I have been having a fantastic time here in Whitehorse with all the sports. My girls volleyball has been doing well, they played their long time rivals (long time as in from Westerns this summer, ha) in the semi finals. Sadly they lost and will be playing Nunavut in the Bronze ulu match tomorrow. The boys have semis tonight against Yukon too - fingers crossed for them! The volleyball has been good - the boys very close!
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| Kids practicing the head pull at Arctic Sports |
Yesterday I spent the day watching halfpipe snowboarding. Two of Team NWT snowboarders medaled, which is terrific! Especially considering there is no half pipe in the territories! It was a chilly day up there, but tons of new snow!
After that I came down the mountain to catch some of the arctic sports - Alaskan High Kick. Man, if I had the chance to do sports over again I would have totally wanted to do arctic sports. It's like one big party. Everyone hanging out in the gym. Everytime you attempt something, you fellow competator and other coaches come up to give you advice on how to make it next time. So cool!
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| Veronica's one foot high kick at 6 feet 8 inches |
So, I watched the Alaskan High Kick yesterday and then the one foot high kick today. Holy it is amazing! Our girl Veronica sadly missed a medal today for the High Kick :( missing the 6 feet 10 inches mark, but the open category for women broke a new record! So that was cool.
Tomorrow is the second last day :( it feels like everything's flown by, whereas on Tuesday if felt like I had been here for ever! I'm sad that it's ending, I've had a blast and cannot wait to submit my application to come in 2014!
