“Hold this, and hold this and … yeah, hold this, too!!” The life of a basketball mom. (Photos courtesy Sherry Roberts)
CHS hoops stars (l to r) Ema Smith, Lindsey Roberts, Kailey Kellner and Avalon Renninger beat the heat at a 3 v 3 tourney in Spokane.
Renninger locks down the ball-handler.
Roberts uses all of her impressive wingspan to deny an entry pass.
And she’s slicin’ ‘n dicin’ the defense. Kellner swoops in for a bucket.
So, more than a few teams showed up, is what they’re saying.
Reppin’ their new shirts.
No rest for the basketball mom.
Mere seconds after returning from a four-day trip to Ocean Shores, where she helped CHS coaches David and Amy King at a summer hoops camp, Sherry Roberts was right back behind the wheel.
This time, she trucked official daughter Lindsey, as well as “adopted” daughters Kailey Kellner, Ema Smith and Avalon Renninger to Spokane.
The quartet invaded the blazing heatscape of Eastern Washington to play at Hoopfest, the largest outdoor three-on-three basketball tourney “on the Earth.”
Playing as the C-Town Hoopers, the Wolves stormed back Sunday to win the consolation bracket in their division.
After opening with narrow losses to LAWPI (14-13) and Bouncer’s (14-8), Coupeville’s best drilled the Trailer Park Girls (18-7) and the Bounty Hunters (11-3).
And they weren’t the only players with a Coupeville connection, as 1991 CHS grad Sean Dillon brought his three-point shooting skills and family to the event.
Playing as Chillin Like Dillons, that squad featured Sean’s wife Becca, son Ethan and Dalton Palkovitz.
By the time things were done, Sherry Roberts had fetched drinks and food, held phones, chauffeured, hollered and screamed to support her girls and snapped a ton of pics.
“Heat was BRUTAL; so were the roads they played on,” she said. “But Hoopfest was a blast.”
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