As many of you (if not all of you!) know we live in the small rural town of Olathe, Colorado, on the western slope of the state just 50 miles from the Utah border. Olathe's "downtown" is just two blocks long, with a hardware store, a small grocery, a restaurant and a few other businesses. Our population is now 1800 strong, mostly in the outlying areas of farms and fields. We have an elementary school and a middle school and high school (the latter two share the same campus).Our Fall season this year has been made so much more interesting by the fact that the football team at our Olathe High School never lost a game all season long. Now, it is fairly well known (at least among my family!) that I am NOT a football fan! Despite the fact that Dusty's son, Joe, even played semi-pro for awhile, I've just never caught on!! But this season, in Olathe, what I HAVE caught on to is the enthusiasm of backing a winning team!! I am so proud to say that our Olathe Pirates went all the way to the state championships and won for their division on Saturday!!
We have lived in Olathe for going on 11 years now, and I've never seen this little community pull together like they have behind this group of teenage boys!! There were blue and gold balloons and streamers everywhere you looked and a look of pride on everyone's face. On Saturday, the day of the BIG GAME, Dusty taped this sign (provided by the local newspaper!) in our front window for all to see! While we are a small town, "our boys" are in a division of similar small schools (there are only about 500 students total at our high school) and we came out on top! For the first time in the history of the school.....yes, it's a big deal, a very big deal!! As far as those of us who live here are concerned, they couldn't have done any better if they had won the Superbowl!! Even though James is only in 2nd grade at the elementary school, we still know a few of the boys on that team.....remember, it's a small town!! :)
And so we are all basking in the glow this week, along with the team, that at least for the moment we are the CHAMPIONS!! GO PIRATES!! We couldn't be prouder of you!!
5 comments:
aahhh...what a great story!!! Shout it from the roof tops! Have a super weekend my friend.
Go Olathe! Go Pirates! We are all so proud, even if we don't follow football! Unlike you, I LOVE football...like you I didn't follow the games :-) But the last two I'll admit to waiting to hear some good news. Don't you love living in Olathe? Sometimes I sure wish we had bought there instead of Montrose, but am glad we made the decision to send our kids to school there...a very special place.
Yahoo for the Pirates!
Congratulations to all of you!! That is quite and acheivement! Wow!!! Yeah Pirates!!
Congratulations to the Olathe Pirates! Bet James is "in training" already to play when he is a little older!
Small communities are the greatest because they do rally to support their schools, etc.
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