So today I attended the induction ceremony as my daughter was enshrined in the Pelion High School Hall of Fame.  Yep, she was quite the athlete. Lettered in basketball as an 8th grader, was the South Carolina 800m champion in track, and excelled in cross country.  She still holds most of the female records in those sports twenty years after graduation.  She was honored to be honored and it made her daddy proud to boot.

Brought back some memories as well.  I recall my motivational speech before the State Track meet.  I told her if she won the championship I’d buy her a new car.  I admit I figured it was a pretty safe bet since she had a lot of long legged competition.  But I wound up buying the car.

She was aggressive as hell on the basketball court too.  She’s only 5’5″ and most of the girls she played against had a few inches on her.  But she didn’t take no shit from anyone, driving the ball to the basket over, around, and when necessary, through her opponents.  Once she had gotten into foul trouble so was sitting the bench.  Towards the end of the game I heard her pleading with the coach “Put me back in!  I’ve got one more foul left.  I want to use it!”

That’s my girl.