Highlights from Brett's Floor Hockey Season

Brett decided to do adapted floor hockey instead of basketball for his winter sport.  

When I look back on Brett's high school experience, Thunderbolt's adapted sports is one of the biggest wins. Brett gained confidence, leadership skills, and social skills that would not have emerged solely in the classroom. The highlights from Thunderbolts, regardless of what sport they were playing, came in the form of potentially lifelong friendships.  

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Highlights from Basketball and Softball

Yikes!  Brett is a senior and he's expecting me to have all of these videos complete and compiled into one playlist for his grad party!  It's crunch time!

Junior year's basketball seasons included the city rec league and Special Olympics league.  Link. 

He also played in two softball leagues!  He played for the Minnesota State High School League adapted softball, which is basically wiffle ball, and played in a gym.  Springs can be pretty cold and wet in Minnesota, so we appreciate the climate control!  In the state tournament, Brett hit 3 out-of-the-park home runs and was intentionally walked - which we believe is a state record! He was named a member of the All-Tournament Team. 

He also played in the Special Olympics softball league, which is played on standard softball fields with softballs in the summer!  He proved himself as a slugger there, too, hitting many home runs and one over the fence!

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Brett's Adapted Soccer Highlights

I'm writing this post during a break in a volleyball tournament.  As we're wrapping up winter sports, I'm so happy to be finally finishing up the fall sports highlights videos! 

Brett enjoyed his second season playing adapted soccer for our district's team.  His job is usually to camp out by our goal and attempt to score. The Thunderbolt's won our section and made it to the state tournament.  There is a really good player on Stillwater's team, and we lost to them once in the regular season and then again in the state tournament.  Fortunately, he's a senior, so maybe we can beat Stillwater next year!

Brett has made some great friendships by playing on the Thunderbolt's and I am so thankful for the program.

Brett's Adapted Soccer Highlights

One of the best things about Brett's sophomore year was him deciding to join the Thunderbolt's.  The Thunderbolt's is our district's high school adapted sports team. In our state, adapted highschool sports include soccer, poly hockey, softball, bowling, and swimming.  Brett doesn't love any of those sports except softball, so it took a little push from mom and dad, his favorite gym teacher, and the coach to get him to join.

Brett discovered a place where he was valued and supported.  He experienced growth and success in trying something new, and he made good friends.  

The Thunderbolt's is comprised of athletes from all three of the high schools in our district, plus some 7th and 8th graders.  Students are bussed to one of the schools for all of the after school practices.  This is all part of the fun, especially if you get out of sixth hour a few minutes early. 😉The team enjoys all the hype of gameday t-shirts, pep fest recognition, an occasional coach bus to a game, and end-of-season banquets. Brett likes hype.

The fall sport is soccer.  It is played in the gym with a special felt covered soccer ball. Brett played on the varsity squad.  They had an average record during the regular season.  The section game that led to the state competition was intense, with the score tied at 3 and going into overtime.  Brett's friend Logan scored the winning goal, advancing them to state.  At state, they faced one of the best teams in the state in the first round and lost.  It was an exciting but brief run at the title!  

Brett earned his first varsity letter.

Brett passed on playing the winter sport - poly hockey.  But he joined back up with the team this spring to play softball.  Stay tuned!