Monday, December 11, 2006

Jackson Starts His Hoops Career

Jackson started playing basketball recently, in the Upward program at Calvary.  His Tigers had their first game on Saturday.  Upward is a very structured program, with mandated roughly-equal playing time.  At this age, they don't keep score and have a constant clock.  To prevent the hoop equivalent of beehive soccer, each kid on the floor gets a colored wristband, matching the color of one of the 5 kids on the other team.  That's how they know who to guard. 

One of my friends at work has a son on the team, too.  And my boss had a daughter who cheers for us (well, they cheer for all the teams at once).

In his first game, Jackson was awarded what we considered the top award:  "Most Christ-like".  (at the risk of being un-Christ-like by thinking of it as the top award)  He is such a good-hearted kid.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

sounds like he is a lot like his Dad!