I am so happy for the Fairfield University Women's Basketball team for their back-to-back MAAC tournament championships. I've been in upstate New York sharing basketball excitement with the parental units, and am thrilled to watch/see/know that the deserving Women's team has done it once again! Coach Carly Thibault-Dudonis continues to bring passion, vision, integrity, and greatness to the young women she coaches and the campus she leads.
I was traveling down the thru-way when the game occurred, but I came home and rewatched as if I didn't know the results. Then I moved to my Alma Mater, University of Lousiville, to watch the men's game against Duke. I recently broke up with cable, and am getting to the streaming life. Let's just say I watched several games, back to back, in Spanish, and need to tap Corrigan Scholar, Max Limric, to tell me all that is being said. Ah, but I can watch. And watch I do.
I was telling Chitunga that I need to find a summer sport to get me back to the Fall. Can't play basketball to save my life, but I can watch. I can love. I can appreciate. And I can celebrate.
Student athletes are incredible human beings: disciplined, strategic, organized, hard-working, and focused. I love teaching them and I love applauding them whenever I can.
My pops has quite the Fairfield University wardrobe collection (which my mother complained about as I was leaving, because he piles his clothes and they are getting layered close to the bedroom window). It's all good, because all the people walking the streets of Cherry Heights will here from my dad..."Oh, my son teaches there."
The MAAC championship gives him another level of bragging that I'm sure will make him happy. Do know, the streets of Syracuse, New York, will be hearing from him.
