This week is Spring Break. It was so overdue!
Finally I have time to hang out everyday with my friends. I hang out with different people on Friday, Saturday and today. Lexi and Brandon are back from Mexico and California.
I gotta say I love the telephones at Training Table.

"Hi.What do you want to order?"
"Hi. It's Carolin, How are you?"
"aehm.. good. How about you?"
"Pretty good. Just the weather could be ebtter for spring break."
"ahh..."
"I want a large Frensh Fries and six Water and Fries Souce."

10 Minutes later:

"Hi! It's me again!"

Comment Brandon: Carolin... most people just say what they want to order...

Updates about the games I played this week:

Tuesday: Varsity against Murray
Olympus 16 - 4 Murray


Friday:
Varsity against Bountiful
Olympus 21 - 0 Bountiful

JV against Juan Diego
Olympus 7 - 3 Juan Diego

Varsity record 5-3
JV record 5-1

Holladay has the measles! The last week was kind of a joke in school. The Thursday before they announced an emergency faculty meeting. The next day half of the teachers and 50 students were gone. The reason: The first confirmed case of measles since 2005. Everybody without immunization has to stay home till April 25. And home means home! My friends who have to stay home keep texting me how bored they are, because they can't even go grocery shopping. Sarah planned a trip to California for Spring Break, but she can't go. We had 26 substitutes in school. Out of my 7 teachers 5 were gone!
A few days after it started at Olympus, Skyline, Evergreen and William Pen had the same problem.
I can just say I'm so glad to have my vaccine.

Last monday we played Bingham. It was our first season game and we beat them already twice in preseason. This time we got killed in the first few minutes and were down by 5 pretty fast. Later we learned, that they didn't play with JV against us, instead they borrowed their varsity players. We played a dang good game though and with a little bit more time... But... we lost 5:8.
Wednesday as a stake dance party (church: the people I go to church with are in my ward. A stake a many wards together). It was much fun.

I want to tell about the greatest team I’ve ever seen. The last months I spent every day with our basketball team. I watched them playing a great season, saw them winning and losing. But all the time there was never one player who wasn’t part of the team. Every single one of the worked hard at practice and supported each other. After we lost the region championship against Highland we went to the state tournaments to play in the first round against Odgen High. Our game was at 9:30 during school time. We drove about an hour to Weber State University and walked in through the team entrance. For a second everyone stood in the middle of the court and stared at the huge, empty arena. Then the guys changed in the locker room and started to warm up. I wrapped some feet and gave them their electrolytes. They were all so nervous and had a hard time to sit calm while I was working. Odgen had almost a home game. They had a huge orange student section, but we had also two fan busses organized and everyone got out of school for the game.

At 9:30 after the starters were announced the game started. We played with fear, we didn’t play our game and were down the first half by 10 points. But 80 seconds before the buzzer ended the first half we suddenly woke up .

Tanner

Carter

Jordan


Colton

With three steals we were back and almost up by one (it was out of bounce, so the last three pointer didn’t count).
The second half was our half. We played a great game that continual switched the lead between us and Odgen. When the buzzer ended the second half the scoreboard said 47-47. Overtime. Our guard Sam leaded the team. At one point he walked to Will and we could see that he told him something that gave Will a lot of confidence.
Will

Sam

The overtime was a thriller and was followed by a second overtime.

Colton cramped and the team brought it in to talk. After the second overtime it finally said 59-53. We won, because we were a team that fought for every ball and never gave up.

The days later we drove again to Weber State to face Woods Cross in the second round of the tournaments. We played them in our region and won and lost a game. Everyone was positive before the game and in a good mood.

Nic
When we arrived at the arena we could walk over the court because there were games before. We walked through the tunnel system to get to our locker room. Everyone talked and just followed JT who walked at the front. Well, nobody had a plan where we have to go and after a while Carter said: “Hey guys… that’s where we came in. We walked a full round…” We walked again and after half of the lab all the coaches stood laughing in front of the locker room and asked if the guys wanted to warm up before they changed.

The best student section of all.

The game started similar to the last one, only worse. We were down by 13 points and it looked like we had no chance to change that. At halftime the mood was down. But you should stop believing in this team before the game is over. During the second half we dominated. Slowly coming back and a few minutes before the end we finally were up! It was crazy. I think basketball games are increasing the risk for heart attacks. At least that was what I felt during many of the games. One minute to go we were up by one point. Twenty seconds before the end, Sam gets a 1-and-1, but missed. Woods Cross took the ball down and scored. Down by one we shoot, but the ball jumped of the rim and the buzzer ended our dreams. At this point the most impressive and emotional part starts. With the buzzer Sam broke down on the court and Tanner walked to him and talked to him.

Every face was full of pain.

Colton just stood on the court staring at some point far away. The next half an hour nobody talked much.

