Seven of my field hockey players with seventh graders from Saint Katherine Drexel Neumann Academy in Chester, PA.
One of the many tasks I'm charged with at work is coordinating community service projects through the Saint Katherine Drexel Neumann Academy with our athletes. So far, we've sent four teams and made six trips. Each team goes to help out with their after school program and basically has a Catholic grade school gym class for about an hour and 45 minutes.
Today I revisited my days from the St. Andrew School yard where Mrs. Shinn-Ross taught us the rules to capture the flag and let us run loose. Now I know why that was her favorite gym activity: the kids LOVE it and it can last for hours.
The first game didn't have a lot of strategy involved- masses of children (in their full uniforms) just tried to run over to the other side. Of course, they were immediately caught and sent packing to jail where they waited for their teammates to set them free and/or acted as eyes for their other teammates.
My favorite part was probably when they stood toe to toe at the half court line and stepped over the line and back trying to bait each other to catch them...or when they danced at the half court line to draw attention while their teammates either sprinted over to the other side to try and recover their flag or free people in the jail. Final favorite part: running DIVES, FULL blown DIVES across the line missing being tagged by mere millimeters. It was hilarious. And fun.
But mostly hilarious.
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