Summer Season

Dear Friends:

Riki’s Redondo Union HS varsity team is now firmly entrenched into the summer season with tournaments, leagues and camps filling their weeks.

Using yesterday, Monday, as an extreme example, RUHS had an 8-9 a.m. practice and then headed to CSULB for two games, one at 10:30 and another at 12:30. They then came back, stopping for lunch on the way, and had 4:00 and 6:00 league games back at Redondo. Yep, that’s right, four games in one day!

Of course, on top of this, I was transporting six of the girls to CSULB and coordinating 16 hours of “coverage” for the door and snack bar at Redondo. So, the day didn’t end till past 9 p.m.

Riki is off to an 8 a.m. practice this morning and has 2 games at CSULB later on. No league games, thank goodness!

League resumes tomorrow along with the last day of the CSULB “camp”. See summer league schedule attached. All league games are at RUHS.

Redondo hosts this weekend’s Redondo Summer Classic on Friday and Saturday which means 3 more games and 24 hours of door/snack bar coverage

After next week’s league games and the 4th of July holiday, the varsity takes off for the End of the Oregon Trail in Oregon City/Portland, July 5-9. Mom and Dad are going up with Riki and the team for a short “vacation.”

Riki continues to play significant minutes as the starting point guard. She is struggling from the field, so far, but is limiting her turnovers and getting some nice assists. She is also doing well defensively, a sign that she is back from last summer’s knee injury. She took two charges in last weekend’s tournament at Vanguard University (the team struggled going 1-3).

This will be a proverbial “rebuilding” year for the defending Division 1A champions with only two seniors (who, also, are not expected to be among the 7-person rotation). So keep the faith!