Rogers Softball Banquet

The Lady Mountes held their 2009 Softball Banquest Wedensday night May 13th in the RHS commons. The following awards were presented.

Ashley Brown finished her career with the most runs scored with 73 in her four year career. She is number four all time with a batting average of .472 for the 2009 season. Lastly, her 75 career hits placed her fourth all time for the Lady Mounties.

Ashley Ferguson had arguably the greatest freshman season in school history. Her batting average was .329. She scored 25 runs from the leadoff postion which was 7th best for a single season. Her 29 hits was the 9th best in school history. Additionaly she had the highest fielding percentage among the starting players while playing shorstop.

Katie Walker led Rogers with 15 wins in the circle. Opponents batted .224 against her for the year. She also had 165 strikeouts on the season. Walker plans to further her pitching career at Carl Albert Jr. College.

Hannah Slaughter hit .320 and led the team with 20 rbi. on the season. Much will be expected of her during her senior season both from a productivity and leadership standpoint.

I have been selected to be a part of the Leadership Academy our district has established in order to fulfill one of the aspects of the district's Strategic Plan. One assignment that we have been given is to read "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". I have read the book several times, but I was reminded of a few things as I read the section about being proactive. What follows are a few excerpts and ideas from the book.

“Within the freedom to choose are those endowments that are uniquely human. In addition to self-awareness, we have imagination—the ability to create in our minds beyond our present reality. We have conscience--- a deep inner awareness of right and wrong, of the principles that govern our behavior, and sense of the degree to which our thoughts and actions are in harmony with them. And we have independent will---- the ability to act based on our self-awareness, free of all other influences.” 

In the book Stephen Covey relays a story about Viktor Frankl who was a death camp survivor during the Nazi Holocaust. He was tortured and never knew if he would be sent to the ovens or be one of the "saved" ones who removed the bodies or shoveled out the ashes of those who were burned to death.

“One day, naked and alone in a small room, he began to become aware of what he later called “the last of the human freedoms”--- the freedom his Nazi captors could not take away. They could control his entire environment, they could do what they wanted to his body, but Viktor Frankl himself was self-aware being who could look as an observer at his very involvement…… He could decide within himself how all of this was going to affect him. Between what happened to him, or stimulus and his response to it, was his freedom or power to choose that response. 

While we may not be in control of our circumstance we are in but we do control of how we respond. We must learn to choose the right response.

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