2A/3A Arizona Doll Championships

There is a little thing like high school and ordinary life for doll seen here with h. s. coach Michael Hjort
 for three weekends of 2A/3A high school tennis championships, AP exams, term assignments, honor society requirements, last band concerts performed, prom, cutting CD's, parties, final exams next Friday before leaving for the El Paso Open the same day, just back in time for graduation before leaving for the Quiksilver [now canceled]. That is the schedule in which some change might have to occur. Sandwiched between everything else are the 2A/3A AZ State High School Championships, three weekends in a row, barely sandwiched. First Regionals, 4/24-25, just after return from the Muterspaw and turn in the hundred page Lit paper defining 100 terms. Second, Individual championships, 5/2-3, this past weekend, two matches each day, Friday, Saturday. Sat began at 7 AM, then 9:30, then off to two last minute four hour qualifying public service requirements for Honor Society, heavy lifting moving jobs, that is after a muscle strain and he has got a cold, but none of it prevents performing a dozen tunes with the next day's, Sunday, last City Jazz Concert at Symphony Hall, till 3, then reunion with old classmates, home to translate the Spanish assignment because the next day, Monday, is the AP government exam and there turn in 300 defined terms with at least ten essays (he has 16 because he worked in Vegas off court) before leaving by bus to the third state, qualifying team event near Yuma (Antelope), except he wakes Monday with a 103 degree fever, proving bronchitis, which a doll maker knows before x-rays. He takes the AP exam anyway, as a concession resolves to take a jug of cold water and a blanket even if he is unconsciousness on the drive to Yuma for the state team event where he will play twice in the 100 degree sun. As the reporter of the 2A/3A finals said,

him "playing on the 2A/3A level is like taking a howitzer to a pistol shoot."

"It is not something to be taken lightly, going pro," he said,"it's really more work than I can imagine. I've been 10 years in this game and maybe I'm getting close now." But as the trainer of Eight Belles must have thought, who broke her ankles finishing second in the 2008 Derby this weekend, thoroughbreds are fragile and need all the care anybody can invent and even then Big Brown didn't finish the race, but that's why they have doll makers, to advertise the meaning.

College coaches, pastors and parties unite in one thing: do not not go to college. Do not try to go pro. With this kind of scheduling a pro would get some rest. The recruiter was 0-0 in a futures event. Will he survive Yuma? Will doctor and coach let him go? Yes. He promises not to go to school the next day! would anyway still be in hospital. Will he go? Lasty brings up the question completely understood in its day, "did you ever look into an 0?"