"We should have worked harder...."
March 2, 2011
So its been a while since I have done one of these, I have been caught up with life.
Anyhow, today was a good day at Bosco. Our girls volleyball team has qualified for AA OFSAA, so they held a buy-out this afternoon that included a dunk-off and a 3 point shootout (I won neither, but chose not to compete in the dunk off to save the embarrassment for the students to lose to their coach...hahaha). Luckily a few of our former players came out to support the cause and put on a little show.
In my conversation with one of the guys, we talked about our OFSAA year and that is when he told me something interesting. He told me how him and some of the other guys talk about what the outcome would have been had they worked harder during that year. To their defense, these guys worked very hard that year and qualifying for OFSAA was a great accomplishment, it was the first time in the schools' history that a boys basketball team had done so. But it really brought up an interesting point to me... "What if they did work harder?" 5 of the players from that team have gone on to play collegiate basketball and they are all obviously a couple of years older and they say hindsight is 20/20.
So I guess this message is really for all of the younger guys. This was probably the most talented team Bosco has ever had and these guys are now disappointed that they didn't live up to their potential and put the work in when it mattered. I really hope that this message gets across to some of younger guys and guys still in the Bosco program or even some of you guys who still play. Don't live your life with regret, put everything you have into everything you do and you will never look back and say "WHAT IF....."
Anyhow, today was a good day at Bosco. Our girls volleyball team has qualified for AA OFSAA, so they held a buy-out this afternoon that included a dunk-off and a 3 point shootout (I won neither, but chose not to compete in the dunk off to save the embarrassment for the students to lose to their coach...hahaha). Luckily a few of our former players came out to support the cause and put on a little show.
In my conversation with one of the guys, we talked about our OFSAA year and that is when he told me something interesting. He told me how him and some of the other guys talk about what the outcome would have been had they worked harder during that year. To their defense, these guys worked very hard that year and qualifying for OFSAA was a great accomplishment, it was the first time in the schools' history that a boys basketball team had done so. But it really brought up an interesting point to me... "What if they did work harder?" 5 of the players from that team have gone on to play collegiate basketball and they are all obviously a couple of years older and they say hindsight is 20/20.
So I guess this message is really for all of the younger guys. This was probably the most talented team Bosco has ever had and these guys are now disappointed that they didn't live up to their potential and put the work in when it mattered. I really hope that this message gets across to some of younger guys and guys still in the Bosco program or even some of you guys who still play. Don't live your life with regret, put everything you have into everything you do and you will never look back and say "WHAT IF....."
Posted by Mike Smith.
