THE SPORTS ARENA

 


My husband’s maternal grandfather, Harry Brasier’s hockey team in 1898-99.  Harry is on the left end of the 2nd of 4 loosely formed rows.

Later Harry played for a larger team.  Here he is on the right end of the 2nd row wearing a black sleeveless tee & holding a hockey stick threatening the poor guy seated on the ground to his left. 

1981 – Our son, the goalie, and his soccer team in Oakhurst, California.

1981 – eldest daughter and her soccer team.

Eldest daughter in action on the soccer field during her first year playing the game!

1981 – youngest daughter and her soccer team.

It was interesting to watch all the parents splitting up and running around trying, like us, to watch all our children playing on different teams on Saturday mornings in different areas of the local high school fields.  And then the high school JV football team would come out to play a game on the football field and heads would swing around yet again.  Fun times.

In 1983 and 1984 both of our girls played Bobby Sox Softball and the team won two back-to-back championships.  Youngest daughter is kneeling on the left of the first row; eldest daughter is 3rd in from the left in the second row.  She was one of their pitchers.

Eldest daughter, seated here on the right end of the first row, played volleyball in high school.  This photo is from 1988 or 1989.

1990-91 – Both girls played high school basketball and were on the varsity team together.  Youngest daughter is up top on the right kicking her leg up.  Her sister is just below her.

1991 – Both girls also played softball in high school.  Not sure why youngest daughter isn’t in this photo?  Eldest daughter is in the second row, second from right.

Youngest daughter went on to play basketball at the college level.  Here, in 1992-93, she’s sitting in the middle of the team with her arms wrapped around her knees.  She only played for one year, however.  She loved the game but team players could only carry a certain number of units and she realized it was going to take her too long to get her teacher’s credential that way.  So no more basketball.

And then it was the grandkids’ turn!  

All our grandchildren were into one sport or another.  All three of our son’s kiddos played softball.

Here’s a shot in 2020 of our youngest daughter’s youngest daughter bending down at the right end of the second row with her high school basketball team.  Like her older sister, she was a talented point guard and their team won the Section Championship that year.

Our youngest daughter’s son was the quarterback of his 2022 high school football team who were State Champions that year.  Exciting stuff.  He is in the top row, 6th in from the left. 

And youngest daughter’s eldest daughter, seen here in the middle of the first row in 2018, like her Mom, played basketball at the college level.  The team posed casually for this photo rather than in uniform.

I played field hockey, basketball, and softball, and participated in track & field events, but only within high school PE classes.  Sometimes I wish I had been more active in sports playing on extra curricular teams, but oh well.  I was a cheerleader and that’s a sport all its own.  We jumped up & down, kicked up our heels, and waved pom poms all over the place.  Plenty of sports activity there! J

Jumping high on the left during a rally is yours truly.   


 I’m 3rd in from the left.  Little did I know then, that 20 years later . . .

 

  . . . I’d once again be kicking up my heels – this time in a chorus line called the Grub Gulch Garter Girls.  

:-> 

La Nightingail    

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