(12-07-2023 11:06 AM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 02:40 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  I've loved few teams in my life like I loved the Lady Raiders from 2006-2010. That being the overlap in time that Rick Insell has been coach and I lived in Murfreesboro. I had started attending Lady Raider games a year or two earlier(enrolled in January of '03) because we were very good under Smith, but I eded up requesting off from work for every Lady Raider game, when I traveled to four consecutive Sun Belt Conference basketball tournaments as an undergrad it was always with the hope that the men might shock the world and the knowledge that the ladies would likely cut down the nets. From the front row of the student section I watched three consecutive seasons of the nation's leading scorer between Amber Holt and Alysha Clarke and to this day, the Lady Raiders losing a nail biter against defending national champions Maryland in front of 10k fans at Murphy Center in 2006 ranks among my single greatest sporting experiences of my life.

This is big, wish I had been able to make the trip from Atlanta.

Hot Hoops in Hot Springs !

It was a simpler time...

(12-07-2023 08:37 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 11:06 AM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 02:40 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  I've loved few teams in my life like I loved the Lady Raiders from 2006-2010. That being the overlap in time that Rick Insell has been coach and I lived in Murfreesboro. I had started attending Lady Raider games a year or two earlier(enrolled in January of '03) because we were very good under Smith, but I eded up requesting off from work for every Lady Raider game, when I traveled to four consecutive Sun Belt Conference basketball tournaments as an undergrad it was always with the hope that the men might shock the world and the knowledge that the ladies would likely cut down the nets. From the front row of the student section I watched three consecutive seasons of the nation's leading scorer between Amber Holt and Alysha Clarke and to this day, the Lady Raiders losing a nail biter against defending national champions Maryland in front of 10k fans at Murphy Center in 2006 ranks among my single greatest sporting experiences of my life.

This is big, wish I had been able to make the trip from Atlanta.

Hot Hoops in Hot Springs !

It was a simpler time...

I loved it, 'cept for Orlando Mendez-Valdez

(12-07-2023 08:41 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 08:37 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 11:06 AM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 02:40 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  I've loved few teams in my life like I loved the Lady Raiders from 2006-2010. That being the overlap in time that Rick Insell has been coach and I lived in Murfreesboro. I had started attending Lady Raider games a year or two earlier(enrolled in January of '03) because we were very good under Smith, but I eded up requesting off from work for every Lady Raider game, when I traveled to four consecutive Sun Belt Conference basketball tournaments as an undergrad it was always with the hope that the men might shock the world and the knowledge that the ladies would likely cut down the nets. From the front row of the student section I watched three consecutive seasons of the nation's leading scorer between Amber Holt and Alysha Clarke and to this day, the Lady Raiders losing a nail biter against defending national champions Maryland in front of 10k fans at Murphy Center in 2006 ranks among my single greatest sporting experiences of my life.

This is big, wish I had been able to make the trip from Atlanta.

Hot Hoops in Hot Springs !

It was a simpler time...

I loved it, 'cept for Orlando Mendez-Valdez

Oh me too, it was definitely better than Lafayette, I had a great time in Mobile, but both trips to Hot Springs were a lot of fun. McClard's and Rod's Pizza Cellar! I only regret not going to the horse track either year.

(12-07-2023 09:01 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 08:41 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 08:37 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 11:06 AM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(12-07-2023 02:40 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  I've loved few teams in my life like I loved the Lady Raiders from 2006-2010. That being the overlap in time that Rick Insell has been coach and I lived in Murfreesboro. I had started attending Lady Raider games a year or two earlier(enrolled in January of '03) because we were very good under Smith, but I eded up requesting off from work for every Lady Raider game, when I traveled to four consecutive Sun Belt Conference basketball tournaments as an undergrad it was always with the hope that the men might shock the world and the knowledge that the ladies would likely cut down the nets. From the front row of the student section I watched three consecutive seasons of the nation's leading scorer between Amber Holt and Alysha Clarke and to this day, the Lady Raiders losing a nail biter against defending national champions Maryland in front of 10k fans at Murphy Center in 2006 ranks among my single greatest sporting experiences of my life.

This is big, wish I had been able to make the trip from Atlanta.

Hot Hoops in Hot Springs !

It was a simpler time...

I loved it, 'cept for Orlando Mendez-Valdez

Oh me too, it was definitely better than Lafayette, I had a great time in Mobile, but both trips to Hot Springs were a lot of fun. McClard's and Rod's Pizza Cellar! I only regret not going to the horse track either year.

We went to the track and won some decent money. I bet on a horse to show who had the worst odds. It won.

Only bet on the horse due to its name "Furious Wayne" -- my dad's name.