"Cool" Trip to Michigan

Monday-9-12:00
Tuesday: 9-5:00
Wednesday: 9:00-12:30, 3:30-5:00
Thursday: 9-5
Friday: On the Road (All Day)
Saturday On the Road (All Day)

Well....Last week, I ended the post saying, "Next week I am on the road to Michigan. Fun....Maybe?"

It was fun!

To see all those Michigan fans sad after we won was, I will admit, mildly funny.

We competed well in a hostle environment and put up a score that could push us to number one. OU Head Coach Mark Williams was very happy to leave with a win.

This is actually one of the easier jobs that I have. Going on the road is fun because all I have to do is sit back watch the meet and do the release. In some case is can write out most of the release ahead of time and plug in a lot of details later. It also helped that the meet was at 2 p.m. and not a night. This helps out with the papers.

This week is Minnesota and Texas. It will be fun to have all the kids from Cleveland Elementary in Norman for "Cleveland Elementary Night."

This is our biggest meet of the year and the most fun. The kids do most of the work, except my job. I wonder how I could get a kid do my job?? Will have to think about that this week.

Talk to you next week.

What a Long Week

Monday-9-12:00
Tuesday: 9-5:00
Wednesday: 9:00-12:30, 3:30-5:00
Thursday: 9-5
Friday: 9-5
Saturday 1:30-10:30

What a week...with all the home events in town this was not going to be pretty.

We had several basketball games at night during the week and Satuday was the day from hell.

I am going to just going to talk about Saturday since the rest of the week was just the normal notes, program and setting up.

Saturday started off by have to update the gymnastics line ups at 9:00 a.m. in the morning. The men's gymnastics SID sent me a chaged line up and lets say I was not happy.

I had to work the most boring women's basketball game in the history of the sport but it was what I needed. We were playing Colorado and killed them.

After that I went straight over to McCasland Field House for five more hourse of gymnastics fun. We were competing against Nebraska and it was not a contest. We beat them by 21 points and in the gymnastics world that is a lot. The most important thing is that everything went soomthly and nothing went wrong at our first home meet.

Everyone was happy...so I'm happy.

Next week I am on the road to Michigan. Fun....Maybe?

Michigan could give us a run for our money.

Home with Nebraska

Monday-9-11:30
Tuesday: 9-4:30
Wednesday: 9:00-12:30, 3:30-5:00
Thursday: 9-5
Friday: 9-5
Saturday 3:00-5:30

This week was not that busy but it was a important one.

The gymnastics Winter Cup Challenge is this week and the U.S. Senior National Team is put together based off the scores from this meet.

Five current and former Oklahoma gymnasts were sent to the Winter Cup and all five made it. This means that five of the 15 members of the Senior National team will be Oklahoma guys. This is amazing because no other program has done this in history.

I also like this week becuase it gives me a chance to catch up and work ahead on notes and other paper work. I'm already done with most of what is needed for the meet. It is great.

Saturday was also a big day for basketball. We were playing Texas and it was Wayman Tisdale night. Half time show consisted of Toby Kieth playing his song tribute and we won the game. Great atmosphere!

Next week is Nebraska at home for gymnastics. Should be a good meet. It is at home so everybody come. I will start preparing for Michigan. That is a big meet at there place.

Getting Ready for Texas--Ice and Snow

Monday-9-11:30
Tuesday: 9-4:30
Wednesday: 9:00-12:30, 3:30-5:00
Thursday: 9-5
Friday: 9-5

This week was a very busy week getting ready for Texas. There is much to do for a home meet and little time to prepare for it. A times it did not seem that I would get done in time but I made it all work out.

I usually don't start at 9 a.m. in the morning on Mondays and Wednesdays but this week I needed all the time I could get.

I first started making the most esential parts of my job which are the flipcards and the notes. The flipcard did not take that long becuase I went off an older football template. A flipcard is filled with the basic informationa fan needs to know about the event. Then I work on the notes and those are more for my info and the media that shows up.

After Wednesday, I got word that there would be a storm coming but kept working like it was going to be nothing.

Things were going smoothly after Thursday even thought there was a inch of ice on the ground and snow fallling. Got everything working at the fieldhouse with scoring equipment and video board. I appriciate the help from Branndon Meire of Sooner Vision and David Payne of OU IT for helping with everything.

Friday rolls around and everything is going smooth until I get a call from Mark say that Joe C. cancelled everything that day and to write a release. So, I wrote a release about everything being cancelled and relaxed.

I am almost glad for the storm because I was able to relax for the first time in a while.

It was nice.

Next time I will write about Winter Cup. Big deal in the gymnastics world.