Sports Nuts

Alex and Andrew are really excited to go see the Utah Jazz vs. the Sacrament Kings tonight. Our tickets are pretty good and Alex, especially, is quite excited to see Deron Williams and Paul Milsap play. The Jazz are doing pretty well and are currently 6-2 I think.

Alex is a bit of a sports fanatic and will watch just about any competitive sport available. He is a bit small for his age but is amazingly coordinated and lightning fast. On his soccer team last season, he ran the field scoring 70-80% of his teams goals. His coach was Rock Boulter, the husband of his violin teacher. Rock is apparently quite a competitive guy and just loved having Alex on his team.

David Nimmer has a son on Alex’s team (and has a daughter, Marissa, on Katy’s Celtic Storm team) and was trying to talk me into coaching a Competitive Team next year with Isaiah and Alex on the same team. Isaiah is also in Alex’s Spanish Immersion class at Orchard Elementary. They seem to be pretty good friends. I think it would be a lot of fun coaching Alex’s team again, but I don’t think I have the time for it. David Nimmer would love to be the coach (and has offered to be the assistant coach) but is already head coach of a different son of his and is asst. coach on another daughter’s team. I’ll have to think about it, but when I mentioned it to Dalliene, she reminded me how busy I already am with 5 kids and soccer and my church calling and my job etc. etc. Oh well, we’ll see.