Sport: Boys Basketball
Age: 10th/11th Grade
Wayne County Update
Basketball vs. Tioga
The Upper Senior and CA boys headed to Tioga to compete in their first game on the hardwood of the summer. The team started off a bit slow, trailing by 3 at the end of the first quarter. The second quarter highlighted the team’s will to win and heart as they cut the lead from 5 to 2 going into halftime. Dylan T. led the squad in the second half with twelve 
points to help them gain the lead! Rowan K. also contributed with some key rebounds and 4 points down the stretch to help put the team in a winning position. The fourth quarter saw a phenomenal display of defense by the group to win the game by 3. Dylan H. and Ryan K. had 6 points, Ethan E. and Spencer W. had 3 points, and Noah R. rounded out the group with 2 points. The MVP of the game was truly Dylan T. who finished the game with an astounding 17 points. Final Score 43-40.
In a world of selfies, Instagram likes and Facebook’s new “love” feature, people are putting more emphasis on taking a picture of an experience than really enjoying and living in the experience itself. We participate in an event (concert, party, sporting event, social gathering) but spend most of the time trying to get the most artistic angle, the coolest filter and the best overall image quality to generate enough likes (and now loves) to make us feel valued, heard and appreciated online. As we view life through the camera function on our phones, we are missing the big picture, by trying to get a good one.
Posing for pictures at camp is beneficial for the campers’ self image. It helps them see what parents and counselors and family member see when they look at the pictures; real kids having real fun. It helps campers become more confident about who they are without the need to fix, edit, change, crop or filter anything out. Kids get so wrapped up in social media and how they are portrayed to the world, always comparing themselves to others and forgetting to appreciate who they really are. Self confidence issues happen when teens begin to think that the perfect images displayed on their friends’ Facebook profiles are real life, and they begin to compare their life with others. They forget that for the one perfect picture that was posted, there were probably 50 others that were taken that didn’t make the cut. Letting campers see what they really look like when they are really having fun will help them realize that a picture of a t-shirt stained, muddy shoe kid having the time of their lives is so much more valuable than a perfectly timed selfie in the bathroom.
“How did that shirt get so dirty?” It’s the question that has been baffling Starlight parents for generations. Allow me to pull the curtain back and give you a glimpse of what happens to your son and that shirt during a typical day at camp.
Something changes in our schools once we get back from spring break. Our brains switch from “I need this break” to “summer is right around the corner!” In most states, the temperatures are rising, and all of us (and probably our teachers!) are counting down the days until freedom.
Written by Scott