GLORY, GLORY!!!!!!

So, Behka had to bring up the Good Ol' Glory days. If you haven't read hers, follow the linkage. Pretty fun! It's funny to go back.....way back, to the Glory DAZE. Here's a few pics of Jared and me in our PRIME...Yeah, Baby. I'll try to paint a picture of how awesome we were back in the day. Go # 20!! Junior High AAU at its best right here. Just look at those legs, I think Junior High was the last time I legally could wear short shorts, although I've tried since. Lets see if I can remember everyone's name....23, Camille Cruz; 25, Suzanne Marsh; 15, Jody Sasse; 13, Kimberly Leonard; 21, Mandy Wood; 14, Anne Krohn; 20, ME!!; 10, Kristi Butorac; 22, Angie Icantremember; 12, Lindsay Taylor. JH AAU was fun. We'd always get crushed by the Jordettes, seriously, that part was not fun.

You can still be pretty and play ball too!! Okay, so I couldn't find any pictures of me from HS, but I had to add this one in just for my husband because...See me with the tall red head?? Yes, he's Brian Scalabrine...plays for the Boston Celtics. For some reason Jared loves to tease me about him. He was never a boyfriend, although he would have liked to be (who wouldn't), but he was a good friend to me. HS ball was great. Dad always rebounded for me, taught me ALL I know....my senior year he would talk about "my bag of tricks". This referred to some of my offensive scoring moves. I had a great bag of tricks...... back in the day. Amazingly my team made it to state and we took 4th. Quite an accomplishment for us.

Here's my extremely talented husband....

Very athletic....quick on his feet....scoring machine. Every once in awhile we'll break out our highlight tapes from HS. Jared could drive to the basket like no other. Slicin' and Dicin', around defenders, jukin' and jivin'. He always found a way to the basket and could always finish....and one.
Jared was also a Football all-star. He was a receiver. He held the PHS career record for number of catches, Touchdowns and yards, until 2002 when his record was broke, he moved to #2. Then he was pushed back to #3 when the record was CRUSHED by a future Washington Husky. We don't bring this up....it's still pretty touchy. His Senior year he was a STATE CHAMPION!! Go Mustangs.

Ricks was exciting. I got to start as a freshmen. As I'm writing this I can hear The Eye of the Tiger, we ran out of the tunnel to The Eye of the Tiger, Oh the memories...great warm-up tape Kaly!! We went to Salina, Kansas for Nationals. We took 5th, is that right?? I loved my team. We had some fun times. One of my favorite memories is when SJ really made coacher mad at practice, so coacher took her jacket off and threw it on the floor and yelled at SJ "Do you want to be the coach?!!!" Wow! I also had my fair share of making coacher mad. Coach Grant was awesome, I think he kept all us girls sane, but I hated doing the close out drills.

Here we are!! I like this picture of me because it makes me look athletic, even though I'm pretty positive I missed this lay-up, because I always missed my lay-ups. My 3 point percentage has always been higher than my 2.

My freshmen year Jared played too. That's how we met!! I looked forward to every road trip so I could sit with him on the bus and flirt. Jared enjoyed his teammates, but not Coach Nelson so much. He's a yeller. They also went to Nationals. They finished 8th I think.

After my Freshmen year, Jared and I got married and he was my #1 fan my sophomore year. Lucky ME!!!

Washington State wanted me to play for them after Ricks, but I was ready to be done. Good thing, cause Hailey came along soon after.

So, no stats or anything too fancy, but ball was a big part of my life for a really long time. I also should mention that Behka and I were Spanish Fork City League CHAMPS, more than once!! We also played Provo VB and took 2nd, and played in the Canyonlands VB tournament and took 2nd as well. We still have great moments every once in awhile.