New Blog Site

My new blog site to follow Shelby at Itasca Community College will be:

itascacollegehoops.blogspot.com

I will post info on her new teammates, coaches, schedules, games, etc. as the new season progresses and her new basketball career unfolds...I also plan to follow the Bigfork Lady Huskies and their new season as I will still go to as many of their games as I can this season. I will be the new scoreclock keeper so will be attending all of the home games and will try to get to as many away games as my schedule will allow me. I believe they will have another great season and will post whatever information I have on the new site.

The site will however be mainly focused on Shelby's new basketball career with Itasca Community College and her teammates and how their season progresses. I think they will also have a strong team this year so it should be lots of fun also! I think that her games will be on Wednesday nights and Saturdays so I will be able to attend both teams' games! Yippee!

I am excited to learn about her new teammates and where they are from and see how they all mesh together. Shelby knows a few of the girls and has played with them on AAU teams or against them during high school, so she already has a relationship with a few of them.

So add the new blog to your favorites and follow along.....

Goodbye, Part II

Sorry it has been sooo long and I see several people keep checking the site to see if I have posted anything new....one neighbor from church nicely reminded me a few weeks ago that he was still waiting for Part Two!!

After I wrote Part One I realized that I'm just really telling the same story that this blog did over the past three years....I will write some more and if anyone doesn't want to read, just click out I guess....

I ended with the girls winning the tournament in Nashwauk and how that is when some of the parents got together and discussed starting a traveling team with these young girls. I wrote a letter with pictures no less, and sent it out to businesses and family and friends asking for any type of donations to help with the girls getting uniforms and paying tournament fees. Well it worked out and the girls were fortunate to receive over $2,000!! There were three businesses in Grand Rapids that were very helpful and Rick Ferguson of Swanson Motors actually came to the house to hand deliver a check that paid for the girls' uniforms....Rick ended up following the girls closely and actually played a part in their story as he was a sports commentator for KMFY with Mark Masters and they broadcast the girls' games ever since the girls all started on Varsity. The sad part was they both quit broadcasting the year that the girls actually made it to State....that was sad because they had been a big part of the story.

So the girls got their uniforms and their first ever Pacesetter tournament was in Bemidji at the new high school....I remember the girls all wanted their hair braided and also remember having that famous "basketball stomach" that never quit until after the State tournament!

The girls ended up winning their first game against Clearbrook-Gonvick in double OT....it was a fun game and I have it on tape. It is one of my favorites to watch because the 9th grade Red Lake boys team was waiting in the wings to play on that court and they were really getting into the game....Megan stole the ball and got to the three point line and swished a 3! Mind you she was in 5th grade....the Red Lake players were jumping up and down and bowing to her...it was really exciting. They ended up losing the second game against Bagley at the buzzer on a 3 point shot by Lise that rolled in and came out....they bawled their eyes out. That was a team that the girls ended up playing a few more times and we got to know some of them and the coach pretty well over the years. Just the start of many, many Pacesetter tournaments and tons of memories. I have the stat book somewhere for that summer and I believe the girls played in about 30 games!

This went on for about three spring and summers, so you can see why these girls played so well together. They did it for a LONG time!

There are so many memories of road trips, hotel stays and eating at fun and new restaurants and of course shopping....we used to find hotels that had pools, but the girls rarely swam as they were too tired or we got in too late from games. We finally figured out that we didn't to find a hotel with a pool and spend the extra money. We found ways to carpool, bring our snacks and waters, room share (tons) and on and on.

I have to throw this one in for Andi...we were driving home from a tournament and going through Garrison....it was the first time she had seen that Lake and asked us if it was the ocean!! We laughed and laughed and still tease her about it today....

Shelby and Adrianna were the first two to sign up for AAU with Tim Mayclin out of Bemidji. Along with Jenna who played on an older team. Shelby and Adrianna played together for two years on the same team with girls from Bemidji, Bagley, Pelican Rapids and Hawley. We finally got Megan and Annalise to play on the Gym Rats for one year and it was alot of fun, even going to Chicago for the Nike Summer Showcase...Menominee (sp) and several in the cities, including the North Tartan Meltdown, which was truly a meltdown of sorts. It was at Bloomington Kennedy and the air conditioning was not working the end of July...VERY, VERY hot to point of the fans (us) dripping with sweat! I couldn't believe the girls had to play in that heat and it was very hard on them as well as the other players. They sat on the bench with bags of ice on their heads and necks to try and cool them down...a few players even collapsing with heat exhaustion and having to be taken away in an ambulance!

The girls did however qualify for the AAU State Championship tournament in the cities, so were in the Elite Eight....it was during and after these tournaments that we as parents knew they had something very special....they had to play some very tough city teams and actually teams from all over the country, and always played right with them...they lost some close ones, won some close ones, and had a few blowouts on the losing end and the winning end....BUT all of these games made them stronger and tougher when it came to the regular season of Basketball in Bigfork and Section 7A.

Better get off and get something done here....more to follow later.

Goodbye, Part I

I have been procrastinating writing my final thoughts on the blog as I hate to end it. But, it has to be done...I had originally wanted to write a letter and read it the sports banquet with a slideshow but just did not have time with the graduation activities, etc. SO....I am going to try and explain to everyone just what these girls and these past few years have meant to me....it will take more than one writing as there are lots and lots of memories and I want to start from the beginning when they were itty bitty basketball players in the Saturday Ball program at Bigfork School.

We transferred Shelby to Bigfork in 2000 when she was a fourth grader unaware what adventures lie await for us there....she was welcomed warmly by her classmates and made new friends quite fast. It didn't take long to understand what basketball meant to BHS. Shelby's older sister and brother both played basketball so we started following their teams and were hooked....both squads had very good ball players, many who are on the 1,000 point board in the gym...I remember following the boys' team to Duluth for the Section 7A Championship game against Ely in which they lost and took 2nd place...it was an exciting experience and so sad to see those boys accepting their 2nd place medals and just "almost" making it to State. Shelby, Lise and Megan all dressed up and painted their faces and cheered along with Howler at UMD and that was the first taste for me....

December came and along with it came Saturday basketball....I have a picture of the three (Shelby, Lise and Megan) in their yellow team shirts and I remember putting it in a scrapbook along with the words "future Huskie basketball stars"....how ironic is that? This was the year before Adrianna came along and the four became close friends and got pretty serious about basketball. Of course there were many other young girls that played at that time, some that are still playing, some that left and came back and some that decided basketball wasn't their thing.

Another first memory was the very first "real" tournament the girls played in when Shelby was in fourth grade. It was Shelby, Britney Stewart, Ann Boessel, Morgan Scheff (can you believe that) as fourth graders, and Lise, Megan, Robin, Theresa and Ashley as third graders and of course Greg Powell was their coach. The tournament was at Kelliher and I have part of it on video...they are soooo cute running everyone in circles! Megan shot the lights out and Lise still dribbled low and around everyone....Shelby stole the ball alot and I can hear Morgan's mom Lisa in the background yelling the girls on....her mother passed away a couple of years after that so it's sentimental to hear her voice on that tape....my battery ran out so I didn't get to tape the whole game, but they did end up winning in a "free throw shootout" for first place. I posted the picture quite a while back and that was just the beginning....Britney and Theresa moved away for about five years and came back two years ago...Ann and Morgan quit playing and well, the rest are still playing except for Ashley her injured her knee and is still on the team, but unfortunately can no longer play.

The following year most of the same girls played Saturday ball and Adriana joined that year....this is the year that things got interesting and a light bulb went off in my head. The girls were signed up to play in a little tournament in Nashwauk and Rob (Megan's dad) was the coach. It was exciting because at that point (Shelby was in 5th and the rest were in 4th) you could see how competitive these little girls were...OMG. I remember watching them play from up above in Nashwauk's old gym and time after time Shelby would steal the ball at half court...she was so hungry for that ball...they easily beat the teams they played and then came Chisholm. Bob McDonald was coaching and we were a little nervous because it was "Chisholm" and Coach McDonald was their coach...the girls went out and played hungry and beat them by double digits. I remember they were a little shocked that they got beat by Bigfork...and the rivalry with those girls began. There was one little girl that we gave a nickname to that day that stuck until they were done playing her...."Mickey Mouse ears". She was a cutie and also a good basketball player. Ironically, she was the girl that a few years ago, with just seconds left, threw up a half court shot in which Megan fouled her....we were up by one point and she made two free throws to win the game by one point. That was also the year that Bigfork lost to Chisholm in the Section Championship....interesting, huh?

