April 19th was a big day for Nicole. She turned 12 and is now officially a young woman. Her friend Yasmine gave her a surprise birthday party. It was more like a wedding reception. It was at Yasmine's house or should we say compound. They swam and had a catered buffet along with this birthday cake. Each letter of Nicole's name was the size of a sheet cake. They brought it over to our house, I guess they thought we would eat it all but it was way too much cake. Nicole had a very fun day with lots of her friends.
Nicole was also on the starting team for our middle school girls basketball team. Gavin was able to help coach the team. They got second in the Eastern Province tournament.
A few weeks later they than played in the SAIKAC tournament where they played awesome.
Nicole was a huge part of the team playing her little heart out. She is the female version of Jonny and is a major key to the team.
After two long days of basketball they came home with the bronze but the more exciting part about the tournament is seeing how far they have come over the season. At the Eastern Province tournament they lost in the championship game to ISG Jubail by about 20 points. They played them again in the SAIKAC tournament and lost their first game with them by only 3 points. The Jubail coaches were amazed at how well our girls played and they had improved. They then played them again for the 3rd/4th place position and beat them. It was a very exciting tournament. The girls were excited to get 3rd place but were more excited that they had finally beaten Jubail.
Many coaches commented on how well Nicole played and were very impressed to hear that she was only a 6th grader.
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