Colton - West Jordan Jags (Winter) 2019-2020

Tanek, Carter, Ty, Ethan, Jackson

Colton, Elijah, Quinton, Dominik, Matt

There had been tryouts in the Fall. Colton had a couple friends he'd played with on the Showtime team in the fall that didn't make it, and he was sad about that. Carter, Tanek and Matt from Showtime made it, and Elijah and Jackson had played on the summer Showtime. Colton quickly clicked with the team though and they all became good buddies. Ryan Farmer, the 8th-grade coach from last year was coaching again. 

Here's a couple clips reels highlighting just him ...

... but I got to all the games and made videos, except for the last one in each league. Those were losses and the boys were very down and I wasn't sure if they'd even be interested in reliving those ;)

Find complete game highlights here - West Jordan Jags/8th Grade.2019-2020

It was a good season. They didn't win the championship, but won most of their games. I think I'll remember the controversy over Tanek being on our team. His family had moved into the Copper Hills boundaries a few years ago. He had been playing for CHHS, but after playing with Showtime in the fall and clicking with some people, he decided he would attend West Jordan for his high school years. It really wasn't that much of a stretch. His siblings were going there, as they'd lived in the WJ boundary before. Copper Hills however was not happy about the prospect of losing him and pushed the issue for the Bantam league. Tanek ended up making it official by switching schools (from Sunset Ridge to West Jordan Middle) in February. He'd planned on just finishing out the school year and then switching, but went through the rigamarole to make it legitimate for the season (CHHS still said our game against them before the switch, which we won, was a forfeit).  

The boys were planning on playing a Spring AAU ... 

but then came Covid, and it shut everything down.

Showtime for Fall - 8th Grade

Fall season, Coach Sawyer asked if Colton was available to play on Showtime again. Originally, Coach was thinking of one team, with 7th/8th graders, but ended up making a team for both grades. Colton had played with Ace, Lucas and Stephen on the Summer Showtime tournament. He knew Carter from last year's Jags team, and we pulled in Tannic from our Grizzly days. Add in a few other players (Jackson, Matt, Kaden) and it was a new team. Alas, Colton didn't speak up soon enough to get my coveted #5. He was #15 this season. 

The boys had some group clinic times at the high school, but no specific team practices. They played in the Thursday night Superleague, and the Saturday Superleague. And unfortunately, those Saturday games were scheduled at the same time, or back-to-back with Colton's Wolves, so he was late or missing at a few games with both teams. 

Here's a snapshot of the Thursday league (click to enlarge)

... and the Saturday setup

Links to highlight reels ...

Showtime vs Corner Canyon (game #1)

Showtime vs UBC (game #3)

Showtime vs Stars (game #4)

Showtime vs Mambas (Playoff #1)
Showtimes vs Corner Canyon (Playoff #2)
Showtime vs Golden Eagles (Championship)

Summer Wolves 2019

The Wolves didn't play in any summer league, but the participated in a few tournaments. The most memorable being the Big Mountain Jam. They got the trophy in the D3 8th grade league. Even though this tournament is close, and within my driving capabilities, the cost (they charge for spectators, and it's pricey!) and chaos (SO many games going on at one time) encouraged me to sit it out and just send Colton with teammates. So no video from any of these games. Happily, pictures were shared for me to snag.

The Big Mountain Jam was mid-July. The boys also played in a tournament in June. I hit a couple of the games at Juan Diego, but didn't get to the ones further South at Timpanogos. Didn't get around to making a video with what I had. Then the boys had a road trip to Vegas for a tournament there.  Again, no video from me, but here's a snapshot that was shared ...

Spring Wolves 2019

Spring season ... Colton's West Jordan team wrapped up, so it was back to being a lone wolf. Still getting some practice and a few games in, but none of the conflicts that come with being on multiple teams.  The Wolves did double duty though, playing in two divisions in the Salt Lake Superleague. Almost all the games were scheduled back to back, which is good for travel/time.

I only made a couple videos, of the first two games ...