Anyway, the girls won that little Nashwauk tournament and I still have the notebook that Jesse Powell kept stats in....I also posted a picture of the girls from that tournament a while back on this blog....you know me, pictures of everything! I remember my sister-in-law came to watch one of the games and was very impressed with the girls..she had to leave and when the girls were done and had won the tournament I remember pulling off the road to call her to tell her they had won...I will NEVER forget the feeling I had at that moment. I was so proud of these little girls and was so totally impressed. That was when a thought went through my head that "one day these girls will have a shot at making it to the State Tournament". They were only in 5th and 4th grade, but I just knew they would get there one day.

That was the beginning of their little traveling team and endless spring and summer tournaments....I have no idea how I remember all of this stuff and I know lots of people think I'm crazy, but it brought me great joy to watch them over these past 8 years...and so the story began....

I will try and write a little more at a time....hope I'm not boring everyone! Just want the people that have followed this blog to understand why I even did it! Many reasons and many, many memories....

Shelby's Graduation Party

We had Shelby's party yesterday at the Marcell Family Center and it turned out to be a beautiful day and the party went great....was worried about not having enough food, but it turned out just right. A little bit left over to take to the church this morning for Sunday potluck....

Tracy Schaar of Tracy Cakes did an outstanding job on the cakes...they were beautiful AND delicious! Exactly what we wanted as far as the decorating went also....they went perfectly with our "green theme"! We went for green instead of blue & gold and even had a table with tree seedlings to that everyone could take one and go home a plant balsam or white pine seedling. Of course the reason being, Shelby will be studying Natural Resources and Wildland Firefighting in college.

She was given two beautiful quilts, one from Desirae and Cody's mom, Carole. She makes rag quilts and I had asked her if she could do something with some of the many, many t-shirts Shelby had acquired over the years from miscellaneous camps, tournaments and AAU stuff. She made a quilt with 20 blocks of her various t-shirts and surrounded them by blue and gold...it turned out great! (So save those t-shirts!)

Then Auntie Connie Gross, who has been making gorgeous quilts for years, brought her one made of a bright green and bright pink that she loves also! Auntie Delores made her a huge fruit salad platter that was delicious and almost too pretty to eat....but we all did of course.

There were three huge picture boards and one table with her sports honors and awards and another table that had all of the memory boards from every sport she was ever in since 5th grade! Plus of course a few scrapbooks...

I have to say I am glad that it is over and that it went well....I don't know that it could have gone any better! We were all blessed with a beautiful day, party and family and friends to share both with...thanks to everyone that came!

Here are some pictures of everything....

P.S. I will still write some final thoughts but can't wrap my mind around that right now....check back in a week or so.

Graduation

The day finally came for Shelby and her classmates from the BHS Class of 2009 to graduate! It seemed surreal to me and just did not seem like the day was here and she was actually graduating.

The Validictorian was Justin Mann who had just qualified for State in the shot put the day before and the Co-Salutatorians were Viki Krachtt and Britney Stewart. It was a very nice ceremony with Jacob Rahier (2008) and Jared Anselmo singing A Simple Man. The slideshow went well and when the choir went up to sing The Prayer was when I cried....seeing Shelby, Lise and Megan standing there together for the last time was what got to me.....ugh. So hard to believe she won't be with them next year!

Here are a few pictures from the day....the one of Shelby laughing was after they threw their caps and Joe G's got stuck up in the rafters! Leave it to Joe G!

I will post a few more pictures once I get them from Shelby's camera and my final note to end the blog after Shelby's grad party on the 6th....need to get through that this coming week!

Athletic Awards Photos

Just a few pictures from the Athletic Awards the other night. Megan received a ball for her 1,000 point and her 1,000 rebound. She made her 1,000 point the first game of the season and then reached 1,000 rebounds at the State tournament. That is quite impressive, both achieved during her junior year! Megan also was presented with her the 1,000 point club board that will be joining the others in the gymnasium.

There is a picture of the Senior athletes receiving their plaques. Missing was Sarah Rooks, Britney Stewart, Jared Anselmo and Michael Sheppard. Shelby and Justin both ended up with 13 letters each although Shelby was missing one year from volleyball, her ninth grade year, so I don't know what was up with that or if they just missed it.

Another picture is of the five girls receiving their Northern Lakes All Conference plaques and certificates. That was another first as Bigfork had five girls receive the honor this year, Theresa Stewart, Shelby Goble, Adrianna Ivanovic, Annalise Klamm and Megan Powell.

Finally, I took a picture of Shelby with Coach Powell and her "finished" board that will be put back up in the gym. She received the board last year with the final total. She did end up being the second highest scorer in Bigfork...so far. Mason claimed that title for a few years and it will be fun to see if his sister Megan will be able to claim that title back in the Powell family! You just never know what will happen!

Megan received the award for Most Assists, Lise for Most Steals, Andi for Most Rebounds, Shelby for Best Free Throw Percent and Lise for Most Improved. Greg has never given an award for the most points in a season. You can see how they worked as a team by the awards they were given. He mentioned that between everyone on team there were 500+ assists. (I can't remember the number he said but it was impressive)

He also mentioned that Shelby was picked as an All State selection for Class A teams in the State of Minnesota and that the Coaches Association picks 12 girls out of over 900 girls that are on Class A teams in the state, so she was in the top 2%! That was interesting to know....I knew it was a big honor and that really puts it into perspective.

It was a long night as the ceremony went for about 2 1/2 hours, but it was very nice. I didn't have my slideshow done and there were a few disappointed people, but they would have been there another hour if I had it done, so probably a good thing! I still plan on doing one and we will just get together one evening at the school and watch the show...then it can be as long as I want it to be!

Athletic Banquet Tomorrow Night

The BHS Athletic awards will be held tomorrow night at the Edge Center. I actually can't remember the time and will have to find out tomorrow! Last year they combined all the sports together and it actually went very well...the coach/coaches of each sport talk about their respective seasons and present awards, etc.

I was planning on doing a slideshow but never had the time to put it together the way I wanted so there will not be one....it would take hours and hours and I just don't have the time right now with graduation, etc. Maybe someday I will put one together for Shelby....

Lord's Army Youth Group Car Wash

Shelby is a member of the Lord's Army Youth Group from our sister church in Cohasset, Mn. The Good News Bible Church. They had a car wash today to raise money for a trip to Valley Fair that will be taken in August. The group started last September and has grown tremendously....they meet once each month and have had different trips and activities thrown in between such as a UMD football game, ice fishing with a ton of prizes, hayrides and bonfires and cookouts and more.

Today they had 54 kids show up and washed 53 cars! The cost was $10 per car and with that you got a free hamburger! Of course most people donated a little more than the $10 as it is going for a great cause...the kids were required to be at the car wash to be able to go to Valley Fair.

There are kids from Grand Rapids, Greenway, Deer River, Bigfork and Northome schools. I'm probably forgetting one or two....

The little girl in the pink shirt with Shelby is the one that I mentioned earlier in my blog that went home after youth group and emailed her grandma and said "you won't believe who was at youth group tonight! Shelby Goble! (right after they made it to State and her Grandpa was Shelby's coach and the Lady Huskies are her idols) It was so cute...

Here are some fun pictures that I took in a hurry....I thought the car wash was from 11-5 and it was from 11-1! We had church in Dora Lake until 11 so we got there a little after 12.....these are my favorite pictures to take....life in action (and kids and puppies to boot!)

Enjoy!

Senior Reception

Everything about the Senior Reception was very nice....simple, but yet classy and organized. The stage looked great and you can see in the pictures that they had their Stargazer flower with a quote as the backdrop. Char Westerman, Class President, gave a short speech and then they went directly into presenting a few of the awards. Jared Anselmo had a piano solo, that he composed himself. It was a beautiful piece.

Then onto more awards and presentation of the Class by Pam Francisco, who has been one of their class sponsors since 7th grade.

Here are a few pictures of the night....Char at the beginning, Shelby being presented the VFW - Orbin Holt Vocational/Technical Scholarship from Foster Bjorge Post 1764 and the three, Justin Mann, Britney Stewart and Shelby after being presented with "Stephanie's Gift" Scholarship from the Bigfork Ambulance Service representatives.

I am waiting for a copy of the picture of the class with the cakes but haven't gotten it yet and will post it at that time....

