Michelle

Life lessons

Sorry for the lack of posts… I’ve been working 100+ hour weeks and in my “free” time, I ran 4 tournaments in a 5 week stretch. This is the third weekend I’ve been in Boulder since I moved here 4 months ago- 1 of those weekends was the board meeting. I slept > 4 hours […]

t-17

hours until the rostering deadline and I have processed 572 rosters to date.  I also ran 3 tournaments in March complete with a bunch of developmental events.  Most of my writing efforts have been centered around previews and recaps of those events, and I haven’t really had a lot of free time to do much […]

Easterns

Tonight, one of the Texas girls told me that I have the worst luck of anyone she knows.  I tried to argue for a second, then resigned myself to just accepting that my bad luck is pretty much beyond explanation.  I’ve had a rough stretch lately, culminating in my flight to Raleigh getting delayed 8 […]

MWTD v. 4.0

One of my old teammates reminded me today that this is the 4th year of Midwest Throwdown.  I still remember that first year as if it were yesterday… In many ways, I feel like that tournament defined me as an organizer.  We lost our primary field site partway through Saturday as melting snow made the […]

Pres Day

That was an epic weekend to say the least.  It was stressful watching the weather unfold last week, and a difficult field owner left us scrambling to revise our backup plan on Friday.  I got in late Friday night and Nat, Jane, and Loryn (Pres Day TDs ’11, ’10, and ’09) picked me up from […]