Wolves vs Thunder (03/23/2019)

Wolves vs Colts (03/23/2019)

The boys took a road trip to Casper, Wyoming and played in a tournament there.

... and got together for Gordy's birthday.

... and the boys had quite a few weekend sleep-overs

Basketball buddies on and off the court.

Joining the West Jordan Jaguars

Collin, Gage, Preston, Elder, Victor

Kaden, Colton, Nash, Michael, Carter

There has been a lot of turmoil in the schools this year, with the boundary changes and new schools being set up. Blanchard is stepping down as head coach at CHHS, and West Jordan lost their coach to the new high school opening next fall. Happily, the new head coach at West Jordan jumped right in and set up a Bantam program. Colton tried out and was one of three 7th graders to make the 8th grade team. Colton, Collin and Gage have been playing together for a while, but for all the rest, this was a completely new team. They had practices once or twice a week, and played in two leagues. Murray during the week, and the Bantam league on Saturday.

Here's one highlight reel I made ...

All the Murray games were held at Riverview Jr. High. The original schedule is listed below, but there were some switch-ups. The February 6th game was postponed due to extreme snow (the schools had all closed for the day) ... which was good, as Colton was out of town and would have missed that game anyway. 

Jan 9, 2019 ..... Murray 

Jan 16, 2019 ... Titans 

Jan 16, 2019 ...  East

Jan 23, 2019 ... All Poly 

Feb 6, 2019 ... Buff Ballers

Feb 13, 2019 ... East 

Feb 20, 2019 ... Stallions 

March 6, 2019 ... Stallions 

March 13, 2019 ... East

Bantam schedule and standings ...

This team was really just set up for this one season ... but they did come together again in the Summer to play up at the Utes camp tournament too.  This was lead by another Coach Farmer! Not Coach Phil (Farmer), although Coach Phil was helping out coaching the 7th grade team. I was happy Colton was able to get #5 for his number ;)

Winter Wolves 2019

Winter is the main basketball season. When Junior Jazz and school teams are playing. Several of the boys were playing on school teams, so while the Wolves stuck together for Winter, they just played in one league (Dimple Dell on Saturdays), and had the one weekly practice on Fridays. 

I went to all the games and got video (well, they did a couple tournament, and I did not make it to those games), but I just never got around to making muvee highlights this season. Not one game! Of the seven games, Wolves won three, lost four. It was a HUGE group, with 18 teams. Not sure why Dimple Dell didn't divide up the teams into upper/middle to try and make the match-ups a little more balanced. 

Games were ...

1201 Wolfpack

1208 Buckets

1215 Sonics

0105 All Poly

0112 Bulldogs

0126 Brighton

0209 Corner Canyon

The boys also got together for Collin's birthday ... more basketball! 

Off to see the Jazz play!

Wolves - Fall 2018

When Fall rolled around, Copper Hills had their try-outs for their Bantam league too. But, with new boundaries coming (Cal and Keaton were lucky enough to get in on permit) the chances of Colton actually attending CHHS in the future was slight. He decided to forgo tryouts and just stick with one team, his Wolves. Still double games on Saturdays though, as they were playing in two leagues. We added Michael to the team.

I'm not sure why, but both Dimple Dell and Gene Fullmer only divided the 8th grade into two divisions, upper and lower. Both leagues had over 20 teams participating, plenty to create a middle division as well. Wolves are middle division ... there are upper league teams that we'd have no chance against, and lower division teams are easy wins without challenge. Last Fall, Dimple Dell league had a middle division, and every single game was close and challenging and it was a great season. Here ... the end results going into the playoffs are skewed depending on the regular season matchups (just five games/12 teams).  Wolves started in the upper division in both leagues, but after blowouts the first two games in the Gene Fullmer league, switched the lower division there.  Wolves stuck with the upper division for Dimple Dell. Both leagues divided the playoffs into upper/lower based on the season standings.  

