Hayley is a ballgirl for a bunch of the UNC women’s basketball home schedule this year – at their request! She’s done two games so far already and coming home from one earlier this week, we drove by the kookiest thing on the street in Chapel Hill outside of our favorite restaurant … it was the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.
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Hayley tried out for an indoor regional soccer team with a bunch of her teammates.
Congratulations! Your future soccer star has been selected to participate with the First Touch Academy Indoor Team. The team will compete in the Indoor Regional Tournament in Owings Mills, MD on January, 2008.
We are back from Myrtle Beach where Hayley’s team finished 2nd in the U10 group tournament, going 3-1! They even got cute trophies for second. Hayley played well and had a nice goal on Sunday afternoon.
We were right next to all the fun stuff so we went to the Hard Rock Cafe and MagiQuest, the kids played in the pool and had an ice cream sundae party. The funniest was excited they all were to be in a hotel WITH each other nearby. Four hours from home and we even ran into someone from our neighborhood playing for another team there.
After watching coach after coach SCREAM at their teams, we know for sure how lucky Hales is to be playing for Coach Dan.
Upstairs with teammate at Hard Rock Cafe
Oh so close to a goal
Win in sudden death penalty kicks (after regular pks)
Posted by Michelle on Sep 6, 2007 in Hayley, Humor
Short clip of Hayley swimming this summer in a freestyle relay. She is the youngest of the 9-10s, swimming against bigger 10 year olds in a main event (not a heat). She usually starts sorta slow because she just got diving down but watch her closing speed!
Four-minute video of two-thirds of Hayley’s first horse show. She finished second overall and had a lot of fun!
They went in groups of two and the other child is the owner’s daughter. They said they didn’t have to wear the full outfit with jackets so we took them up on that!
Hayley has a horse show soon and soccer games are about to start. On the very same day, her home & away soccer uniforms arrived as did her new jodhpurs and shirts for the horse show. Thank goodness she is exempt from wearing the jacket since it will be HOT still for the first horse show.
And yes I know those jerseys look huge – the shorts and socks do too. I picked the size based on advice from someone who knew and was looking at her. I’ve actually ordered a 2nd set of gear in the next size down just as extras since they have to bring each of their uniforms to each game and with travel tournaments coming up, I don’t want to be washing stuff in a hotel room.
She picked #20 because it was the number of one of her favorite UNC women’s basketball players plus it was my number whenever I could get it as a kid and I wore it in HS.
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Hayley and my folks were interviewed at the U.S. Women’s Open by the Wilmington Star News and Hayley made the newspaper!! I posted the full article and bolded the parts about Hayley and my parents.
By Dan Spears
and Brian Mull,
dan.spears@starnewsonline.com
Southern Pines | Turning the dogleg corner of the fairway, the typical USGA championship scene is in front of the players.
A green surrounded by large grandstands on three sides. White corporate tents rising out of the sky in the background. Fans cramming every nook and cranny of the green, while thousands more parade in and out the main entrance in the distance.
At Pine Needles this year for the U.S. Women’s Open, there is an added feature: the 15th tee.
Because of the resort’s tight layout surrounding the 18th green, the tournament’s main hub of activity is behind the 14th green and spills out to the southwest corner of the property.
But the large crowds remain the same. Women in sun dresses sip mixed drinks in the shade. Teenagers in flip-flops. Two men in “Redneck Yacht Club” T-shirts on the way to a sunburn while enjoying what is clearly not their first beer of the day – at 11:30 a.m.
Chapel Hill resident Gordon Perry, a PGA teaching pro (“now retired,” he added with a knowing nod), his wife, JoAnne, and granddaughter Hayley Hillison had just settled into a shady spot just off the 15th tee.
“We’ve been coming year after year,” Gordon said. “Coming in at No. 1 is more impressive.”
The Perrys said they had found their spot for the day, which was just fine with 9-year-old Hayley, who took her first golf lesson last week.
“I hit it about 100 yards,” Hayley said. “I think it’s pretty cool to watch them. It’s my first time.”
And in the end, even at the far reaches of the course, it’s about the golf. Annika Sorenstam’s putt for par drew the largest ovation.
“I’m coming to watch Michelle Wie,” Hayley said matter-of-factly. “And I came to watch the girl in the pink. But I can’t remember her name right now.” (It’s Paula Creamer.)
Strange company
Candie Kung owns the same oversized staff bag as most of the other tour professionals. Hers, however, has the most intriguing sponsor.
In broad letters down the side is a plug for Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers. It’s on the bag strap as well.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Kung is a friend of Tom Hicks, who owns the Rangers and Dallas Stars of the NHL. Hicks sponsors all of Kung’s travel expenses in exchange for his teams’ names on her bag and clothing.
I’m sorry, who?
Every year at an Open, a name pops onto the leaderboard that sends the media scrambling for its bio book.
This year, it’s Kris Tamulis.
She hit 13 greens in regulation and made only one bogey Friday afternoon in an even-par round that left her at 1-over par for the tournament and in the hunt for a stunning first LPGA title.
“I think U.S. Opens kind of set up good for me because I just hit it down the fairway and then I hit it in the middle of the green and I make a putt every once in awhile,” Tamulis said.
She was a three-time all-ACC performer at Florida State, but she has good vibes in the Sandhills, making the semifinals of the 2003 North and South after her senior season with the Seminoles.
She also, apparently, is a jokester – including whistling and Golden Girls reruns in her list of hobbies.
Because they shoot the lowest scores
There are 35 South Korean golfers in the field this week.
In-Bee Park, the leader in the clubhouse at even-par 142, has an American flag beside her name. However, she grew up in South Korea and moved to the U.S. with her family when she was 12 years old to concentrate on golf.
Park, whose first name means “queen of virtue” in Korean, said she began playing the game in 1998, at age 10, inspired by Se Ri Pak’s victory in the Women’s Open. She said many of her friends also took up the sport around the same time.
She’s also tired of answering the question of why the Korean golfers are so good.
“I don’t know,” Park said. “I guess they work really hard, maybe it’s in their blood.”
Hayley was over at golf camp this week at Lochmere CC and had so much fun we bought her a set of clubs (pink of course).
I had to drag her off the course each day and she still wanted to play in the backyard at home – where she hit one shot up the hill, over the fence and about two yards from the neighbors’ breakfast nook window.
She is off to the LPGA US Women’s Open tomorrow with Michelle’s folks.
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I’ll be adding more to the folder as the meets continue but I’ve got posted photos from the practice meet and the first season meet of Hayley – these are just Hayley ones not the ones I shoot for the team.
At the first season meet, there were some the older swimmers in her age group that were out of town so Hayley swam in the main races (you either swim in main races or heats in each age group, Hayley is 9-10). She was on two third place relays. The Devil Rays won 303 to 195!
She also just learned to dive after working on it all last summer and the first month of this one. We are so proud of her!
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