JT
Everyone waited quietly for the guys who were in the locker room. When the guys came out every one of them had a red swollen face and was crying.

I was very impressed by Sam who came to every trainer, parent and coach and thanked us for everything we did for the team.

The guys all laid down on the middle of the court. After a few minutes one started laughing and one by one everyone joined in. They stood up and got together for a last big hug and while they stand on the court everyone around them started clapping and crying with a smile on the face.

At the celebration banquet all seniors were asked to fill in a questionnaire. One of the question was: “What was your biggest disappointment?” I thought they all would write to lose against Woods Cross, but they stared at this question until Tanner said: “I don’t know what to write. This season had no
disappointments for me. Even when we lost, we gave our best and fought. Every moment was great.”

The sportsmedicine team: Mike, me, Laurie

Last weekend I went to the general young women meeting with Allison. It was in the conference center and 20,000 young women and their Moms were there and many people watched it at home on their TV. Some leaders were talking and the choir sung and I met many of my friends there.

Last wednesday we played Pleasant Grove and won 13:1.

I scored my first goal! And played the full game as a D-Wing.

Yesterday we had a parent scrimmage. It was much fun. First everyone coached their parents and then the JV parents played against the Varsity parents.
JV won!
Then varsity played their parents and the parents won and we lost against our parents too.

But it was much fun. Last night we had a team sleepover and we had a great time. Varsity came and toilet papered our house.

Lacrosse is going great. Last weekend we had a tournament and won it with the JV team. First time Olympus took it!

Last week we played Cache Valley
Varsity: Olumpus 22 - 8 Cache Valley
JV: Olympus 9 - 2 Cache Valley

Yesterday we played Alta, one of the best teams in the state.

Varsity: Olympus 5 - 18 Alta
JV: Olympus 4 - 2 Alta (an incredible big win for us!)

Last weekend I played with the varsity team in Vegas. It was amazing. Today was the first JV game and the second Varsity game.

Varsity: Brighton 8 - 5 Olympus
JV: Brighton 5 - 6 Olympus

Door bell ditching is my new hobby! In the last week I did about 15 houses. We started Tuesday.
We had the biggest basketball game against Highland for the Regionchampionship. Unfortunally we lost it and when I drove back on the bus with the guys they were all soo sad and disappointed. I drove with Alex to fresh market and bought candybars and little cards. I wrote on the cards: You're amazing. Thanks for a great season. We'll rock state!" Then we drove to all the houses of the varsity guys and left the little gifts on their front porch. It was way fun, exspecially at Carter's hosue, because sprinting back I tripped and fell :D

The best thing was friday in sport medicine. I have it together with Carter, Tanner, Colton and Spencer and they sit right behind me so I could hear their conversation:

Carter: hey tanner, remember when you told me, that you got this card saying "Great season, We'll rock state" or something.. I got one last night!
Spencer: Yes, same. And some chocolate.
Tanner: i got Hershey's and something else with it.
Spencer: That's what I got
Colton: I got it tuesday after the game. When the doorbell rang I thought it's some highland kid who comes to get me!
Carter: I want to find out who that was!

It was epic to listen to that :D

Ok, but now to the most awkward night:
I told before that we have this thing here in Utah, that we don’t ask to dances in a normal way.
Morp is coming up (Prom backwards) and it is our last girls choice dance. Alex and I decided to take our full courage and ask some guys we really wanted to go with, but we weren’t close friends with.
Alex wanted to ask Buck, who is a pretty popular guy and sits in a wheelchair at the moment because he broke his leg on Heelys :D



