Sports Night 2014 - BLUE TEAM WINS!

Sports Night 2014

Step Right Up To Blue



     I know I've said it before and I guess I'm going to say it again. But only because I am incredibly proud of my sister and her team. And I know this blog post is a day late, but hey better late than never. Plus I'm still trying to get my life back in order after the whirlwind that is St. Mary's Sports Night. Not even having been a participant in this year's competition I feel like I was.

     I did everything possible to support and assist my sister and her captains, her team, in every and any way that I could. I chaperoned practices for hours on end, helped teach Blue Karaoke a stunt, cleaned up glass when they accidentally broke a mirror on the gym floor. Everything from taking and ordering a few dozen sweatshirts, making sure every guest Caroline invited was decked out from head to toe in Blue Team spirit gear. I gave up my days off to help with building her entrance prop and touching up the mural.

     I made more trips to AC Moore and Michael's in a month than I ever had to make when I was crafting for Tri Delta. Believe me that's a lot of trips. But in the end it was all worth, even if they hadn't won both teams performed amazingly. The show was great and it was great to be in the stands and be able to know not one or two, but a majority of the girls on both the Blue and the White team. Being a spectator can be just as much fun as being a participant.

     I'm glad that my sister had as much fun with Sports Night as I did when I was at St. Mary's. I'm glad she had as much fun as our mother did when she was on the Blue Team at St. Mary's. In our family Blue Team is a legacy and I hope to continue that legacy well into the future.



Family
Post Blue Team Victory

Blue Team Overall Captains

"We Love Our Overall"

Blue Overall Captains
Entrance

Blue Team Overall Captains & White Team Overall Captains

 Blue Karaoke Routine

Blue Karaoke

Sports Night 2014

Remember the days of Sport Night sweatshirts?? Spirit Week?? Practices??

Glitter hairspray and ribbons pinned to skirts??

Not even close to ancient history for me! Because if my little sister is the overall captain ... then I'm going to support her every step of the way! 

YEAH BLUE!

Live from St. Mary's High School!

Tonight I'm returning to my roots, my old stomping ground if you will. I am the official chaperone of not one, not two but three different Sports Night practices!
I'm not sure how I feel about being the responsible adult that chaperones things, but it's fun to be included in something again that I once found to be so much fun. I still do find it fun, I'm living vicariously through my sister I guess as an honorary member, maybe captain, of the Blue Team.
St. Mary's Sports Night is a 50+ year legacy, one that's in jeopardy and that's unfortunate. This is a legacy, a tradition that alumni women bond over, it's something you remember years later and tell you daughters about. Being a part of Blue Team, even White Team, is something that made my high school experience that much more memorable.
My senior year I was lucky enough to be part of the 50th anniversary of Sports Night, a three night event that not only included but involved the returning alumni. These women who graduated five, ten, fifteen, even twenty years ago were so excited and over joyed about being a part of the event again. We involved these ladies as more than just spectators, they were participants.
We broke tradition that year with a third night of performances, a tradition of a two night performance. Two chances to show off all your handwork and rock that gym like you're on Dancing With The Stars. That tradition is no more unfortunately.
The current principle decided to change it from two night to one night! Taking away a night of Sports Night is taking away a chance for the girls to show off how hard they worked over the last few months. Friends and family must now fight for tickets in order to see their daughters, sisters, cousins, friends perform. As an alumni of not only Sports Night but St. Mary's I find this to be completely ridiculous and unfair. The girls put their blood, sweat and tears into Sports Night and now they deserve their two nights.
I myself looked forward to returning to St. Mary's for the high anniversaries, 75, 100, and however many others I could. But now I worry that they may not happen at all. If this tradition is being cut off at the knees there's a chance it may not last to see 75 years, let alone 100! This is an event that turns girls in leaders and being robbed of that opportunity it truly sad.
So to all you alumni out there continue to support Sports Night, because it would be a tragedy for future generations to lose such an amazing tradition.