January 15, 2024: Columbia Game (11 hours)

After a very much-needed day off, I got plenty of rest and woke up at 9:00 a.m. today. I wasn’t very hungry, so I headed straight for Starbucks to get my morning latte. I got to the facility at around 11:00 where we went straight to the cafeteria for team lunch. Since it wasn’t noon yet we had breakfast. I made myself an everything bagel with chive cream cheese. After lunch, we decided to take the team to the Columbia vs Princeton game. It was a great experience for our girls to see a Division One game and enjoy some time hanging out with one another. The game ended at around 4:00 so we headed back to campus for team dinner at 5:00. Today we got to create our own salads which was very tasty. After dinner, we headed back to the sports center for film. We watched our last game and broke down what we need to work on in today’s practice to limit those mistakes. After film, we started practice at 7:00. We went over the scout and our game plan for this team. Tomorrow we play the number 1 team in our conference, so our focus was to play our game and be the hardest working team on the floor. We let them out of practice at 9:00 so they can go home and rest up. All the other coaches and I stayed until 10:00 talking about our preparation for tomorrow.