Jensen's first Basketball Tournament with Warriors!

Jensen is number 7
He loves a good game of "DeFeNsE!"

Here he is ready to make a play!

With sports we have come to expect...well nothing. We had high expectations with Spencer going through the program, unfortunately sports programs in general have politics. We don't play the political games, I don't volunteer for the PTA because of politics, I lay low in almost every aspect of groups, for some reason the mind games that go along with groups of people just rub me and Jeff wrong, so we stay out of it. Our passive stance can be summarized by the game definition below:

King of the Hill (game)
From Wikipedia
King of the Hill , is a game, the object of which is to stay on top of a large hill or pile as the "King of the Hill". Other players attempt to knock the current King off of the pile and take their place, thus becoming the new King of the Hill.
The way the "king" can be removed from the hill depends largely on the rules determined by the players before the game starts. Ordinarily pushing is the most common way of removing the king from the hill, but there are significantly rougher variations where punching or kicking is allowed.
Use as a metaphor
The name of the game has become a common metaphor for any sort of competitive zero-sum game or social activity in which a single winner is chosen from among multiple competitors, and a hierarchy is devised by the heights the competitors achieve on the hill, and where

winning can only be achieved at the cost of displacing the previous winner.

I think we have instilled our distaste for politics in our children, we are all equal with different gifts and talents that compliment each other. There is no need for a "star player" because without the rest of the surrounding people there would be no game.

This is Jensen's third basketball team, as a newcomer to a team, you are at the "bottom of the Hill", he has to prove his talents every time he begins a new team, and we are so proud of his determination and attitude. He was able to start his second game yesterday and made

12 points!

As rewarding as it is to see your children succeed...the unfortunate part is that the kids that have been on the team much longer had to take a bench seat for Jensen to play. You could see the disapointment on their faces. We have seen this look from our children at different times, and it's so sad that to succeed someone else has to fail.

Don't know where that all came from, I didn't sleep well last night?