Nathan finished his first season in Upward a couple of weeks ago. Kevin and Zac were his coaches and Katie was a cheerleader so you can guess how 8 Saturdays and Monday nights were spent. Nathan had an interesting season. After 4 games, he had scored a total of.....(drum roll)....... zero points. He had a couple of aggressive players on his team, so I think in his mind, his job was to get the ball to one of those two kids instead of trying to make the shot himself. Then he got a little incentive: someone offered him $5 for every basket he made the rest of the season which went like this:
Game 5--1 basket
Game 6--2 free throws and 2 baskets
Game 7--5 baskets
Game 8--3 baskets
Amazing what an incentive can do! I was concerned the pay-off was going to backfire. Nathan tends to be a perfectionist and if he hadn't scored any baskets, he would have taken it very hard and lamented about it for days. I wasn't given the opportunity to approve the offer, so I just had to hope for the best. Thankfully, we had a happy ending that gave him a little confidence, not to mention a new Wii game, a board game, and some Lego Star wars sets.
Katie's last year to be an Upward cheerleader...Years ago when she was in first grade, she became a Christian during one of her devotional times at practice.
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