Sunday, March 4, 2012

Special Olympics Basketball Skills

Our group prior to the beginning of competition.
The basketball skills has three parts.
 One part is the spot shot.  There are 6 spots on the floor where the athlete gets 2 shots each.  Tom didn't do so well in this part.  In practice he did great in this part.
 Dribbling was the 2nd part.  Each athlete had two chances to dribble from the first set of cones to the second set.  This is timed and each time the athlete used a two handed dribble a second was added.  Not a problem for this guy.
 Getting ready to shoot.  The 3rd part is passing.  He was perfect at that part.
He received a fourth place.  He was happy with it and so was I.  We have only two spots open to take athletes to state and there were three who qualified.  Two of them have never been before so it was only right that they go to state.
Way to go Tom!

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