Senior Reception Tonight

The Senior Reception and Award Ceremony is tonight at the Edge Center at 7:00 pm. I have to pick up the two cakes that we ordered from Tracy Schaar over at Squaw Lake...she makes the BEST cakes and is very talented at decorating also...she will also be making Shelby's graduation cakes and a few other Bigfork graduates' cakes.

We always order our cakes from her...Desirae's wedding cake, Rod & Max's 50th Anniversary cake, Shelby's 1,000 point cake and many more....she is also a talented cook as her family owns the Mistic Strawberry Farm and they have a restaurant on the farm during strawberry season...her number is 659-4308 if anyone ever needs a delicious cake!

I will have to take a picture of them to post....(they are having two). One will have all of their names on it with the boys' names in black and the girls' names in hot pink with their class flower (a fresh Stargazer Lily) and the other will be the normal Congratulations Seniors in their class colors..

I'm hoping it will be a good scholarship night for all the seniors that put in scholarship applications. I know some didn't take the time to fill them out and others (like Shelby) filled out every single one they could! Shelby has heard back from some of them with bad news and some of them with good news...there will be others tonight that are announced that will be surprises. Shelby did receive a call last Friday from someone on the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce that she was in their Top 5 and they wanted to do a phone interview with her since she wasn't in town. She did the interview on Monday and they called her back yesterday afternoon and told her she would be receiving one of their scholarships! Yippee!!! Everything helps....will pay for her books for one semester!

I will post pictures tomorrow with the cakes and how she does scholarship wise....looks like it's clearing up outside as it was raining hard this morning...should be another beautiful day!

The End of Blog Coming Soon...

I have decided that I will end this blog once Shelby has graduated on May 30th, 2009....It has been fun keeping up with her and the Lady Huskies over the past three years and since her time will be done at Bigfork High School, it is time to end this blog.

The purpose of this blog was to journal her high school basketball career, along with her teammates on the Lady Huskies basketball team. I tried to post any and all accomplishments regarding the team and the individual girls over the years, along with photos from the games that I attended. (My favorite part!)

Truthfully, the comment that was made about my daughter on an earlier post has brought me to this decision. I can't even tell you how many hours I have put into this blog and I hope it did bring some enjoyment to a few proud parents and family members....hopefully another parent or interested Lady Huskie fan can start another blog to keep up with the team next year as I think they will have another successful season.

I was originally going to keep it going through next year but will now end it and focus on life after Basketball in Bigfork....mine and Shelby's at ICC in the Fall. She registered for her college classes last Friday and it made me happy to see her so excited about starting college and making new friends. We had lunch with Coach Bauer and he mentioned me starting a new blog on the Lady Viking basketball team next year...so that is what I will pour my extra time in.

I will post info the next two weeks up to her graduation and then will stop posting....the blog will stay up so people can view the past few years, maybe. I might just delete the whole thing too....haven't quite decided on that yet, but will in the next two weeks.

Looks like it is going to be a beautiful day today!

First Prom Out of the Way, Sort of....

Shelby went to the Blackduck Prom last night and had a great time...I'm happy that she was able to such a nice event.

Anyway, here is a picture of Shelby with her best friend Larissa and their dates....no boyfriends, just all friends.

Short Update

Not too much going on but working on graduation things for Shelby and for others. I got the last half of Shelby's invitations in the mail today and have a few to hand out at church on Sunday and then that will be done! Yeah...

I dropped off Shelby's uniforms at the school today as I got them washed up after the All Star games in Minneapolis. I also had to drop off the ball from her "1,000" point game so the art teacher can paint the date, 1000 points and then her final career total will also go on there. Greg said her final was 1,880 points and she is now the second highest scorer on the wall behind Angie Chernugal with over 2,400 points. When she hit her 1,000 points she was at the Holiday Tournament in Hibbing so they gave her the game ball and it has an anchor on it so that makes it special too.

Tomorrow I am busy working on a couple of graduation invites for seniors and a senior picture order from a session in October....nothing like waiting until the VERY last minute! I also need to work a little more on the senior slide show...scan two more of the seniors and wait for a couple more to give me theirs...then I can finish it up and put the music to it. It has been fun to see all of their baby pictures.

A chilly and rainy day today and tomorrow so it will be a good day to sit at the computer and work on things....

A Few Pictures From All Star Series

Here are just a few pictures. I didn't get too many the second game that were to my liking. I didn't have my camera set right or something because they are a little too fuzzy! I'm just posting one of the Class AA team and where they are all going to college and a picture of the "remaining" six girls from the Class A team. As you can see, they are pretty wore out! They lost to the Class AA team 100-61. The reason they only had six was one girl had prom Saturday, one girl had a big softball tournament and the other one left the hotel Friday night, stayed out until very late and when she got back she was told she was off the team and could not play the next day. The right thing for them to do and it left a hardship for Class A, but had to set a precedent for the future.

I like the pictures of the Class A team from the first game as they are all in their home uniforms and the colors are great! They had 9 girls that game but lost 81-57 to the Class AAA team. They had girls going to St. Cloud State, Providence College, Briar Cliff/Southwest, two to University of Minnesota, Bethel University, Drake University, University of MN-Crookston and a couple undecided. The one picture of Shelby "trying" to guard Princeton's #25, Katie Loberg, is 6'4" and going to the Gophers. Lots of talent on all of these teams.....

I just have her home uniform to wash up and then we can return her uniforms to the school for the last time....sad but she is ready for a new start with a new program and new teammates. She will surely miss the Bigfork girls, but it's time to move on.....

So Impressed with the MN Coaches Association All Star Series

What a wonderful couple of days I had with Shelby and her Grandma Max....this had to have been the classiest, most enjoyable All Star games I have ever attended! Not taking away from the other All Star Games' Shelby was in this year, but this event was very put together and just VERY nice all around. I was just so impressed with everything and even though the Class A team lost both of their games, it was an honor just to be a parent of one of the players and enjoy it all....

My mother-in-law and Shelby's Grandma, Maxene, came with us and we had a very nice time...we left Hibbing Thursday afternoon after Shelby and the Bigfork Choir competed in the State competition in Virginia and got to our hotel around 6:30 pm....my driving directions from Google worked just great!

We checked in and of course had to get off to the Mall of America right away as that was the only day Shelby would be able to get any shopping done...and if you know my Shelby, she LOVES to shop! But we did have a few things we needed to get for graduation, so it worked out great and we had fun. We took Grandma Max to the Bubba Gumps restaurant on Floor 3 and it was delicious. We were pretty tired after and headed to the hotel and went straight to bed....up early to get ready and get Shelby to the Minneapolis Hilton by 9:00 a.m. Traffic was a little busy at it was morning rush hour but we got there in plenty of time. Parked in the parking ramp and had to pay $5 just to walk her in and then be told to leave right as we dropped her off! The lady asked what Class she was in and when we said Class A, she said "okay, you can leave now!" So we did.....paid $5 for parking for about 15 minutes....

We left for IKEA to shop for some graduation party items and then to the Mall of America again...took Max to Johnny Rockets for lunch and she got a kick out of the old fashion diner as we ate at the counter and put our $.15 in for three songs from the jukebox. Roy Orbison, Dion and I can't remember the other one.....went back to the hotel and relaxed for about an hour and then off to the first game at MacCalester College. What a super nice venue that was...brand new. We walked in and Shelby's coach from Bigfork (Coach Greg Powell) was there with Adam Johnson, a UW-Superior asst coach. We went in with them and waited a bit for the teams to arrive....they walked in with their new Nike warmups and looking sharp. Visited with Amber Dvorak's parents for a bit and with Amber, as she couldn't play in the first game as she is a Division 1 recruit and can only play in two all star games. She played in the Border Battle with Shelby so that counted as one game and since this one had two games, she could only play in one of them and they decided she would play in the second game. She was told to play it cool and not attract attention could not even step on the playing floor!

Class A played Class AAA and lost that game 81-57. I believe both teams had 9 players but the Class AAA definately had height advantage and another 6'5" Gopher recruit. I was amazed at the talent and the majority of the girls playing were going to Div 1, 2 and 3 schools. There were a few that were undecided but most were commited. Each girl wore they own school jerseys and the Class A team were the home team, so they wore the dark jerseys....my favorite because they were all different colors! I will post pictures tomorrow as I just downloaded them and haven't gone through them yet....

The next game was Class AA vs. Class AAAA and that was a much closer game. I can't remember the final score but it was back and forth and close the whole game. AAAA might have won by 5? Can't remember! Fun game though and I thought Class AA was going to win it the first half.

