Not OT: Winter Park girls high school basketball team

[HuskyNan]

I went to the grocery store today saw players from the Winter Park girls bb team there running a fund raiser. Having done my share of fundraisers with my sons, I’m always a soft touch for the kids so I stopped. As it turns out, I was wearing my 2025 UConn championship tee and the girls, upon seeing it, were adither. I got a lot of enthusiastic “Go Huskies!” and a couple high fives. There was one young lady that looked like she could be 6-0 or 6-1. I’ll have to go catch one of their games

Husky Nation is everywhere 😎

 

[YKCornelius]

I went to the grocery store today saw players from the Winter Park girls bb team there running a fund raiser. Having done my share of fundraisers with my sons, I’m always a soft touch for the kids so I stopped. As it turns out, I was wearing my 2025 UConn championship tee and the girls, upon seeing it, were adither. I got a lot of enthusiastic “Go Huskies!” and a couple high fives. There was one young lady that looked like she could be 6-0 or 6-1. I’ll have to go catch one of their games

Husky Nation is everywhere 😎

Great story, HuskyNan! I had a similar experience recently:

I went to Sam's Club near me two weeks ago, and there were two middle school aged girls outside with their moms fund-raising for their basketball team. When I came out I had a $10 bill in one hand and a $5 bill in the other. I approached the young girls and said, "I am going to ask you a basketball question, and if you answer it correctly, I will give you this $10 bill. If you answer it incorrectly, I will give you this $5 bill. Either way, you will get something. But you only get to answer once. Okay?" Both girls nodded vigorously and the ladies behind them smiled.

"The question is: who is the best women's college basketball team?" The one girl looked panicked and turned to her mom and said "Mom, do you know?" The mom said, "Don't ask us. The question is to you." The second girl, looking like she was thinking hard, said, "Last year, or right now?" I responded, "This year, last year, all-time. The answer is the same."

The second girl, gave a big smile and said, "I think the answer is UConn."

"That's the correct answer!" I said handing her the $10 as she beamed. "So now I will also give you the $5 if you can tell me one of the players on UConn. Any player. There can be more than one correct answer."

She quickly answered, "Paige Bueckers!"

Giving her the $5, I said, "Well that was last year, but close enough! They have a lot of great players this year and they will be coming to Tampa on December 2nd to play against the South Florida Bulls. You should ask your coaches to bring your team to the game."

I felt like the Johnny Appleseed of UConn Women's basketball!

 

[Skeets]

I went to the grocery store today saw players from the Winter Park girls bb team there running a fund raiser. Having done my share of fundraisers with my sons, I’m always a soft touch for the kids so I stopped. As it turns out, I was wearing my 2025 UConn championship tee and the girls, upon seeing it, were adither. I got a lot of enthusiastic “Go Huskies!” and a couple high fives. There was one young lady that looked like she could be 6-0 or 6-1. I’ll have to go catch one of their games

Husky Nation is everywhere 😎

LOL, adither? After an enthusiastic "Go Huskies" I hope they got a nice contribution from you.

 

[tomcat]

I'm with Skeets on this one. I have never seen "adither" used before, and thought it was perfect. I've got to find a way to use it soon myself. Nan, thank you for that.

 

[FormerCTrez]

Great story, HuskyNan! I had a similar experience recently:

I went to Sam's Club near me two weeks ago, and there were two middle school aged girls outside with their moms fund-raising for their basketball team. When I came out I had a $10 bill in one hand and a $5 bill in the other. I approached the young girls and said, "I am going to ask you a basketball question, and if you answer it correctly, I will give you this $10 bill. If you answer it incorrectly, I will give you this $5 bill. Either way, you will get something. But you only get to answer once. Okay?" Both girls nodded vigorously and the ladies behind them smiled.

"The question is: who is the best women's college basketball team?" The one girl looked panicked and turned to her mom and said "Mom, do you know?" The mom said, "Don't ask us. The question is to you." The second girl, looking like she was thinking hard, said, "Last year, or right now?" I responded, "This year, last year, all-time. The answer is the same."

The second girl, gave a big smile and said, "I think the answer is UConn."

"That's the correct answer!" I said handing her the $10 as she beamed. "So now I will also give you the $5 if you can tell me one of the players on UConn. Any player. There can be more than one correct answer."

She quickly answered, "Paige Bueckers!"

Giving her the $5, I said, "Well that was last year, but close enough! They have a lot of great players this year and they will be coming to Tampa on December 2nd to play against the South Florida Bulls. You should ask your coaches to bring your team to the game."

I felt like the Johnny Appleseed of UConn Women's basketball!

What an awesome story. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[CL82]

A friend of mine was coaching a girls basketball middle school team. He said that he's looking for something to inspire his girls. I suggested he take them up to the Basketball Capital of the World to see a game. He liked the idea, and said he would talk to the parents. They loved the idea.

I gave him ticket office info and asked him to let me know the date they were going. I called the school to let them know the team was coming from NJ to see the Huskies. They announced the name of the team during the game, which, of course, the girls loved. I think the school also gave them some promotional items.

When he came back, he couldn't speak highly enough about the experience. He loved the campus and said that all the brick buildings were "what a campus should look like". The girls, of course, loves the whole experience, but going to a UConn WBB game can be transformative for young basketball players. To see a huge crowd, cheering female athletes, and to see the game being played at an exceptionally high level leaves an impression. I remember it did for my daughter, when I took her to see a game in Gampel for the first time.

I love how we all quietly work to extend UConn nation a handful of people at a time! It's a great testament to how passionate we are as fans.

 

[HuskyNan]

I'm with Skeets on this one. I have never seen "adither" used before, and thought it was perfect. I've got to find a way to use it soon myself. Nan, thank you for that.

Apparently, the Oxford English Dictionary online is now subscription only 🙄 but I did screenshot the below. “Adither” is an old word that’s not used much anymore. My grandmother used to say it

 

[Skeets]

According to Nan's post, adither has fewer than .01 occurrences per million words. The BY just might have changed this percentage. Adither, adither, adither...

 

[Jim]

According to Nan's post, adither has fewer than .01 occurrences per million words. The BY just might have changed this percentage. Adither, adither, adither...

I hope you realize that your post is screwing up some AI large language model which scrapes the web for its training data. Come to think of it, my quoting your post made it worse. Oh, hell - adither, adither, adither, and one more adither for good measure.😊