Gene Fullmer Fall 2018

1. Utah Select (won the upper division)

2. Cyprus

3. Premier (still upper division 34-26)

4. Sonics (14-44)

5. Legacy Red (16-51)

6. Hoopsters (13-45)

7. UBC (36-33)

8. Mayhem Black (12-48)

9. Hoopsters 

10. UBC

11. (Championship) Thunder

Wolves were 7-4 for the season. I tried to list the scores (first number is the team listed, Wolves score is the second one) ... by the time I got to this update Gene Fullmer and pulled the Quickscores Website info down, so I'm missing some. I didn't catch the end score on my video on those either (sometimes the officials zero out the scoreboard SO quickly!) Colton missed the championship game :( He was so sick! Wolves won the upper/lower division.

Dimple Dell Fall 2018

1. Utah Force Red (58-36) 

2. Salt City Hustle (49-26)

3. Salt Lake Sonics Grey (45-38)

4. Lone Peak Gold (12-43)

5. Utah Force Black (24-56)

6. Legends (28-37) 

7. (Championship) Rams (20-28)

Colton missed the first game (his brothers's wedding reception) and the first play-off game (still sick) but made it back for the lower/upper championship, which the Wolves won! Got t-shirts for both championship games. They are always a little big on Colton!

The Wolves also participated in a Dodgeball challenge ...

... onto Winter Wolves!
(and Colton will be playing on a West Jordan Bantam team too)

Cooper - 8th Grade Junior Jazz

I still remember a couple years ago when Cooper said he wanted to play Junior Jazz. While he is skilled, and obsessed with basketball and all things NBA, it had been a few years since he'd played on a team. But this great group of boys made all the difference. Friends from school, and now on the court. Minor changes over the past couple years, losing one, gaining one. I was happy that the boys were playing this year again. 

Practices were Thursday nights from 8:30-9:30. I'd drop Cooper off and then one of the brothers would pick him up (so I could head to bed!) Games were Saturday mornings. Both practices and games were all at Joel P, which is nice and close. 

I was able to attend and video all the games ...
an undefeated season for the boys!

Here's the highlights ...

• Game #1 (12/2/2017)
• Game #2 (12/09/2017)
• Game #3 (12/16/2017)
• Game #4 (01-06-2018)
• Game #5 (01-13-2018)
• Game #6 (01-20-2018)
• Game #7 (01-27-2018)

...and here's my Cooper Compilation!

Keaton - 8th Grade Year

I know they took team pictures ... I'll have to track it down. I missed the end of the year banquet, but I did make it to almost all of Keaton's games. There were quite a few new kids, I was learning names at the start, but got to know all the boys by the end of the season. 

On this team ... James, Rowland, Tyler and Koby (all whom Keaton had played with before) then there was Bradley, Nathan, Brenner and Dawson.  Brian Allfrey was coach. They played in two leagues. A Wednesday superleague, and then the Bantam league on Saturdays. 

While I videoed all the games, I didn't make highlight reels of all the games. It just takes time to go through all the clips (Keaton isn't inclined to help out here), make the muvee, etc. Any losses ... well, they just aren't nearly as fun to relive, even though often there are still great highlights! I didn't even get to all the wins ... but there are six games of fun highlights to watch and remember this season. 

Keaton - Basketball 2015

Keaton - Fall Season 8th Grade

Summer ends, school starts ... and it's back to basketball! Keaton played with the Copper Hills Youth Basketball team again. This year, Coach Allfrey was in charge of both 8th grade teams, and they were practicing together at the high school. They played in the Wednesday night Salt Lake Superleague to prepare for the real basketball season coming up.

James was on the team, but he was the only one Keaton had played with before. I got to know Bradley, Dawson, Brenner and Nathan. Mitchell and Brayden were also on the team but then didn't completely finish out the season.

This season was great, in that all the games were at the same location. I would have liked it a little closer, but Eisenhower Jr. wasn't too far out of my comfort zone anyway. It was nice not having to find new schools each week. I like consistency.

The boys had quite a few wins this season, and I did video most of the games. I just never got around to making them into muvee highlight reels as Keaton just didn't seem to care much. I did do one game anyway, the first one. You can catch it here.