Upward Basketball

Aubrey has been practicing for 3 weeks and today was her 

Upward Basketball debut!

The league is at the Gateway Nazarene church in Oskaloosa!

A little nervous before the big game! 

They create QUITE the entrance!

For each game, they blow up this big tunnel and turn off the lights

and announce each players name!

SO FUN!!!

Go LADY EAGLES! (white team this time)

They play 4 on 4 - here they are pointing to which basket they are going toward!

This was actually the first play of the game.

She was supposed to PASS it in, but she wanted to take off dribbling :)

LOTS to learn in the first game!

Ref explaining to her that she should PASS it in :)

(He's also the head of the league)

Taking a break!

It is all calculated on the ipad who goes in and who goes out 

and each game they are awarded a "star" that you iron on their shirts

for defensive effort or passing, etc. - It's really a cool system! 

I didn't catch it on camera BUT. . . 

AUBREY MADE A BASKET!

Avery displaying the "ONE ONE" for #11

They divide the game into six - 6 minute periods

and each girl gets to play 4 periods.  

catching the pass to bring it down the court 

She was handling the ball pretty well by the end of the day.