He Makes the Decision!

After several months of wailing and gnashing of teeth, many discussions that ended with "I just don't know which school to pick", Junior came home from school about a week ago, and said "I'm going to Gwynedd-Mercy". GMC and another local D3 school were very active in their interest in Jr - he liked both schools, both coaches, etc - not an easy choice for him, but either one would have been a good one - I don't think he could have made a bad choice, between the 2. Both successful programs, both good academics, both close, play in the same league with lots of relatively nearby schools [furthest one is 125 miles - no excuse for us to be missing games!!].

With the angst that he went through, I don't know how the "big boys" do it - guys that are recruited by dozens or hundreds of big time D1 programs. We had 3-4 that we immediately got down to 2, and it was still a lot of anguish.

I must be doing something right, though -- daughter #1 went to school 300 miles away, Daughter #2 is 160 miles away, and now Tom will be 14 miles away - I like the sound of "I'm going to get Tom at school - be back in 45 minutes!!!"

In any case, we're glad he made a good choice, the coach seems excited to have him, and he is glad to process is complete.

ALthough I don't intend to leave the site any time soon, I would like to express my gratitude to all the folks here at the HSBBWeb. All of the knowledge, advice, wisdom, and experience that this powerful group possesses is incredible. I feel that I learned so much from you all that helped us through the process.

Thanks to all of you - keep up the good work.
Thanks also to TR and Merc for your personal interest in Tom as we travelled this course.