More Oklahoma photos

Just a few more last photos from our Oklahoma trip!

 The Lloyd Noble Center as we were pulling up for the game

 Ryan Minor - manager of the Delmarva Shorebirds

 Coach Nick Robinson goes over the scouting report before the game

 Dishawn Bradshaw, JoJo Swift, Freddy Obame Obame,  RJ Tucker, Tim Burns, Hillary Haley

 Coach Allen talks before the guys head out to the court

 Boomer (or Sooner?) Oklahoma had two identical mascots... Boomer and Sooner.  If you want to know the reason behind this, shoot me an email, it's quite interesting.

 National Anthem

 Captain's meeting

 Found this shirt at the airport.  Usually I feel like airports have all the same stuff (you know those yellow and green cowtipping shirts that can be found in Milwaukee, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, everywhere!) but this shirt was quite unique and fun to read.

UMES Night Out with the Delmarva Shorebirds

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We're excited about this upcoming event...

UMES Night Out with the Shorebirds

We're currently in the process of planning a "UMES Night Out with the Shorebirds," planned for Friday, Sept. 3. We're hoping to have student-athletes, coaches, alumni, students, faculty and anyone and everything UMES related at the game. It's sure to be a fun night that you can celebrate and mingle with the UMES community.

Stay tuned to UMESHawks.com for more information.

Santa Jack

I have to make a post about our bus driver, Santa Jack. I hadn't even gotten out to the bus on Friday and Bret announced to me that Santa was our bus driver. I'm like umm, okay? He proceeded to tell me that the guy looks like Santa and is a legend to teams in the area.

I met him when I got on the bus and he mentioned how he knows Bret from driving the Delmarva Shorebirds and he also splits some of his time driving for the Wilmington Blue Rocks (in northern Delaware) and has driven for other Minor League Baseball teams. When Coach Allen and Coach Peery got on the bus, they knew him from Roanoke!

Apparently Santa Jack is a legend! Not only does Santa Jack look like a real Santa, he is Santa during the holiday season! I better watch myself around this guy :-) I'm glad that he's been able to be with us on this long road trip, he's super nice. Very courteous and talkative. Wish we could have him "full-time!"

I'll try to get a picture of him/post it before he leaves us on Thursday.