Emmy played YMCA basketball this year with some girls from her class. At this age Norris starts doing the NYBA teams but Emmy and the other girls that she played with weren't so sure that they wanted to commit 2 nights a week and most weekends to tournaments at this level. We had a group of girls and parents that had the same thought process so we made our own team. This was great except between scheduling conflicts, illness etc we had a hard time getting a full team plus subs to show up and it was a weekly battle to have enough girls. At this level it is all about learning the fundamentals while still having fun. This is not Robb's first rodeo with coaching so he knows that and makes it fun for the girls.
Emmy has really enjoyed playing this year and her competitive nature is starting to come out. Robb is thrilled because I lack competitiveness and so does Abby. Although Emmy is a combination of Bryce's skill and Caleb's scrappiness. She has pretty good ball handling skills and is getting better all the time and to some degree, lacks some anger control when it comes to basketball. She manages to make some girl cry every game which is never really her fault but we still give her a hard time about it after every game.
Emmy is never afraid to get on the floor and fight for the ball. She will straight up tackle people to get that ball back. Robb loves how aggressive she is and I try to embrace it.
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