How Do You Measure Success?

As I sat this morning, emptying out my gym bag from the Final Four tournament, I came across the small Ziplock Snack bag that one of you girls placed our torn up game goals into following the Grace game (because I had left our big bag on the bus). I couldn't help but notice how small the bag containing those little torn up pieces of paper was in comparison to our normal gallon sized bag. But in that moment, I saw something that was so obvious, that I couldn't believe I had taken it for granted this season. The small amount of paper in that snack bag following the Grace game equaled almost half of the goals accomplished in the entire 2001-02 season for the Lady Lions (back when a win was a big deal).

You see, whether in the game of basketball (or in our daily lives), you can't measure success by the scoreboard at the end of the game or by the size of a trophy. Instead, the only real measure of success is based upon the goals that we set for ourselves and whether we have done our best to accomplish those goals.

 We went undefeated in the East.
 We made it to the Final Four.
 We had four players named to the All-Conference team (last year we only had three).
 We beat three public schools (with only 44 kids in our high school).
 We had 11 teams in our Club 30
 We held three teams to less than 16 points.
 We improved our defense (last season 17.3 SPG to this season's 23.9 SPG)
 We improved our rebounding (last season 30.5 RPG to this season's 35.5 RPG)
 We improved in every aspect of our game.
 We played every minute of every game, not for ourselves, but for each other.
 We started the season as a "team" and we ended that way.

Let Central relish in their victory and polish & admire the trophy. Because deep down inside, I believe it will be back at Covenant next season.