Hi All!
As you probably know, we've been in SUNNY California since Wednesday evening. We flew in a day early for our tournament at the University of Southern California this Saturday and Sunday. The weather has been amazing here in Los Angeles - low to mid 70's and plenty of sunshine.
While we're here to do a job on the court - beating USC on Saturday and facing Delaware State or Cal State Bakersfield on Sunday - we want to have some fun while we're out here too. After long travel day on Wednesday we had a quiet dinner and retired early to catch up on sleep, since it felt like midnight to us at 9 p.m.
Thursday we traveled about 30 minutes to Santa Monica, which is right on the Pacific Ocean and features a huge outdoor mall and a traditional boardwalk complete with rollercoaster, ferris wheel, carousel and more. Coach Wielgus, Coach Gleason and our trainer Mike Derosier even had a battle on the bumper cars. The outdoor shopping area was great and had any store you could want - the players enjoyed the chance to do some shopping for their "Secret Santa" gift exchange. We practiced Thursday night and had dinner joined by a special guest, Angie Soriaga ’06. As loyal fans know, Angie is one of the finest ever to wear the Green and White - she holds the all-time assists (462) record, scored 1,100+ points and had 200+ steals. She's in graduate school at UCLA and it was great to see a familiar face out here.
Friday we stayed in the neighborhood by our hotel, which is in a great downtown area. The highlight was a trip to the ESPN Zone, where we played all kinds of arcade games. There were some spirited racecar, air hockey and pop-a-shot competitions.
I'm courtside at practice right now but we're wrapping things up and will have dinner and a quiet night tonight. We take on USC tomorrow at 4:30 PST/7:30 EST. Game notes, preview and all the multimedia links are here.
- Dara
Team on the beach in Santa Monica
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