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Alex
Breedlove

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January 18, 2005

After spending the last three weeks with only my teammates, I have to say that we have one of the craziest and most fun teams I have ever been a part of. We came back to Atlanta for practice right after Christmas and while the first few practices were quite a struggle, we eventually got back into the rhythm of basketball.

But it's not the practices or even the games that I'll remember about this break. We've spent the last three weeks living together, eating together and hanging out together. Four of the upperclassmen opened up their apartments to everyone living on campus and we settled in quickly to the new living situations. Katie A. and Ashley made a fort in Bergie's living room, Beth made Rizzo sleep on Lynn's couch, Sprague learned to live with Mac's dog biting her, and Steffi and I got used to Steph's crazy cats.

Steffi, Steph H and I spent most of our break lying on the couch watching TV and eating whatever was in sight, but we all spent a lot of time bonding with the whole team. We had a "Saved by the Bell" night with Bergie's famous spinach artichoke dip, started an interesting new winter break tradition one night at Lynn's, went shopping countless times, went out to a lot dinners, and watched a few movies.

Thankfully for our sanity, we spent two weekends on the road, one in Cleveland and the other in Chicago and St. Louis. In Cleveland, my hometown, we went to my house for some of my mom's home cooking and plenty of dessert for our cookie-loving team. The next weekend, after a long delay in the Atlanta airport due to some crazy weather, we had a great dinner in Chicago thanks to Steffi's mom.

Although the game against University of Chicago didn't go our way, we played a great game and fought until the end. We left Saturday morning to drive down to St. Louis for our game on Sunday against Wash U. The bus ride wasn't too interesting although watching Rizzo try to climb over the back wall into the trunk to get some cookies out of her bag for Coach T and the rest of the team was pretty entertaining.

We finished the game Sunday disappointed in the result but proud that again we never stopped fighting. We've gotten so much better as team and individually over the last three weeks. Despite a tough conference season, I'm confident we'll be able to challenge some of the top teams in the country in the coming weeks.

We start classes again this Wednesday and the other students are all coming back now. Although I'm grateful to see all my other friends again, I'll miss the three crazy weeks we spent together as a team.

Alex Breedlove is a junior from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.