Today Class A was shorthanded and only had six girls....very hard on them as the Class AA team had their 9 girls and all were very talent girls going to Division 1 and Division 2 schools. Class A actually played close for a bit but since there was no relief for the three guards (played the entire game), it was just too much for them. They subbed the three taller girls and the three guards stayed in the entire time. So Andrea Gould (Wrenshall), Alyssa Gullekson (Fertile Beltrami) and Jessica Benson (Grand Meadow) all took turns, each one sitting and taking their turns on the court. Nicole Smart had the hot hand today for Class A and was awarded MVP honors for their team while Brittany Chambers was awarded MVP for the Class AA team.

I will fill in some more info tomorrow as there is more to talk about....here are a few pictures of the girls from Shelby's camera and the banquet....I will fill in about the banquet tomorrow and go through my action shots tomorrow....late and ready to hit the sack! Here are some cute ones from today.....some are in the locker room from today's game and the others are from the banquet this morning...one has the four roommates with Gopher Emily Fox (guest speaker) and the other picture they are with Taylor Hill (Ms. Basketball winner). Shelby roomed with Nicole Smart (Ada-Borup), Sam Lynn (Adrian) and Alyssa Gullekson (Fertile-Beltrami). Ada-Borup was the Class A State winner this year and Adrian lost to Barnum in the first round game at State this year by only a few points.

Taking Off for the Big Cities...

We are leaving for Minneapolis this morning and will pick Shelby up in Hibbing after their performance at the Choir State competition in Virginia. Shelby's grandma Max and I are going with her and will have a good time visiting and watching her last high school basketball game, albeit with other teammates! I like the fact that each girl will be wearing their school uniforms so that will make for some nice pictures...and the very last time she will be wearing the Bigfork Huskie uniforms.....how sad.

I'm sure we'll make the trek to the Mall of America tonight as our hotel is nearby and she will want to "look" around...right! She needs a sundress to go under her graduation gown as the girls are wearing white gowns and the boys black this year...the girls are all wearing white sundresses underneath. I'm sure we'll find something at the mall...hopefully on sale.

I will post info about the tournament, the banquet on Saturday and pictures from the games when I get home....so check back in! Now, I need to get busy and get my stuff together before I leave...later!

MN Girls Basketball Coaches Association Website

The site finally has the 2008-2009 All State first teams and Honorable Mention teams for each Class up now. Go to http://www.mshsca.org/girlsbasketball/index.htm

If you look to the left you will see "All Star Game" and click on that link to see the four teams for the games this weekend in Minneapolis. They meet at 9:00 am on Friday morning so we will drive down Thursday afternoon after Shelby is done with their choir competition at the State meet in Virginia.

They play Friday night and then again Saturday afternoon....check back on Monday and I will have some pictures posted from the games!

Huskie Cafe Menu Collage

This is a collage of tournament photos that I did up for the local Huskie Cafe....they have Bigfork Huskie sports' memorabilia all over the cafe and wanted to include a collage from this years' team in their menu! So here is the collage I did up for them to place in their menus! It is an 8.5x14.

BHS Choir Competing at State on 4/23

The Bigfork High School Choir will be competing in State competition on April 23, 2009 at Virginia High School. Luke Votava will also be performing a solo....when he performed at Greenway to qualify for State, he made the judges cry. He and the choir will be performing tonight at the National Honor Society induction so if you have a free night, please come out to the Edge Center at 7:00 pm. Both Jared and Shelby are in choir together, along with Megan Powell and Annalise Klamm, who were of course on the State Tournament basketball team together! (Got to put that in there you know...) I will get a few fun shots of them tonight and put some up tomorrow.

Shelby was worried she wouldn't be able to compete in the state competition as we head to the cities on the 23rd for the MN Coaches Association all star game that night. We will leave after she gets back from the State choir competition! Two State appearances in one year...who would've thunk it?

Also found out last night that Jared Anselmo will be having a piano recital on Sunday, May 17th at the Edge Center. I'm not sure what time but will post it when I find out. He is a very talented pianist and musician who has studied piano since he was a little boy. He and Shelby have been very close since 4th grade and I've always wished they would perform together one day. They've talked about it for about 5 years but have never actually got around to doing it....here is a picture of the two I took when we were taking a few senior pictures for Jared.

Jared will also be Shelby's prom date this year, as they promised each other 3 years ago they would go to their senior prom together. They will be a striking couple...

My Baby Turned 18...

My little baby turned 18 on Monday, 4/13, and that was sad for me. I can't believe that many years have gone by and she is growing up and will be moving off to college in the Fall. She was born in Buffalo, WY in an April snow blizzard, which is just about like her personality. She came in with a roar and has the personality to match that roar!

I had back labor so it never seemed like labor to me...just a very bad backache. I had stayed with a friend in town because of the storm as Danny was out of town working in Gillette, WY. Went into the hospital around 8am and Danny left Gillette in the storm and got on the freeway right before they closed the roads. He hit a barrier and put a dent in the car....and made it to the hospital around noon. She was born at 4:12 pm, 7 lbs. 8 oz and 21 1/2" long. She was named after the Julia Roberts' character on Steel Magnolias. She didn't have much hair and it took her quite a while to finally get some too!

My pregnancy was easy with no complications and she was a happy baby that was very healthy and hardly ever cried....

So our little girl ended up being 5' 5 1/2" tall and weighs around 120 lbs at age 18.

Just thought I'd share a few baby pictures of her and a couple of her senior pictures as I've been going through a ton of them for graduation stuff. The picture of her with her first Easter basket and bunny is appropriate as Easter was one day before her birthday this year!

A New Era of Girls Basketball at BHS

I say a new era, but that probably is just my thinking as Shelby is done at BHS with basketball! What I mean is there are two groups of younger girls that will now be playing in several spring and summer tournaments...YEA!!!! I was happy to hear that other parents are stepping up and taking initiative in organizing the 8th grade girls and will be taking them on many tournaments this summer, some that are MYAS or AAU! That's a good thing...

I believe they are also playing this coming Saturday, April 18th at a Pacesetters tournament in Virginia. I may just have to go to that one....

Megan Powell is in track and Adrianna is doing track for the first time this year in shot put and discus. I told her mom years ago she should be throwing in track! I think she is going to do great and now Megan has someone to hang with at the track meets. I wish them both well and will try to go to a meet and take a few pictures. I think I will wait until it warms up though and we have a nice sunny, WARM day! I will definately post some pictures of the two girls.

Annalise ALWAYS enjoys her free time....Shelby finally has some time to relax before her last All Star game in Minneapolis and is catching up with some of her friends from Blackduck...

Off to work on scanning pictures for her senior class slideshow...

Quote of the Day ~ 4/8/09

I will try to remember to keep putting a quote of the day up...not doing very well remembering, am I? Anyway, here is one I liked today.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
~Charles Schwab

Priceline.com is Great!

Went on Priceline.com to find rooms for the MN Coaches All Star games in Minneapolis and found a three star hotel in Bloomington for $40 per night...and that includes taxes! I haven't used Priceline for over a year and am glad I did....I checked what the prices would be if I called on my own and it's $110 per night...unbelievable! So a good day all around....

If any of you have not used Priceline.com use it! It is well worth it....saved us a lot the last two years she played AAU. I would get the Hampton Inn near Bloomington for $40 per night...and they had a nice breakfast and the BEST beds ever! Just have to put the area in (or a couple) near where you need to stay and start with $35 for a bid...you might have to go up to $40, but that is still better than $100 per night!

Mission Accomplished!

I can't even believe it...found a dress the first place we went to! She liked the first one, then tried the second and it was gorgeous, then tried a third and she really liked that one alot, so tried the fourth just to see....tried the second one on again and realized it was THE ONE over the third one for sure. Confused yet? And that was just four dresses...not bad. Fits perfect, found shoes and do not even have to have it hemmed....and a garter to match! Still can't even believe it....it is beautiful. She will wear it to two proms so we will get our money's worth (yeah right)...but like I said, it is beautiful and looks beautiful on her. I will post a picture after she wears it the first time....

Also found some items I needed for her graduation party, so the trip to Bemidji was successful!

Starting the Search for the Perfect Prom Dress...

We are running to Bemidji to check out one of the stores there for the "perfect" prom dress. Now I'm sure that will be interesting and expensive! I told her last year that she could pick out a nice one since it's her senior prom and she has worn many of her cousin's dresses in years past. Dang, Seniors are expensive!!! Another check for her cap and gown and senior items tomorrow, reserving her graduation site down payment, graduation invites (that I have yet to work on), Sam's Club last week for the plates, etc., and now the infamous prom dress search.....AND she turns 18 next week! All at once....too much for this mama!

