Picture this if you will: first-time season ticket holders excited for the new season, only to learn that the home opener is the same day as the regional tournament for a competition team I coach. Then, in a miraculous turn of events, the team’s competition is scheduled to be done by 1 p.m., giving me just enough time to get to the match and back in time for the award ceremony, despite gridlocked parking garages that had us abandoning the car and running three blocks to grab a Lyft.
At the awards our team was thrilled to place second, which meant a bid to the state-level competition…on April 6.