Hey everyone!
Sorry for no post last week; on Friday we were flat out with our final preparations for our decorations for the Southern Steel netball team's changing rooms.
Sunday was Steel-day and we were full of excitement as we headed to Invercargill's Velodrome for the Steel game against the Queensland Firebirds.
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| Before |
Our first job was to decorate the changing rooms so the players would get a nice surprise when they turned up before the game: we had made posters for each member of the squad as well as written messages to our players or management team members. We put the messages inside balloons (also filled with sequins) and left a note telling the squad that they had to sit on their balloons to pop them and find the messages! A Freddo was attached to each balloon as well as a coloured gerbera flower.
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| After - with the kool Kokako kids! |
We hung balloons and streamers around the room (including the toilets area) and above the hot and cold baths we had sheets of jokes to take the players' minds off the ice!
At the exit door we hung a huge poster with photos of each of us doing a high-five!
After tea and face-painting at McDonald's we returned to the velodrome to take our seats at the goal end of the court. Maureen from Road Safety Southland gave us safety vests to wear and we were ready for action - wigs, face-paint and bangers included.
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| Ready for action! |
When the players entered the court area to warm-up we gave a guard of honour for both teams - this was pretty cool as we high-fived the players and clapped and cheered.
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| The Southern Steel enter the court area |
The game was all action! The Steel were behind for much of the game but we think our cheering and chanting helped inspire the girls to pull out all their best moves and bring the score to within one goal!
We were gutted that the team couldn't quite pull off the draw to give us another ten minutes of excitement, but we loved being able to go down and meet the players while getting their autographs.
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| Hayley Saunders signs our booklets |
The players told us they loved the changing rooms and their messages and posters so we are pretty pleased with ourselves - our aim was to give the girls some fun and to inspire them to do well and we think we achieved that!
Thanks tonnes to Kate Buchanan from the Southern Steel, Maureen Deuchrass from Road Safety Southland, and to the mums and dad who helped with transport, decorating and supervision. We all had a fantastic experience!!
Today we share our own thoughts about the day...
14 comments:
I liked watching the game. It was tense and exciting!
IT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!
Jake
I had so mach fun because the Steel played against the Firebirds .
IT WAS GREAT.The steels were so close 61 to 60 it was AMAZING
It was so amazing that we went to the game it was really awesome.
My favourite thing about the STEEL game was watching the game. I was SO sad when I saw the last score, 61-60. But the girls gave it their best shot!!!
My favourite thing about the Steel competition was decorating the Steels changing room because we got to make poster.
My favourite thing about the clicked yet Steel competition was decorating the Steels changing room and wathing the game but I was sad that we lost but the girls gave it there best shot and the score was so close 60-61 to the firebirds.
My favourite thing about the steel game is that we got to decorating the steels dressing room it was an amazing experience to do that.
My favourite thing about the Steel was that we got to watch the awesome game, although we lost it was a very good and close game!
My favourite thing about the Steel game was an awesome game because they al tried there hardest and man Romelda Aikien was tall:]
It was amazing
I thought the Steel game was awesome because it was my Steel game
I saw you guys on t.v
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