We Are The Champions...Again. :)

Yes, I'm ultra-competitive. Yes, I love the fact that my girls have managed to now pull out two championships. Last fall they won the FCC State Championship. Out of 18 or 19 schools, they were able to end on top. This weekend they ended on top out of 6 to win the pre-season tournament hosted by Heritage Christian in Kissimmee.

They didn't take the easy way to get there. We lost our second game today, which of course happened to be against my sister's school. That sent us to the loser's bracket. We waited for a few games. Then the madness began... We had to win four matches in a row to win the tournament. If we lost even one, we were completely done.

To be honest, I didn't think we had it in us today. We were missing some team players and just hadn't really played to potential. The first match we were able to win in just two games. The next match was against a team we beat easily yesterday, but they had greatly improved. We ended up having to take it to three games to win. That brought us back to my sister's team again. My girls stepped up...it took three games, but they pulled it out, much to the surprise of most people in the gym.

On to the championship! Wow. We played against Eastland. They have improved quite a bit and had already beaten us when we played them on Friday. They had not lost a match the entire tournament. We again chose to take it to three games instead of two, but we started the last game well and slowly began to pull away. Yes! Finally one that didn't require too much raising of my blood pressure.

I'm not a fan of putting a bigger target on our backs, but tonight I celebrate that they pulled out the victory. Hopefully we will be able to push forward throughout the season and win another state championship.