Ashe's Summer Basketball League

Wednesday of this past week, Ashe started his summer basketball league. In the picture on the left, he's #24 with the fresh sweat band on his head!! Molly and two other mothers from his school are running it. It's not a "camp". It's a league, with no practices. The intent is for the kids to improve their skills and play in actual games. They play seven games (one a week) in the summer. They tried out to be placed on the most appropriate team. Not many kids got cut. The coaches did it that way to place them on a team; and, ensure they sincerely wanted to play.

Ashe's game play is interesting. He's got natural skill, and he's an acknowledged good shooter (acknowledged by his coaches and teammates), but he's not aggressive and gets so distracted, he sometimes has a harder time than he should. Anyway, he has fun and that's what matters. I'm proud of him too. He found something in life he really, really enjoys.

Ashe is #24. Hmmm....I wonder who his favorite NBA player is?? ;)

His team played the first game of the night. They appeared to be way over matched, with the half-time score being 20-2. They ended up outscoring the other team in the second half, but still lost the game 32-20. It was sort of a cool second half comeback, though.

It's a great summer so far!!