To most of you, this might not seem like a big accomplishment,
but in our home we made history last night.
Ever since I meet Dust, he has been playing intramural sports.
It was a great way for Dust to get exercise, see his buddies, and get out his competitive edge.
But this year was different.
D has been playing basketball and flag football with the same team for the last four years.
He grew up with half of the guys and the other half he meet through a mission.
These guys are his best friends and they're about as close knit as they come.
A lot of us are graduating this year, and so it was their last year to play together.
They had come close to winning D-1 flag-football last year.
(In fact they would have won it if it wasn't for Dust's and Alex's freak accident)
So this year it was all or nothing.
John (Dustin's buddy) looked it up, and no one in BYU's history has ever
won both D-1 football and D-1 basketball.
Team HOLLA wanted to make this change.
Back in September they decided this was their goal for the year.
There was some skepticism at first but when football season started there was
no doubt that they would win this one.
They blew out every team they played.
They completely annihilated their competition and won it all.
This was a great moment.
All these boys wanted was just one shirt before they left college.
They were one cloud nine.
Then basketball season started.
They competition was a lot better and they were not blowing everyone out.
They were a lot of close games that really could have gone either way.
But in the end, they came up with a victory.
They defeated the odds.
They made history.
It was one of the funnest nights ever.
I am so glad that I meet my husband in college so that we could share these
memories together.
I never missed a game. I couldn't. They were just to dang fun.
I will miss seeing these guys play.
And glad that they won it all.
The whole family came out for this event!
Dust got this email from John (the team captain) and I think that it perfectly describes this last year.
I guess we can officially say the “unprecedented” has happened. Never before, and probably never again will the same group of guys be able to beat out over 700 hundred teams in two different sports.
Granted it is only intramurals, but I’d venture to say it is a pretty
impressive feat. Impressive things to note:
*We really are just a bunch of average joes with basically no collegiate experience in football or basketball. *Absolute domination in football. Don’t think a single team even had a chance against us. We handled a team (text me, 21-0) that had won the league the two previous years and had many near walk-on cougars at key positions (e.g., QB). It would have been interesting to see what this team could have done in Tampa.
*Wins in basketball didn’t come as easily and it was clear from early on
that the road would be difficult.
And then to make things even more difficult on ourselves
we lost our first round game.
From there we had to win 8 games, dispatching all of the best teams in D1 and one team twice. Being down 4 against Cory’s team with under a minute to go and going
on to win was impressive enough.
But being down 15 in the first half and then down 7 with 2 minutes to
go in the championship and pulling out the victory definitely takes the cake.
The legacy of “Holla” will forever haunt teams like “Text me”, ”Club Trill”,
“Big Numbers”, or “Arlington’s B team”, and players like Randon
(“Thanks for nothing! You guys are worthless and we aren’t friends anymore!”).
It’s been a great four years playing together.
We’ve had a lot of ups and downs but it is good to finally come out on top. Holla!
but in our home we made history last night.
Ever since I meet Dust, he has been playing intramural sports.
It was a great way for Dust to get exercise, see his buddies, and get out his competitive edge.
But this year was different.
D has been playing basketball and flag football with the same team for the last four years.
He grew up with half of the guys and the other half he meet through a mission.
These guys are his best friends and they're about as close knit as they come.
A lot of us are graduating this year, and so it was their last year to play together.
They had come close to winning D-1 flag-football last year.
(In fact they would have won it if it wasn't for Dust's and Alex's freak accident)
So this year it was all or nothing.
John (Dustin's buddy) looked it up, and no one in BYU's history has ever
won both D-1 football and D-1 basketball.
Team HOLLA wanted to make this change.
Back in September they decided this was their goal for the year.
There was some skepticism at first but when football season started there was
no doubt that they would win this one.
They blew out every team they played.
They completely annihilated their competition and won it all.
This was a great moment.
All these boys wanted was just one shirt before they left college.
They were one cloud nine.
Then basketball season started.
They competition was a lot better and they were not blowing everyone out.
They were a lot of close games that really could have gone either way.
But in the end, they came up with a victory.
They defeated the odds.
They made history.
It was one of the funnest nights ever.
I am so glad that I meet my husband in college so that we could share these
memories together.
I never missed a game. I couldn't. They were just to dang fun.
I will miss seeing these guys play.
And glad that they won it all.
The whole family came out for this event!
Dust got this email from John (the team captain) and I think that it perfectly describes this last year.
I guess we can officially say the “unprecedented” has happened. Never before, and probably never again will the same group of guys be able to beat out over 700 hundred teams in two different sports.
Granted it is only intramurals, but I’d venture to say it is a pretty
impressive feat. Impressive things to note:
*We really are just a bunch of average joes with basically no collegiate experience in football or basketball. *Absolute domination in football. Don’t think a single team even had a chance against us. We handled a team (text me, 21-0) that had won the league the two previous years and had many near walk-on cougars at key positions (e.g., QB). It would have been interesting to see what this team could have done in Tampa.
*Wins in basketball didn’t come as easily and it was clear from early on
that the road would be difficult.
And then to make things even more difficult on ourselves
we lost our first round game.
From there we had to win 8 games, dispatching all of the best teams in D1 and one team twice. Being down 4 against Cory’s team with under a minute to go and going
on to win was impressive enough.
But being down 15 in the first half and then down 7 with 2 minutes to
go in the championship and pulling out the victory definitely takes the cake.
The legacy of “Holla” will forever haunt teams like “Text me”, ”Club Trill”,
“Big Numbers”, or “Arlington’s B team”, and players like Randon
(“Thanks for nothing! You guys are worthless and we aren’t friends anymore!”).
It’s been a great four years playing together.
We’ve had a lot of ups and downs but it is good to finally come out on top. Holla!