I'll have to post back on how the "search" is going...it would be nice to find one right away and not have to travel very far :)

Border Battle All Star Game

The third All Star game for Shelby this week was the MN vs. WI "Border Battle" All-Star game held at the University of Wisconsin-Superior campus. It was a much publicized event and was the First Annual so there should be many to follow in the coming years. It was very organized and had very nice brochures, nice t-shirts and was held in a very nice facility. The lighting in the gymnasium was not to my liking as the pictures turned out very yellow...that is why I converted them to black and white and also one of the reasons I didn't take very many!

I have to say I was disappointed at how the teams were matched up as the WI team consisted mainly of guards with three very tall posts, 6'7" and two girls that were 6'4". The girls from the MN team were mostly posts so you can imagine how the outcome of that game went! AND the majority of the WI team played together for a few years on an AAU team so they had plays and of course, team chemistry.

As the MN team did have 6'7" Gopher recruit but she was matched up well and when you have pretty much one guard (Shelby) that makes for a slow team and girls that are not used to getting out on defense....WI was able to shoot as many three's as they wanted. They had three guards on the floor at a time and were able to put pressure on our girls that weren't used to having to bring the ball down. There were supposed to be two more guards on the MN team but both had prior commitments and had to back out. I just wish they would have found two more to replace them as there are lots of good guards in Northern MN to choose from.

The final score was 105-61~ Ouch. It was not a fun game for me to watch and I know Shelby was frustrated, even though she did have a fun experience and was glad to have been chosen. Just wish the teams were better matched so the game would have been closer and more fun to watch.

I guess the boys' game went into overtime and the WI team won over the MN team by one point! 103-102. Bet that was a fun one!

Anyway, here are a few pictures. Before the beginning of the game and at the end of the game each team met in the middle to shake hands. How about Shelby grabbing that ball from the 6'7" girl going to D1 Kentucky? She got the jump ball and the possession went to MN! THAT was funny! I also like the one of Shelby in the huddle standing beside 6'7" Dvorak. I was going to get one of them together after the game as they hung out before and caught up with each other as they used to play on the AAU Northern Lights team a couple of years ago. The coach for the MN team was John Bauer from Itasca Community College who will of course be her coach next year at ICC.

Shelby was pretty worn out as she had All Star games Wednesday night in Duluth, Thursday night in Virginia, then a full scrimmage at ICC Friday night and the game in Superior on Saturday and she has been fighting a cold...so she's pretty pooped and ready for a break!

She does have one more All Star game for the Minnesota Coaches Association that will pit 10 girls from Class A, AA, AAA and AAAA against each other in a two game tournament. They also have a Banquet at the Hilton in Minneapolis Friday morning for the four teams and will also announce the Ms. Basketball winner at that time. That will be interesting. I'm pretty sure it will go to Taylor Hill but maybe we will all be in for a surprise? Doubt that.

They will then play at 6:00 and 8:00pm on Friday the 24th (at Macalester college) and then the losers at 1:00 pm and the winners at 3:00 pm on Saturday the 25th at Edina High School. They each wear their respective high school jerseys so that will make for some fun pictures!

Goble Earns Back to Back MVP Award

Shelby played last night in the 2009 Coca Cola "Pride of the Northeast" Girls High School Basketball All-Star Game at Mesabi Range Community College in Virginia. She was on the Red Team which featured Kassy Wenneson of Babbitt, Shelby of Bigfork, Bryn Joki and Jessica Cagle of Grand Rapids, Misa Matetich and Melissa Nyberg of Hibbing, Danika Stelton of International Falls, Kaeley Whiting of Mesabi East, McKenzie Overbye and Vanessa Aultman of Mountain Iron-Buhl, and Jessa Youso of Virginia. Alexis Podpeskar of Virginia was an honorary team member due to an injury at the end of her senior season. They were coached by Dave LaCoe and Beth Joki of Grand Rapids.

The White team had girls from Esko, Hermantown, Proctor, Silver Bay, Wrenshall, Lakeview Christian and Duluth Marshall and were coached by Brooke Chaffee of Two Harbors. She had played in the All Star game when she was a senior in high school and it was the first time an alumni of the game had come back to coach a team.

The Red team defeated the White team by 80-65 and Shelby was awarded MVP honors the second night in a row! We were happy and surprised with the one she won the night before in Duluth so this was unexpected but certainly a nice surprise! She ended up with 18 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists and played 21 minutes in the game. There were two 20 minute halves and a shot clock but there was never a shot clock violation last night. I completely forgot it was even running!

All the hard work and dedication over the past few years is definately paying off in full! Congratulations Shelby, we are very proud of you!

All Conference x 5

Last night Coach Powell attended the Northern Lakes All Conference meeting to pick up some serious hardware....The Conference Champion trophy and the girls' first place medals AND all FIVE starters received All Conference awards last night! That is pretty impressive and probably another first in the history of girls basketball at Bigfork High School!

This team has broken lots of records and brought home lots of awards to our little community. Congratulations go to Theresa Stewart #25, Megan Powell #31, Adrianna Ivanovic #24, Annalise Klamm #5 and Shelby Goble #3 for being awarded All Conference last night! We are proud of all of you!

Here are the girls chosen for Northern Lakes All Conference:
BIGFORK

Shelby Goble
Megan Powell
Adrianna Ivanovic
Annalise Klamm
Theresa Stewart

NASHWAUK-KEEWATIN

Elizabeth Sletten
Lindsey Kingsbury
Jonnie Anderson

DEER RIVER

Leigh Peterson
Kari DeYoung
Aspen Marleau

GREENWAY - Jonna Pittack
HILL CITY - Jessica Wagner
LITTLEFORK-BIGFALLS - Haylee Gates

Bigfork Shines at Kernz & Kompany All Star Game

Megan Powell, Adrianna Ivanovic and Shelby Goble played last night along with three MIB Rangers in the Kernz & Kompany All Star Game at Duluth Denfeld last night....their All Area team was ahead of the Duluth Area team at the half by 9 but fell 4 points short in the end with the final score being 67-63. So it was a pretty good game...

Andi was #32, Megan #57 and Shelby #45.

The girls really enjoyed their playing time and visiting time with the Ranger girls and in my opinion, those six were the best players on the floor! I kept wishing the coach would have put all Huskies and all Rangers in, but he had to keep the playing time fair I guess.....that's all you had to do Buffeta and the game was yours! haha

Before the game began, they had a free throw shooting competition and 3 point shooting competition. Shelby was 8/10 for free throws and took third and also took third in the 3 point contest. I can't remember what she had for points in that contest and I believe Jessica Vork of Cloquet won the 3 point contest. Another girl from the Duluth Area team went 10/10 in free throws and took first in that contest.

At the end of the contest the media selected the MVP player of the game and for the first time in the history of their all star games, it went to a player on the losing team, and that was to Bigfork's Shelby Goble! She ended up with 20 points and had three And/1's....I think she had one 3 on the night but made quite a few free throws also. Taking the MVP award was a first in Shelby's basketball career so it was fun for us to see. Her Grandma Max and Dad and I were at the game with her..Adrianna also rode with us as her mom could not get off of work when the game was rescheduled....they were pretty bummed about that. Andi and Megan both had 7 points for the night so the Bigfork girls had 34 points out of the 63...again, pretty impressive!

I thought the Bigfork girls represented their school and team VERY well and it was fun seeing them play together one last time....you could definately see the chemistry when they were in the game together. :)

Here are a few pictures from last night...I did not take many as I just enjoyed the game. I will take quite a few more tonight at the Coca-Cola All Star game in Virginia....that game will take place at 6:00 for the girls and 8:00 for the boys.

Link to WDIO...click on the video at the right and they have a small piece on the all star game showing Shelby at the the end of the clip.

http://www.wdio.com/article/10347/

Also link to a small piece on the game last night in Mesabi Range Daily paper. It starts off talking about the Coca-Cola All Star game tonight in Virginia and the rosters....scroll to the bottom of the article to read the recap of the both the boys and girls games from last night in Duluth.

http://www.virginiamn.com/articles/2009/04/01/sports/doc49d43d248b2d8816011533.txt

Quote of the Day ~ 3/31/09

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
~RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Yet Another Cancellation...Kernz & Kompany All Star Game

The Kernz & Kompany all star game that was scheduled for tonight has been rescheduled due to weather conditions, AGAIN! Old Man Winter is playing games with us this year it seems.

