Real Life: Basketball Banquet ~ 2022

Monday, March 21, 2022

Basketball Banquet ~ 2022

We had a crazy busy week with Mike leaving on Saturday to go on his week long golf trip to Arizona, a bridal shower to attend Sunday, another away game on Tuesday night, meetings and then the basketball banquet Thursday night. Mike was again so bummed to miss this event but I had him on FaceTime for over an hour so he could watch the awards and hear the speeches!!!

The banquet started with some good food and then awards. The girls basketball team also joined the banquet and awards and they went first.

So much could be said about the Warriors this year! The girls did a lot better than last year! And the boys team was incredible!!!! Here are the accomplishments they brought to Linville Hill Christian School this year:

They had one win after the next in the season and took us to our first ever to the CCAC Basketball Championship!!!! Our family was in Florida on vacation, except for Matthew. He stayed home and focused on basketball! Mike flew home for this game and won't have missed it for nothing! Even though the Warriors lost this game, they finished in second place in the CCAC!!! That's to be celebrated!

Then they qualified for the Districts 3 Playoffs as the second seed. We hosted this game in our home gym and packed the house out! This win took us to HERSHEY, PA!!!!

At the Giant Center, the Warriors won again and it was our first District 111 Championship for Linville Hill!!!! This was such a fun day! To play at the Giant Center is a huge honor and the boys did so well! Plus we got some Hershey chocolate and hung out with the team all day long!

After the District 111 wins, the Warriors were not finished yet! No, no! We moved further in the States Tournament and faced the Quarter Finals, securing a position in the elite 8!!! This topped us within the top eight 1A schools in Pennsylvania! We lost playing in the Martz Hall Gymnasium and it was another HUGE honor to play here and met our match! The Warriors were voted as Best Sportsmanship within the CCAC East!

Look how proud these boys are!!!! Tim Fisher, Matthew Lapp and Jesse Landis all received team awards. Matthew got the MVP!

And one thing the coaches all said was how it takes a whole team of boys to get where they did this year!!!! Such a good group of young men and Waltz said, "There are two words to finish this season with .. UNFINISHED BUISNESS!!!" We will be back next year, ready and strong to play again!

Matthew and Tim both gave speeches and expressed their appreciation to the coaches and all those who made this possible for the team! I love this kid so much!!!!

GOOD JOB MATTHEW!!!

Every coach shed tears at one point in their speeches. I was touched by that! They really did come to be like a family during this season! They had practices almost every day! They all worked so hard! They have so much good to say about the boys and vice versa! We are incredibly blessed to have these good, Godly leaders in our boys lives!