January 2026

We had a lot of basketball in January with the end of Allison’s JV season and the start of Sarah’s Cadet season.  Allison’s team continued to have a few regular season games during the month, but the highlight was their city tournament.  They won 3 games in 4 nights to be city champs and celebrated a 35-32 win over Heritage Christian.  Allison contributed by scoring 8 points, several assists and even had a chance to play point guard for part of the game.  Their season ended during an invitational held at Chatard on January 31st. Sarah’s team won both of their games in January and Sarah has hit a few 3 pointers in those games.  She plays good team defense and does her best to provide help-side defense when needed. 

 

            As I mentioned last month, the company I work for was sold to a new partner in mid-December and after the holidays, there has been a lot of things going on.  We enjoyed a nice “closing” dinner in Carmel with our previous owners and board of directors to celebrate a job well-done.  The bank we worked with since I’ve been in my role took us out to dinner and a Pacers game.  Finally, we got to meet up with LDI (new partners) and discuss 2026 plans and meetings.  After those meetings, a few of us when to Wisconsin and Illinois to have a planning session with our divisions to do some strategy planning for this year. 

 

Sarah’s Things of the Month

            Sarah has continued going to Genesis to work on strength, speed and agility.  She has also continued her 2-3 softball practices per week with her “Midtown Machine” team that should be fun to watch this spring. 

 

Allison’s Thing of the Month

             Allison has started a few practices and 2 tournaments for her CROI volleyball team.  This team includes 2 other girls form Chatard and her participation has increased in February with basketball being over. 

 

A few more items from this month:

• We had a new garage floor installed in early January.  It looks very nice and was an improvement to the cracks and holes that we had before. 
• We had a large snowstorm in late January which shut down schools and much of the city for a few days.  After the storm, it was very cold, so the snow has stuck around for a long time.