The game will be tomorrow night, same schedule. So the Girls' game will be at 6:00 pm and the Boys' game will follow at 8:00 pm at the Duluth Denfeld High School.

A Cute Story About a Little Lady Huskie Fan

I received an email the other day from a grandmother that her granddaughter, who is in 5th grade, had gone to her Youth Group bowling activity in Grand Rapids last Sunday. Well, it is the same Youth Group (Lord's Army Youth Group) that Shelby goes to and a few of the other Lady Huskies have also been to in the past....

So her grandmother emails her and asks her how bowling went and if she had fun...these are the responses: (sounds better if you actually read them yourself)

How was bowling? Did you see the Bigfork bb team there?

bowling was awesome!! But guess what!!!!!!

WHAT?

Shelbey from the team was there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Number #3, no way!

{Hahahahahah}YA!!!

Well, I have to say you have a way cool youth group , if Shelby Goble is in it.

How fun!! :)

ya i didn't get to talk to her and Megan Powell is in it to i think my mom told me but she wasn't there

Of course I emailed back and forth with the grandmother and mother and they said that she was so "star struck" to see Shelby that she was too scared to go talk to her...I told her next time she will have to because Shelby loves kids.

Told Shelby about it and she emailed her right away and of course the little girl emailed her right back and was excited...said she was too shy to talk to her. I took a picture of each starter and a funny team picture to the school and had them all sign the back of their pictures and mailed them to her today...I'm sure she will be surprised and excited when she opens that letter!

Just a cute story that I wanted to share with everyone. It is just amazing how these girls and team have affected so many people! I'm sure that's the story for every team from small towns that get to the State tournament...lots of little girls that want to be just like them.

The girls also got flowers and a note from the local bank at the pep fest before the Section Championship game that said "this is from all of those little girls out there that say to their dad's, "I want to be just like her when I grow up...." makes you want to cry...

Grand Rapids Article on Bigfork Fourth Place at State

Copy and paste and this will take you to the article that was in the Grand Rapids Herald Review this past Wednesday, 3/25/09 regarding Bigfork's Fourth Place finish at the State Tournament.

http://www.grandrapidsmn.com/articles/2009/03/28/sports/doc49ca484e8c3f6115470805.txt

A nice article as usual from the Herald Review. Jason has been great about keeping up with the local area teams and of course our Bigfork Huskies. And for all of you parents out there, if you send them the information they WILL put it in the paper! You can email pictures and the information to go along with the picture and they will do there best to get it in the earliest edition.

They are a smaller paper with only one sports reporter so you can imagine that he cannot get to every single game at every area school...so they do appreciate it when parents, family members and coaches submit information! Just a heads up for all you Huskie parents out there....

Need a Favor

If anyone has pictures of the sendoff at the school on Wednesday morning, could you please email me? I would like to have a few for the slideshow...you could just email me a few of the pictures and of them getting on the charter bus, in the gym, etc. The 6th grade team performing for the girls, the little kids giving them their cards, etc. I can't believe I don't have them! I took some at the banquet and those are gone also.... :(

Also, if anyone has any after they won the Goodhue game when they are celebrating, I would love to have a few of those for the slideshow also...just email me... jgoble@paulbunyan.net

Thanks!

Semi-Final Game Pictures on Gallery Now

I finally finished the semi-final game pictures between Bigfork and Cedar Mountain-Comfrey. Go to jgoblephotography.photostockplus.com and go to Girls Basketball and then find the folder. Sorry it took so long..again there are a few that are a little blurry but wanted to put them up anyway.

8x10 Section Champs Picture in Office

I will have a few 8x10's of the girls after winning the Section Championship in the office on Monday, 3/30/09. They will be $10 each. There are only 11 available right now but I will order more if there is a need. There will be a list in the office. This will also be the picture that will be put in the actual trophy...

Another Honorable Mention for Klamm & Goble

There was another All State Team for the Pioneer Press and Annalise Klamm and Shelby Goble both made the Honorable Mention list for that team.

ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
FIRST TEAM
Brittany Chambers, Jordan, Sr.
Tayler Hill, Minneapolis South, Sr. POY
Hannah Linz, Eden Valley-Watkins, Sr.
Cassie Rochel, Lakeville North, Jr.
Theairra Taylor, St. Paul Central, Sr.
SECOND TEAM
Amber Dvorak, Hinckley-Finlayson, Sr.
Kayla Hirt, Bemidji, So.
Katie Loberg, Princeton, Sr.
Megan Nipe, Centennial, Sr.
Kate Thompson, Wayzata, Sr.
HONORABLE MENTION
Holli Aggen, Worthington, F, sr.
Itisha Alexander, Benilde-St. Margaret's, G, jr.
Ashley Alleven, Fairmont, F, sr.
Libby Augedahl, Caledonia, G, sr.
Rachel Banham, Lakeville North, G, soph.
Courtney Barthel, St. Michael-Albertville, G, sr.
Amanda Barton, Waterville-Elysian-Morristown, C, jr.
Jessica Benson, Grand Meadow, F, sr.
Annie Berner, Forest Lake, C, sr.
Gabby Boever, Worthington, G, jr.
Melissa Borstner, St. Francis, G, jr.
Emily Bose, Murray County Central, C, sr.
Bailey Bouman, Pipestone, F, jr.
Annemarie Brown, St. Peter, G, jr.
Sarah Brozik, Mankato East, G, jr.
Janae Burich, Roseville, C, sr.
Amanda Burk, Minnesota Valley Lutheran, F, sr.
Abby Busch, Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop, F, sr.
Jessica Cagle, Grand Rapids, G, sr.
Roz Chromy, Esko, C, sr.
Hannah Dahlman, Braham, G, soph.
Rebekah Dahlman, Braham, G, eighth
Justine Dammermann, New London-Spicer, G, jr.
Leah Dietel, Jordan, C, sr.
Nicole Dooher, Robbinsdale Armstrong, G, sr.
Molly Duehn, Burnsville, G, sr.
Jessica Dvergsten, Badger/Greenbush-Middle River, F, jr.
Julia Dysthe, White Bear Lake, G/F, sr.
Briana Edwards, Minneapolis North, F, sr.
Vicki Ellefson, Ada-Borup, G, sr.
Kara Elofson, Hopkins, G/F, sr.
Kelsey Evans, Willmar, G, sr.
Kelsey Florian, Roseville, F, sr.
Chelsea Fogarty, Belle Plaine, F, sr.
Abby Fragodt, Benson, F, jr.
Chelsea Frydenlund, East Grand Forks, G, soph.
Shelby Goble, Bigfork, G, sr.
Andrea Gould, Wrenshall, C, sr.
Erica Gress, Apple Valley, C, jr.
Christina Gruenhagen, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted, C, sr.
Jaime Hanson, Cedar Mountain/Comfrey, G, jr.
Rachel Hanson, Minnehaha Academy, G, jr.
Jen'Von'Ta Hill, St. Paul Central, G, fresh.
Sarah Hintz, Woodbury, F, sr.
Bree Holleman, Hancock, G, jr.
Chrissy Holm, Hill-Murray, G, sr.
Hannah Hylla, Albany, F, sr.
Pam January, Richfield, F, sr.
Marissa Janning, Watertown-Mayer, G, fresh.
Tyseanna Johnson, Minneapolis North, F, eighth
Brynn Joki, Grand Rapids, C, sr.
Emily Kaus, Eastview, C, sr.
Ameshia Kearney, Minneapolis South, G, jr.
Alyssa Kerkhoff, New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva, F, soph.
Megan King, Caledonia, G, sr.
Annalise Klamm, Bigfork, G, jr.
Laura Kolness, Ada-Borup, F, soph.
Faith Kruchowski, Red Lake County Central, G, sr.
Gina Lange, Forest Lake, C, sr.
Megan Lauck, Mounds View, F, jr.
Katya Leick, Park (Cottage Grove), F, sr.
Rachel Leitz, Champlin Park, G, jr.
Megan Lueck, Winona, F, jr.
Cara Lutes, New Life Academy, F, soph.
Sam Lynn, Adrian, G, sr.
Chelsey McGee, Minneapolis North, G, eighth
MacKinzie Magner, Northern Freeze, F, jr.
Kayla Mahtiowetz, Cedar Mountain/Comfrey, C, jr.
Sam Mehr, Eastview, G, sr.
Aly Meyer, Caledonia, F, jr.
Scotti Moats, Waconia, C, sr.
Meghan Molitor, PACT, G, sr.
Ashlynn Muhl, Minneota, C, soph.
Lizzi Naumann, Totino-Grace, C, sr.
Katy Ness, Ada-Borup, G, sr.
Katrina Newman, Barnum, G, jr.
Sari Noga, Parkers Prairie, G, jr.
Jaime Noonan, Richfield, F, sr.
Riley Nordgaard, Canby, G, fresh.
Chiamaka Okonkwo, Osseo, F, sr.
Miranda Pearson, Warroad, F, jr.
Kayla Pelletier, Red Lake County Central, F, sr.
Sarah Peterson, Minnehaha Academy, F, sr.
Katie Pettit, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted, G, sr.
Mandy Poke, Richfield, G, sr.
Jenny Ramey, New Life Academy, G, sr.
Emily Roelike, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, G, sr.
Morgan Van-Riper Rose, Eden Prairie, G, soph.
Abby Rothenbuehler, Mankato West, C, sr.
Carly Rothfusz, Eden Prairie, F, sr.
Carly Rothstein, St. Michael-Albertville, F, jr.
Tori Rule, DeLaSalle, G, soph.
Valerie Sahr, United South Central, F, soph.
Crissi Schewe, Sleepy Eye St. Mary's, F, sr.
Bridget Schuneman, Centennial, C, sr.
Amber Seifert, Cedar Mountain/Comfrey, F, sr.
Kiley Severson, Hayfield, C, jr.
Audra Schmidt, Westbrook-Walnut Grove, C, sr.
Nicole Smart, Ada-Borup, G, sr.
Tyisha Smith, Minneapolis South, G, jr.
Allina Starr, Minneapolis North, G, eighth
Hannah Steele, Centennial, G, sr.
Taylor Stippel, Stillwater, F, sr.
Allison Streich, Waseca, G/F, jr.
Hannah Strop, New Prague, C, jr.
Kaiya Sygulla, Lakeville North, G, sr.
Emily Thesing, Brainerd, G, sr.
Jessica Thone, Woodbury, G/F, sr.
Ashley Tingelstad, East Grand Forks, G, sr.
Michelle Tobin, Eden Prairie, C, sr.
Anna Valerius, St. Michael-Albertville, G, sr.
Amanda Wagner, New Prague, G, sr.
Kate Warmack, East Grand Forks, C, jr.
Maggie Weiers, New Prague, C, jr.
Ellie Wessling, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted, F, jr.
Jaimee Wickstrom, Barnum, F, jr.
Brittani Wiese, St. Michael-Albertville, G, sr.
Bri Williams, Hopkins, G, soph.
Tempestt Wilson, Elk River, G, sr.
Whitney Wisecup, Winona Cotter, F, sr.
Ashley Witte, Champlin Park, F, sr.
Jamie Wollin, Litchfield, G, sr.
Marisa Yernatich, Duluth East, F, sr.
Taylor Young, Edina, F, jr.
Cassie Ziemer, New London-Spicer, F, jr.
Brittany Zins, Bloomington Kennedy, F, sr.

