Teton Girls Going to STATE!!!!!

This year I have been helping coach the Teton girls varsity basketball. I have loved it so much!!!! These girls are great! We have had a long season. With a season of close games. We ended up getting second in our district. We barely beat Shelley.....who were the State Champs last year. In the last few seconds they fouled Laurel....our pressure player and she swished both foul shots. There was not enough time left for Shelly to get a shot off. Then we played Sugar for the district championship. We were expected to get killed....but we ended loosing only by 6 points. Sugar will most likely be the State champs of our district.....they are good!

So then we had to play a play off game with Marsh Valley to see who would go to state. It was such a close game....and our girls struggled the whole game....making it closer then it should have been. We were tied with 8 seconds to go and our girls played great defense. Our girls trapped them on the inbound and they had to make a risky pass. Laurel tipped it away and then with 1.4 seconds left she got control of the ball and threw up an unbalanced sideways shot.....and she swished it! It was amazing the crowd flooded the floor in excitement. After this game I am pretty sure I have terminal heart failure. It was just way too close and there were a few moments where I thought our dream of state was crushed.

This is the first time our girls have gone to state in 13 years! We will head off to Boise on Wednesday and our first game is against Kimberly on Thursday.