Pe’Shon Howard’s Diary #5 – Maintaining Focus

By Pe’Shon Howard
Throughout the 2009-2010 season, OakHillHoops.com will feature personal stories from our players.

Maintaining Focus

December 19, 2009 — Man, the last week and a half has been crazy. We started it off with four games in four days. It was tough, but we came out with four wins. Coach scheduled the games this way to help us get ready for our after Christmas tournament in Portland, so this helped us realize the type of focus it will take for us to win.

These games led right into finals week, so we had to get our minds back into school right away. (Coach helped a lot by giving us light practices.)

Finally, what made everything even more crazy was the snow storm that came Friday and affected the exam schedule. So Friday morning, we woke up at 6:30 am and started tests at 7 am! We had to take three tests instead of two. Our home game also got canceled because of the snow that night.  The team was upset, but that meant “winter break” officially started.

All the students left campus later Friday, except for us and the girls basketball team. We aren’t leaving until Sunday to go play in Ironton, OH.

So we took a break today and played in the 15 inches of snow – Me, Coach Allen and Coach B, helped keep us from being bored.

We’ve worked out as a team this weekend to make sure we stay sharp with a tough stretch coming up - two games in Ohio, then Portland after Christmas and an ESPN game vs. Northland in Springfield, MA.

‘Til 2010…
Pe`Shon

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