Goodhue Pictures Are Up on Gallery

I finally had some time to get at least the first game done and it they are on the jgoblephotography.photostockplus.com gallery under 3/18/09 Bigfork v Goodhue.

I put pretty much all of them up even though there are some that are a little too blurry for my liking...I am missing the last half of the game for some reason and the send off. I have no idea what happened to them as I remember looking at the sendoff in the car on the way down. And there were some pictures after the girls won the Goodhue game that I really liked, but they are gone also. I don't know if I deleted them not thinking to make room for the other games or what I did....I'm kind of bummed about it but that's the way it goes I guess....I will post the others when I get them done...

Our Funny Team!!! They Crack Me Up!

I went in yesterday to take a picture of the team to insert into the Fourth Place State Trophy, and of course, we had to do another funny team picture! I always ask if they want to do a funny picture and they jump on it, especially Coach Prato! She was first to speak up!

This picture cracks me up when I look at each individual girl and the coaches...we finally got a laugh out of Coach Powell too!

This picture says it all about how close this team is and that most importantly, they KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN!

All Tournament Team Picture

This is the Class A All tournament team with our Annalise representing the Bigfork Lady Huskies! Whoop, Whoop! We are all so proud of her for making the team...she and the rest of the team represented our community very well!

Kernz & Kompany All Star Girls Rosters

Here are the girls rosters for the Kernz & Kompany All Star games to be held in Duluth on 3/31.

DULUTH GIRLS (10)

CENTER: Kristen Gates, Hermantown, Brea Durovec, Floodwood.

FORWARD: Katy Michelson, Proctor, Taylor Sautbine, Cloquet, Breanna Larson, Central, Madison Pertler, Denfeld.

GUARD: Kaylee Steen, Hermantown, Jessica Vork, Cloquet, Shauna Wrazildo, Central, Sami Vezina, Central.

AREA GIRLS (9)

CENTER: Vanessa Aultman, Mt. Iron-Buhl, Brenda Olson, Mesabi East.

FORWARD: Rhonda Towner, Mt. Iron-Buhl, Megan Powell, Bigfork, Adrianna Ivanovic, Bigfork, Kaeley Whiting, Mesabi East.

GUARD: McKenzie Overbye, Mt. Iron-Buhl, Shelby Goble, Bigfork, Danika Stelton, International Falls.

Still Working on Pictures....And a Few Plans

I had some other pictures I had to proof and order before I can work on the State pictures and have also had to go to town a couple of days. I will hopefully get the first game done and up by tonight. I have to go to the school this afternoon and take a picture of the team with their 4th place trophy to put into the actual trophy...

FYI: For the local Bigfork parents, families and all other interested parties...once I have finished proofing the pictures I have a few ideas that I will be working on. First, I will have 8x10 pictures of the team with their Section 7A trophy (immediately after their win) for sale in the office hopefully next week for $10 each. I am thinking of doing a Story Board and will have one as a sample if anyone would like to order one of those. I will do one with Shelby in mind, but I can put your athlete in the action shot of course instead! You can look through the pictures once they are up on the gallery and choose which pictures you want on the board. This will take a couple of weeks to get done and ordered. These will be $60. I might also work on an 11x14 collage of pictures, that will be on a hard back for setting on an easel, and would be $40. I will post them on the site and take orders.

I am also going to be preparing a DVD slideshow of the girls starting from the very beginning of their journey when they were just little and in Saturday Ball to the State Tournament. This will take me over a month to do and I have talked with Mr. Patrow and we will be showing the slideshow at the Edge Center in early May sometime. I will post the information as soon as I know the date and time. I'm sure it will be over an hour long. I had thought about doing it after the Sports Banquet but we don't want to take away from all of the other sports from the year to just focus on the girls. So we will do it on a separate evening and maybe have refreshments in the Commons and then move to the Edge Center for the showing of the slideshow.

I have thought about doing this slideshow for years in the hopes that they would end up at the State Tournament and since they did....I will work on one. I'm not doing it for sales, but Mr. Patrow said I should have some available for sale, so I will. If you know that you want one, please let me know ahead of time so when I start burning them (they will take forever), I can have enough prepared for that night. They will probably be $25 as they will have a TON of pictures and a lot of hard work in them as I will have to scan all of the older pictures...

Please email me if you already know that you will want one and I will put your name on the list.

jgoble@paulbunyan.net

If you have any questions or suggestions (for songs that would work with the slideshow) PLEASE let me know....Thank You!

