Ryan's New Baseball Team

Ryan is playing on a new baseball team this year: the Inside Sports Elite. He's not real fond of the name since he says it sounds cocky but he does like the colors - green & gold. These are our high school colors. One of the coaches and 4 other boys from last year's team moved to this team with Ryan. It's a AAA team which means more competitive. Last year's team was a AA team. There is one level above AAA - majors and those kids are super competitive and travel a bunch to tourneys.

(Ryan is front row on the far right of this picture)

Here's the team celebrating their first tourney win. They had made it to the championship game in their first 2 tourneys but lost and got 2nd place. They were happy to finally win one. Ryan at the plate - I don't know if he got a hit this time or not. Another parent with a good camera took these pictures for me.

That's our new head coach, Tom, handing out the trophies. He's a nice guy & pitched in college. We are lucky to have 2 coaches that both played college baseball. Ryan's coach from last year (who moved to this team as well) played catcher at KState. It's nice to have such solid instruction for the kids & they volunteer their time. We are so thankful for this since Bruce was ready to stop coaching.

More posts to come over the next couple of days -- can't promise they will be in order. Ryan's baseball started in early April and he'll have tourneys every weekend through the end of June.

Luckily - he doesn't play on the 4th of July this year. Yay!