Anadarko Warriors Ladies Win Area Trophy

We drove to Choctaw to watch our girls team play for the area title. We played McGuiness who beat two teams we lost too. Choctaw's facilities were almost as good as ours, so I knew our girls would feel very comfortable playing there. The coach, Brett, was concerned about our team's ability to beat them, since they had beaten two teams we lost to in the regular season. We played McGuiness, a private school.

There is a lot flap over private schools playing public schools, because a private school has no boundaries as they recruit or get students. In fact, in the televised finals, McGuiness, actually bought a large amount of advertisement time and thus sponsored the broadcast. Doing that, they were reaching out to students across the state for possible enrollees - a big advantage over public schools. Public Schools cannot recruit at all. We have to take students that are in our district only. For a student to play, they must be within the boundaries of our district, or have a transfer, signed by the superintendent of the other school that they are transferring from.

McGuiness had a lot of big girls, tall and played well. But we won. In fact, they were not that hard to beat. Good team, but I think the reason our girls won, was because of the facilities. And the Choctaw school employees were awesome. I have never been to an Area tournament where the personnel on duty, were ever that nice. Incredible stuff, just like our own district.

Once we won, we had to go play Metro Christian from Tulsa. Yet another, Christian school with no boundaries. Oklahoma University's mens' basketball team has a student playing for them as a freshman, who came from a Christian School. He is a freshman and gets a lot of playing time. He is 6.8. He has a brother who is taller and his dad is the coach.

Pictured are our girls with their Area Champion. Once we won that, we had to win 3 more to win the state title. Usually, I am there to get the girls to settle down for a picture. Notice that our coach isn't in the picture and that it is in the middle of the floor. I would much rather move our teams to a wall, with a white background. Our Indian students and black students simply do not picture well without a white background.

The worst mistake I ever made was to take a picture with Miss Oklahoma, with our Black Heritage Club. I took the picture in front of a window, with white snow in the background. I ordered enough pictures for all the students and when they came back, horrors of horrors, you couldn't even see any of the kids' faces.