Goble Makes the AP All State Honorable Mention List

Here is The Associated Press 2009 All-State team for Minnesota prep girls basketball, as voted on by statewide media.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR Tayler Hill, SR, Minneapolis South
FIRST TEAM Tayler Hill, SR, Minneapolis South Brittany Chambers, SR, Jordan Theairra Taylor, SR, St. Paul Central Hannah Linz, SR, Eden Valley-Watkins Katie Loberg, SR, Princeton

SECOND TEAM Megan Nipe, SR, Centennial Nicole Smart, SR, Ada-Borup Kayla Hirt, SO, Bemidji Holli Aggen, SR, Worthington Abby Busch, SR, Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop

HONORABLE MENTION Ashley Alleven, SR, Fairmont; Abbey Arends, JR, Albert Lea; Rachel Banham, SO, Lakeville North; Amanda Barton, JR, Waterville-Elysian-Morristown; Jessica Benson, SR, Grand Meadow; Gabby Boever, JR, Worthington; Emily Bose, SR, Murray County Central; Annemarie Brown, JR, St. Peter; Bailey Bouman, JR, Pipestone Area; Sarah Brozik, JR, Mankato East; Amanda Burk, SR, Minnesota Valley Lutheran; Jessica Cagle, SR, Grand Rapids; Roz Chromy, SR, Esko; Hannah Dahlman, SO, Braham; Rebekah Dahlman, 8th, Braham; Justine Dammermann, JR, New London-Spicer; Leah Dietel, SR, Jordan; Nicole Dooher, SR, Robbinsdale Armstrong; Jessica Dvergsten, JR, Badger/Greenbush-Middle River; Amber Dvorak, SR, Hinckley-Finlayson; Julia Dysthe, SR, White Bear Lake; Brianna Edwards, SR, Minneapolis North; Kara Elofson, SR, Hopkins; Kelsey Evans, SR, Willmar; Kelsey Florian, SR, Roseville; Chelsea Fogarty, SR, Belle Plaine; Abby Fragodt, JR, Benson; Chelsea Frydenlund, SO, East Grand Forks; Shelby Goble, SR, Bigfork; Andrea Gould, SR, Wrenshall; Erica Gress, JR, Apple Valley; Rachel Hanson, JR, Minnehaha Academy; Bree Holleman, JR, Hancock; Hannah Hylla, SR, Albany; Marissa Janning, FR, Watertown-Mayer; Pam January, SR, Richfield; Brynn Joki, SR, Grand Rapids; Emily Kaus, SR, Eastview; Alyssa Kerkhoff, SO, New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva; Megan King, SR, Caledonia; Faith Kruchowski, SR, Red Lake County Central; Gina Lange, SR, Forest Lake; Megan Lauck, JR, Mounds View; Katya Leick, SR, Park of Cottage Grove; Nytor Longar, SR, Rochester John Marshall; Megan Lueck, JR, Winona; Sam Lynn, SR, Adrian; Sam Mehr, SR, Eastview; Laura Melquist, JR, Rochester Lourdes; Aly Meyer, JR, Caledonia; MacKinzie Magner, JR, Northern Freeze; Ashlynn Muhl, SO, Minneota; Scotti Moats, SR, Waconia; Meghan Molitor, SR, PACT Charter of Anoka; Lizzi Naumann, SR, Totino-Grace; Katrina Newman, JR, Barnum; Sari Noga, JR, Parkers Prairie; Riley Nordgaard, FR, Canby; Apiew Ojulu, SO, Rochester John Marshall; Miranda Pearson, JR, Warroad; Kayla Pelletier, SR, Red Lake County Central; Sarah Peterson, SR, Minnehaha Academy; Katie Pettit, SR, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted; Mandy Poke, SR, Richfield; Cassie Rochel, JR, Lakeville North; Emily Roelike, SR, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa; Emily Roering, SR, Minnewaska Area; Abby Rothenbuehler, SR, Mankato West; Tori Rule, SO, DeLaSalle; Valerie Sahr, SO, United South Central; Crissi Schewe, SR, Sleepy Eye St. Mary's; Kiley Severson, JR, Hayfield; Audra Schmidt, SR, Westbrook-Walnut Grove; Katie Schou, SR, Albert Lea; Bridget Schuneman, SR, Centennial; Taylor Stippel, SR, Stillwater; Allison Streich, JR, Waseca; Emily Thesing, SR, Brainerd; Kate Thompson, SR, Wayzata; Jessica Thone, SR, Woodbury; Ashley Tingelstad, SR, East Grand Forks; Michelle Tobin, SR, Eden Prairie; Kareena Tulloch, SR, Montgomery-Lonsdale; Kylie Vatthauer, SR, Red Lake Falls; Tina Vorphal, SR, Austin; Amanda Wagner, SR, New Prague; Kate Warmack, JR, East Grand Forks; Brittani Wiese, SR, St. Michael-Albertville; Bri Williams, SO, Hopkins; Tempestt Wilson, SR, Elk River; Whitney Wisecup, SR, Winona Cotter; Jamie Wollin, SR, Litchfield; Marisa Yernatich, SR, Duluth East; Taylor Young, JR, Edina.

All Star Game at Mesabi Range Community College

There will be another All Star Game for area seniors at the Mesabi Range Community College on Thursday, April 2nd. The girls will play at 6:00 pm and will be followed by the boys at 8:00 pm. Mesabi Range Community College is in Virginia, MN.

Shelby will be playing on the Girls White Team along with: Melissa Nyberg, Hibbing, Kassy Wenneson, Babbitt, McKenzie Overbye and Vanessa Aultman of MIB, Danika Stelton, International Falls, Kaeley Whiting of Mesabi East, Brynn Joki and Jessica Cagle of Grand Rapids and Jessa Youso of Virginia. Alexis Podpeskar of Virginia is an honorary member due to an injury. The White team will be coached by Grand Rapids Coach Dave LaCoe.

The Girls Red Team will consist of: Katherine Michalski, Silver Bay, Skyla Robertson and Katy Mickelson of Proctor, Kellie Rengo and Roz Chromy of Esko, Sarah Hamline of Lake View Christian, Andrea Gould, Wrenshall, Kaylee Steen and Lara Kesti of Hermantown and Stephanie Carlson of Duluth Marshall. They will be coached by Brooke Chaffee of Two Harbors High School.

Kernz & Kompany All Star Basketball Game

Adrianna Ivanovic, Megan Powell and Shelby Goble were invited to play in the 2009 Kernz & Kompany All Star Basketball games in Duluth on Tuesday, March 31st at 6:00 pm at the Duluth Denfeld High School. They will be on a team of ten girls from the Iron Range that will play ten girls from the Duluth Area. That should be a fun one....I don't know who the rest of the girls are on their team or the Duluth team for that matter, but will post that information hopefully by tomorrow. They received their letters while they were at the State Tournament so are confirming that they will play tomorrow morning. It should be fun to see our "up north" girls take on the "city girls"!

Will post the teams as soon as we know more....Congratulations to all three!

Klamm-All Tournament, Goble-All State

A couple of big honors for Annalise Klamm and Shelby Goble. Annalise was chosen to the Class A All Tournament team for the State Tournament. This is a big honor as they choose only 10 girls from all the Class A teams that particpated in the tournament. Congratulations Lise! (I will post a picture tomorrow and add it to this post)

As they were leaving the Target Center after Lise received her big award, one of the coaches came up to Greg to let him know that Shelby had made the All State first team! This is an award voted on by the MN Coaches Association and they choose ten girls from each Class, A, AA, AAA and AAAA. There are ten girls for the first team and ten girls that make honorable mention. (They don't have the honorable mention up yet) This is a nice honor as it is voted on by the coaches. She was excited and in shock that she made the list. Congratulations Shelby!

Here is the list for the Class A All State team and Class A All Tournament team:

Here is the Minnesota Coaches Association A All State team:

Laura Kolness, Ada-Borup
Katy Ness, Ada-Borup
Nicole Smart, Ada-Borup
Sam Lynn, Adrian
Erica Their, Adrian
Shelby Goble, Bigfork
Jenna Meissner, Brandon-Evansville
Jessica Benson, Grand Meadow
Bree Holleman, Hancock
Cara Lutes, New Life
Jenny Ramey, New Life
Sari Noga, Parkers Prairie

Coach of the year: David Smart, Ada-Borup
Assistant of the year: Kevin Novotny, Adrian

Here is the Class A All Tournament Team:

Annalise Klamm, Bigfork
Katrina Newman, Barnum
Jaimee Wickstrom, Barnum
Amber Seifert, Cedar Mountain-Comfrey
Kayla Mathiowetz, Cedar Mountain-Comfrey
Jaime Hanson, Cedar Mountain-Comfrey
Nicole Smart, Ada-Borup
Katy Ness, Ada-Borup
Laura Kolness, Ada-Borup
Vicki Ellefson, Ada-Borup

Grand Rapids Articles

This is the article that was in Wednesday's paper 3/18/09, the day we left for the tournament. Copy and paste...

http://www.grandrapidsmn.com/articles/2009/03/18/sports/doc49c10e4d88f4a804137902.prt

This the article from the Herald Review on the Bigfork/Goodhue game:

http://www.grandrapidsmn.com/articles/2009/03/21/sports/doc49c3feab08369993744261.txt

This is their article on the overtime semi-final game against Cedar Mountain-Comfrey:

http://www.grandrapidsmn.com/articles/2009/03/21/sports/doc49c4191564b19087069829.prt

I hope you can get to them. If not just google Grand Rapids Herald Review and you will find them. You may have to become registered though.