Friday, June 5, 2009

Basketball Camp

This week Matt got to attend a basketball camp at one of the local High Schools (the one, barring any boundary changes, he will attend when the time comes...). He had a lot of fun!

Yesterday was the last day & they had competitions for camp champion in each grade level 3-5 in four different drills. He made the finals for freethrowing & won! He was/is so excited & we are so proud of him!

I really loved the camp too. My main goals for him attending were
1. For him to have fun (check)
2. For him to get a little structured bball time (check)
3. For him to get to interact with some of the high school players (check)
4. For it to be a good experience (check).
I loved how much fun the head coach & all the high school players helping seemed to enjoy putting on the camp -

Final verdict 2 thumbs up from Team Armadillo for Team Titan! And HOORAY for Matt!


Waiting for his turn to shoot... I could tell he was nervous by the way he balled up his fists.


I love the "please go in!" posture.


Getting his trophy from the head coach.

I cannot handle the cute look of accomplishment & happiness on his face in this one!

Matt & the Head Coach.

Local celebrity (to all the awestruck kids) this young man will be playing for one of the major local universities that has a pretty great basketball program. And, yes, he can dunk.

A close up of the trophy.


4 comments:

Papasan said...

Congratulations Matt !!!
All that hard work and hard play, and beating your dad and I, has paid off. Watch out Kobe - Matt is on his way!!! Keep on practicing and keep on having fun!!!
Papasan

Becca said...

Good work, Matt! What a good looking kid.

Papasan said...

Matt will be forever known now as "Super Shooter", the boy who beat the best in the Midwest.

But he will also have to teach his skills to Nolan because that is what "Big Brothers" do.

Annastasha said...

Awww sooo cute to see my little nephew playing bball!!! Yay! And we're both so excited that he won the free throw contest! Way to go Matt!