This weekend Brandon, Brooke and I went down to Notre Dame with mom and dad to watch AJ's ROTC Basketball team compete in the 22nd Flyin' Irish Invitational. There were over 40 big name schools there.. I think Olivet was the only private Christian school there among schools like Notre Dame, Marquette, Virginia Tech, Texas A&M and many others... It was pretty amazing... This was the first year that AJ's program was big enough to have a team and they weren't expected to show quite as well as these other big name schools. They just kept winning however! With a deep bench, and unending energy they played 3 games on Saturday and 4 games on Sunday to go all the way to the FINALS! Their final game was in the Joyce Center, the main Notre Dame Arena, against the Aggies of Texas A&M. The game was intense and close the whole time... but with energy spent and injuries putting a strain on the team Texas A&M ended up winning in the last few minutes.. One parent joked that it took 4 battalions to beat Olivet: Texas' team was made up of Army, Air Force, Marines, and Navy. It was an exhausting but very fun weekend getting to see AJ and watch him play. Brandon made friends with "army guys and airplane guys," who dribbled and passed with him and even danced together with ipods! GOOD JOB AJ!
Monday, January 21, 2008
AJ's ROTC Basketball team
Posted by the troyers at 8:30 AM
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