Disc Golf Lesson/Girls Basketball Game

Today was my final day working with Mrs. McKinley's class. Bothwell is putting in a new Disc Golf course behind the school. The course will have 4 holes to begin, hopefully adding 5 more in the future to make a 9 hole course. For today, I used our PE portable nets for the course and set up 8 holes behind the school. I instructed the students on how to throw the Frisbee and the rules of play. I then broke them into pairs and assigned them a hole to begin with. The pairs had their own score card and a marker to keep track of how many throws it took them to make it into the net. The students were really excited to play and it was a sunny warm fall afternoon. I was excited to be able to teach the students how to play the game since their will soon be a course in their "backyard" so to say. Before we began I asked the class of 28 students if any of them had ever played and only 2 students raised their hands.

This evening I spent my time working the clock at the 7th and 8th grade Girls Basketball games. I'm happy to report that both teams played really well and I saw some great sportsmanship from both Bothwell and the visiting Negaunee teams. I have been really impressed with the caliber of play from the 8th grade squad. They are an extremely talented group of young athletes. Their court awareness and tenacity on defense bring them to a higher level of play then most middle school teams can handle. They are really fun to watch and I am glad I can help out by working the clock.