Interview with Renee

How many years have you done SSI?

Three, right? Yup, Three

What has been your best standing?

I don't remember. My standing doesn't matter. It's about having fun.

What does SSI mean to you?

A day spent with family and friends in competition. A day creating fun new memories and evaluating my physical fitness.

What is your favorite game?

Frisbee golf, oh no. I didn't do well last time on that. I would say the addition of the golf game, where we threw that thing.

What was your least favorite game of last year?

What games did we play? we played... Frisbee Golf, Bumpout, Bocci Ball, Tennis...Tennis, even though I think we won. I REALLY wished we could play kickball but we didn't have the numbers.

Your favorite memory of SSI is?

Oh there is a lot. Um...Ceremony this year, that was fun. Um... the drama playing football when drew hit me in the head with the football. Lets see, the anticipation of burgers at the end of the day, snow cap (we are doing it for snow cap!) being an assistant to phil [brown's] win in SSI 2008. Any others, or bad memories? The exhaustion after playing soccer. Its so tiring.

What do you think should be added to SSI or left out?

I liked it when we woke up early and did it all in one day. I don't want sara's family to feel bad, cause we had to do that this last year. I REALLY liked them there, but i liked it all in one day. Taking out ultimate Frisbee, that was a VERY good idea.

What would you say to those who are interested in going in 2010, SSI 4?

Come. Because...um...come because...its alot of fun. its a great way to reconnect with friends and family and celebrate summer together.

Swim race - Final Event!

1st Heat:

Drew
Mark
Scott
Mike


2nd Heat:
Renee
Marisa
Sara


Results*:

1. Drew
2. Mark
3. Sara
4. Scott
5. Mike
6. Renee
7. Marisa
   

* Timing device malfunction


Final Standings:

Drew - 19
Mark - 17
Sara - 11
Scott - 11
Mike - 11
Renee - 11
Marisa - 10


Congrats to Drew, overall winner of SSI3!!

Skip disc

Pairings:

• Drew & Scott (1st)
• Mark & Mike (2nd)
• Renee & Marisa (3rd)
  OUT - Sara

Standings after seven events: Drew - 16; Mark - 15; Scott - 11; Mike - 11; Renee - 11; Marisa - 10; Sara - 10

Golf sling

A new event this year, this tossing activity took on some competitive intensity and was embraced by all.

Pairings:

• Drew & Sara (1st)
• Renee & Scott (3rd)
• Marisa & Mike (2nd)
• OUT - Mark

Standings after six events: Drew - 13; Mark - 13; Sara - 10; Renee - 10; Marisa - 9; Mike - 9; Scott - 8

Egg relay

This event encompasses so much more than just the eggs, including this year an errant football throw from Mark that hit me square in the nose. Only a little bit of blood, though.

Pairings:

• Mark & Marisa (1st)
• Renee & Mike (2nd)
• Scott & Sara (3rd)
• OUT - Drew

Standings after five events: Mark - 13; Drew - 10; Renee - 9; Marisa - 7; Mike - 7; Scott - 7; Sara - 7

Bocce

Pairings:

• Mark & Mike (2nd)
• Drew & Renee (3rd)
• Scott & Sara (1st)
  OUT - Marisa

Standings after four events: Drew - 10; Mark - 10; Renee - 7; Scott - 6; Sara - 6; Mike - 5; Marisa - 4

Bump-out

Pairings:

• Mark & Mike (2nd)
• Drew & Scott (1st)
• Sara & Marisa (3rd)
• OUT - Renee
  

Standings after three events: Mark - 8; Drew - 7; Scott - 5; Sara - 5; Marisa - 4; Renee - 4; Mike - 3

Frisbee golf

The second event of the day was frisbee golf, generally the group's favorite SSI activity.

Pairings:

• Renee & Mike (3rd)


• Mark & Drew (1st)


• Sara & Marisa (2nd)
  OUT - Scott
  

Standings after 2 events: Mark - 6; Drew - 4; Sara - 4; Renee - 4; Marisa - 3; Scott - 2; Mike - 1

Tennis, anyone?

The day began in the 101 degree heat of the day with a tennis tourney.

Random pairings:

• Scott & Sara (2nd)
• Drew & Marisa (3rd)
• Renee & Mark (1st)
• OUT - Mike

Eagle eye Scott Alan Reitmeier

Memorable moment came when Sara, used to repeating the scoring statements being coached to her before each serve, echoed teammate Scott's exhortation to "Ace Mark!" Yeah, "Ace Mark" isn't actually the score... =)

Mark and Renee proved the winners of this initial event! Here they co-sport the red armband - the "yellow jersey" of the SSI 3.

Snapshots of the big day...

...accompanied by just a bit of commentary. (This will likely be posted in shifts...enjoy!)

Scotty - naturally - led the parade out the door for opening ceremonies.

Individually constructed flags were raised on high...

...and then placed in a circle of triumph. Each color correlated to the bandanna color of one of the seven mighty contestants:

Sara


Marisa

Drew

Mark

Renee

Mike

Scott

A formidable group, indeed...

The 2009 activities line-up and pairings have been announced...

...as well as the weather forecast at a formidable 101 degrees. But that won't stop the mighty seven of us who are braving the elements and who have refused to let the obstacles of work, weddings, swine flu, girlfriends, opportunity cost vacations, or impending birth and delivery keep us away:

• Michael Cahn
• Drew Coleman
• Marisa Coleman
• Sara Courtney
• Mark Stirling
• Renee Reitmeier
• Scott Reitmeier

Order of events:

1. Tennis
2. Frisbee golf
3. Bump-out
4. Bocce
5. Egg relay
6. Golf sling
7. Skip-disc
8. Swim meet

All events will be competed in pairs, save the final event, which will be scored individually. (Team sports have been done away with to simplify this scoring strategy.) Taking into account the odd number of participants, each competitor will sit out one event - also randomly designated - to act as photographer.

Tennis will "serve as" the first event with the following randomly assigned pairings:

• Scott and Sara
• Drew and Marisa
• Renee and Mark
• Michael as photographer.

Pre-competition memorable moment: Drew's reminder to apply sunscreen before and during the events is followed by Renee's prompt piping up "and after."

Let the games begin!

Less than a month

SSI3 is less than a month away. It might be time to start talking about what kind of sports we want to do this year. here is a starter list, feel free to add or subtract to it;

Soccer
Football
Kickball
Frisbee golf
bocci ball
tennis
HORSE (for basketball)
Relay Race
skip disc (the one dad and i made up, we played it the first year)
Swim Race (maybe add more than just a back and forth or not)

That is ten sports, which we normally do. we can maybe think of adding more if we want.

Sisters' Sports Invitational 2009

The time has come once again for us to start training for the big yearly event in Sisters, Oregon. August 1st is the set day. Hope everyone can make it.