Kayla's Blog

      For my last post I would like to talk about exercising or any type of physical activity.  Exercising a little bit each day is important for several reasons. Two reasons that stick out to me is: physical and mental health. Regular exercise helps maintain and improve physical health. It can lead to better cardiovascular health, stronger muscles and bones, improved flexibility, and a healthy body weight. It can also reduce the risk of chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Exercise has been shown to have a positive impact on mental health. It can help reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, boost mood, and increase overall psychological well-being. Exercise stimulates the release of endorphins, which are natural mood elevators. Being active can vary from shooting a basketball around to running a marathon. As long as you're doing some type of physical activity you are benefiting your future self so much. 

      Tonight was our first game for the Co-Rec League for Session 2 Intramurals. Unfortunately, it didn't go how I wanted it to go. The game started off great. Both teams were going back and forth. For intramurals, we play two 20-minute halves. Once the first half was over, we were only down by 9 points. After the first eight minutes of the second half is when things started to change. Alex ^3 (the name of the team we played) started to pull away. We lost by 15 points. Overall, I had fun and all we can do is get better for the next game! 

     Today, Emily, Leah and I decided to go to the ARC. We are playing in the Co-Rec Basketball League on campus. Our team is named "Air Baller". I wanted to go to the gym and shoot around for a little bit just to see how my shots were looking. We have our first game tomorrow at 5:30PM. I'm feeling good about our team. My goal is to win the championship, but mostly to have fun. I know that sounds cliche, but it's true. Check in tomorrow to see how it went! 

  This past weekend Club Softball at SRU took on WVU. When we played them last year, we lost the series 2-1. This year we both had completely new teams and different mindsets. The started with an hour and 50-minute drive down to WVU. We also learned along the way that we would only be playing with 10 girls this series. We were coming off a series win against Ohio University. We were currently tied with WVU for 2nd place in our division.  The first game started, and we came out strong. Our fielding was going great, and our batting was on fire. We pulled out the win 11-1. The second game started, and we started off very slow. They got a couple runs on us during the 2nd inning. Once we started getting our playing together it was too late. We lost the second game 8-2. Last game it was make or break for us to win this series. The scored first making it 1-0 after the 3rd inning. The bottom of the 5th inning started, and we come out on fire scoring 5 runs back-to-back. We continued t...