Hillary was so excited to play Jr. Jazz basketball this year. She loves the sport and has really enjoyed playing everywhere we have lived. She was happy to be on this team where she knew one girl, Karlee, from our ward. The rest of the team were 8th and 9th graders with her and Karlee being the only 7th graders. She started out quite shy and timid. Her coach had to stick duct tape on her leg to remind her which leg to take off of when shooting. She had never fouled anyone in her life and I didn't think she ever would with the way she hung around the outside. But with a fabulous coach and some really great girls, she stepped up and by the end of the season she had fouled 3 people!
They went undefeated all season against some tough teams that played very aggressive! In the tournament, Grandma Swensen had promised that she would pay Hillary if she would foul someone, just to get her more aggressive. She got one foul in the first tournament game and got $5! That must have light a fire under her because in the last game, she fouled in the first 7 seconds of the game! She got one more, but she played the best she has played all season. It was a nail biter game but her team came out on top 22-15! Way to go girls!
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