National Champs

July 3, 1996

Dear Diary,

Today is Wednesday. Tomorrow is the Fourth of July (obviously). We just got back from Nationals in San Jose, CA. Lindsay's team, the Tiggers, got third. They got beat by Puerto Rico.

My team, the Chipmunks, won. We won the whole thing. It was so sweet! I was extremely pumped. The thing is that since Valeri and I were alternates, we didn't get announced and we didn't get to be in the awards ceremony because we didn't get medals. Me and Valeri were like bawling. Then Uncle Steve gave Valeri his medal and Dad got me one. But the one Dad got wasn't right. IT was from the club tournament. I was really mad. They're going to order some more so me, Ashley and Mary and the other coaches can have one.

Then when we went to dinner to celebrate we had to get the coaches with a pie in the face. It's tradition. I got Dad so good! It was awesome.

Whitney is going with Troy. She has been for a couple of weeks. They're really cute together. Carly is still going with Ryan. I think she's going to break up with him though. Jennifer isn't really going with Melvin. Technically, they're still going out, but he's gone and she's been "talking" to Josh. I think I like Bryan, but I don't know. I know I need to stop, but I can't help it. The worst thing is that Meredith likes him and they are sort of talking. They've only talked on the phone twice. I can't tell her I like him though. For two reasons. One, she likes him and two, because she'll chew me out for still liking him. I just want a boyfriend. It doesn't have to necessarily be Bryan. Even though I would love to go with him.

This was the summer between 7th and 8th grade and winning Nationals was a huge deal. There were too many girls on the team. I never actually played, but really wanted to be included so not being included in the awards ceremony was very traumatic for me. And they never ordered more medals. That was a lie. Not cool.