My Weekend at Notre Dame

Flying Irish Basketball Tournament

    Over the weekend I spent my time at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. There was an event for the ROTC programs around the country. It was a basketball tournament and my teammates and I were able to go and represent our program. I was tasked with picking up some of my teammates from Wheaton College where our ROTC program is based and driving two hours to Indiana. It was a fun drive out there and we were provided with a pretty nice hotel to stay at. Getting there was a long trip but definitely worth the drive out there.

    This has been the subject of my free writing for the past week and also I had to leave on Friday which was the reason for me missing that class. Our team was able to gel pretty quickly even though we had not had much time to practice leading up to the event. Many schools were there including Syracuse, Purdue, Iowa State, and Texas A&M. It was really cool to see all these different schools come together to participate in this huge event. The Flying Irish basketball tournament takes place every year so I am definitely coming back next year if I can.

    Our team didn't do as well as we wanted to. We didn't get out of the group stages of the tournament but it was due to the fact that we played the three hardest teams in the tournament Iowa State, Notre Dame, and Purdue. But, the games we played were very good as we only lost by a very small margin. The team played super hard and I had a good time supporting them when I wasn't on the floor. I was able to experience college basketball and play competitive basketball again for the first time in a long time.