I'll admit, I am not the best at keeping in contact with old friends; it was just about a year ago that I decided to create a facebook account so that I could see pictures of friends (and their kids) who are out of town. In that time, I have gained nearly a hundred friends! However, I am still not good at hunting down old friends, so it is nice when I get a friend request from someone I haven't talked to in years because most likely, it would take me decades to hunt them down.
A couple of weeks ago, I got a friend request from someone I knew in college; she hunted me down at the request of another friend who was looking for me to invite me to play in the Webster U. women's basketball alumni game.
In spite of it being the middle of basketball season (coaching), finals week, and the holidays, I decided to take a few hours to catch up with some old friends from my basketball years at Webster.
The game was today, so I spent my afternoon back on Gorlok turf.
Before arriving, I naturally assumed that we would NOT play an entire basketball game--I mean, come on. Two 20-minute halves? Seriously. YEP, that's exactly what we did. A bunch of old-timers out there huffing and puffing up and down the court. After the first 5 minutes of the game, both teams went to a zone defense. Good decision.
We had one player on our team who just graduated last year, so my team played a 1-3-1 zone for a while and she chased the guards all over the court. I played down low and got in on couple of traps.
Aside from my pulled hammy, I had a thoroughly enjoyable time. Casey told me that if I tore or broke anything, don't bother coming home until it's fixed. But the bum knee held up, even after all the time I've spent on the freshmen girls' tile practice court at Lindbergh this season.
After the game, the current coach got a photo of all 23 alumni together. And I started humming the locker room song from "A League of Their Own": "We're all for one and we're one for all." :)
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