WMS Basketball - B team goes undefeated!

Our middle school currently has 1,600 students...way over capacity but I won't go there as I have been pleading our case with the school district to please build a new school and it's been slow and frustrating. I digress...we have an A and B basketball team each with about 12 kids plus 1-2 alternates. So it's not easy to make the team. Matt grew up playing soccer in the fall and baseball in the spring. In the last few years he's played some basketball and gets better each year.

We were all super excited when he found out he made the basketball team! He learned he made the B team and we hoped he'd get some playing time. Well, he started. We couldn't have been more proud. It was a great season. He played with several of his friends and the boys loved that Coach Barnes was coaching the 7th grade B team. They played hard. They didn't lose a single game! They won the Humble ISD tournament towards the beginning of the season and ended the year District Champions. Matt started well and finished really strong. We were proud of not only how he played but also his leadership on the court.

They played 4 games and won all of them to win the HISD tournament. The last game was close but they stayed ahead and pulled off the win! Second picture is Cordell, Matt Pittman, Taveon, Corey, Cameron and Matt. One Mom said this was "the crew" and I wasn't sure if our Matt was supposed to be in the picture but she assured me he is part of "the crew". Love it!

Matt did really well shooting especially from the 3 point and free throw line. When we reminded him to d-up, he played great defense and several times got the ball from the inbound and shot a layup.

The boys were really excited to win their last game. A lot of good friendships made this season. Can't thank Coach Barnes enough for all the hours he put into the season and for the tough love.

Both A and B teams together. It was fun to watch these teams support each other all season. The A team only lost 1 game and ended the season as Co-District Champs. They were so talented and a lot of fun to watch! Congratulations Coaches and kids on a great season.

Post game celebration at Chick-fil-A!