Berlin

My team had a tournament in Berlin this past weekend and it happened to be right around the corner from the U.S. Embasy (shown right). We played a team from Poland and 3 teams from Germany. We ended up winning 2 games and losing 2 games. Our first game was after a 5 hour drive against the Polish team and they were pretty mean and tough. Unfortunately we lost that game and the next, but stepped it up and played better for our last 2 games. I've been able to get a lot of minutes, and it has been a lot of fun. We stayed at a teammate's parent's house instead of a hotel while we were there, and it was really nice. This house was definately on the expensive end of housing in Germany.

On Saturday night we ate dinner together and then drove downtown. It was an awesome city and I was able to see a lot of historical landmarks. Everyone pretty much gave Lori and I a guided tour/ history lesson as we drove around. Haha. It was pretty amazing seeing where the Berlin wall used to be, and seeing a brand new, huge train station there. Unfortunately I wasn't able to take any good pictures because it was night time... but I really hope to go back sometime.

Last Friday I did athletic testing on a group of 12-16 year old girls that play basketball in our club. I tested their vertical jump, standing broad jump, overhead squat form, 20 meter sprint, a basketball court shuttle run, push ups, and sit ups in 60 seconds. I'll be working with them on strength and conditioning for about the next 20 weeks, so it should be a lot of fun for me. They seem like great girls and understand English pretty well.