Tonight, Wallenberg lost 62-50 in the State Playoffs. One of our own alumni, Andrew Chuong, plays for the Wallenberg varsity team.
Last Friday, Mission beat Wallenberg for the city championship. Both schools are underdog stories, as evident by the Mission article below and the fact Wallenberg had never made a championship in their school history.
I was pulling for Wallenberg because I'd like to see one of my players from before win, but didn't mind too much that Mission won.
I have a soft spot for Mission because a few years ago, I read a story in the newspaper about how they had to forfeit a playoff game because they didn't have enough players.
At St. Mary's, we face that type of thing in almost every grade. Two of our teams this year had only 5 players. Right now, we have 9 for baseball -- the bare minimum. For one of our soccer teams, we had only 10, when we needed 11 to play.
Back to the Mission story, they had 5 girls on the team, in high school -- crazy. One girl was injured and they forfeited a playoff game. Unreal.
So for Mission to slowly become good at sports and winning championships is a good thing for the AAA San Francisco public school league.
In case you did not catch my story before or just want to watch it again, here it is. This problem of getting students to play is not just a problem at St. Mary's, but across the city. Here, we have enough boys basketball teams, but we still have trouble getting more players to play baseball, soccer and volleyball.
6th grade girls, where are you?
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