need to continue it through the rest o f the season and into the tournaments. We play two tough games this weekend as we travel to Texas, which is one of my least favorite trips. But if we could come home with two big wins like we got this past weekend, it would make the trip so much more enjoyable!! Go Petrels Go!!

Oh, Katie Kulavic, our All-American broke the school record for assists this past Sunday against Millsaps. Congrats Katie!!

After a long trip, we are home now with a couple more victories. It is never easy playing on the road, especially in our conference, so while the wins were not pretty, we are happy to just get the W and move on. Luckily, we got back to Atlanta at about 9 Sunday night so we were able to get a good nights rest before going over to some of the local churches and giving camps to some of the middle school kids in the area. Surprisingly, it was actually a lot of fun. While it is good to help teach the younger generations about the wonderful game of basketball, sometimes those camps can be a dread and just drag on, but the girls were good and worked hard and made it fun for everyone. Oh, this is also the second week in a row that we have had the SCAC player of the week. Last week it was Tina Grace and this week it is Anna Findley. Anna is our absolutely amazing three point shooter and below is her preparing to drive to the basket.

Coach then pulled a surprised to all of us. We were scheduled to have practice later that afternoon. It was pretty much a toss up of how this practice was going to go. On one hand we did have a game coming up this Wed, but on the other we did not play very well this weekend and he might want to whip us into shape and get our minds right. To our relief though, Coach decided that running us to death was not the best idea and took us bowling instead. Now normally I am not a very good bowler, but something was clicking on the first game we played and I rolled a new personal best of 151. It was so exciting!! It was almost like going to the Final Four all over again....well maybe not quite that exciting, but it was still pretty cool!!

Now we have to look to what lies ahead. We are off to play Maryville tomorrow up in Tenn. It is gonna be a tough game. I have yet to win a game in their gym and hopefully we will be able to change that tomorrow. Then we have another conference weekend. This time we face Sewanee at home. I am glad that this year we are not traveling the weekend before classes start (we head back to school on Jan 12 L). Yeah, I am pretty much just not looking forward to going back to class at all, but it is something I just cant avoid right now, so I guess I will just have to enjoy my last week of pure basketball and prepare for the tests and quizzes to come at a later date.