Wednesday Day 4

Day 4:

Today the first round of games started for the 2013 National Tournament and will be completed by the remaining 16 teams tomorrow. We woke up this morning and headed to Sioux City High School for practice after having film and breakfast at the hotel. After practice we went to the Tyson Center to watch some basketball, including our fellow WHAC team Concordia. One of the biggest highlights of our busy day was visiting the two elementary schools that our sponsor's kids attend. We got to visit the classrooms of kindergardeners and third graders, who were just as excited to meet us as we were to meet them. They made posters for all of us and were filled with questions and stories for each of us. The next big event on the agenda was dinner with all of our sponsors, who definitely spoil us, at Minerva's. Here we also celebrated Coach William's and Emily's birthdays! After dinner we headed back to the arena for the opening ceremonies and for the famous spelling out of NAIA on the court wilth all of the qualifying teams (pictures to comes) and exchanged our gifts. We gave them tshirts and they gave us shirts as well. While waiting for the time to pass our team entertained ourselves by singing, dancing, and playing the crocodile game. A lot of the parents arrived tonight as well so we got to see them at the opening ceremony! After we hung around the watch #1 seed Morning side play Webber. We are now back at the hotel and getting ready to head to bed and prepare for our game tomorrow! We play at 11:15 EST against College of St. Mary's, for all of the tournament information you can visit the following link: http://dupanthers.com/sports/2013/2/14/WBB_0214131547.aspx

Kia with some kids at the elementary school

Playing the crocodile game to pass the time

Elementary classroom