Wednesday: WOOOO FOOTBALL!
Chelsea held its varsity football camp Wednesday through Friday. If you couldn’t tell from the above text, I was a little excited to be around football again. And by “a little excited” I mean “WHOA CRAZY HAPPY.”
Category Archives: Chelsea
This Week in Chelsea Sports Photography: 1 June – 7 June
Tuesday: Soccer
Chelsea defeated Stevensville Lakeshore. As is immediately obvious in the pictures, the game was played on a football field, which meant the football sidelines — very wide, very bright white lines about five feet inside the soccer boundaries — were immensely distracting (and the end zones didn’t really help, either). While I understand the practical necessity of a multi-use field, I don’t think soccer and football are a good mix: a football field is cluttered with lines and numbers (and now, with the growing popularity of artificial turf, midfield and end zone graphics) all over the place, while a soccer field is quiet and clean. Football on a soccer field would be fine, but soccer on a football field is just hard on the eyes.
So, to all the schools with dedicated soccer facilities: thank you.
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Photo of the Variable Time Period, vol. 139
Chelsea High School graduation (8 June 2008).
CHS held its graduation last (hot, humid) Sunday; the ceremony was notable because it was Ron Mead’s last graduation ceremony as principal. He received a standing ovation.
Sadly, I was not given an honorary CHS diploma. But one of these years…
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Photo of the Variable Time Period, vol. 138
Ron Mead’s Open House (28 May 2008).
After 19 years in charge, Chelsea High School principal Ron Mead is retiring. The school held an open house in his honor; throughout the four hours of the open house, there was a steady line of people waiting to thank him for his outstanding work at Chelsea High.
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Photo of the Variable Time Period, vol. 137
Chelsea’s Memorial Day ceremonies (26 May 2008).
Chelsea held its traditional Memorial Day parade and ceremony, and, as usual, it was excellent. If you haven’t attended the parade and ceremony, you should go next year; it’s just an hour or two, and it’s a good way to honor those who have given their lives for our freedom.
Full gallery of images available here. And now, if you see pictures you like, you can buy them online right from the gallery.
It’s raining books, hallelujah
The baseball team’s season ended last weekend, and the soccer team is bounding playfully through the playoffs, which means its season is going to end within the next week or two. Why is this important? Because there are two more books!
I’m still putting the finishing touches on the baseball book, and the soccer book can’t be completed until the team’s season ends. But I am accepting orders now.
Fun fact: I didn’t have definite cover images for either book until very late in the seasons. For soccer, I got the cover image at the fourth-round playoff game; for baseball, I got the cover image at the first-round playoff game (which ended up being the last game of the season).
This Week in Chelsea Sports Photography: 25 May – 31 May
Thursday: Soccer
In a battle of Bulldogs in the second round of the playoffs, Chelsea defeated Mason. (The next day, Chelsea defeated Eaton Rapids to claim the district championship. But sadly, I wasn’t there for that game.)
When both teams are the Bulldogs, this sentiment becomes inclusive and nonthreatening. But since yellow isn’t a Mason color, the declaration still can carry some weight … particularly when it’s being displayed after a Chelsea victory, as it was here.
This Week in Chelsea Sports Photography: 18 May – 24 May
Thursday: Baseball (SEC Championship)
In the first game, Chelsea staged a thrilling seventh-inning comeback to defeat Adrian; in the second game, Chelsea lost to Tecumseh.
