photo Banner-3line-2.jpg  photo Banner-3line-2.jpg  photo Banner-3line-2.jpg  photo Banner-3line-2.jpg

Saturday, October 24, 2009

And the crowd goes wild!

So I don't have any pictures with this story but I thought it was so cool that I had to share it.

Last night Brandon and I went a UVU volleyball game for fun and if we wore pink we got in for free... so we had a free date night, Yea! Anywho, during half time Credit Union Bank was sponsoring a little activity and whoever wanted to participate could. The activity was this: On one side of the court was the participants, on the other side was boxes of all shapes and sizes that had prizes in them; there was small boxes, huge boxes, and tinsy tiny ones. The object of the activity was to have the people on one side serve a ball over the net and try to hit anyone of the boxes.
Well, Brandon turned to me and said why don't you do it? So I agreed and I started to go down to the court. On my way down I ran into a couple of old friends and they got talking to me for awhile until I heard the announcer say that there was only 40 second left. I hurried and ended my conversation and ran to the court. There was still about 5 or so more people in front of me and we were running out of time... and most of the boxes had been hit so there was less of a chance of hitting one!
I was now down to 2 people in front of me and we had 10 seconds left, and there was no way I was going to be able to serve a ball if I didn't go get one myself (During this frantic mode, I kept seeing Brandon standing up in the bleachers, signing HURRY! HURRY!!) haha

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4... I see a ball! I run grab the ball.. 2... throw the ball above me 1... my ball flying over the net... and.............. (hey I can't see... there is someone standing in front of me... where did my ball go!!!)..................

THE CROWD GOES WILD!!!!!


I had just hit the tinsy tiny box on the other side of the net and the announcer says! SHE HIT IT!!! Should we give it to her??? crowd: YES!!!!

I couldn't believe that just happened, I guess all those practices in High School paid off,
I had just one a $10 gift certificate to itunes... wow it was pretty awesome, I felt like I had just won the game single handed with 10 seconds left in the game..

7 comments:

McKay said...

I would have loved to have seen that. Funny story, thanks for sharing

Brad and Kimberly said...

great job shelby! I knew all that practice was worth it!

JDizzle said...

I heard that there were some USA volleyball recruits at the event, so don't be surprised if you get a call.

Tina said...

That is so cool!! You would think for a tiny box like that, it would have been a more expensive prize huh?
Spare of the moment hits always seem to work out the best, whatever it is you are playing.
Congrats!!

marcia said...

Way to go Shelbs! What a fun story! It makes it more amazing the fact that you had so much pressure! I'm impressed!
By the way I loved the spiders they were delicious! Seriously!

Cassidy and Daniel Stephens said...

you should see her tell it in person! ha

Kelsi said...

Haha yeah it is much better. Shelby we need a new post :)