Team Bonding

Practices have been going pretty good and the coaches decided we needed a little time off. This past weekend the team had little break to rest our bodies from all the work we have been doing. Friday night most of girls went to check out the brown county fair where we ate some good healthy food and enjoyed some carnival rides. Drake and Sami became best friends with a carnie. Saturday we all enjoyed breakfast at Kessler’s. After breakfast we were assigned teams and told to go find two outfits for Sunday, one had to be what not to wear and the other elegant. Sunday, the coaches had something planned for team bonding, all we knew was that we needed to find a blow up bed which meant that we were sleeping somewhere other than the dorms. After practice on Sunday we all ate at the Barnet Center for dinner and were given fifteen minutes to go dress in the brightest cloths and head back to the BC. The workers and costumers at Twist Cone were pleased to see all of us of course. We had two people judge who had the brightest team, one was a random customer and the other was George, the man who housed Paula and Fessi for the summer. Both of course picked the best team which consisted of Kayla, Steph, Paula, Megan, Katy, Claire, Sami and I. The next couple of things to do consisted of finding the oldest person you could who had graduated from Northern, a bike race were Ella and Paula had to be the last person across the finish line (Paula won, blowing up a balloon till it popped without using your hands (Katie Bloom won), eating a apple with no hands (Ella eating the entire apple won). After that we had an egg relay, a candy find in a bowl of flower which was very hard when creating doe in your mouth. Running up 4 flights of stairs finding a boy on the football team who weighs the lightest was very tiring but both teams got the job done and everyone on our team probably weighs more than both boys. There was also a karaoke contest were the teams competed against each other on who knew the lyrics better. The next thing on the list to do was the fashion show were each teams pick to wear an elegant outfit and what not to wear strutted down the volleyball court while being judge by the coaches. The most elegant was Jordan Shafter and a tie between Ella Campbell and me for what not to wear. We had a dance off to choose a winner but they still couldn’t choose one so we split the stop as top what not to wear. My team which consisted of Megan, Sami, Claire, Paula, Steph, Katy, Kayla, and I won the whole contest and the losers had to be baptized in the northern swimming pool. We all ended up in the pool, even ligia, Kelsey and coach Schriver ended up getting in. The night was spent on a pole vaulting pit in the Barnet Center gym floor. It was a great bonding experience and the team really enjoyed it.

by Britlyn Sturlaugon