What a season!  Anna's first "real" softball experience.  She played tee ball for 2 years, but this was the big change to actually using a softball and hitting off of the pitching machine.  I coached her team and had 3 awesome assistant coaches, including Coach Grampa.

Batter up!  Anna was a natural at the plate.





Not what the coaches meant by "ready position", but usually what we got. 



Anna's favorite positions were First Base, Catcher and "Bench".  We had 11 girls and I was so worried about hurting the feelings of the first girls to play "bench" position...but little did I know that it would turn out to be one of their favorites.  Who knew. 

Two of my favorite questions that I heard at every game:

"Coach, when is it my turn to play "bench"? 

"Coach, who are we versing tonight"?

And here they are, the SUNBIRDS!



I could not have imagined a sweeter group of girls.  They were the best.  We started out with 3 losses....at that point I was hoping that we would win at least ONE game this year!  Only Anna & one other girl had ever played any kind of organized ball, so we started a little rough.  But, all of the girls got to play all of the positions equally.  Their improvement in just a few games was unbelievable!  We ended up in third place for the season and then....

First place trophies for the Tournament!  It was so exciting.  They were awesome.




Even Brady gave one of the champs a kiss.  Oh no, wait, I think he was trying to nab her snack.



Anna was chosen to be one of the team's All-Stars.  Great job Anna!  She's next to the blue Heat coach.