Well, Sean and I are all packed and ready to depart tomorrow (Sunday) for our Maccabiah Experience. We will leave Birmingham at 6 AM and fly to Newark, NJ, where we will board our El Al flight for Israel departing at 2:30 PM. We are due to arrive in Israel at 7:45 AM on Monday morning.

Aly will depart on July 2nd and her competition will begin on July 14th.

We will take the morning to get acclimated at our hotel (Kfar Maccabiah) and have a light training session in the afternoon. We will then train twice a day for 4 days until the entire delegation arrives on July 3rd. At that time we will continue our training every morning and then have our tour of Israel, which is going to be fantastic.

On July 9th we will then move toour permanent hotel (Kibbutz Shefayim) for the actual games. Our first game in Pool Play is against Canada on July 12th at 9 AM. We the will play the defending champions, Israel on July 13th at 9 AM. That evening, we will all go to the Opening Ceremonies.

I will try to post each and every day something about our day in Israel.

Until then, take care and wish us luck,
Coach