Finally have traveled full circle
By
Stephen Forsha-sforsha@gmail.com
Ok, I want to state right now that I know I am not old, but like everyone else, I am getting older each day.
Well, to get you into my mindset let me say this basketball season is the first year I started feeling a tad bit older.
Why, you ask how can a 25- (almost 26-) year-old feel like he is getting older?
Well, I will tell you.
It is the group of seniors who just finished their respective basketball seasons. Both boys and girls.
Not all of them, but the ones who played at the varsity level since 2006.
You know, toward the middle of the last decade.
When they were starting high school, I was just out of college and was starting to report not only the news, but sports as well.
I didn’t have bags under my eyes either. (Not as bad as former NBA coach Jeff Van Gundy.)
So when the 2009-10 season rolled around, I knew what was coming.
It was kind of like the music in “Jaws” preparing me, giving me notice that something was about to happen, and I wasn’t going to be able to stop it.
Not that I wanted to. In those four seasons covering this particular senior class, I have written about many great games, some not so great games, and probably games I need a refresher course on.
Like earlier this week, I was looking at some of my first stories I covered in Highland County. (I’m a pack rat and I keep a copy of every game story I have covered in that time frame.)
Anyways, I looked at some of the box scores, and the one that stands out to me is a McClain game where Kate Hammond scored 17 points early in the season in a game against an opponent I can’t remember. (Maybe I am getting old after all.)
Long story short, since that time Hammond went on to score over 1,000 points, and I find it pretty cool I had the opportunity to cover sports at the time she started to build that point total.
Maybe I am getting sentimental lately with coaches retiring and another senior class leaving, but when basketball takes up nearly four or five months of your life each year, six days a week, you tend to start thinking about how it all started.
Anyways, congratulations to all the seniors for this successful basketball careers.
Thanks for making a me feel old when I shouldn’t.
I know my co-workers (BTW, I am the second youngest person at the HCP) all looked at me in disgust when I said I was feeling old this week. They just shook their head and told me to shut up.
So with that in mind, I will just end by saying to the seniors I’ve covered in basketball for four seasons: Congratulations on your successful careers. Where did the time go?
Stephen Forsha is the sports editor for The Highland County Press.
Ok, I want to state right now that I know I am not old, but like everyone else, I am getting older each day.
Well, to get you into my mindset let me say this basketball season is the first year I started feeling a tad bit older.
Why, you ask how can a 25- (almost 26-) year-old feel like he is getting older?
Well, I will tell you.
It is the group of seniors who just finished their respective basketball seasons. Both boys and girls.
Not all of them, but the ones who played at the varsity level since 2006.
You know, toward the middle of the last decade.
When they were starting high school, I was just out of college and was starting to report not only the news, but sports as well.
I didn’t have bags under my eyes either. (Not as bad as former NBA coach Jeff Van Gundy.)
So when the 2009-10 season rolled around, I knew what was coming.
It was kind of like the music in “Jaws” preparing me, giving me notice that something was about to happen, and I wasn’t going to be able to stop it.
Not that I wanted to. In those four seasons covering this particular senior class, I have written about many great games, some not so great games, and probably games I need a refresher course on.
Like earlier this week, I was looking at some of my first stories I covered in Highland County. (I’m a pack rat and I keep a copy of every game story I have covered in that time frame.)
Anyways, I looked at some of the box scores, and the one that stands out to me is a McClain game where Kate Hammond scored 17 points early in the season in a game against an opponent I can’t remember. (Maybe I am getting old after all.)
Long story short, since that time Hammond went on to score over 1,000 points, and I find it pretty cool I had the opportunity to cover sports at the time she started to build that point total.
Maybe I am getting sentimental lately with coaches retiring and another senior class leaving, but when basketball takes up nearly four or five months of your life each year, six days a week, you tend to start thinking about how it all started.
Anyways, congratulations to all the seniors for this successful basketball careers.
Thanks for making a me feel old when I shouldn’t.
I know my co-workers (BTW, I am the second youngest person at the HCP) all looked at me in disgust when I said I was feeling old this week. They just shook their head and told me to shut up.
So with that in mind, I will just end by saying to the seniors I’ve covered in basketball for four seasons: Congratulations on your successful careers. Where did the time go?
Stephen Forsha is the sports editor for The Highland County Press.
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