Iowa Women's Basketball Experience

This weekend our family got to spend some time with the Iowa women's basketball team. We won a charity auction item benefitting United Way that allowed us to go to a practice, meet the team and the girls got to pal around with them, have lunch with the team and coaches, and sit courtside at their game the next day.

It was a tremendous experience for our girls, and Sheila and I had a great time as well. It is difficult to find female role models in sports on TV so this was a unique opportunity to be close to a program full of coaches and players that are strong female role models. The team and coaches were gracious with their time and our girls had a ball.

Sitting courtside at a game was awesome. Aside from my anxiety that one of the girls would walk or fall out onto the court, it was a great way to watch a game. Overall it was a tremendous experience for our family and one that our girls will talk about for some time.