Softball Celebration

The New Hope community welcomed home the 14-time 5A Slowpitch Softball State Champions.

The players walking the red carpet off the bus onto the field.

Each player got a yellow rose and a chance to speak to the crowd.

Vicki Wyers Gerhart and I were both on New Hope's first state championship team in 1989. Now our girls are playing. Vicki with her daughter Kelsie and me and Anna Kate are the first mother/daughters to both win state championships.

The team with their state championship t-shirts, medals and roses.

The "Seven Sevens": there are seven seventh graders on the team.

Our family there to support Anna Kate.

Anna Kate with the rock. It's a long story, but the rock is a very important tradition to the softball team.

Anna Kate with the trophy.