Thursday night after my wardball game, we bought all the stuff we needed to ask. I bought a bunch of beach toys for little kids and a bucket. I wanted to fill it with sand, but couldn’t find any sand, so I used flour instead. In the flour were the letters of my name and I wrote on the bucket “I’d ‘dig it’ if you went to morp with me”. Alex made something really cute: she had a double picture frame. In one frame she put a picture of her and in the other she put a mirror. Then she wrote a note: You tell me… Can you see yourself going to morp with anyone else?
We drove to Colton’s house first. I was already freaking out in the car, because I was so scared to ask him. Alex parked in front of his house and I made one step out of the car and started throwing all the toys all over his front yard. Then I stopped and Alex whispered: Go! You can’t just stand there. Do it!
So I walked up the way to his front door to leave the bucket there and ring the doorbell, but when I was about to leave the bucket I saw that there was flour on his front porch. With out saying anything I turned around and walked back to the car. Alex thought I’m too scared and locked the door of the car! Laughing and crying in once the only thing I could say was “There is flour on his porch!” “I told you, you’ll make a mess with the flour, go now and drop the bucket off!” she respond. “Noooo, it’s not my flour! It was already there! Go and tell me that I’m wrong and it doesn’t look like somebody asked him in the same way I was going to!” Alex let me into the car and left to walk to his door. She came back laughing. “Well, you better pick up your stuff in his front yard”. “Noooooo! I don’t go back there! I do not care if he comes out tomorrow and thinks his neighbor went crazy!” I was completely freaking out, somewhere between laughing and crying and being way hysteric. I tried to make Alex call Colton and ask “Did you just get asked??” and hang up when he answers yes. After some wrestling for her phone I convinced her to text him. “Did you just get asked for the dance” - “yes, but by I junior, I wasn’t planning on her” – “Ok, stay awake and answer the door later, you’ll laugh” – “ok, haha?”
We left his house and drove the Buck, the guy Alex wanted to ask. She stopped at his house, I dropped her gift off and we drove back to Colton’s house. It was already 11:15 on a Thursday. I took the bucket and walked to his door again. I was laughing so hard, that I just sat down on the ground till Colton came out. He look very confused when he saw me.
Me: Hey Colton!
Colton: Hi Carolin?
Me: Did you get asked with the flour?
Colton: yes..
Me: Like I’d dig it and stuff?
Colton: What??
Me: I was going to ask you for the dance.
Colton: Oh no! I’m sorry!
Me: So I walked up here and saw the flour, guess what I brought you: More flour, now you can bake me a cake! And I guess I made a mess in your front yard.
Colton: I feel so bad now. I’m sorry. I didn’t know that she would ask me.
We were talking till about 11:40pm (the poor guy was freezing badly :D ). Then Alex drove me home. Right when I left the car she said: “I got a message”. The message said: “Hi alex. It’s buck, I got your number from facebook. Thanks for asking me. That was the cutest way I ever got asked. Unfortunally I got asked a couple of hours before. I’m sorry. I promise I will make it up soon enough, ok?”
We both were too late, and I asked a guy who got asked a few hours before in exactly the same way I was going to. How big are the chances? There are billion ways how you can ask!
It is sad because I really wanted to go with Colton, but that night was the funniest ever. I was lying in my bed till 2am just laughing!
Last night I asked a friend to go with me and I guess he’ll say yes. I’m cursed. Ever dance the guy I asked first said no. Brandon McBride for Monster Mash was asked a couple of hours before. Cody for Winter Formal had a wrestling tournament. Colton got asked before…

Basketball is coming to an end *cry*.
Last Thursday was Senior night for girls basketball. Senior night is the last home game and all the seniors get honored. My friend Arielle is the only senior on the girls team and we all went to see her game, because it was not only her senior night, it also as about the region championship. I watched my first game in the student section and it was very exciting. We won by two points and our girls became Region champions. They'll go to state next week. Arielle cut the net of the basket.


Friday was senior night for the boys. We have nine seniors on the team and it was very emotional. Every senior got introduced and walked with his parents on the court where he got flowers and they had this slow music with it and I almost cried, because it was not only their last home game, it also was my last home game as their trainer.
I want to introduce some of the guys I spent most of my free time with the last month.
Our five starters are Colton, Will, Carter, Tanner and Sam.

Colton (C-Stew) is our top scorer.


Carter

Sam (brother Williams) is the leader of the team. The student section talks about William’s Island and he has a little brother on the sophomore team.

Will is a junior and 6’7” tall. The student section invented the “cannon” for him, because his last name is Cannon.

Tanner (T-Curt) is everywhere. He fights for every ball and runs a lot. He’s also in my church.

Jordan is the first who subs in. The student section has its own song for him.

Taran is probably the most popular boy I met. He doesn’t play very much, but the student section loves him. Every game the student section asks for him “ Pull in Taran! Pull in Taran!”. When he finally subs in everyone goes crazy. We had games, that were so boring that the student section sat the whole game. The coach subbed in Taran and the student section stand up and started a party .

Spencer (Spence)
Also on Varsity are Nic and JT.

Stuart (Stu Pace) is on JV. He’s way nice and saves me every time I fell asleep in math.

Jaren is the best sophomore. He plays almost the whole time on sophomore and JV and scored 6 points in a Varsity team. I had a close relationship with his eyebrows after he split them both open in two different game sin one week.
There are many more guys on JV and sophomore, but I couldn’t find them after the game.
We won our senior night and next Tuesday is the big game against Highland for the region championship. Highland and Olympus are tied on the first at the moment. It gonna be intense!

I thought it is hilarious:
Yesterday was Super Bowl. Topic everyone talks about today: Your favorite commercial :D
People seriously watch super bowl just for the ads.

Sorry to everyone who waits for news. Lacrosse season started and I have practice everyday. At the moment we are in the varsity tryouts. I have one more day and the I get the results. The cruise was amazing. I'll upload pictures when I find some time. Get facebook :)